Envy Quotes

1097 Envy quotes by 766 unique authors

There is no disappointment so numbing...as someone no better than you achieving more. — Joseph Heller
Our envy of others devours us most of all. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
No one else has access to the world you carry around within yourself; you are its custodian and entrance. No one else can see the… — John O'Donohue
There was no pleasure like being envied on a mass scale. — Anna Godbersen
Envy is ignorance, Imitation is Suicide. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
My teacher said once that every man faces seven enemies in his lifetime. Sickness, hunger, betrayal, envy, greed, old age, and then death... — Osamu Tezuka
Along with the idea of romantic love, she was introduced to another--physical beauty. Probably the most destructive ideas in the history of human thought. Both… — Toni Morrison
And I speak of spiritual suffering! Of people seeing their talent, their work, their lives wasted. Of good minds submitting to stupid ones. Of strength… — Ursula K. Le Guin
The Wickans know that the gift of power is never free. They know enough not to envy the chosen among them, for power is never… — Steven Erikson
There are some upon this earth of yours,' returned the Spirit, 'who lay claim to know us, and who do their deeds of passion, pride,… — Charles Dickens
The geometry of judgment is a circle. Hate is a snake that turns to consume itself from the tail, a circle that diminishes to a… — Dean Koontz
My hapless peers with their lofty dreams--how I envy and despise them! I'm with the others, the even more hapless, who have no-one but themselves… — Fernando Pessoa
Now and then sprays of rain flew over and misted our faces. Every time I refused to wipe away the wetness. It made the world… — Sue Monk Kidd
We all want to be stars. The idea of being revered and envied must be encoded somewhere deep in our DNA. So must the desire… — Tonya Hurley
Too many dogs continue to be abused and abandond - one is too many - and people continue to kill people for money and envy… — Dean Koontz
Envy consists in seeing things never in themselves, but only in their relations. If you desire glory, you may envy Napoleon, but Napoleon envied Caesar,… — Bertrand Russell
A lang, lang time ago…” MacPhee began, ignoring St.Vincent’s low groan, “there was a bonnie maid called Malvina. She was the betrothed of Oscar, the… — Lisa Kleypas
Jealousy we understood and thought natural... But envy was a strange, new feeling for us. And all the time we knew that Maureen Peal was… — Toni Morrison
I envy people who have the capacity to sit with another human being and find them endlessly interesting, I would rather watch TV. Of course… — Carrie Fisher
American society [...] not only sanctions gross and unfair relations among men, but it encourages them. Now, can that be denied? No. Rivalry, competition, envy,… — Philip Roth
Envy, after all, comes from wanting something that isn't yours. But grief comes from losing something you've already had. — Jodi Picoult
A human doesn't have a heart like mine. The human heart is a line, whereas my own is a circle, and I have the endless… — Markus Zusak
Like a blazing comet, I've traversed infinite nights, interstellar spaces of the imagination, voluptuousness and fear. I've been a man, a woman, an old person,… — Antonio Tabucchi
There, pride, avarice, and envy are the tongues men know and heed, a Babel of depsair — Dante Alighieri
How do I think of you? As someone I want to be with. As someone as young as me, but "older," if that makes sense.… — Aidan Chambers

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