Envy Quote by Jodi Picoult

Envy, after all, comes from wanting something that isn't yours. But grief comes from losing something you've already had.

— Jodi Picoult

For men can endure to hear others praised only so long as they can severally persuade themselves of their own ability to equal the…

— Thucydides

Envy comes from people's ignorance of, or lack of belief in, their own gifts.

— Jean Vanier

Envy never comes to the ball dressed as envy; it comes dressed as high moral standards or distaste for materialism.

— Martin Amis

“In the monotony of everyday existence grief comes as a holiday, and a fire is an entertainment. A scratch embellishes an empty face.”

— Maxim Gorky

There are moments when the grief comes bubbling up. The first time I saw Chris's chair empty, that was really hard. And it was…

— Dana Reeve

“I think; here I lie under a haystack… The tiny space I occupy is so infinitely small in comparison with the rest of space,…

— Ivan Turgenev

Whenever you start-give it your best. The opportunities are there to be anything you want to be. But wanting to be someone isn't enough;…

— Colin Powell

“Are we always to be wanting what isn't: the greenest grass accord and principle motherhood and career? Yet our age lies to us like…

— Barbara Crooker

“When you want something," says Michael, "it's like admitting that your life has a hole in it." "And to fill that hole, you need…

— Paul Acampora

“Grief, when it comes, is nothing we expect it to be.”

— Joan Didion

“Grief is different. Grief has no distance. Grief comes in waves, paroxysms, sudden apprehensions that weaken the knees and blind the eyes and obliterate…

— Joan Didion