Desire Quote by Michka Assayas

“Envy is awful. Unlike jealousy, which comes from the threat of losing what you cherish, envy is a dark desire for things over which…

— Hilary Thayer Hamann

“Envy is when you want what someone else has. Jealousy’s when you also don’t want them to have it.”

— Kirsten Hubbard

“Envy comes from wanting something that isn't yours, but grief comes from losing something you've already had.”

— Jodi Picoult

“Envy is resentment of good things that happen to other people. Jealousy increases the importance of the person we wish belonged only to us.…

— Carlos Fuentes

“Envy is admiration laced with resentment.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

All envy is proportionate to desire; we are uneasy at the attainments of another, according as we think our own happiness would be advanced…

— Samuel Johnson

“Envy is, in a sense, an intentional feeling that paradoxically undermines its own intentionality.”

— Sianne Ngai

“Envy is not meant to cause hatred, but to inspire us to be more.”

— Brandon Lee Godbee

“Envy is for people who don’t have the self-esteem to be jealous.”

— Bauvard

Envy is of all others the most ungratifying and disconsolate passion. There is power for ambition, pleasure for luxury, and pelf even for covetousness;…

— Jeremy Collier

“That’s how envy can spoil safety. Envy makes us resent people who have something we don’t have. It feeds on itself and is ultimately…

— Henry Cloud

“The underbelly of envy and jealousy is an unconscious holding back of yourself.”

— Dr. Deb Sandella