Envy Quote by Patricia Highsmith Download Open image ““Tom envied him with a heartbreaking surge of envy and self-pity.”” — Patricia Highsmith ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Envied Heartbreaking Envy Envy Self Grief Heartbreaking Surge Jealousy Tom Envied
“I wasn't thinking of Tom but of myself. And of a self who seemed to be mot 'me' but 'she.' An innocent, moving fecklessly… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
“Envy hurt exponentially more than heartbreak because your soul was torn in two, half soaring with happiness for another person, half mired in a… — Diana Peterfreund Copy Share Image
“was an amazing guy, really. Totally himself. Totally unapologetic about having all these different sides of his personality that didn’t quite mesh. He didn’t… — Bill Konigsberg Copy Share Image
“He had to live out the entirety of his life as Dalton Prestwick. It was really a worse fate than anything Tom could inflict… — S.J. Kincaid Copy Share Image
“As for Tom, the fact that he "had some woman in New York" was really less surprising than that he had been depressed by… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Tom finally understood why his father saw humanity as worthless. It was hard to see much fundamental value in anything when the bad guys… — S.J. Kincaid Copy Share Image
“Not wanting the girls to endure the shame of a crazy mother, I spent my days acting as normal as possible. I walked through… — Suzie Burke Copy Share Image
“not so heartbreaking. So it was with me after Tom’s death. In retrospect, I look at myself and my friends and I think that… — Mary Alice Monroe Copy Share Image
Tom: I love how she makes me feel, like anything's possible, or like life is worth it. — 500) Days Of Summer Copy Share Image
“I want that child around for the rest of its life to remind Tom what a fool he is.” — Nancy Pickard Copy Share Image
“Tom's whole being applauded this idea. It was deep, and dark, and awful; the hour, the circumstances, the surroundings, were in keeping with it.” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Envy is the most futile of emotions. Sometimes, you are envying an idea you have about someone, but you’re actually envying fiction.” — Carol Mason Copy Share Image
“Thinking no more about it, he stepped off into that cool space, that fast descent to her, with nothing in his mind but a… — Patricia Highsmith Copy Share Image
I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes. — Patricia Highsmith Copy Share Image
“I feel I stand in a desert with my hands outstretched, and you are raining down upon me.” — Patricia Highsmith Copy Share Image
One situation – maybe one alone – could drive me to murder: family life, togetherness. — Patricia Highsmith Copy Share Image
“He felt he was about to experience again some ancient, delicious childhood moment that the steam calliope's sour hollowness, the stitching hurdy-gurdy accompaniment, and… — Patricia Highsmith Copy Share Image
“It was a kind of arrogance, perhaps, to believe so in one's destiny. But, on the other hand, who could be more genuinely humble… — Patricia Highsmith Copy Share Image
I should love to do a novel, about one abnormal character seeing present-day life, very ordinary life, yet arresting through it, abnormality, until at… — Patricia Highsmith Copy Share Image
“Dusk was falling quickly. It was just after 7 P.M., and the month was October.” — Patricia Highsmith Copy Share Image
“What chance combination of shadow and sound and his own thoughts had created it?” — Patricia Highsmith Copy Share Image
“Happiness was like a green vine spreading through her, stretching fine tendrils, bearing flowers through her flesh. She had a vision of a pale-white… — Patricia Highsmith Copy Share Image
“That's exactly where you're wrong! Any kind of person can murder. Purely circumstances and not a thing to do with temperament! People get so… — Patricia Highsmith Copy Share Image
The vision of the left, full of envy and resentment, takes its worst toll on those at the bottom - whether black or white… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“He often remembered his dad's admonition that envy was mental theft. If you coveted another man's possessions, Dad said, then you should be willing… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“I don't envy "busy." Busy means having a schedule, not living life. What I really covet is leisure and peace of mind. Those who… — Donna Lynn Hope Copy Share Image
Thinking, or more precisely identification with thinking, gives rise to and maintains the ego, which, in our Western society in particular, is out of… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“Is it not strange that the more someone has, the less he feels he has? Envy can never be sated.” — Jeff Wheeler Copy Share Image
Sometimes I envy painters, it is wonderful to remain in front of a bouquet of flowers a whole morning, or even longer. A photographer… — Edouard Boubat Copy Share Image
avarice breeds envy, a worm that is always gnawing, letting the avaricious enjoy neither their own nor anyone else's good. — St. Catherine of Siena Copy Share Image
“You don’t see someone flying and you begin to bite yourself for not being able to do that. You do what you can.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Knowledge forbidden? Suspicious, reasonless. Why should their Lord Envy them that? Can it be sin to know, Can it be death? And do they… — John Milton Copy Share Image
“Who would have thought you had so many supporters?" she whispered. "Not mine, my love. Yours. I had not a one till you started… — Michele Sinclair Copy Share Image
