Committed Quote by Robert Sheaffer

Envy, propelled by fear, can be even more toxic than anger, because it involves the thought that other people enjoy the good things of…

— Martha Nussbaum

Our nature holds so much envy and malice that our pleasure in our own advantages is not so great as our distress at others'.

— Plutarch

The envious are more likely to be mollified by seeing others deprived of some advantage than by gaining it for themselves. It is not…

— Henry Hazlitt

Envy is a horrible thing. It is unlike all other kinds of suffering in that there is no disguising it, no elevating it into…

— George Orwell

Antisthenes used to say that envious people were devoured by their own disposition, just as iron is by rust. Envy of others comes from…

— Diogenes

Anger, resentment, envy, and self-pity are wasteful reactions. They greatly drain one's time. They sap energy better devoted to productive endeavors.

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Envy is an ill-natured vice, and is made up of meanness and malice. It wishes the force of goodness to be strained, and the…

— Jeremy Collier

Lack of understanding of the true nature of happiness, it seems to me, is the principal reason why people inflict sufferings on others. They…

— Dalai Lama

Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.

— Margaret Drabble

Envy makes people lonely, and brings them great suffering. It is horrible stuff to have in our flesh, and it is a sin we…

— Esther Smith

To feel envy is human, to savour schadenfreude is devilish

— Arthur Schopenhauer

No one would deny that feeling envy is unpleasant, or that feeling envious sometimes leads us down a path we wish we hadn't taken.…

— Maria Konnikova