Quotes About Envy

How people loved to see a dream shatter, thought Nova from far away. To see the dreamer hobbled and lamed, foundering in the shards of their broken hopes. This is what you get for believing that you could have more. You're no better than us. You're nothing special.

Who had ever expended so much passion on a dream, only to stand helpless as it was granted to others? Others, moreover, who had expended no passion on it at all.

There was always, among them, such a stew of envy and longing. They hated the humans, but they also wanted to be them. They wanted to punish them, and they wanted to be embraced by them. To be accepted, honored, loved, like someone's child. And since they couldn't have any of it, it all took the form of spite. Anyone who has ever been excluded can understand what they felt, and no one has ever been quite so excluded as they.

How people love to see a dream shatter, thought Nova from far away. To see the dreamer hobbled and lamed, foundering in the shards of their broken hopes. This is what you get for believing that you could have more. You're no better than us. You're nothing special.

Sathaz: The desire to possess that which can never be yours.

Not dancing well, I never danced at all--and how grievously has my heart ached when others where in the full enjoyment of that conversation which I had no right even to partake.

Oh, God, the lovebirds," Magnus said, pulling the pillow off his face. "I hate happy couples.

Jealousy is such an ugly emotion.

You are just jealous," Magnus remarked calmly. "Because you do not have the soul of a true artiste like myself." "Oh, I am positively green with envy," Ragnor snapped. "Come now, Ragnor. That's not fair," said Magnus. "You know I love it when you make jokes about your complexion.

It was only recently that Isabelle had realized other girls weren't just for envying, avoiding, or disliking.

He raised an eyebrow, which made Clary instantly jealous. She'd always wanted to be able to do that. ... Magnus raised an eyebrow. Damn, Clary thought, another one.

I wondered if my life would have turned out all differently if my hair had been blonde and baby-fine. If I'd been naturally pretty and tall like the ladies across the road.

You have a mission. Most of us only wish we did. It's the purest, most untarnished way to live a life. All the universe envies you. All the people, the animals, even the sun and the clouds and the night. If we could trade places with you, we would. So we line up at your back in admiration. We are all with you, Ella.

Yozzy is a horse, for which I envy her.

We all have someone we think shines so much more than we do that we are not even a moon to their sun, but a dead little rock floating in space next to their gold and their blaze.

you lot would rather watch someone suffer untold horrors than watch them enjoy so much as a cool drink if you don't have two of your own, and yours have cherries in them as well as more ice and little paper umbrellas, and even then most of you would still prefer to take theirs and have three. This is not the behavior of a sentient race.

I reckon he's jealous, because he can see you have more talent than he's got in his little finger.

If to look back is tinted with the honeyed cinematography of nostalgia, to look sideways at childhood is tainted with the sicklier haze of envy, an envy that ate at me when I stayed for dinner with my white friend's family or watched the parade of commercials and TV shows that made it clear what a child should look like and what kind of family they should grow up in.

Man is jealous because of his amour propre woman is jealous because of her lack of it.

Envy eats nothing but its own heart

In the affairs of this world, poverty alone is without envy.

Se o invejado é na verdade superior ao invejoso, ninguém pode nada contra ele: o grande tem de descer até ao pequeno para ser contagiado.

No, young man, I don't envy you or your youth. All that you have to face and suffer is still ahead of you.

Great work doesn't make me jealous; it makes me want to work.