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Quotes About Envy

Promiscuity' - a word best defined as anyone who has more sex than you.
~ Unknown
It was hideous. Because if someone can be that happy? That perfect? What's that say about the rest of us?
~ Dennis Lehane
Not only were the couples unhappy from their respective fights, they are now even more unhappy as a result of comparing themselves with the other couple!
~ Dennis Prager
Jealousy had nothing to do with logic.
~ Diana Gabaldon
I lay still, wondering exactly what was the matter with me. Or rather, not what, but why. I knew by now what it was, all right; it was jealousy. I was indeed jealous; an emotion I hadn't felt for some years, and was appalled to feel now. I
~ Diana Gabaldon
Many times, people attack the well-to-do people. They see an opportunity.
~ Jessica Hahn
Not going to lie, I wish I was a Pussycat Doll.
~ Megan McKenna
I am always so envious of people who do whatever they want.
~ Claire Foy
I'm envious of writers.
~ Michael Pena
I feel envious of people who have been connected to music throughout their lives.
~ Deepti Naval
I envy people who write easily. I enjoy the process, but it's not easeful for me.
~ Charles Krauthammer
I myself think anti-Semitism is about envy.
~ Joseph Epstein
A man who envies our family is a man who needs help.
~ Yeardley Smith
If you don't know what Gamergate is, my God, do I envy you.
~ Brianna Wu
I envy guys who can write funny.
~ Frank Sinatra Jr.
I thought everybody else was doing much better than I was.
~ Caitlyn Jenner
Possibly, more people kill themselves and others out of hurt vanity than out of envy, jealousy, malice or desire for revenge.
~ Iris Murdoch
Jealousy is the most dreadfully involuntary of all sins.
~ Iris Murdoch
You must know everything. The whole world will fall at your feet and grovel before you. Everybody must envy you. Do not trust people. Do not have friends. Do not lend them money. Do not give them your heart!
~ Unknown
It's an odd feeling-farewell-there is some envy in it. Men go off to be tested for courage and if we're tested at all, it's for patience, for doing without, for how well we can endure loneliness.
~ Isak Dinesen
Everyone loves justice in the affairs of another.
~ Italian proverb
Dalle tende a cono si levava il concerto dei pesanti respiri addormentati. Cosa fosse quel poter chiudere gli occhi, perdere coscienza di sé, affondare in un vuoto delle proprie ore, e poi svegliandosi ritrovarsi eguale a prima, a riannodare i fili della propria vita, Agilulfo non lo poteva sapere e la sua invidia per la facoltà di dormire propria delle persone esistenti era un'invidia vaga, come di qualcosa che non si sa nemmeno concepire.
~ Italo Calvino
if your cart is empty and the others are full, you can only hold out so long: then you're overwhelmed by envy, heartbreak, and you can't stand it.
~ Italo Calvino
She's there every day,' the writer says. 'Every time I'm about to sit down at my desk I feel the need to look at her. Who knows what she's reading? I know it isn't a book of mine, and instinctively I suffer at the thought, I feel the jealousy of my books, which would like to be read the way she reads. I never tire of watching her: she seems to live in a sphere suspended in another time and another space.
~ Italo Calvino