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Quotes About Envy

It's sad how some people are so jealous and intimidated by you that they only have negative things to say when they know absolutely nothing about you.
~ Unknown
Sometimes people will talk about you when they envy the life you lead. Let them be. You affected their life; don't let them affect yours.
~ Unknown
People don't hate you for your weaknesses, they hate you for your strengths.
~ Unknown
I love being judged because the person that's hating and judging is wondering why they can't be me.
~ Unknown
The most judgmental 10 seconds in any person's life is the walk through first class to coach.
~ Unknown
I'm tired of being alone. I'm jealous of everyone's relationship.
~ Unknown
Don't be jealous of me! Be you, yourself, and you will be like me.
~ Unknown
A boy makes YOU jealous of another woman, but a gentleman makes another woman jealous of YOU.
~ Unknown
My heart breaks a little bit more every time I see you with her.
~ Unknown
What we have, no one can break. What we have, no one can take. Because what we have others hate, and that's the reason why we're doing great.
~ Unknown
People are probably not happy with their lives if they're busy discussing yours.
~ Unknown
Most people will smile at you and be nice; not because they like you or happy for you, but because they can see that you're about to hit the ground. They feel better about themselves when they see someone struggle in life.
~ Unknown
Most people want to see you to do better, but not doing better than them.
~ Unknown
La envidiosa muerte se bebería su sangre y sería joven de nuevo.
~ Madeline Miller
Il bagliore roseo delle sue labbra, il verde febbricitante dei suoi occhi. Il suo viso non aveva nemmeno una ruga, nemmeno un'increspatura, un accenno di grigio: era fresco e prefetto. Lui era primavera, dorato e splendente. La Morte invidiosa avrebbe bevuto il suo sangue, e sarebbe diventata giovane di nuovo.
~ Madeline Miller
El destello rosado de su labio, el verde febril de sus ojos, su rostro desprovisto de arrugas… Nada en él decaía ni se marchitaba. Él era áureo, deslumbrante, era la primavera. La envidiosa muerte se bebería su sangre y sería joven de nuevo.
~ Madeline Miller
Envious death would drink his blood and grow young again
~ Madeline Miller
Yet there it was: reflecting on the meaning of having been president of the United States, his first impulse was not to mention public service, or what he felt he'd accomplished, only that it appeared to be a vehicle for fame, and that many experiences were only worth having if someone else envied them.
~ Maggie Haberman
Joan is altijd ontevreden en ze rust niet voordat een ander dat ook is. Het enige waar zij blij van wordt is andere mensen net zo ongelukkig maken als zij. Ze wil graag gezelschap in die ongelukkige ontevredenheid van haar.
~ Maggie O'Farrell
The gods are jealous and men are fools.
~ Unknown
envious laymen had come up with the ruse of claiming their households were monasteries
~ Unknown
Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
~ Marcel Proust
Whenever she saw in others an advantage, however trivial, which she herself lacked, she would persuade herself that it was no advantage at all, but a drawback, and would pity so as not to have to envy them.
~ Marcel Proust
the serpent hissing between the lips of Envy is so huge, and so completely fills her wide-opened mouth that the muscles of her face are strained and contorted,...
~ Marcel Proust