Quotes About Envy

Yet we always envy others, comparing our shadows to their sunlit sides.

If people fainted from too much thinking I'd scarcely ever be conscious," Tabitha began at once. "I think and think all the time, and I've never fainted – not once." She looked over at Barney enviously. "Why do the best things always happen to other people and not to a promising writer?

some men warm themselves at others' sins.

Be sure that if you are unhappily celebrated for either beauty, wit, intellect, or all three together, half society wishes you dead already, and the other half tries to make you as wretched as possible while you are alive.

Comparschläger: noun; a self-inflicted poison. Activates when you compare yourself to others and end up feeling worthless. Analogous to Goldschläger, the disgusting cinnamon-flavored schnapps with gold flakes that, when ingested in large quantities, makes you puke.

Envy is often a clue that there is something latent in you that needs to be expressed.

Each of us suffers with envy/for the forgiven.

that's my way, always jealous and never thin

Envy, is Pride's greatest Fear.

The woman just ahead of you at the supermarket checkout has all the delectable groceries you didn't even know they carried.

I want to rid my heart of envy, and cleanse my soul of rage before I'm through.

The famous are balloons far up in the sky, to be envied for their quiet freedom or shot down as enemies.

The freedom of birds is an insult to me.

Sometimes we owe a friend to the lucky circumstance that we give him no cause for envy.

I envy people who drink. At least they have something to blame everything on.

Haters...are all failures. It's 100% across the board. No one who is truly brilliant at anything is a hater.

Moral indignation in most cases is, 2% moral, 48% indignation, and 50% envy.

I don't understand people that hate their lives enough to criticize the next person's... but not enough to fix their own.

People hate you for one of three reasons. They hate themselves, they want to be you, or they see you as a threat.

True confidence leaves no room for jealousy. When you know that you are great, you have no need to hate.

People are taken aback by a confident, pretty girl who knows what she wants in life and isn't going to let anyone get in her way. And you know what it's all about? Jealousy.

Jealousy means that you have low self-esteem, and therefore, consider yourself inferior to others

Jealousy comes from insecurities, so b*tch if you supposedly have so much 'confidence' then why are you soo jealous of me and what I do?!

Jealousy comes from self-love rather than from true love.