Quotes About Envy

But it is not given to every electrician to die in so glorious a manner as the justly envied Richmann.

The intellectuals' chief cause of anguish are one another's works.

I will hate the man you choose because he isn't me, and love him if he makes you smile.

They smile in my face, behind my back they talk trash, Mad and stuff because they don't have cash.

And as we are - the world is. That is, if we are greedy, envious, competitive, our society will be competitive, envious, greedy, which brings misery and war. The State is what we are.

In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy.

They flaunt their conjugal felicity in one's face, as if it were the most fascinating of sins.

When God had made The Man, he made him out of stuff that sung all the time and glittered all over. Some angels got jealous and chopped him into millions of pieces, but still he glittered and hummed. So they beat him down to nothing but sparks but each little spark had a shine and a song. So they covered each one over with mud. And the lonesomeness in the sparks make them hunt for one another.

Los sentimientos de injusticia que podrían ser aprovechados para conseguir una mayor igualdad se reorientan hacia las manifestaciones más claras del consumismo, y se dividen en miríadas de quejas individuales que se resisten a la agregación o a la combinación, y en actos esporádicos de envidia y venganza dirigidos contra otras personas de su propio bando.

It has not only detested beauty when produced at the price of justice; it has rejected the ritual when performed by the morally corrupted. Even religion itself, worship, was not considered to be an absolute. "Your prayers are an abomination," said Isaiah to the exploiters of the poor. Stay away from the synagogue, wrote the Gaon of Wilna to his household, if you cannot abstain from envy and gossiping about the dresses of your fellow attendants.

The poor man's son, whom heaven has in its anger visited with ambition, goes beyong admiration of palaces to envy. He labours all his life to outdo his competitors, only to find the end that the rich are no happier than the poor in the things that really matter.

Let me attain no envied wealth, let me not plunder cities, neither be taken in turn, and face life in the power of another.

For not many men . . . can love a friend who fortune prospers without envying; and about the envious brain cold poison clings and doubles all the pain life brings him. His own woundings he must nurse, and feel another's gladness like a curse.

It is easy to despise what you cannot get

The Raven And The Swan A RAVEN saw a Swan and desired to secure for himself the same beautiful plumage. Supposing that the Swan's splendid white color arose from his washing in the water in which he swam, the Raven left the altars in the neighborhood where he picked up his living, and took up residence in the lakes and pools. But cleansing his feathers as often as he would, he could not change their color, while through want of food he perished. Change of habit cannot alter Nature.

The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others.

I have brought it all on myself! Why could I not have been contented to labor with my companions, and not wish to be idle all the day like that useless little Lapdog!

In general, I call her every night, and we talk for an hour, which is forty-five minutes of me, and fifteen minutes of her stirring her tea, which she steeps with the kind of Zen patience that would make Buddhists sit up in envy and then breathe through their envy and then move past their envy.

Failure is becoming someone who needs others to fail.

It follows that the more people we take to be our equals and compare ourselves to, the more people there will be to envy.

We envy only those whom we feel ourselves to be like; we envy only members of our reference group. There are few successes more unendurable than those of our close friends.

Every person we envy holds out a piece of the jigsaw about our possible later achievements.

Without envy, there could be no recognition of one's desires. So Symons gave Carol another ten-minute slot to list everyone she most regularly envied – adding on his way out of the room that he didn't care for niceness and that if there were not at least two names of close colleagues or friends on her piece of paper, he would know that she had been evasively sentimental.

We never envy another's achievement more than when we know very little about how it was attained.