Quotes About Envy

Generally, we admire the thing we are not.

O! what a Godlike Power is that of doing Good! I envy the Rich and the Great for nothing else!

I look at so many people's feeds like, 'God, your life is so cool. Like, I want to do that! Why don't I get that?' And I will get envious of someone's life, and we don't think about the fact that it's completely - not fake, but it's one single screenshot of just the good times.

As I writhed under it, I would at times feel that learning to read had been a curse rather than a blessing. It had given me a view of my wretched condition, without the remedy. It opened my eyes to the horrible pit, but to no ladder upon which to get out. In moments of agony, I envied my fellow-slaves for their stupidity.

The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.

Our faith in others betrays that we would rather have faith in ourselves. Our longing for a friend is our betrayer. And often with our love we want merely to overcome envy. And often we attack and make ourselves enemies, to conceal that we are vulnerable.

He whom the flame of jealousy encompasses, will at last, like the scorpion, turn the poisoned sting against himself.

Still am I the richest and most to be envied - I, the lonesomest one!

So bless me then, you tranquil eye that can behold even the greatest happiness without envy!

When some men fail to accomplish what they desire to do they exclaim angrily, "May the whole world perish!" This repulsive emotion is the pinnacle of envy, whose implication is "If I cannot have something, no one can have anything, no one is to be anything!

You go above and beyond them: but the higher you climb, the smaller you appear to the eye of envy. And he who flies is hated most of all.

You preachers of equality, the tyrannomania of impotence clamors thus out of you for equality: your most secret ambitions to be tyrants thus shroud themselves in words of virtue. Aggrieved conceit, repressed envy—perhaps the conceit and envy of your fathers—erupt from you as a flame and as the frenzy of revenge.

I pass through this people and keep mine eyes open: they do not forgive me for do not envying their virtues. They bite at me, because I say unto them that for small people, small virtues are necessary - and because it is hard for me to understand that small people are necessary!

Cine-i înv?luit de flac?ra invidiei — acela îÅŸi întoarce pân? la urm?, ca scorpionul, acul înveninat spre sine însuÅŸi.

And often with our love we want merely to overleap envy. And often we attack and make ourselves enemies, to conceal that we are vulnerable.

Whom do you call Bad?-Him who always wants to put others to shame.

Diese räucherigen, stubenwarmen, verbrauchten, vergrünten, vergrämelten Seelen - wie könnte ihr Neid mein Glück ertragen!

but the higher you climb, the smaller you appear to the eye of envy. And he who flies is hated most of all.

This man was my equal—no, I admitted grudgingly, my superior—and I hated him for it. I hated him because I knew that in his dream of power no one must suffer. I hated him because, once, I had been weak enough to share his feelings.

Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.

We simply cannot put a man into a crucible to see if he will give off unmistakable green fumes of envy.

The poison of hate, sensuality, and envy which is in the hearts of men could not be healed simply by wise exhortations and social reforms.

THERE is certainly something very noble and large-minded in the intention of those who have endeavoured to protect from envy the noble achievements of distinguished men, and to rescue their names, worthy of immortality, from oblivion and decay.

I have developed a nasty habit of losing to the guy who wins the tournament, and that alone makes you think what you could have achieved.