Quotes About Envy

The dysphorias - the bitter fruits of the narcissist's impossible demands of himself - are painful. Gradually the narcissist learns to avoid them by eschewing a structured narrative altogether… The narcissist pays a heavy price for accommodating his dysfunctional narratives: emptiness; existential aloneness .. meaninglessness. This fuels his envy and the resulting rage.

The envious narcissist's existence is) a constant hiss, a tangible malice, the piercing of a thousand eyes, the imminence and immanence of violence, the poisoned joy of depriving the other of that which you don't or cannot have.

Whoever envies another confesses his superiority.

Pride is seldom delicate, it will please itself with very mean advantages; and envy feels not its own happiness, but when it may be compared with the misery of others

Sir, your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves; but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.

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

There are so few women in general who aren't completely threatened and confused by other women's success. It's very disappointing.

Those people, who hate you, envy your freedom.

I'd developed a kind of resentment of people who were attractive and looked like they had sex and maybe even enjoyed life.

Our lives are spent plopped on the gluteal upholstery for eight hours a day with only imaginary friends for company, spinning lies, marinating in envy, and wondering when the Pulitzer committee is going to twig to our brilliance.

Every time that I think of the crucifixion of Christ, I commit the sin of envy.

As time went on, I got envious and wanted to do a lot of stunts myself

Are there other people who, when watching a documentary set in a prison, secretly think, as I have, 'Wish I had all that time to read'?

For the first time, you can actually see the losers turn green

I've been reading Ed Brubaker comics since the first appearance of Ed Brubaker comics and every single time he announces a new title I mutter to myself: ugh! I wish I would've thought of that!

I found myself jealous of the people who wrote the books. They were dead and they were still taking up my time. Who did they think they were?

Devouring Time and envious Age, all things yield to you; and with lingering death you destroy, step by step, with venomed tooth whatever you attack.

Christianity provided man for the first time with supernatural beings who, he knew, could neither envy nor ridicule him.

Have you ever given someone a book you enjoyed enormously, with a feeling of envy because they were about to read it for the first time, an experience you could never have again?

Directing a movie is the greatest job in the world. I could not be more envious of the guys who get to do it all the time.

That space the Evil One abstracted stood From his own evil, and for the time remained Stupidly good, of enmity disarmed, Of guile, of hate, of envy, of revenge .

When Super Bowl time comes around, I get jealous.