Envy Quotes - Page 11

Envy will merit as its shade pursue, But like a shadow, proves the substance true.

Is it not clear, however, that bliss and envy are the numerator and denominator of the fraction called happiness?

All the wants which disturb human life, which make us uneasy to ourselves, quarrelsome with others, and unthankful to God, which weary us in vain labors and foolish anxieties, which carry us from project to project, from place to place in a poor pursuit of we don't know what, are the wants which neither God, nor nature, nor reason hath subjected us to, but are solely infused into us by pride, envy, ambition, and covetousness.

Instead of possibilities, I have realities in my past, not only the reality of work done and of love loved, but of sufferings bravely suffered. These sufferings are even the things of which I am most proud, though these are things which cannot inspire envy.

Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks.

He in whose mind is no anger, hatred, or envy, who never loses his balance, dies, or is born, who is he but God?

The Wickans know that the gift of power is never free. They know enough not to envy the chosen among them, for power is never a game, nor are glittering standards raised to glory and wealth. They disguise nothing in trappings, and so we all see what we'd rather not, that power is cruel, hard as iron and bone, and thrives on destruction. ~ Deadhouse Gates

All envy is proportionate to desire; we are uneasy at the attainments of another, according as we think our own happiness would be advanced by the addition of that which he withholds from us.

Achieve some perfection [excellence] yourself, so that you may not fall into sorrow by seeing the perfection in others.

Five great enemies of peace inhabit us: avarice, ambition, envy, anger and pride.

Envy is the tax which all distinction must pay.

When I was young they used to say people only threw stones at the tree that was loaded with fruit.

The tyranny imposed on the soul by anger, or fear, or lust, or pain, or envy, or desire, I generally call 'injustice.'

Envy, like a false mirror, distorts the symmetry of the sweetest form.

When is enough enough? In envy's eyes, enough never is. Somebody else always has something we want.

Envy is human nature.

Spite is never lonely; envy always tags along.

Ethiopia did not have the same problem [of corruption]. African leaders looked at us with envy.

Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead.

There is a vast difference between success at twenty-five and success at sixty. At sixty, nobody envies you. Instead, everybody rejoices generously, sincerely, in your good fortune.

I almost envy people who say whatever they want.

We need criminals to identify ourselves with, to secretly envy and to stoutly punish. They do for us the forbidden, illegal things we wish to do.

I like to walk, touch living Mother Earth—bare feet best, and thrill every step. Used to envy happy reptiles that had advantage of so much body in contact with earth, bosom to bosom. [We] live with our heels as well as head and most of our pleasure comes in that way.

Envy, after all, comes from wanting something that isn't yours. But grief comes from losing something you've already had.

Guileless and without vanity, we were still in love with ourselves then. We felt comfortable in our skins, enjoyed the news that our senses released to us, admired our dirt, cultivated our scars, and could not comprehend this unworthiness. Jealousy we understood and thought natural--a desire to have what somebody else had; but envy was a strange, new feeling for us.