Envy Quotes - page 19

I envied those who could believe in a God and I distrusted them. I felt they were keeping their courage up with a fable of the changeless and the permanent. Death was far more certain than God, and with death there would be no longer the possibility of love dying. (Graham Greene)
Stay close to those who are by your side in happy times, because they do not harbour jealousy or envy in their hearts, only joy to see you happy. View quote
Paulo Coelho
I'm not confident around compliments or being celebrated, and I'm not comfortable with the thought of envy, which some people thrive on. View quote
Rachel Weisz
Envy, the attendant of the empty mind. View quote
Pindar
Adam Warlock, a being who wished nothing more than to spend the rest of his days within the peaceful environment of the Soul Gem. He now possesses the Infinite Power and the responsibility that goes with it. While I, whose entire life was dedicated to the pursuit of power, now find myself scraping out a living from the soil. Irony worthy of the drama. Yet strangely enough though, I envy not Adam Warlock. Somehow I feel, that in the long run, Thanos of Titan came out ahead in this particular deal. View quote
Jim Starlin
Let's face it: there are few things in this world more stupid than dancing. Except break dancing, which pirates and lumber jacks would agree is awesome. Other than that, dancing makes me envy cripples. View quote
Maddox
The reason death sticks so closely to life isn't biological necessity; it's envy. Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. View quote
Yann Martel
Large parties given to very young children... foster the passions of vanity and envy, and produce a love of dress and display which is very repulsive in the character of a child. View quote
Susanna Moodie
It is often found that modesty and humility not only do no good, but are positively hurtful, when they are shown to the arrogant who have taken up a prejudice against you, either from envy or from any other cause. View quote
Niccolò Machiavelli
If a soul is born with divine intelligence, and has its lips touched with hallowed fire, in consecration for high enterprises under the sun, this young soul will find the question asked of him by England every hour and moment: "Canst thou turn thy human intelligence into the beaver sort, and make honest contrivance, and accumulation of capital by it? If so, do it; and avoid the vulpine kind, which I don't recommend. Honest triumphs in engineering and machinery await thee; scrip awaits thee, commercial successes, kingship in the counting-room, on the stock-exchange;-thou shalt be the envy of surrounding flunkies, and collect into a heap more gold than a dray-horse can draw. "-"Gold, so much gold?" View quote
Thomas Carlyle
O thou who art able to write a Book, which once in the two centuries or oftener there is a man gifted to do, envy not him whom they name City-builder, and inexpressibly pity him whom they name Conqueror or City-burner! Thou too art a Conqueror and Victor; but of the true sort, namely over the Devil: thou too hast built what will outlast all marble and metal, and be a wonder-bringing City of the Mind, a Temple and Seminary and Prophetic Mount, whereto all kindreds of the Earth will pilgrim. (Thomas Carlyle)
Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared but only men of character are trusted. View quote
Alfred Adler
I envy the people who say, 'oh, well, I've got my name in the golden book and I'm going to be entered into the pearly gates.' View quote
William Shatner
Envy, to which the ignoble mind's a slave, Is emulation in the learned or brave. View quote
Alexander Pope
Envy will merit, as its shade pursue, But like a shadow, proves the substance true. View quote
Alexander Pope
Jealousy's vicious bulldog trampled through my soul. I was furious, no, furious is not a strong enough word; I was enraged with envy, hate, and malice toward a strange brunette kissing my boyfriend. What is that tramp doing with my man? View quote
Bethany Kennedy Scanlon
Consider the ravages committed in the bowels of all commonwealths by ambition, by avarice, envy, fraud, open injustice, and pretended friendship; vices which could draw little support from a state of nature, but which blossom and flourish in the rankness of political society. View quote
Edmund Burke
I don't think I pity her. She doesn't strike me as a girl that suggests compassion. I think I envy her... I don't know whether she is a gifted being, but she is a clever girl, with a strong will and a high temper. She has no idea of being bored...Very pretty indeed; but I don't insist upon that. It's her general air of being someone in particular that strikes me. View quote
Henry James
In a lot of ways, I envy someone like Omar Sharif who lived in a hotel for decades. View quote
Viggo Mortensen
I envy children who know that they're going to become doctors, know they're going to go into the forces or whatever. I think choice is one of the hardest things, but that's what I try to give my children, to say you can do anything. View quote
Jeremy Irons
How noble and ennobling!-but within How mean, how poor, how pitiful, how mix'd With base alloy; how Disappointment tracks The steps of Hope; how Envy dogs success; How every victor's crown is lined with thorns, And worn mid scoffs! (Letitia Elizabeth Landon)
I envy thee, thou careless wind! How light, how wild thy wandering : Thou hast no earthly chain, to bind One fetter on thy airy wing. View quote
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
The leaves were gone from all, save where the pine Threw the wide shadow of its unchang'd green. I could not envy it that fadeless state.- Ah! who would be the last, the only one That ruin spares-no; if the blight must pass O'er all around, let it pass o'er me too! View quote
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
My heart is with thee, Iove ! though now Thou'rt far away from me : I envy even my own thoughts, For they may fly to thee. View quote
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
There is no "how to drop it”, because that is only another form of continuity. To drop opinion, belief, attachment, greed, or envy is to die - to die every day, every moment. If there is the coming to an end of all ambition from moment to moment, then you will know the extraordinary state of being nothing, of coming to the abyss of an eternal movement, as it were, and dropping over the edge - which is death. View quote
Jiddu Krishnamurti