Envious Quotes

“The way you think about yourself determines your reality. You are not being hurt by the way people think about you. Many of those people are a reflection of how you think about yourself.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Some people talk about other people’s failures with so much pleasure that you would swear they are talking about their own successes.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Why does that kid think so highly of himself?"
"Kids that think they're so smart.They're everywhere! Destroy is self-esteem!"
"Yes...I really do think highly of myself.People like me should get a taste of the ups and downs of life! Sorry I'm so envious.I will reflect upon this. Please don't be angry.
"Ah..um.."
"There, I said it now. Are you satisfied?"
........
"Bye bye!"
Beat him.....Beat him until he reaches heaven...!!!
-random people and Hiro-chan
”
― Natsuki Takaya, Fruits Basket, Vol. 7

“Your tears are never invisible---there is always an insecure woman that lights up when you point them out.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“My love,
you are driving the entire world mad.
The nightingales are committing suicide
one by one out of jealousy of your voice.
The roses took one glance at your beauty
and folded themselves from shame.
The trees now only whisper your name
and the sky hasn’t stopped crying since you looked up.
Have pity on us, my love.
We have already broken all the mirrors and glass
out of fear that you will forget us
and fall in love with yourself
once you see what we all
cannot stop seeing.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.”
― Antisthenes Pinto

“Some people hate you because of your success,
and they will always hate you even if you give them everything you possess.”
― Mouloud Benzadi

“Don't show a friend your gift, or your bag of money if you still want to maintain your relationship, but if nay, go on, and all you'll see is hate and jealousy, and you'll fight with him in the street like a dog and all you'll feel is regret.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“An envious heart can't be original.”
― Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity

“The Number our envious Persons, confirmation our capability.”
― Oscar Wilde

“You need to have really wasted your life to envy the young for being young.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Your jealousy will last longer than the joy of those you are jealous of.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“If people are trying to pull you down, it is proof that you are above them.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“It is extremely difficult, if not impossible, to think well of yourself while you are envious.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“I know⁠—I know I said before I wasn't like you... It's not true. I'm enough like you to know how you feel. Wanting how others look, what they have, who they have! Everyone else's life seems so much easier... But that's all you know! What you want! You don't know what's going on inside anyone else's head.”
― Vera Brosgol, Anya's Ghost

“Most people are usually unable to enjoy what they are doing, or what they have or are having, when there is no one to envy them.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Some people are rightly pitied by someone or people by whom they are wrongly convinced that they are envied.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“An ability of counting the other people's blessings in place of your own blessings is called jealousy.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“Her warmth enveloped him almost instantly, her scent filling the space between them until all he could think of was how much he envied her perfume for touching her skin when he couldn't.”
― Kerri Maniscalco, Throne of the Fallen

“When the sun rises it casts a shadow on what does not shine as bright as it.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“I thought Lady Helen was going to introduce you to the lady doctor who treated Pandora's shoulder."
"Dr. Gibson? Yes, she's a marvelous woman. As a matter of fact, she came to visit Eversby Priory this summer."
All Phoebe's pleasant feelings abruptly turned disagreeable. "Surely not without a chaperone."
"Garrett Gibson doesn't bother with chaperones," West replied, his lips twitching as if at some private memory. "The usual rules don't apply to her. She brought a patient, Mr. Ethan Ransom, who was injured and needed to recuperate in peace and quiet."
Poisonous jealousy flooded Phoebe. The female doctor was an accomplished and unconventional woman- exactly the kind who would attract his interest. "You must have found her fascinating."
"Anyone would.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Devil's Daughter

“Someone’s good fortune is not your misfortune.”
― Frank Sonnenberg, The Path to a Meaningful Life

“Envy is much like a heart that sheds innocent blood, but brands itself the dam to a magnificent flood: menacing you'll become to what could lift you above - not from your hands it starts, but your inner parts it loves.”
― Criss Jami

“We often pity someone we ought to envy, or envy someone we ought to pity.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Both were ordering cocktails and looked delighted to be in each other's company. For a few seconds Robin suddenly wondered whether she'd ever again feel as they did.”
― Robert Galbraith, Troubled Blood

“Even though Dia hadn’t been killed yet, if the world was a table, with people as plates—then Dia had already been pushed off, falling to the floor. On the 'table' where Dia formerly was, the merry festival continued, everyone danced happily—as if nothing had happened.

…How envious. I want to dance, too.”
― Sakurase Ayaka (桜瀬彩香), 長い夜の国と最後の舞踏会 1　～ひとりぼっちの公爵令嬢と真夜中の精霊～

“رضيت من عيشي بالكُفيّة فحسدني المثقلون بالحطام”
― Mikhail Naimy, كرم على درب

“You can't hate a proov when you're near one, because you want to be like them, you ache to be like them. You want to be perfect, too, and you know if you were improved you'd act just like they do, and feel what they feel, and glide through the world with sky-colored eyes and hair like sunlight, and nothing dirty or broken could ever touch you.”
― Rodman Philbrick, The Last Book in the Universe

“A Sharing Shearing by Stewart Stafford

A sartorial accoutrement,
The hijacking blister overruns,
Morphs into a restless jockey
A green-eyed stallion mounted.

Sense deep neck bite wounds,
In the snarling invisible attacks,
The naysayers whisper to you:
"Burglars ransack the home."

A blade tip runs down the spine,
Walk a plank of splintered avarice,
Seize the weapon from the intruder,
Cut out the mouth ulcer in exorcism.

© Stewart Stafford, 2023. All rights reserved.”
― Stewart Stafford

“Jealousy comes from deep within; it just takes time to unfold.”
― John Joclebs Bassey, Night of a Thousand Thoughts