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“They had paused before the table on which the bride’s jewel were displayed, and Lily’s heart gave an envious throb as she caught the refraction of light from their surfaces – the milky gleam of per...”
“How do you surrender when every cell of your being is screaming that your life is not working and that you need to do something to make it work? How do you surrender in that moment when jealousies,...”
“She left me, offended at my want of sympathy, and thinking, no doubt, that I envied her. I did not - at least, I firmly believed I did not.”
“. . . they would neither hate nor envy us if they did not deem us so much happier than themselves.”
“He who don’t know what envy can do shall always do what envy can do”
“Envy, bleating 'I'm as good as you', is the hotbed of Fascism.”
“Those who envy the success of others are normally ignorant to the sacrafices, failures, and dedication that it took for them to get there”
“Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.”
“Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.”
“Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbor's buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder.”
“There they were, the movers and shakers of Benjamin Franklin Hight - the sports stars, the cheerleaders, the good, the great, the gorgeous - bent over their pizzas.Trish sensed my angst and said, "...”
“They'll either want to kill you, kiss you, or be you.”
“Envy is the religion of the mediocre. It comforts them, it soothes their worries, and finally it rots their souls, allowing them to justify their meanness and their greed until they believe these t...”
“I had some ambition. I meant everything to be different with me. I thought I had more strength and mastery. But the most terrible obstacles are such as nobody can see except oneself.”
“Even in those cities which seem to enjoy the blessings of peace, and where the arts florish, the inhabitants are devoured by envy, cares and anxieties, which are greater plagues than any expirience...”
“It is difficult to be ambitious without also being envious.”
“Where envy is unavoidable it must be used as a stimulus to one’s own efforts, not to the thwarting of the efforts of rivals.”
“... the serpent hissing between the lips of Envy is so huge, and so completely fills her wide-opened mouth that the muscles of her face are strained and contorted,...”
“You know, sometimes I even envy myself.”
“Existential envy which is directed against the other person’s very nature, is the strongest source of ressentiment. It is as if it whispers continually: “I can forgive everything, but not that you ...”
