E Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with E. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Envy and hatred go together. Mutually strengthened by the fact pursue the same object.”
“Envy and jealousy are the private parts of the human soul. Perhaps the comparison can be extended.”
“Envy and jealousy are very harmful because you are never ever satisfied with what you have and you never reflect on what you have. You constantly live your life on what you do not have.”
“Envy and jealousy stem from the fundamental inability to rejoice at someone else's happiness or success”
“Envy and resentment are terribly corrosive passions. To suffer at the sight or even the thought of others' enjoyment of life makes one a committed enemy of human happiness. Such people end up being practically a curse upon the human race. They vandalize life, exerting themselves not in the pursuit of gain or pleasure, but to hinder others' enjoyment.”
Source: The Making of the Messiah: Christianity and Resentment
“Envy and respect are not the same things...
Before I endow you with respect, I should find out whether your curiosity is intellectual or merely morbid. Not that those who gawk at train derailments are so different from those who conduct autopsies; both want, at some level, to know what has happened, and, by extension, what will happen. Did the liver fail because of the decedent's alcoholism or was some toxin administered? If the deliverer is found, he or she may be imprisoned or, in more honest times, hanged, and thus pose no further threat. Or for the gawker at the accident, espying loose parts not unlike his or her own parts strewn amid wreckage may lead to a sense of awe at death's power, or horror at life's fragility, either of which may be instructive in any number of ways.”
Source: The Lesser Dead
“Envy assails the noblest: the winds howl around the highest peaks.”
“Envy awakens at the sound of a distant laugh.”
“Envy bestrides praise.”
Source: The Odes of Pindar
“Envy can turn friends into adversaries.”
Source: Listen to Your Conscience: That's Why You Have One
“Envy can wake us up to one of two truths: We want something and better do something about it while we still can, or we want something and just cannot have it.
[…]
If your envy is strong and you decide you want to do something, you probably can.”
Source: The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You
“Envy comes from people's ignorance of, or lack of belief in, their own gifts.”
Source: Community and Growth
“Envy creates the beginning of strife.”
“Envy depreciates the genius of the great Homer.”
“Envy derives from insecurity.”
“Envy does not allow humanity to sleep.”
Source: Psychology of the Unconscious
“Envy erodes our conviction of being blessed by God and diminishes faith in Him knowing what’s best.”
Source: God's Love Manual: A How-to Guide for Building Successful Relationships
“Envy. Fear. Anger. Jealousy. They’re all spices.” Locke laughed at my expression. “What is bread without salt? Desire can grow just as plain.”
“I don’t understan—”
He put a finger against my mouth. “Not every lover can appreciate such spices. But I think you can.”
Source: The Lost Sisters
“Envy feeds on the living, after death it rests, then the honor of a man protects him.”
“Envy feeds on the living. It ceases when they are dead.”
“Envy grew like a cancer, deep and invasive.”
“Envy grieves. Jealousy rages.”
“Envy has always hidden behind moral indignation.”
Source: Walking in the Shade: Volume Two of My Autobiography, 1949-1962
“Envy has been, is, and shall be, the destruction of many. What is there, that Envy hath not defamed, or Malice left undefiled? Truly, no good thing.”
“Envy has the ugliness of a trapped rat that has gnawed its own foot in its effort to escape.”
Source: The seven deadly sins
“Envy honors the dead in order to insult the living.”
“Envy, however, is a thoroughly doomed state. And the only pity would be to let it introduce hatred to your heart. Hate only what you love.”
Source: Hydranos
“Envy hurt exponentially more than heartbreak because your soul was torn in two, half soaring with happiness for another person, half mired in a well of selfpity and pain.”
“Envy: Instead of focusing on your own goals, your goal becomes throwing off the rails other people’s goals and at the end of the day you gain nothing but a mischievous satisfaction that you have destroyed someone’s dream”
Source: The Great Pearl of Wisdom
“Envy is a buzz killer."
~R. Alan Woods [2013]”
Source: The Journey Is the Destination: A Book of Quotes With Commentaries
“Envy is a complete misinterpretation of reality.”
“Envy is a deadly sin!”
Source: Halo
“Envy is a declaration of inferiority.”
“Envy is a gun with a faulty breech-lock which flares back and burns the gunner.”
“Envy is a horrible thing. It is unlike all other kinds of suffering in that there is no disguising it, no elevating it into tragedy. It is more than merely painful, it is disgusting.”
Source: Burmese Days
“Envy is a kind of praise.”
Source: The Poetical Works of John Gay: In Three Volumes. Collated with the Best Editions:
“Envy is a less severe form of anger.”
“Envy is a littleness of soul, which cannot see beyond a certain point, and if it does not occupy the whole space feels itself excluded.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)
“Envy is a mistake that just keeps on giving. Obviously we suffer a little when some misfortune befalls us, but envy requires us to suffer all good fortune that befalls everyone we know! What a bright prospect that is-downing another quart of pickle juice every time anyone around you has a happy moment!”
“Envy is a much natural byproduct when your childhood isn’t the way it is supposed to be”
Source: More Than Just Friends
“Envy is a passion so full of cowardice and shame that nobody ever had the confidence to own it.”
“Envy is a sign of insecurity, yes; but so is longing to be envied.”
Source: Healology
“Envy is a spirit of dissatisfaction or opposition to the prosperity or happiness of other people.”
“Envy is a surefire party killer.”
“Envy is a waste of time. Accept what you already have, not what you think you need.”
“Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.”
“Envy is a weed that grows in all soils and climates, and is no less luxuriant in the country than in the court; is not confined to any rank of men or extent of fortune, but rages in the breasts of all degrees.”
“Envy is always referred to by its political alias, 'social justice.”
Source: Dismantling America and Other Controversial Essays (Large Print 16pt)
“Envy is always the flaw of those who crave influence.”
Source: Flesh and Steel
“Envy is an error.”