“Fame and envie are both needlesse to the dead because unknown, sometimes dangerous to the living when too well knowne: reason enough that I rather cause to say nothing, then too little, in the praise of the deceased Author, or of your Lordship my desired factor.”— Francis Drake, international.loc.gov
“The first commandment states: ‘I am the Lord thy God. Thou shalt have no other gods before me.’ But two of the seven deadly sins are vanity and envy. Fucking Hypocrite!”— Unknown, tcat.tc
“I only cite these examples to show that it’s all too true—no one is completely unhappy at the failure of his best friend.”— Groucho Marx, books.google.com
“You really think you're better than me, don't you?”— Tom Gammill, Max Pross, Tom Gammill and Max Pross, The Doorman, Larry Miller, imdb.com
“I should be in a place like this; I envy this woman. You get to wear slippers all day. Friends visit. They pity you. Pity is very underrated. I like it, it's good. Plus, they give you those word association tests. I love those.”— Elaine Pope, George Costanza, Jason Alexander, imdb.com
“The most difficult person in your life is actually an insecure, love starved person.”— Yoko Ono, twitter.com
“That's the catch about betrayal, of course: that it feels good, that there's something immensely pleasurable about moving from a complicated relationship which involves minor atrocities on both sides to a nice, neat, simple one where one person has done something so horrible and unforgivable that th…”— Nora Ephron, books.google.com
“Haters are people terrified of their own emptiness Critics are people who want to be those who they criticize”— Paulo Coelho, twitter.com
“I envy the cup of coffee that gets to kiss your sleepy lips awake every cold and bitter morning.”— Sade Andria Zabala, sadeandriazabala.com
“We shout "self care" and "joy" all day but won't admit we have a "poor people not apply" footnote to things we have deemed to be for "us." The middle class, the bougie elite. The ones who don’t even realize they’re just as poor. Poor people buy Jordans? We're upset. Poor people have cable? We're ang…”— Preston D. Mitchum, facebook.com
“Mountain, I do not love you, for you remind me of the clouds, of the sunset, of the rising sky, and these are things that almost make me cry because one can never reach them.”— Franz Kafka, amazon.com
“When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.”— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, books.google.com
“The gods envy us. They envy us because we’re mortal, because any moment may be our last. Everything is more beautiful because we’re doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.”— Homer, amazon.com
“Anger, resentment and jealousy doesn’t change the heart of others— it only changes yours.”— Shannon L. Alder, amazon.com
“You don’t have to disrespect and insult others simply to hold your own ground. If you do, that shows how shaky your own position is.”— Red Haircrow, goodreads.com
“I hate them for not being in pain like me, hate them for being able to enjoy themselves. Hate myself for feeling that way.”— Chevy Stevens, amazon.com