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I feel blindfolded at sunset. — Jennifer Elisabeth

So while our art cannot, as we wish it could, save us from wars, privation, envy, greed, old age, or death, it can revitalize us amidst it all. — Ray Bradbury

Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads. — Ben Jonson

There is a world-wide conflict between capital and labour, and the poor envy the rich. — Mahatma Gandhi

How much I'd always envied the tight life of voles. The hidey hole was happiness. — Sam Lipsyte

It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you. — Baltasar Gracian

I can remember staring at the orphanage and feeling envy. — George Carlin

She and I will become one someday soon. So much so, that none will know where I begin and she ends. This I know ... — A.R. Von

The sun loses nothing by allowing the stars to shine. — Matshona Dhliwayo

This beautiful, wonderful, sexy-as-sin woman is mine. You may look - and seethe with envy - but never touch. — Olivia Cunning

How can we explain the perpetuity of envy
a vice which yields no return? — Honore De Balzac

Neither compares nor competes. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I envy people who could just have one drink and not go look for cocaine afterwards. — Felipe Esparza

A man shall never be enriched by envy. — Thomas Draxe

Yet we always envy others, comparing our shadows to their sunlit sides. — Margaret George

If you just can't get rid of envy, then start creating a life, so that if you saw yourself from afar, you'd be envious of you. — Charles F. Glassman

Envy's a sharper spur than pay: No author ever spar'd a brother; Wits are gamecocks to one another. — John Gay

There is but one man who can believe himself free from envy; and it is he who has never examined his own heart. — Claude Adrien Helvetius

Let us praise the noble turkey vulture: No one envies him; he harms nobody; and he contemplates our little world from a most serene and noble height. — Edward Abbey

The highest summits and those elevated above the level of other things are mostly blasted by envy as by a thunderbolt. — Lucretius

Life is not a competition. — Lailah Gifty Akita

She didn't sleep much that night. She spent the better part of the night burning with resentment and envy. — Ira Trivedi

Those people, who hate you, envy your freedom. — Santosh Kalwar

Ambition ... the original of vices;
Mother of hypocrisy, parent of envy, engineer of deceit — Ernest Hemingway,

Envy is like a fly that passes all the body's sounder parts, and dwells upon the sores. — Arthur Chapman

Envy has always hidden behind moral indignation. — Doris Lessing

Socially, the Cuban revolution created an education system and health service that remain the envy of much of the neo-liberal world. — Tariq Ali

It's silly to think the left eye would envy the right or that one foot would be jealous of the other, and yet so often it is the case. — Richelle E. Goodrich

As a scholarly discipline, economics has always suffered from physics envy. — Robert Kuttner

Envy is everywhere. Who is without envy? And most people Are unaware or unashamed of being envious. — T. S. Eliot

Envy does not allow humanity to sleep. — Carl Jung

I arouse desire in men and envy in other women. — Paulo Coelho

I envy drummers. It must be the ultimate to sing and play drums at the same time. Phil Collins, no wonder he's so f ... happy. — Noel Gallagher

Is it not strange that the more someone has, the less he feels he has? Envy can never be sated. — Jeff Wheeler

I'd the upbringing a nun would envy. Until I was fifteen I was more familiar with Africa than my own body. — Joe Orton

Roots never get the appreciation that a flower does, but that doesn't make them envious. — Debasish Mridha

O, beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-ey'd monster, which doth mock The meat it feeds on. — William Shakespeare

Never trust anyone who wants what you've got. Friend or no, envy is an overwhelming emotion. — Eubie Blake

Who hath not heard the rich complain Of surfeits, and corporeal pain? He barr'd from every use of wealth, Envies the ploughman's strength and health. — John Gay

Envy, to which th' ignoble mind's a slave, Is emulation in the learn'd or brave. — Alexander Pope

Anger, resentment, envy, and self-pity are wasteful reactions. They greatly drain one's time. They sap energy better devoted to productive endeavors. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg

They all laughed when I said I'd become a comedian. Well, they're not laughing now. — Bob Monkhouse

Envy will merit as its shade pursue, But like a shadow, proves the substance true. — Alexander Pope

If girls could spit venom, it'd be through their eyes. — S.D. Lawendowski

The only thing more frustrating than slanderers is those foolish enough to listen to them. — Criss Jami

Accusations are merely the envy of the unenlightened given form. — Brian Farrey

Because thankfulness is the tonic that always cures the cancers of greed, envy and jealously, it should be taken in liberal doses daily. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Greatness is always envied - it is only mediocrity that can boast of a host of friends. — Marie Corelli

You have a dedication to life and truth that burns out of you as beauty and I envy it so much I want to be around it for the rest of my life. — Trevor D. Richardson

Love me until Venus gasps with envy.
Love me again until Eros swears celibacy. — Gloria D. Gonsalves

Moloch merely shovels babies into the fire of productive capitalism. Mammon hooks them on the dead heroin of envy. — Hakim Bey

The wise will admire you. The wishful will envy you. The weak will hate you. This is the reality for those who dare to be epic. — Steve Maraboli

Envy is the most stupid of vices, for there is no single advantage to be gained from it. — Honore De Balzac

The truest mark of being born with great qualities is to be born without envy. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

People are so unnecessarily negative about envy. It really ought to be struck off the list of deadly sins. — David Lagercrantz

There can be little doubt that many egalitarians are motivated at least partly by envy. — Henry Hazlitt

We love much better those who endeavor to imitate us, than those who strive to equal us. For imitation is a sign of esteem, but competition of envy. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Envy feeds on the living. It ceases when they are dead. — Ovid

That's how envy works: the better things are, the worse they are, because they don't belong to you. — William Deresiewicz

We envy people like you, and we want to be you; we can't, so we destroy you. — Azar Nafisi

The eyes envy the mind. — Zhuangzi

Sometimes I feel like I'm lacking a playfulness. I envy guys who are consistently able to maintain a playful, optimistic perspective on things. — Eric Dane

Yes, the heat lacerated the heart. And alone she resisted it, entire, virgin, the envy of the sea. — Marguerite Duras

There will always be haters. And the more you grow the more they hate; the more they hate the more you grow. — Anthony Liccione

There are as many mediocrities exalted through pity as masters decried through envy. — Honore De Balzac

The cankered passion of envy is nothing akin to the silly envy of the ass.L'Estrange,Fab.xxxviii. — Samuel Johnson

Envy is ashamed of itself. If it weren't hanging back, it would go all the way to emulation and love. — James Richardson

When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad. — Tacitus

Envy! Envy is the reverse side of a coin called vanity. Nobody is ever envious of others who is not first proud of himself. — John R.W. Stott

Indeed envy is a defect; worse than any other. — Rumi

Haters are those, that never were given any chances, that blew their chances, or that never took the chance. — Anthony Liccione

No thank you to all the bustas, cowards, and FAKE HOMIES who showed me the depths of jealousy, envy and greed. — Tupac Shakur

Don't blow out someone's candle or you'll both end up in the dark. — Matshona Dhliwayo

People may show jealousy, but hide their envy. — Mason Cooley

Why waste your strength envying and hating instead of loving? — Lailah Gifty Akita

Every one of us possesses a gene predisposing us toward rivalry, competition, and fits of envy with any past, present, or future siblings. — Linda Sunshine

If we sow the seeds of hatred and envy and discouragement in others, we, in turn, develop these qualities in ourselves. — Napoleon Hill

I care not for your envy, or your hypocrisy, or even for your human nature. — James Fenimore Cooper

Uncle is gone, she wrote instead of all this. And somehow, in some way, I envy him. — Victoria Aveyard

After Voltaire: envy is chained to the portico of the temple of glory and can neither enter nor leave. — Mason Cooley

When is enough enough? In envy's eyes, enough never is. Somebody else always has something we want. — Nancy Friday

Greatness inspires envy, envy engenders spite, spite spawns lies. — J.K. Rowling

It is better to be envied than pitied. — Herodotus

They will envy you for your success, your wealth, for your intelligence, for your looks, for your status - but rarely for your wisdom. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I envy that man who passes through life safely, to the world and fame unknown. — Euripides

For some reason, the strength and deadliness he keeps so easily leashed make him the most compelling man I've ever met. I envy his self-control. — Amanda Bouchet

Envy's a coal comes hissing hot from Hell. — Philip James Bailey

Study says dogs can be green with envy — Anonymous

When you're famous you kind of run into human nature in a raw kind of way. It stirs up envy, fame does. — Marilyn Monroe

To take the measure of oneself by reference to one's colleagues leads to envy or complacency rather than constructive self-examination. — Benno C. Schmidt Jr.

Never hold resentments for the person who tells you what you need to hear; count them among your truest, most caring, and valuable friends. — Mike Norton

I think it's very painful, and that it's better not to have any doubts. I envy those who don't have any; I envy them a lot. They are happy people. — Nathalie Sarraute

Christianity provided man for the first time with supernatural beings who, he knew, could neither envy nor ridicule him. — Helmut Schoeck

Finally, pay attention to what you envy. Jealousy is an ugly emotion, but it tells the truth. You mostly envy those who have what you desire. I — Susan Cain

What cowardice it is to be dismayed by the happiness of others and devastated by there good fortune. — Baron De Montesquieu

The only man I envy is the man who has not yet been to Africa- for he has so much to look forward to. — Rich Mullins

Great power which incites great envy, hurls some men to destruction; they are drowned in a long splendid stream of honors. — Juvenal

Jealousy is the greatest of all evils, and the one that arouses the least pity in the person who causes it. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

treachery, weakness, envy, fanaticism - the most destructive forces available to man. — Greg Iles

Anger is a violent act, envy a constant habit - no one can be always angry, but he may be always envious ... — Hannah More