Ivan Turgenev Quotes

Great news for someone is always bad news for someone else

There are always sides. There is always a winner and a loser. For every person who gets, there's someone who must give.

How unbearable at times are people who are happy, people for whom everything works out.

Success is somebody else's failure.

I don't think we can be entirely happy seeing such misery around us.

If happy I and wretched he, Perhaps the king would change with me.

Happiness needs one-upmanship.

Economics is about creating win-win situations. But in sports, someone loses.

That which makes people dissatisfied with their condition, is the chimerical idea they form of the happiness of others.

No man profiteth but by the loss of others.

There is always going to be someone more successful, richer, better looking, or with a nicer car.

We think these big people are very happy, but the truth is they are worse than us. We are just worried about one thing - hunger; they have a thousand worries.

Gain cannot be made without some other person's loss.

Fame is also won at the expense of others. Even the well-deserved honors of the scientist or man of learning are unfair to many persons of equal achievements who get none. When one man gets a place in the sun, the others are put in a denser shade. From the point of view of the whole group there's no gain whatsoever, and perhaps a loss.

There is much less envy of the rich by the poor than there is of the happy by the unhappy; by those who believe, by those who don't believe.

In the future no human being is to find peace in the enjoyment of happiness if others beside him are unhappy.

Envy and jealousy stem from the fundamental inability to rejoice at someone else's happiness or success

There are degrees of happiness. You go from one to the other and then back again. It's hard to be completely happy when those around us are suffering and groaning from hunger.

It is not enough to be happy, it is also necessary that others not be.

The game of discontent has its rules, and he who disregards them cheats. It is not permitted to you to wish to add another's advantages or possessions to your own; you are permitted only to wish to be another.

There is little consolation in the fact that millions of people are unhappier than we are. Why should other people's misery make us happier or more content?

Education! Is it education to teach the young that their chances of happiness depend on being richer than their neighbors? Yet that is what it all tends to. Get on! - be successful!

I do not doubt that it would be easier for fate to take away your suffering than it would for me. But you will see for yourself that much has been gained if we succeed in turning your hysterical misery into common unhappiness.

Either the day must come when joy prevails and all the makers of misery are no longer able to infect it, or else, for ever and ever, the makers of misery can destroy in others the happiness they reject for themselves.