Harold Bloom Quotes

I've never been a jealous person, and I've never felt built up by someone else's failure - that's a cheap thrill.

The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.

If your wife went out with Brad Pitt, you'd want to prove yourself, you know what I mean?

Those who succeed can't forgive a fellow for being a failure, and those who fail can't forgive him for being a success.

The only time people do not like praise is when too much of it is going toward someone else.

Maybe's he's just jealous I have hair.

People hate those who make them feel their own inferiority.

He's only mediocre, jealousy can't get with me.

There is no vice of which a man can be guilty, no meanness, no shabbiness, no unkindness, which excites so much indignation among his contemporaries, friends and neighbours, as his success. This is the one unpardonable crime, which reason cannot defend, nor humility mitigate.

The heaven of the envied is hell for the envious.

When people find a man of the most distinguished abilities as a writer their inferior while he is with them, it must be highly gratifying to them.

The worst thing about jealousy is how low it makes you reach.

If you have a strong ego [and] something good happens to an acquaintance of yours, [it] makes you feel bad. It's called envy. ... The ego thinks something has been taken away from you because somebody else has received something good. It's a complete illusion, but that's the madness of the ego.

It wasn't enough for Megadeth to do well; I wanted Metallica to fail.

The highest point to which a weak but experienced mind can rise is detecting the weakness of better men.

What makes vanity so insufferable to us, is that it hurts our own.

Some of the djamphir are so pretty it almost hurts to look at them. And it was hard to look without feeling rumpled and messy in comparison.

Others proclaim the infirmities of a great man with satisfaction and complacence, if they discover none of the like in themselves.

Some men do as much begrudge others a good name, as they want one themselves: and perhaps that is the reason of it.

Whoever envies another confesses his superiority.

Too often I am jealous and my jealousy leads me to say things-things-that I regret.

When we feel that we lack whatever is needed to secure someone else's esteem, we are very close to hating him

One of the great flaws that we all share is that we think everyone else is cooler, everyone else is sexier; everyone else has all the answers. That was me too.

Few men have the natural strength to honor a friend's success without envy.

We all have someone we think shines so much more than we do that we are not even a moon to their sun, but a dead little rock floating in space next to their gold and their blaze.