Pietro Metastasio Quotes

People might look great on the outside but they all have something that they're dealing with.

What's often in your heart is the hardest to reach.

If the internal griefs of every man could be read, written on his forehead, how many who now excite envy would appear to be the objects of pity?

You know your inside, and you know the others' outside: that creates jealousy. They know your outside, and they know their inside: that creates jealousy. Nobody else knows your inside. There you know you are nothing, worthless. And the others on the outside look so smiling. Their smiles may be phony, but how can you know that they are phony? Maybe their hearts are also smiling. You know your smile is phony, because your heart is not smiling at all, it may be crying and weeping.

If our inward griefs were seen written on our brow, how many would be pitied who are now envied! [It., Se a ciascun l'interno affanno Si leggesse in fronte scritto, Quanti mai, che invidia fanno, Ci farebbero pieta!].

Penetrate deeply in the secret existence of anyone about you, even of the man or woman whom you count happiest, and you will come upon things they spend all their efforts to hide. Fair as the exterior may be, if you go in, you will find bare places, heaps of rubbish that can never be taken away, cold hearths, desolate altars, and windows veiled with cobwebs.

It reminds me of myself - seemingly perfect on the outside but inside is all a mush.

In the depths of every heart there is a tomb and a dungeon, though the lights, the music, and the revelry above may cause us to forget their existence.

Have compassion for everyone you meet, even if they don't want it. What seems conceit, bad manners, or cynicism is a sign of things no ears have heard, no eyes have seen. You do not know what wars are going on down there where the spirit meets the bone.

We can shoot rockets into space but we can't cure anger or discontent.

We study biology, physics, movements of glaciers... Where are the classes on envy, feeling wronged, despair, bitterness.

To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self.

We can spend our whole lives escaping from the monsters of our minds. (36)

You can't always tell when someone's keeping something inside and not really happy.

He never once tells me what Tiffany thinks or what is going on in her heart: the awful feelings, the conflicting impulses, the needs, the desperation, everything that makes her different from Ronnie and Veronica, who have each other and their daughter, Emily, and a good income and a house and everything else that keeps people from calling them "odd.

I look placid, you see, that's why people think I'm fine. Inside I worry a lot.

Everyone says "I wish I was in your shoes...", the hundreds of people that wish they were in my shoes don't know the tenth of it. If they were in my shoes they would cry like a baby.

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

Thou tyrant, tyrant Jealousy, Thou tyrant of the mind!

Antonia was very conscious of the corrosive power of envy and felt that it was this emotion, more than any other, which lay behind human unhappiness. People did not realize how widespread envy was.

Before you know what kindness really is you must lose things, feel the future dissolve in a moment like salt in a weakened broth.

Lately I’d begun carrying pain amulets in my bag, like some people have breath mints.

I've got many, many demons that affect me on many, many levels.

Self-pity is the simplest luxury.

When you love someone, you don't want to hurt them, even if they deserve to be hurt. When you love someone, you want to hurt them, even when they don't deserve to be hurt.