Brian Michael Bendis Quotes

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

I was always jealous of something getting more attention.

People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves.

You feel like everyone hates you if you've got a good life, now I feel maybe it's allowed because I've had my share of sadness.

Envy, propelled by fear, can be even more toxic than anger, because it involves the thought that other people enjoy the good things of life which the envier can't hope to attain through hard work and emulation.

When a man is pleased with the lot of others, he is dissatisfied with his own, as a matter of course.

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

An envious man grows lean at another's fatness.

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

When you're miserable, you don't want anyone around you to be happy.

We spend our time envying people whom we wouldn't wish to be.

There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

I always felt that if somebody picks on you it's because they're not happy doing what they're doing.

Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.

The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor.

Envy is human nature.

Nature, more of a stepmother than a mother in several ways, has sown a seed of evil in the hearts of mortals, especially in the more thoughtful men, which makes them dissatisfied with their own lot and envious of another's.

Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own.

Carrying envy makes life more difficult.

It's hard to find someone who is really genuinely happy for you if you are having success and they're not.

You're going to find England, unfortunately, is a place where you get a lot of jealous, envious, you know, negative people. That's how it is.

It's easy in this world, in this business, to get caught up and get jealous of people.

I hate jealousy so much that if I ever do feel it, I try to shut it down immediately, but it's so hard.

Envy and jealousy are incurable diseases.

No one would deny that feeling envy is unpleasant, or that feeling envious sometimes leads us down a path we wish we hadn't taken. Envy is frequently corrosive and destructive.