Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

I cannot bear successful people who are miserable.

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

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

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.

If you're miserable and someone flies by looking like they have everything in the whole world and it's never going to be you, that's tough to deal with.

Envy, envy eats them alive. If you had money, they’d envy you that. But since you don’t, they envy you for having such a good, bright, loving daughter. They envy you for just being a happy man. They envy you for not envying them. One of the greatest sorrows of human existence is that some people aren’t happy merely to be alive but find their happiness only in the misery of others.

Didn't you ever notice how it's always people who wish they had somethin' or had done somethin' that hate the hardest?

If I can't be happy, nobody can be happy.

Three or four years ago, I got really caught up in the movies people were making, the opportunities they were getting, and I was looking at them with bitterness.

Envy's a coal comes hissing hot from Hell.

I don't go for people who lead full and satisfying lives.

Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.

I believe that people who don't achieve anything in life are isolated and resent those that are successful.

People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves.

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

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

Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.

For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the disease; he is burdened with his own sorrow, and groans on seeing another's happiness.

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

But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.

Carrying envy makes life more difficult.

I would like somebody to be hated more than I am.

Envy and jealousy are incurable diseases.

There are so many people around who are unsuccessful in life. They still bother to pinpoint because they think that if they are not able to do anything, they should humiliate those who are doing something.

Nothing feels worse than other people's good times.