Maria Konnikova Quotes

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

Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.

Carrying envy makes life more difficult.

Envy and jealousy are incurable diseases.

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.

Our envy of others devours us most of all.

The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.

I was always jealous of something getting more attention.

Envy blinds men and makes it impossible for them to think clearly.

The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.

I think envy motivates a lot of people.

Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.

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.

The surest route to breeding jealousy is to compare. Since jealousy comes from feeling less than another, comparisons only fan the fires.

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

Jealousy means ego, jealousy means unconsciousness. Jealousy means that you have not known even a moment of joy and bliss; you are living in misery. Jealousy is a by-product of misery, ego, unconsciousness.

Envy and fear are the only passions to which no pleasure is attached.

There is something to be said for jealousy, because it only designs the preservation of some good which we either have or think wehave a right to. But envy is a raging madness that cannot bear the wealth or fortune of others.

Of all the passions, jealousy is that which exacts the hardest service, and pays the bitterest wages. Its service is to watch the success of one's enemy; its wages to be sure of it.

An envious man grows lean at another's fatness.

Envy grieves. Jealousy rages.

Like hatred, jealousy is forbidden by the laws of life because it is essentially destructive.

Jealousy is just love and hate at the same time.

People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves.