Evan Esar Quotes

There is always going to be someone more successful, richer, better looking, or with a nicer car.

When are four women ever happy for another woman getting something they'd love to have? Tell me that.

There's always going to be someone with a bigger toy than yours.

That which makes people dissatisfied with their condition, is the chimerical idea they form of the happiness of others.

The grain is always greener in foreign fields, and the flocks of our neighbor have richer yields

I think with social media and Instagram, people are able to see what's over the fence of everyone else, and it all seems within reach.

You could have the thickest skin but Instagram and Twitter still affect you. It makes you envious, even if you've got everything you could ever want.

Benign envy can sound a lot like admiration. The difference is that, while admiration feels good, envy is painful.

I'm sure that it's a universal experience, but I wonder if it gets exacerbated more in Los Angeles, where people are constantly looking over at the other people, going, 'Why don't I have that? I want that. Their table looks warmer.'

Social media, unfortunately, just makes it a lot easier to be jealous. It sets up false expectations of reality, so it's really easy to look at someone else's life online and assume that they have everything going great for them and that their life is perfect.

When it comes to personal appearance, people are quick to cast judgment on people who look better than them. It's part of the human inferiority complex.

Envy is ever joined with the comparing of a man's self; and where there is no comparison, no envy.

I wish I had a better metabolism. But someone else probably wishes they could walk into a room and make friends with everyone like I can. You always want what someone else has.

You can only be jealous of someone who has something you think you ought to have yourself.

When you read magazines and you see everybody having fun, you think, ‘okay, that’s where I want to be.’ But once you get in it and you achieve the success that you want, it seems like that’s where the player hating starts. You know that’s where everybody’s like, ‘Well it’s not all that

Jealousy is comparison. And we have been taught to compare, we have been conditioned to compare, always compare. Somebody else has a better house, somebody else has a more beautiful body, somebody else has more money, somebody else has a more charismatic personality. Compare, go on comparing yourself with everybody else you pass by, and great jealousy will be the outcome; it is the by-product of the conditioning for comparison.

Jealousy is in a manner just and reasonable, as it tends to preserve a good which belongs, or which we believe belongs to us, on the other hand envy is a fury which cannot endure the happiness of others.

Comparisons of one's lot with others' teaches us nothing and enfeebles the will.

It's never your successful friends posting the inspirational quotes

Other people's things are more pleasing to us, and ours to other people. -Aliena nobis, nostra plus aliis placent

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.

If you think of someone's good qualities as the umeboshi in an onigiri it's as if their qualities are stuck to their back! Maybe the reason people get jealous of each other is because they can see so clearly the umeboshi on other people's backs.

We envy only those whom we feel ourselves to be like; we envy only members of our reference group. There are few successes more unendurable than those of our close friends.

If there's one thing I know, it's this - everybody thinks somebody else is having a better life.

No one wants to be excelled by his relatives.