Jean Rostand Quotes

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

I think it's impossible not to see something you wanted happen to someone else and maybe wish it for yourself.

Envy is human nature.

Everybody always thinks the grass is always greener.

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.

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

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

Carrying envy makes life more difficult.

I was always jealous of something getting more attention.

People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves.

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.

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.

I was always a 'grass is greener' kind of guy.

The ox longs for the gaudy trappings of the horse; the lazy pack-horse would fain plough. [We envy the position of others, dissatisfied with our own.]

No one is content with his own lot.

He was jealous of her future, and she of his past.

The hate of favourites is only a love of favour. The envy of NOT possessing it, consoles and softens its regrets by the contempt it evinces for those who possess it, and we refuse them our homage, not being able to detract from them what attracts that of the rest of the world.

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

I think it bothers people to see people that are happy and successful. So they try to find what's wrong with them.

Envy aims very high.

I don't have time for their judgement and their stupidity and you know they lay down with their ugly wives in front of their ugly children and look at their loser lives and then they look at me and they say, 'I can't process it' well, no, you never will stop trying, just sit back and enjoy the show. You know?

Jealousy is just love and hate at the same time.

Can people who hunger so desperately for what other people have ever have enough?

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

My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.