What good is envy? It’s the one sin you can’t have any fun at.
Hatred corrodes the container it’s carried in.
O, beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-ey'd monster, which doth mock The meat it feeds on.
Hate destroys the hater.
Anger is like the blade of a butcher knife - very difficult to hold on to for long without harming yourself.
Our envy of others devours us most of all.
Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.
It is enough that one man hate another for hate to gain, little by little, all mankind.
As a moth gnaws a garment, so doth envy consume a man.
The most violent, mean and malignant passions of the human breast, the Furies of private interest.
Jealousy ought to be tragic, to save it from being ridiculous.
'Psycho' is fascinating philosophically, because the point of 'Psycho' is that everything that's bad happens because of love.
If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
Even our concepts about romantic love, I think, are destructive; treating people as property is destructive; being jealous of other people is destructive. You know, being jealous is a perfectly natural thing to feel, so it's not about suppressing jealousy, but learning to come to terms with it and to recognize its destructiveness and then to transform it.
Although we are all the same in not wanting problems and wanting a peaceful life, we tend to create a lot of problems for ourselves. Encountering those problems, anger develops and overwhelms our mind, which leads to violence. A good way to counter this and to work for a more peaceful world is to develop concern for others. Then our anger, jealousy and other destructive emotions will naturally weaken and diminish.
Hatred is so much easier to win than love - and so much harder to get rid of.
Hate is just as injurious to the hater as it is to the hated. Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Many of our inner conflicts are rooted in hate. This is why the psychiatrists say, "Love or perish." Hate is too great a burden to bear.
Guilt is just as powerful, but its influence is positive, while shame's is destructive. Shame erodes our courage and fuels disengagement.
We need to understand how destructive emotions affect us and constructive emotions can help us, so that we can maintain our peace of mind.
When we look into the human heart we see the lust, the greed, the hate, the pride, the anger, and the jealousies that are so destructive. This is at the heart of the human predicament, and the Scriptures call this condition sin.
Envy and fear are the only passions to which no pleasure is attached.
Hatred, in the course of time, kills the unhappy wretch who delights in nursing it in his bosom.
Thoughts, like old vultures, prey upon their heart-strings
Hate destroys the very structure of the personality of the hater.
Anger would inflict punishment on another; meanwhile, it tortures itself.
