Quotes of personalized aphorisms including sentences concerning envy and jealousy, unpleasant feelings to try but that can be overcome with some simple reflections.
Aphorisms envy and jealousy
- As much as he wants it intensely, no one will ever be able to make others feel more envious than he himself can.
- The silence of the envious makes a lot of noise. (Kahlil Gibran)
- As rust deteriorates iron, envy also corrodes the heart of the envious.
- Success makes many people hate you. Maybe it wasn't like that. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you. (Marilyn Monroe)
- Envy is a visible testimony of a great sense of inferiority.
- In a consumer society there are inevitably two types of slaves: prisoners of addictions and prisoners of envy. (Ivan Illich)
- He who feels envy is not so much the one who suffers from not having something that others have, but rather the person who regrets that others have the same things he would like to boast about.
- You can be the moon, and yet be jealous of the stars. (Gary Allan)
- Where envy dominates there is no place for virtue and where misery lies there is no freedom.
- Where envy reigns, virtue cannot live, nor where misery lies can liberality take place. (Miguel de Cervantes)
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- To the extent that the thing possessed by an individual causes envy and desire in others, pleasure and pride take the same way.
Stinging phrases about envy
- Often the most criminal passions are confessed; however envy is a shy and shameful passion that you dare not confess. (François de La Rochefoucauld)
- Men are often not aware of their own happiness, but that of their neighbor never goes unnoticed.
- Never underestimate the power to destroy jealousy and envy. NEVER underestimate this. (Oliver Stone)
- The envious often asks with malice what the money is for a rich man, forgetting what is needed for him to envy those who possess greater material goods.
- The envious person cries more for the sake of others than for his own evil. (Francisco de Quevedo)
- The only vaccine against envy is the illusion of thinking that you have nothing to envy.
- Envy is that feeling that arises when one becomes aware of being a failure. (Oscar Wilde)
- Contrary to lust, pride and gluttony, envy is the only vice that does not give pleasure to those who experience it.
- Dogs are our connection to paradise. They do not know evil or jealousy or discontent. (Milan Kundera)
- Envy and pride are closely related by the fact that the proud, if from a certain point of view tends to exceed the others, in turn, when he is overcome he does not resign himself, and the effect that this non-resignation provokes him is envy.
- Jealousy has nothing to do with love. If you love your woman or your man, how can you be jealous? If your woman laughs with someone else, how can you be jealous? You will be happy, because your woman is happy; his happiness is yours. How can you think against his happiness? If you loved, his happiness would be yours; if you loved, you wouldn't create any possessiveness. (Osho Rajeneesh)
Phrases about jealousy
- The silence of the envious makes a lot of noise contrary to what common minds think.
- Life is a great road with many signs. So when you're on the journey, don't complicate your mind. Escape from hatred, malice and jealousy. Don't bury your thoughts, direct your vision to reality. Wake up and live. (Bob Marley)
- The more the spirit expands, the less space there can find envy and hate.
- Who is not jealous, does not love. (St. Augustine)
- Envy is very similar to love in that being envied is almost like being loved for the attention that is placed on it.
- The people who have less self-confidence are the most envious. (William Hazlitt)
- The envious person suffers for the good fortune of others, and being unable to enjoy, because of his limitations, for his successes, he feels pleasure for the failures that affect others.
- The evil we do does not attract us as much persecution and hatred as our good qualities. (François de La Rochefoucauld)
- Envy is like a rubber ball that the more you try to sink it the more it comes back to the surface.
- Nobody should be envied; the good guys don't deserve envy; as for the bad guys, the luckier they are, the more they ruin themselves. (Epicurus)
- Envious men with a more subtle sense of smell do everything to not get to know their rival in depth in order to feel superior to him.
Phrases for envious people
- Happiness is always exposed to envy: only misery is not envied by anyone. (Socrates)
- You can get rid of envy by savoring the joys that you encounter along your earthly journey, fulfilling the work that must be done with commitment and avoiding comparisons with other people believed, probably wrongly, much more fortunate.
- Jealousy thrives on doubts. It becomes madness or completely ceases to exist as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty. (Francois de La Rochefoucauld)
- The only solution against envy for ordinary men and women is happiness, using all one's strength to find it.
- Beware of jealousy, my lord. A green-eyed monster that taunts the food it feeds on. Blessed lives that cuckold who, conscious of his fate, does not love the woman who betrays him: but oh, how the minutes of his damnation count who loves and suspects; suspects and melts with love! (from Othello - William Shakespeare)
- Nobody is so special as to be worthy of envy, while there are many who are to be pitied immensely.
- Envy is the stupidest of vices, because there is not a single advantage that can be gained from it. (Honore de Balzac)
- Envy is the red light of an anomaly inherent in oneself, therefore avoid feeling this sentiment towards others but look carefully inside.
- At the end of the day, there is no vice that harms human happiness as much as envy. (Descartes)
- To make some completely envious are a great pride and a great personal ambition.
- Envy is an inferiority confession. (Honoré de Balzac)
