Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anthony Storr

The word "jealousy" is often used as if it were synonymous with envy; but I think the distinction worth preserving. Jealousy is predominantly concerned with the fear of loss of something one possesses, envy with the wish to own something another possesses. Othello suffers from the fear that he has lost Desdemona's love. Iago suffers from envy of the position held by Cassio, to which he feels entitled.

Abbott L. Lowell

You will not accept credit that is due to another, or harbor jealousy of an explorer who is more fortunate.

Rivers Cuomo

Miley Cyrus' 'Party in the USA' kills me with jealousy. The melodies are out-of-control beautiful.

Elizabeth Bowen

Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.

Elinor Glyn

Passionate jealousy is not a good foster-parent for prudence.

Aaron Carter

Love shouldn't be about jealousy or anything like that. It should be about commitment and being able to trust that person. If you can't have that from the get-go, there's a problem.

Abraham Lincoln

Whatever spiteful fools may say, Each jealous ranting yelper, No woman ever went astray, Without a man to help her

Abraham Lincoln

Allow me to assure you, that suspicion and jealousy never did help any man in any situation.

Antisthenes

As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Loneliness is bred of a mind that has grown earth-bound.

Barry Lopez

Conversations are efforts toward good relations. They are an elementary form of reciprocity. They are the exercise of our love for each other. They are the enemies of our loneliness, our doubt, our anxiety, our tendencies to abdicate. To continue to be in good conversation over our enormous and terrifying problems is to be calling out to each other in the night. If we attend with imagination and devotion to our conversations, we will find what we need; and someone among us will act—it does not matter whom—and we will survive.

C. S. Lewis

We are born helpless. As soon as we are fully conscious we discover loneliness. We need others physically, emotionally, and intellectually. We need them if we are to know anything, even ourselves.

C. S. Lewis

We are born helpless. As soon as we are fully conscious we discover loneliness...

Carrie Brownstein

You can never underestimate that moment of somebody explaining your life to you, something you thought was inexplicable, through music. That was the way out of loneliness.

Carl Rogers

Loneliness is a barrier that prevents one from uniting with the inner self.

Anthony Swofford

My despair is less despair than boredom and loneliness.

Bertrand Russell

In human relations one should penetrate to the core of loneliness in each person and speak to that.

Ajay Naidu

There is extraordinary similarities between the Midwest in America and Europe in that there is this sense of vast, open sky and loneliness and cold.

Mark Twain

Pity is for living, envy is for dead.

Carrie Fisher

I envy people who have the capacity to sit with another human being and find them endlessly interesting, I would rather watch TV. Of course this becomes eventually known to the other person.

William Shenstone

Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it

Bertrand Russell

Envy ... is one form of a vice, partly moral, partly intellectual, which consists in seeing things never in themselves but only in their relations.

Ned Zachar

I don't envy the FCC's job here. This is an incredibly tricky decision.

George Will

Greed is envy with its sleeves rolled up.

Tom Stoppard

I have a spasm of envy for the person that was killed by a falling bookcase, as long as it doesn't happen prematurely.

Jacob Tamme

I envy the perseverance of everybody in this school. And I know how much they must look up to Terry.

John Glenn

I envy Neil for that wonderful, wonderful experience.