Envied Quotes
The quiet ache of wanting someone else's life.
These envied quotes come from people admitting, often reluctantly, that they wished they had someone else's talent, freedom, or choices. One writer envies a fellow playwright's craft, another envies classmates who went to college. It's a more honest emotion than most people let on, much like the confessions found in Alone quotes.
I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put...
No, I never went to college. Always regretted it, always envied people who did.
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When I was in my teens and twenties, I could see friends expressing how radical they were, and I envied them, the way they lived, the way they dressed. Maybe there is a part of me that is reserved, even...
I always envied them, the owners of the cars with the white plates who can be seen around Jerusalem. I always wanted to be one of them. We call them U.N., even though U.N. are generally foreign correspondents with leased...
Alone Quotes
It was Noel Coward whose technique I envied and tried to emulate. I collected all his records and writing.
I've always envied people who compose music or paint, because they don't have to be bothered with the sort of crude mess that language normally is, in everyday life and in the way we use it.
Always Quotes
I was both very successful and very left; the living demonstration of how you could be on the left and still be in the gossip columns and be envied for the money you made.
I noticed the drama majors on campus when I was at Notre Dame. They just seemed to be freer spirits than the rest of us. There was joy in their work; they were the only ones studying something whose work...
I enjoy the collaboration. I always envied people in bands who got to have that interaction. I've done so many albums where I've been in the studio for 14 hours a day for six months just trying to come up...
Applause Quotes
Nothing is so envied as genius, nothing so hopeless of attainment by labor alone. Though labor always accompanies the greatest genius, without the intellectual gift labor alone will do little.
You're isolated as a writer, so I always envied people who could get up early and drive to work and fit into society.
Turkey is widely envied while there are very serious troubles in the world economy.
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From artists working under strict regimes to teenagers eyeing bolder peers, this page shows envy as something almost universal. For related reflections on self-comparison, see Authorities quotes.
