Showing posts with label envy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label envy. Show all posts

Thursday, May 23, 2019

Daily Dose

From The Sickness Unto Death, by Soren Kierkegaard, translated by Alastair Hannay

ENVY

"Envy is concealed admiration. A man who admires something but feels he cannot be happy surrendering himself to it, that man chooses to be envious of what he admires. He then speaks another language. In this language of his the thing he admires is said to be nothing, something stupid and humiliating and peculiar and exaggerated. Admiration is happy self-surrender, envy is unhappy self-assertion."

From Part Two, Despair is Sin

Tuesday, March 5, 2019

Daily Dose

From Hunger: A Memoir of My Body, by Roxane Gay

I AM

"I am full of longing and I am full of envy and so much of my envy is terrible."

From Chapter 55