Orson Scott Card Quotes

If I can't be happy, nobody can be happy.

Rancor is an outpouring of a feeling of inferiority.

Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate.

I face so much jealousy, and I am incredibly upset about it.

The hater always suffers more than the object of his hatred.

Hating someone is feeling irritation by their mere existence.

Our good qualities expose us more to hatred and persecution than all the ill we do.

HATRED, n. A sentiment appropriate to the occasion of another's superiority.

Since we cannot match it let us take our revenge by abusing it.

Nothing can allay the rage of biting envy.

Hatred is active displeasure, envy passive. We need not wonder that envy turns to soon to hatred.

Envy is more incapable of reconciliation than hatred is.

Envy creates the beginning of strife.

Spite is never lonely; envy always tags along.

Envy's a coal comes hissing hot from Hell.

People were hurt, and because they were hurt, they were angry and quarreled and were jealous of one another.

Moral indignation in most cases is, 2% moral, 48% indignation, and 50% envy.

Bitterness is so ugly.

When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

I would like somebody to be hated more than I am.

When I was younger, I wasn't making it, and I was mad at everybody who was.

Envy and jealousy are incurable diseases.

In my own life, hate has consumed me at times. Or envy. When my TV show was canceled, I didn't think it deserved to be canceled because people liked it. It was canceled for the wrong reasons, you know? I was consumed with hate for about a year.