Quotes about Jealousy

True love is a process of co-creation
in which neither feels ownership or superiority.
Jealousy is a highly destructive force
for love and relationships.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A competent and self-confident person is
incapable of jealousy in anything.
Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.
- Robert A. Heinlein

Keep your attention focused entirely
on what is truly your own concern,
and be clear that what belongs to others
is their business and none of yours.
- Epictetus

The jealous are troublesome to others,
but a torment to themselves.
- William Penn

Love without jealousy. Love without need.
Let love be an unconditional gift.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is,
a dissatisfaction with self.
- Joan Didion

Suspicion and jealousy are the death knell of any relationship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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Jealousy is the result of one's lack
of self-confidence, self-worth, and self-acceptance.
- Sasha Azevedo

Jealousy is a child of selfishness and distrust.
- Mourning Dove

Jealousy is that pain which a man feels
from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved
by the person whom he entirely loves.
- Joseph Addison

O! beware, my lord, of jealousy;
It is the green-eyed monster which
doth mock the meat it feeds on.
- William Shakespeare

I am the master of my emotions -
I transform fear to love, anger to compassion,
pain to comfort, scarcity to abundance,
expectation to gratitude, and jealousy to generosity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Wisdom I know is social.
She seeks her fellows.
But Beauty is jealous,
and illy bears the presence of a rival.
- Thomas Jefferson

Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition.
The immature mind often mistakes one for the other,
or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy -
in fact, they're almost incompatible;
one emotion hardly leaves room for the other.
Both at once can produce unbearable turmoil.
- Robert Heinlein

The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.
- Salvador Dali

You shall not covet your neighbor's house;
you shall not covet your neighbor's wife,
nor his male servant, nor his female servant,
nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor's.
- Exodus 20:17

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.
- George Eliot

Lovers may be and indeed generally are enemies,
but they never can be friends, because there must always
be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.
- George Byron

If you have an emotional reaction in the presence of someone,
your heart is telling you that you have
not resolved your issues with them.
In other words, you have not truly forgiven that person.
All of this begs the question, how do we forgive?
First, cease lying to yourself and stop telling yourself stories
about why you behave the way you do.
Stop blaming your behavior on other people
and take responsibility for your emotional reactions.
If you could forgive all the people in your life
who have hurt or wounded you
it would be possible to be in control of your behavior
instead of being in reaction to other people all of the time.
Imagine living life without experiencing
a constant emotional roller-coaster of pain, anger, and jealousy!
That would be bliss!
- Sheri Rosenthal

Jealousy...
is a mental cancer.
- B. C. Forbes

But when I would see the surrogate, my first instinct,
my first reaction would be jealousy,
because she was doing what I wanted to do.
- Cheryl Tiegs

Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.
- John Dryden

I do not say anything from jealousy.
- Anna Held

Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.
- Fulton J. Sheen

That is ever the way.
Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse.
- J. M. Barrie

My wife's jealousy is getting ridiculous.
The other day she looked at my calendar and wanted to know who May was.
- Rodney Dangerfield

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play.
It is bound up with hatred, jealousy,
boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence.
In other words, it is war minus the shooting.
- George Orwell

To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.
- Francoise Sagan

People are taken aback by a confident,
pretty girl who knows what she wants in life and isn't
going to let anyone get in her way.
And you know what it's all about? Jealousy.
- Summer Altice

No jealousy their dawn of love overcast,
nor blasted were their wedded days with strife;
each season looked delightful as it past,
to the fond husband and the faithful wife.
- James Beattie

It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.
- Lawrence Durrell

Jealousy is not at all low, but it catches us humbled and bowed down,
at first sight.
- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Obviously, in dealing with a relationship,
sexuality has to be involved, and jealousy and emotions like that.
And I don't know, I've always been intrigued by those emotions.
- Adrian Lyne

The jealousy and resentment that animate the terrorists
also affect many of our former cold war allies.
- Richard Perle

Jealousy is the grave of affection.
- Mary Baker Eddy

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

Nature is at work.
Character and destiny are her handiwork.
She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence.
All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow.
- David Seabury

Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority:
envy our uneasiness under it.
- William Shenstone

More men die of jealousy than of cancer.
- Joseph P. Kennedy

Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy.
Never underestimate that.
- Oliver Stone

It is remarkable that jealousy of individual property
in land often goes along with very exaggerated doctrines
of tribal or national property in land.
- William Graham Sumner

Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason,
and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude.
- Aphra Behn

Jealousy is, I think, the worst of all faults because
it makes a victim of both parties.
- Gene Tierney

The surest route to breeding jealousy is to compare.
Since jealousy comes from feeling less than another,
comparisons only fan the fires.
- Dorothy Corkville Briggs

There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire;
it is hardly a passion,
but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.
- George Eliot

Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.
- Henry Ellis

Passion can quickly slip to jealousy,
or even hatred.
- Arthur Golden

The knives of jealousy are honed on details.
- Ruth Rendell

What we used to say was whoever had the bow tie got to lead the band.
There was never any jealousy.
- Pete Fountain

A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise,
provided it smacks of jealousy.
- Jean Baudrillard

From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me.
- Ludovico Ariosto

Like hatred, jealousy is forbidden by the laws of life
because it is essentially destructive.
- Alexis Carrel

Jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire.
- Solomon Ibn Gabirol

Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of
an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.
- George Eliot

Don't waste time on jealousy.
Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind.
- Mary Schmich

Jealousy - that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion.
- Emile M. Cioran

Jealousy is the fear of comparison.
- Max Frisch

Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood
that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits.
- Paul Eldridge

Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
- Erica Jong

Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy,
and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it.
And, what is more, they find it everywhere.
- Van Wyck Brooks

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells

Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.
- Elizabeth Bowen

It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive
a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it.
- George Washington

There is never jealousy where there is not strong regard.
- Washington Irving

It's amazing the clarity that comes with psychotic jealousy.
- Rupert Everett

Jealousy is the tie that binds, and binds,
and binds.
- Helen Rowland

Jealousy is love bed of burning snarl.
- George Meredith

Jealousy is a dog's bark which attracts thieves.
- Karl Kraus

Religion can make it worse.
Are you supposing that if people were encouraged to
believe in a transcendent reality,
and to be encouraged by grand rituals and music and preaching,
to love their neighbors, then they would put jealousy and frustration aside?
- Mary Douglas

What I needed most was to love and to be loved,
eager to be caught.
Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me;
and sure enough,
I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy,
by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.
- Saint Augustine

On the same line of reasoning, if Australians were to be Australians,
or rather if Australians were as separate from any
other nation as Australia from any other land,
there would be no jealousy between them on England's account.
- Henry Lawson

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