Jealousy Quotes

I do not say anything from jealousy.

The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.

That is ever the way. 'Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse.

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.

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

Jealousy is love bed of burning snarl.

I feel like a lot of the female relationships I see on TV or in movies are in some way free of the kind of jealousy and anxiety and posturing that has been such a huge part of my female friendships, which I hope lessens a little bit with age.

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

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

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.

There's no regret. You can't regret. I mean, I've felt regret but I've also refused to allow regret to sow a seed and live in me because I don't believe it. You feel it, it's like guilt, it's like jealousy, it's like all those horrible things. You've just got to snip them and get them out, because they're no good.

What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.

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

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

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.

Jealousy... is a mental cancer.

There is never jealousy where there is not strong regard.

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

I don't think that you can fake warmth. You can fake lust, jealousy, anger; those are all quite easy. But actual, genuine warmth? I don't think you can fake it.

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

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

Those who enjoy their own emotionally bad health and who habitually fill their own minds with the rank poisons of suspicion, jealousy and hatred, as a rule take umbrage at those who refuse to do likewise, and they find a perverted relief in trying to denigrate them.

To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.

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.

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.

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

Back then I didn't think a woman like that, or a relationship like that, could exist with complete freedom and no jealousy or possessiveness. I thought it sounded too good to be true and I was certainly convinced it wasn't the life for me!

Jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire.

More men die of jealousy than of cancer.

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