Jealousy Quotes

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

It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.

From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me.

That's one of the reasons I moved to Florida. Of course, the main reason is the weather and the training. But there's more jealousy in Switzerland because it's so little and they don't have so many athletes.

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.

I am drawn to women who are independent and creative, which is problematic because it's a struggle, a competition of careers. There's jealousy.

To talk about balance, it's easier to talk about what's out of balance. And I think anytime that you have any disease, and disease meaning lack of ease, lack of flow... dis-ease. So any time there's disease, you're out of balance, whether it's jealousy, anger, greed, anxiety, fear.

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.

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

Jealousy is the tie that binds, and binds, and binds.

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

The knives of jealousy are honed on details.

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.