Jealousy Quotes

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.

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

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

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

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

I like jealous men. I love jealousy. I do.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... 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.

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.

Jealousy is a dog's bark which attracts thieves.

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.

Passion can quickly slip to jealousy, or even hatred.

Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.

Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.

Jealousy springs more from love of self than from love of another.

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

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.

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

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.

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

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

Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.

Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don't complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!

Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.

In my experience lust only ever leads to misery. All that suspicion and jealousy and anguish it unleashes. I don't want those things in my life.

Jealousy is the fear of comparison.

Love shouldn't be about jealousy or anything like that. It should be about commitment and being able to trust that person. If you can't have that from the get-go, there's a problem.

Jealousy - that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion.

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?