Jealousy Quotes:
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!
Bob Marley
Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.
George Eliot
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
I would rather drudge out my life on a cotton plantation, till the grave opened to give me rest, than to live with an unprincipled master and a jealous mistress.
Harriet Ann Jacobs
Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.
Aristotle
He that is jealous is not in love.
Saint Augustine
My wife’s jealousy is getting ridiculous. The other day she looked at my calendar and wanted to know who May was.
Rodney Dangerfield
Jealous, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping.
Ambrose Bierce
A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.
Robert A. Heinlein
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.
Marilyn Manson
The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.
William Penn
Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
H. G. Wells
Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.
Baruch Spinoza
The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.
Baltasar Gracian
Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.
John Dryden
Jealousy – that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion.
Emil Cioran
There is never jealousy where there is not strong regard.
Washington Irving
More men die of jealousy than of cancer.
Joseph P. Kennedy
Jealousy is the tie that binds, and binds, and binds.
Helen Rowland
But I like not these great success of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods.
Herodotus
Like hatred, jealousy is forbidden by the laws of life because it is essentially destructive.
Alexis Carrel
Man is jealous because of his amour propre; woman is jealous because of her lack of it.
Germaine Greer
The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
Jealousy… is a mental cancer.
B. C. Forbes
I have never been jealous. Not even when my dad finished fifth grade a year before I did.
Jeff Foxworthy
The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.
Antisthenes
Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.
Oliver Stone
Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude.
Aphra Behn
I think it’s important to get your surroundings as well as yourself into a positive state – meaning surround yourself with positive people, not the kind who are negative and jealous of everything you do.
Heidi Klum
Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.
Elizabeth Bowen
You can be the moon and still be jealous of the stars.
Gary Allan
Jealousy is the grave of affection.
Mary Baker Eddy
A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
Jean Baudrillard
Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.
Havelock Ellis
Jealousy is, I think, the worst of all faults because it makes a victim of both parties.
Gene Tierney
I’m not really easy to live with! There needs to be unlimited patience and unconditional love. Men I’ve known before loved my independent spirit and were proud of my success, to the point that they’d become jealous of the time I devote to my career.
Milla Jovovich
To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.
Francoise Sagan
Don’t waste time on jealousy. Sometimes you’re ahead, sometimes you’re behind.
Mary Schmich
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
Erica Jong
Jealousy is the fear of comparison.
Max Frisch
Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.
Fulton J. Sheen
Jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire.
Solomon Ibn Gabirol
Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.
William Shenstone
It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.
Lawrence Durrell
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.
Johannes Brahms
Jealousy is a dog’s bark which attracts thieves.
Karl Kraus
The knives of jealousy are honed on details.
Ruth Rendell
Passion can quickly slip to jealousy, or even hatred.
Arthur Golden
There is no greater glory than love, nor any greater punishment than jealousy.
Lope de Vega
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.
Jude Law
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
If one of two lovers is loyal, and the other jealous and false, how may their friendship last, for Love is slain!
Marie de France
That’s the way I got along in life. I don’t ever remember being particularly jealous of anybody, because I figured if I can’t do it myself, I don’t deserve to get it.
Clyde Tombaugh
Hunger, revenge, to sleep are petty foes, But only death the jealous eyes can close.
William Wycherley
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.
Aaron Carter
Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.
George Eliot
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
I think that the Bible teaches that homosexuality is a sin, but the Bible also teaches that pride is a sin, jealousy is a sin, and hate is a sin, evil thoughts are a sin. So I don’t think that homosexuality should be chosen as the overwhelming sin that we are doing today.
Billy Graham
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
Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness, of hatred, of jealousy, and, most easily of all, the gate of fear.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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.
Lord Byron
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.
Robert A. Heinlein
The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.
Salvador Dali
Red is such an interesting color to correlate with emotion, because it’s on both ends of the spectrum. On one end you have happiness, falling in love, infatuation with someone, passion, all that. On the other end, you’ve got obsession, jealousy, danger, fear, anger and frustration.
Taylor Swift
In westerns, you meet a hardy bunch of characters. There is no jealousy on such pictures.
John Wayne
Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
That is ever the way. ‘Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse.
James M. Barrie
I don’t get jealousy, I don’t get how people hate each other – I never did.
Nas
I face so much jealousy, and I am incredibly upset about it.
Marina Abramovic
Jealousy is a hell of a thing. There’s a reason it’s one of the deadly sins.
Chael Sonnen
My parents are very competitive, so we are very competitive as kids. But it’s a good kind of competition; it’s not a jealousy. You always want to do your best, and if it can’t be you, you want it to be your brother or your sister, you know what I mean?
Janet Jackson
We stress humanity, and this is done at considerable cost. We can’t have a lot of dramatics that other shows get away with – promiscuity, greed, jealousy. None of those have a place in ‘Star Trek.’
Gene Roddenberry
Dogs are our link to paradise. They don’t know evil or jealousy or discontent.
Milan Kundera
There’s a constant tension between the excitement of new people and security with one person. If you go with excitement, you create chaos; you hurt people. There’s jealousy, and it gets very messy. If you have security, it can be boring, and you die inside because of all the opportunities missed.
Alain de Botton
Sure, I can get a little bit jealous. The good part about jealousy is that it comes from passion. It’s also the dangerous part and it’s an ugly emotion that hurts.
Matthew McConaughey