Top 100 Quotes About Jealousy
#1. My heart is too valuable to allow hatred and jealousy to rent a spot.
Mufti Ismail Menk
#2. Government of limited power need not be anemic government. Assurance that rights are secure tends to diminish fear and jealousy of strong government, and by making us feel safe to live under it makes for its better support.
Robert H. Jackson
#3. I wasn't trying to make you jealous. But if jealousy does this to you, I might need to consider it." He gripped my sides firmly, letting his lips gently dance over mine, "Mags, I'm yours. You have nothing to worry about.
Kristen Hope Mazzola
#4. Jealousy can even be good for love. One partner may feel secretly flattered when the other is mildly jealous. And catching someone flirting with your beloved can spark the kind of lust and romance that reignites a relationship.
Helen Fisher
#5. I am jealous of anyone who can make other people care so much.
David Levithan
#6. When the oceans drown the world, women will take time for jealousy.
Robert E. Howard
#8. Just think: you cannot find a single misery for which you are not responsible. It may be jealousy, it may be anger, it may be greed - but something in you must be the reason that is creating the misery.
Rajneesh
#9. Jealousy is a dog's bark which attracts thieves.
Karl Kraus
#10. I'm Lily's boyfriend. She lives with me. In my house."
I need to get a handle on this jealousy.
Helena Hunting
#12. Jealousy is the manifestation of insecurity and dissatisfaction with one's calling and self-worth.
T.D. Jakes
#13. Nonmonogamous folks recognize that during a lifetime you can and will be attracted to other people even if you are in a wonderful, fulfilling relationship; they make room in their relationship for these attractions rather than allow them to cause anxiety, jealousy, and unreasonable expectations.
Tristan Taormino
#14. People who hate you because of a mere jealousy over your success hurt themselves in disguise. This is because you carry an image of who they wish they had become. Don't hate them back because they may also become like you one day and it will mean hurting that image you carry!
Israelmore Ayivor
#15. It's all ka-ka, saying mind is really brain. Sure, my hand is in my pocket. Is my pocket my hand? Every wino on M Street knows a thought is a thought and not some cells or chazerei going on in the brain. They know that jealousy is not some kind of game from Atari.
William Peter Blatty
#16. My brother, do men grieve over the fight of cats and dogs? So the jealousy, envy, and elbowing of common men should make no impression on your mind.
Swami Vivekananda
#17. Envy and jealousy are the private parts of the human soul. Perhaps the comparison can be extended.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#18. 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!
Sylvia Kristel
#19. Jealousy is the suspicion of one's own inferiority.
Emily Post
#20. Mary Fisher lives in a High Tower, on the edge of the sea: she writes a great deal about the nature of love. She tells lies.
Faye Weldon
#21. Jealousy's a weak emotion.
Jay-Z
#22. Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.
Honore De Balzac
#23. People fail all the time, it's what we're made to do. We all have moments of fear and weakness, we all stumble on rocks of bitter jealousy.
Melody Grace
#24. 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
#25. No outbreak of jealousy or malice has ever been welcomed in God's eyes." Beatrix continued, "nor shall such an outbreak ever be welcomed in the eyes of your family. If you have sentiments within you that are unpleasant or uncharitable, let them fall stillborn to the ground.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#26. I will eliminate hatred, envy, jealousy, selfishness, and cynicism, by developing love for all humanity, because I know that a negative attitude toward others can never bring me success. I will cause others to believe in me, because I will believe in them, and in myself.
Napoleon Hill
#27. While a friend expects more and more favors, and seethes with jealousy, these former enemies expected nothing and got everything. A man suddenly spared the guillotine is a grateful man indeed, and will go to the ends of the earth for the man who has pardoned him.
Robert Greene
#28. Jealousy is the lifelong noose hanging about the neck of love.
Caitlin Thomas
#29. You can be the moon and still be jealous of the stars.
Gary Allan
#30. Even as we recognize our resentment, bitterness, or jealousy, we can also honor our own wish to be happy, to feel free.
Sharon Salzberg
#32. The hearts gone bubonic with jealousy and greed, glinting through the vests and sweaters of anyone at all.
Margaret Atwood
#33. Almost always, jealousy is rooted in some sort of fear: of abandonment, of being replaced, of losing the attention of someone you love, of being alone. Jealousy isn't really about the person you feel jealous of. It's about you: your feeling that you might lose something precious.
Franklin Veaux
#34. Jealousy comes from self-love rather than from true love.
Iris Murdoch
#35. People usually gossip about people they don't quite understand, are jealous of, or have other negative feelings for.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
#36. Emotions are subject to change, they make one irrational instead of logical, and are impossible to predict. Fear, anger, frustration. Lust, jealousy, hate. And yes, even love, are to be avoided.
Tiffany Snow
#37. Humanity has one strength that no one has: that is we may feel the feelings, pain, jealousy, failure, love, happiness of others and identify with them, and even see the world through their own eyes.
Orhan Pamuk
#38. Only the ego can fear, experience hate, lust and jealousy. Humility experiences none of these things - it merges into the transcendental awareness of perfection.
Frederick Lenz
#39. Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. - It is not fair. - He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should not be taking the bread out of other people's mouths. - I do not like him, and do not mean to like Waverley if I can help it - but fear I must.
Jane Austen
#40. There tends to be a jealousy in England towards countries that are successful.
Chris O'Dowd
#41. Nobody can control their emotional reactions, we can only control our actions, and my current action was to slap my jealousy in the face and shove her in a vat of shut the fuck up.
Abigail Barnette
#42. A popular man arouses the jealousy of the powerful.
Frank Herbert
#43. Jealousy hot flashes through my body, a thunderbolt crashing through.
Rachel Cohn
#44. With fear, possessiveness enters the picture, then jealousy rears its ugly head. Jealousy is the opposite of desiring life and freedom of choice for one's partner.
Peter Shepherd
#45. When I was young they used to say people only threw stones at the tree that was loaded with fruit.
Rachel Field
#46. Jealousy is almost like a shadow of love. If we can grow our love, it takes over the whole energy of jealousy and transforms it into love. It is an alchemical change.
Rajneesh
#48. I would rather be destroyed by you than loved by anyone else.
C.J. Carlyon
#49. Learn to love your haters, they are a wonderful source of inspiration.
Habeeb Akande
#50. I had to wrestle daily with both my inadequacy and my uncontrollable jealousy. I didn't want to kill her, but hoped someone else might do the job for me.
David Sedaris
#51. Jealousy seems the absolute reversal of love. It is the swinging from the sunny warmth of the Equator to the frigid cold of the North Pole.
Elbert Hubbard
#52. We need to get rid of hate, envy, jealousy, discord in ourselves, so we can reach a solution in terms of peace in order to feel that time has come for human happiness.
Chico Xavier
#53. Rendall's first law of jealousy: jealousy does the cock harder and pussy wetter.
Erica Jong
#54. Go on bravely. Do not expect success in a day or a year. Always hold on to the highest. Be steady. Avoid jealousy and selfishness. Be obedient and eternally faithful to the cause of truth, humanity, and your country, and you will move the world.
Swami Vivekananda
#55. If she were any friendlier, she'd be giving you a lapdance right now.
Rachel Caine
#56. I feel hurt or attacked, jealousy or fear, what works for me is thinking of life as an adventure. This way, I remember that all these feelings or situations are part of a greater whole and that they need to be there to make life exactly what it is.
Richard Brancatisano
#57. Drama can be an addiction. It's so, so sneaky. Jealousy - all of those things can really send you in a lot of different crazy directions.
Christian Slater
#58. 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.
Keira Knightley
#59. Your pretended fear lest error should step in, is like the man that would keep all the wine out of the country lest men should be drunk. It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy, to deny a man the liberty he hath by nature upon a supposition that he may abuse it.
Oliver Cromwell
#60. O jealousy, Thou ugliest fiend of hell! thy deadly venom Preys on my vitals, turns the healthful hue Of my flesh check to haggard sallowness, And drinks my spirit up!
Hannah More
#61. What's wrong with (Captain) Jack Aubrey?"
"Everything, since he has a command and I have not.
Patrick O'Brian
#62. Jealousy is nothing but a fear of being abandoned
Heidi Heilig
#63. Was unique to him; a woman apart from his others in every way. I wished that could be enough to kill my jealousy.
Sylvia Day
#64. It is, after all, envy rather than jealousy that causes most of the trouble in married life.
Anthony Powell
#66. Either way, you are in charge. Jealousy works against you. It takes control away from you, hands it over to the opposition. Maintain control.
Ellen Hopkins
#67. Those.. we use to abuse in front of others..
somewhere deep inside.. we wish to be like them..
Lovely Goyal
#68. Jealousy is love in competition.
Toba Beta
#69. Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#70. The whole world is based on fear, even behind the jealousy of the day before lay dear. Fear of being alone, fear of being abandoned, fear of life, fear of being trapped in tragedy, fear of the animal in us, fear of one's hatred, of committing a crime, fear of cancer, of syphilis, of starvation.
Anais Nin
#71. There is a soul-jealousy that can be as frantic as any body-jealousy.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#72. It started with feelings of jealousy and like a mental virus it spread.
Dermot Davis
#73. Jealousy is, I think, the worst of all faults because it makes a victim of both parties.
Gene Tierney
#74. Shakespeare calls jealousy yellow and green; I think it may be called black and white for it most assuredly views white as black, and black as white. The most fanciful surmises wear the aspect of truth, the greatest improbabilities appear as consistent realities.
Mrs. Henry Wood
#76. Jealousy, like the flawed love that bears it, has no respect for time or space or wisely reasoned argument.
Gregory David Roberts
#77. Haters never seem to realize that jealousy is an infinite torture to which you condemn yourself.
Steve Maraboli
#78. But bear in mind your lover's wage
Is what your looking-glass can show,
And that he will turn green with rage
At all that is not pictured there.
William Butler Yeats
#80. A hopeful life is a successful life. People who bury their hopes and crave for someone's success never know that their diamond is hidden as they envy other's silver!
Israelmore Ayivor
#81. The executive, in our government is not the sole, it is scarcely the principle, object of my jealousy. The tyranny of the legislature is the most formidable dread at present and will be for many years. That of the executive will come in its turn, but it will be at a remote period.
Thomas Jefferson
#82. Jealousy is indeed a poor medium to secure love, but it is a secure medium to destroy one
Emma Goldman
#83. Sometimes happiness comes, sometimes sadness, anger, jealousy - you need not make them your problems
Rajneesh
#84. An oblique angle," Jack said, and his bout of jealousy was quickly replaced with glee. "Ha! I told you I would work that in!
Amanda Hocking
#85. Jealousy, which serves the struggle for survival, can deteriorate into the envy which draws defeat even from victory.
Willard Gaylin
#86. A military force, at the command of Congress, can execute no laws, but such as the people perceive to be just and constitutional; for they will possess the power, and jealousy will instantly inspire the inclination, to resist the execution of a law which appears to them unjust and oppressive.
Noah Webster
#87. Jealousy is an uncontrollable emotion. It attacks all of us. As long as you don't let it get the best of you, I'm sure you and your envy can live in harmony without anyone getting hurt. So, see? There's no need to feel bad about it. It makes you normal. Human.
Linda Kage
#88. Do I appreciate the idea of jealousy, revenge and all these so-called dark qualities? Yes. Do I write these songs in order to engage in some public war with someone? No.
Alanis Morissette
#89. When there is a bit mistrust, jealousy will arise and ended with misunderstanding
Tun Teja
#90. The biggest mistake you can ever make it to compare yourself to others. - Gideon
Jacquelyn Frank
#91. I had a good teacher."
"Better not have been Myrnin or I'll have to kick his predatory ass."
"I mean you, dummy.
Rachel Caine
#92. I don't get jealousy, I don't get how people hate each other - I never did.
Nas
#93. If you think of someone's good qualities as the umeboshi in an onigiri it's as if their qualities are stuck to their back! Maybe the reason people get jealous of each other is because they can see so clearly the umeboshi on other people's backs.
Natsuki Takaya
#95. Jealousy is a virtue of democracies which preserves them from tyrants.
Anatole France
#96. No tears to damn you when jealousy burns.
Elton John
#97. He whom the flame of jealousy encompasses, will at last, like the scorpion, turn the poisoned sting against himself.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#98. Okay, guys. Stop it. Are you going to start peeing on me to mark your territory?
Maegan Lynn Moores
#100. Fortunately for Alan's sake, Frank preferred beauty over age so I had no need to defend my territory.
Nicole Castle
