Jealousy Quotes

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.

I do not say anything from jealousy.

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.

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

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

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

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.

Jealousy is love bed of burning snarl.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

More men die of jealousy than of cancer.

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

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.

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