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Quotes About Emotions

I don't get jealous of people. Jealousy is such a waste of time because you're jealous of them, and they go about their lives and have a wonderful time, so what's the point?
~ Joy Behar
Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.
~ William Shenstone
The worst part of success is to try to find someone who is happy for you.
~ Bette Midler
The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time.
~ Johann Kaspar Lavater
Being with an insanely jealous person is like being in the room with a dead mammoth.
~ Mike Nichols
Jealousy is a rather enjoyable emotion to watch.
~ Chetan Bhagat
Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.
~ George Bernard Shaw
The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.
~ Colette
Jealousy is nothing more than a fear of abandonment
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead.
~ Mark Twain
Jealous people poison their own banquet and then eat it
~ Washington Irving
Possibly, more people kill themselves and others out of hurt vanity than out of envy, jealousy, malice or desire for revenge.
~ Iris Murdoch
He who is jealous, is never jealous of what you see, with what is imagined is enough.
~ Jacinto Benavente
O jealousy! thou magnifier of trifles.
~ Friedrich von Schiller
The only causes of regret are laziness, outbursts of temper, hurting others, prejudice, jealousy, and envy.
~ Germaine Greer
When I learned to switch jealousy for admiration, it unblocked a lot of things.
~ Alfonso Cuaron
It is matrimonial suicide to be jealous when you have a really good reason.
~ Clare Boothe Luce
Alarmed, I realized what my visceral reaction implied: jealousy. Over a guy I barely knew, with whom I'd exchanged more saliva than sentences.
~ Tammara Webber
The Green-eyed Monster causes much woe, but the absence of this ugly serpent argues the presence of a corpse whose name is Eros.
~ Minna Antrim
Yet he was jealous, though he did not show it, For jealousy dislikes the world to know it.
~ George Gordon Byron
Don't hold grudges; it's pointless. Jealousy too is a non-cathartic, negative emotion. .
~ John Milton
Jealousy is cruel as a tomb, its embers are embers of fire.
~ Solomon
War, hate, jealousy, racism - what are they but manifestations of fear?
~ F. Paul Wilson, Reprisal
Jealousy dislikes the world to know it.
~ Lord Byron