Quotes About Jealousy

For my part, I merely watched young, deprived female bosoms panting before my handsome husband, soldier of the Lord. (I longed to shout: Go ahead and try him, girls, I am too tired!)

I envied them with an intensity near to love, and near to rage.

How dire was the descent of a man's life, Thatcher mused, that he should now be stricken with spider jealousy.

They jealous 'cause you got the night in you. Some people got night in 'em, some got morning, others, like me and your mama, got dusk. But it's only them that's got night can become invisible. People what got night in 'em can step into the dark and poof—disappear! Go any old where they want. Do anything. Ride them stars up there, like as not.

I can see your dirtypillows.

In scenes like these, any man could be Iago.

When someone less capable is ahead of me, I am not pleased. It makes me insane.

Sex has high stakes, including exploitation, disease, illegitimacy, incest, jealousy, spousal abuse, cuckoldry, desertion, feuding, child abuse, and rape. These hazards have been around for a long time and have left their mark on our customs and our emotions.

The most common motives for homicide are moralistic: retaliation after an insult, escalation of a domestic quarrel, punishing an unfaithful or deserting romantic partner, and other acts of jealousy, revenge, and self-defense.

The heart of the jealous knows the best and most satisfying love, that of the other's bed, where the rival perfects the lover's imperfections.

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.

One common fate we both must prove; You die with envy, I with love.

Jealousy is a miserable feeling. It means you aspire to something that you cannot have. Even in love, it is better to leave, better not to waste time.

Jealousy is not so much the love of another as the love of ourselves.

This look of thine will hurl my soul from heaven.

When the one you love is in love with someone else, don't you know it's torture, I mean it's living hell.

I wrote a novel about Israelis who live their own lives on the slope of a volcano. Near a volcano one still falls in love, one still gets jealous, one still wants a promotion, one still gossips.

If you betray me, can I take a better revenge than to love the person you hate?

I measured love by the extent of my jealousy.

Envy is destroyed by true friendship, as coquetry by true love.

Love is the great protector, protecting us from anger and jealousy.

Respect kindly all religions that teach loving kindness, and have no respect for envy and jealousy. Never follow hate.

I walk through the seasons and always the birds are singing and screaming and keening for love When you're with me it seems so absurd that I should be jealous of the jay and the dove.

Drop envy and jealousy, otherwise there is no possibility , because love cannot exist where envy and jealousies exist.