Quotes About Jealousy

Jealousy is a painful passion; yet without some share of it, the agreeable affection of love has difficulty to subsist in its full force and violence.

Most of these love triangles are wrecktangles.

Did what I want happen? No. Then the world is unfair. People are jealous, and too stupid to understand. It is the fault of something or someone else." That is the voice of inauthenticity. It is not too far from there to "they should be stopped" or "they must be hurt" or "they must be destroyed." Whenever you hear about something incomprehensibly brutal, such ideas have manifested themselves.

He concluded that the tweed-wearing, armchair-philosophizing, victim-identifying, pity-and-contempt-dispensing social-reformer types frequently did not like the poor, as they claimed. Instead, they just hated the rich. They disguised their resentment and jealousy with piety, sanctimony and self-righteousness.

Did what I want happen? No. Then the world is unfair. People are jealous, and too stupid to understand. It is the fault of something or someone else." That is the voice of inauthenticity.

really hate threesomes when one of the participants is dead.

Sirk insanlar? beÅŸ para etmez. Onlara güvenemezsin. K?skanç insanlard?r.

al que toma el camino de las cumbres, los envidiosos le carcomen la reputación con saña malévola;

Rancor is an outpouring of a feeling of inferiority.

It is difficult to be ambitious without also being envious.

The proud man hath no God; the envious man hath no neighbor; the angry man hath not himself.

There is no disappointment so numbing...as someone no better than you achieving more.

There is nothing worse than the ambitions of a talentless person.

Despair busies one, and my weekend was spoken for. I was going to lie down on the floor of my apartment in the draft of the air conditioner and spend two days and nights traveling a circuit of regret, self-pity, and jealousy.

I look at what I have and think myself unhappy; others look at what I have and think me happy

Sorry. I've been in a foul mood since you left. I'm no better than a jealous kit.

It must bother you that she's spending so much time with Blazefire. I don't blame you. . . ." Sunbeam halted as abruptly as if a rock had sprung up from the ground and thumped her in the chest. "What do you mean? I haven't talked much with Blazefire recently, but he's still my . . . my special friend.

Berrynose is a real pain in the tail, and yet he gets two apparently sensible she-cats padding after him, Jayfeather thought with a shake of his head. Weird.

wanted to see Honeyfern so much. I miss her more than I can say, and I don't blame her that Berrynose doesn't love me." Poppyfrost let out a shuddering sigh. "I always loved him, even when he was with Honeyfern. But I would never have tried to take him away from her! Then when she died, I thought he might love me after all . . . but he doesn't.

Now Ashfur had an even more powerful weapon to use against Squirrelflight:

Now Darkstripe,' Graypaw hissed to Firepaw under his breath, 'is neither young, nor pretty.

Selfishness, hatred, envy, jealousy, greed, self-indulgence, laziness and pride were all anti-life. Love, heroism, self-sacrifice, sympathy, mercy, integrity and creative faith, on the other hand, were the essence of life, turning mere existence into living in its truest sense. These were the gifts of God to men. With

Envy, Doña Lola had once said, eats at you from the inside and turns your eyes green when you look at the person of whom you're jealous.

When our goals become comparative, we end up with the constant paranoia of an existence of always being weighed on hidden scales, living with the stress of keeping our elbows out in anticipation of others trying to get ahead of us. All of this is a distortion of the wisdom of achievement, which lies hidden within the emotional energy of jealousy and envy.