Quotes About Jealousy

Quiero que ella me vuelva loco de celos. Deseo que me haga sospechar que ha ido demasiado lejos. Quiero que haga eso.

Era mortificante pensar que otro hombre había descubierto ese exótico aspecto de su belleza que a mí se me había pasado por alto. Supongo que los maridos no son tan observadores, porque miran a sus esposas de una manera invariable.

Rarely will you meet anyone so jealous a a teacher. Year after year students tumble along like the waters of a river. They flow away, and only the teacher is left behind, like some deeply buried rock at the bottom of the current. Although he may tell others of his hopes, he doesn't dream of them himself. He thinks of himself as worthless and either falls into masochistic loneliness, or, failing that, ultimately becomes suspicious and pious, forever denouncing the eccentricities of others.

gelozia patetic? a oamenilor ÅŸi ner?bdarea lor în faÅ£a fericirii altora.

In the final analysis, jealousy itself is something like a pet cat that insists on its rights but does not accept its duties.

There are apparently two hypotheses about jealousy: that it is a product of civilization and that it is a basic instinct of animals.

people's pathetic jealousy and impatience with others' happiness.

AÅŸa cum nisipul rodea lemnul pereÅ£ilor ÅŸi grinzile, la fel gelozia îi rodea sufletul, f?candu-l s? semene cu o oal? goal? pus? pe sob?.

It was jealousy. Jealousy based on imagination...

Indeed, jealousy is an animal feeling, capable even of rising to murder. There are apparently two hypotheses about jealousy: that it is a product of civilization and that it is a basic instinct of animals.

I had dreamt up a cause for my jealousy by myself and I was jealous because of myself.

I was indeed in love with you. Though I was perhaps awkward about it, my love was constant. But the unhappy state of affairs was that I could affirm this love through awkwardness alone. I was like a child who cannot go on his school outing; at this point I could only be jealous of others.

An affair with you, of course, was the shameless fantasy of the mask. Even though I wanted to feel something, hope for something, attempt something, the poison of jealousy (I had deliberately begun to forget it, though it was the root of all these fancies) recovered its breath and began to check the flow of blood in my veins.

Whatever the result, it would surely be much better than this extraordinary three-sided relationship—this self-intoxication with jealousy that continued to grow like a cancer.

As I gave my hand to one and then another of the Winter Knights, hoping to forget Kian's kiss in the arms of the other dancers, I could feel Kian's eyes piercing through me, their flame-tinged ice searing through my soul.

My dress is of plain forest green wool, but the other girls are wearing beautiful tunics the color of gems- ruby dresses with sapphire mantles and dappled with jewels that dance before me like little insects on fire. My hair is dark as a crow, but theirs is red and gold and even longer than mine. A ray of sun slashes through the turbulent Irish sky, and I see that my friends' perfect skin shimmers in the sun, making them almost translucent.

Those on the decline always criticize those on the rise.

IN MOST FAMILIES, there is a favorite child. Parents deny it and maybe they truly don't see it, but it's obvious to the children. Unfairness bothers children greatly. It's hard to always come in second.

She couldn't stand them because she couldn't be more like them.

Rare is the man who suffers no remorse as he passes from the state of confidant to that of rival.

The reason that women do not love one another is - men.

I don't know why it should be, I am sure; but the sight of another man asleep in bed when I am up, maddens me.

When a man induces his wife to turn suspicious thoughts against her own father, then that is surely cause enough for resentment.

Man loves malice, but not against one-eyed men nor the unfortunate, but against the fortunate and proud.