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Quotes About Jealousy

Competitiveness only comes with insecurity.
~ Lara Pulver
I think what ruins relationships and causes most fights is insecurity.
~ Olivia Wilde
Not such a big guy now, are you?" she purred, smirking at me. "You're gonna die tonight because you couldn't keep it in your pants. I bet right about now you're wishing you would have picked me over that fanger." "Never," I whispered hoarsely, struggling to get the words out. "I'd rather have the month I had with Taylor than a lifetime with you." "You fucking asshole!
~ Evangeline Anderson
It looks like you were wrong, Brother," Deep sneered, rising to his feet. "Our Kat doesn't need me at all. She only needs you." "Deep—" Lock began but his brother had already stalked away, making room, presumably, between himself and the scene around Kat. "She's
~ Evangeline Anderson
Sometimes I think that jealousy, like skiing, is only for those with enough youthful stamina and energy to endure it. As people get older, they finally give jealousy up, or at least they put it off for as long as possible until there's such incontrovertible evidence
~ Eve Babitz
I got jealous. I thought you liked her better." "I wish you didn't feel that way," he'd say, often, in the beginning. He hasn't said it to me lately; it's been nearly a year since his smiling made suicide seem perfectly sensible.
~ Eve Babitz
Sometimes I think that jealousy, like skiing, is only for those with enough youthful stamina and energy to endure it.
~ Eve Babitz
Which is another example of jealousy not panning out as expected; for in this story, actual humanity triumphed over rage an hatred, something we hardly imagine in our wildest hopes.
~ Eve Babitz
And I was in love with his book, which I felt I could have written myself. Which is one of the troubles with writing; people who love your writing already think they're you. They think if they sat down and wrote, it would be your book. Exactly what I thought about Walter.
~ Eve Babitz
There is, however, a far more common ailment among us—and that is pride from the bottom looking up. It is manifest in so many ways, such as faultfinding, gossiping, backbiting, and murmuring, living beyond our means, envying, coveting, withholding gratitude and praise that might lift another, and being unforgiving and jealous.
~ Ezra Taft Benson
War, hate, jealousy, racism - what are they but manifestations of fear?
~ F. Paul Wilson
PRAXIS DUVEEN, AT THE age of five, sitting on the beach at Brighton, made a pretty picture for the photographer. Round angel face, yellow curls, puffed sleeves, white socks and little white shoes—one on, one off, while she tried to take a pebble from between her tiny pink toes—delightful! The photographer had hoped to include her elder sister Hypatia in the picture, but that sullen, sallow little girl had refused to appear on the same piece of card as her ill-shod sister.
~ Fay Weldon
For me, I'm not a jealous person. That's just not my thing. You have to have trust in your relationship.
~ Fergie
Most people should be talking about how Floyd Mayweather is a great undefeated future Hall of Famer that's his own promoter and that works extremely hard to get to where he's at. Instead, all you hear is hate and jealous remarks from critics who criticize me and, you know, most of the time, the people that criticize me can't do what I can do.
~ Floyd Mayweather Jr.
All these years I've been...I'm...' He still seemed to be choking. 'I'm...an orphan. I'm...I'm alone. I'm...I'm...I'm...free.' He pushed himself up on one elbow, staring at his hands as if for the first time they had become his own. 'I can...I can do anything. I can leave Jealousy! I can break my spectacles and run off barefoot to become a...a...cobbler! I can...I can marry my housekeeper! Do I have a housekeeper? I never had time to notice! But now I can get a housekeeper! And marry her!
~ Frances Hardinge
Suddenly he remembered Josh sitting on the motorbike and chatting with the bikers outside the pub—and he felt a throb of jealousy. It wasn't that he harbored any desire to sit on a motorbike, but...he wanted to be allowed to want to sit on a motorbike.
~ Frances Hardinge
Sometimes she felt she would like to engulf him like a trap-lantern, and never share him with anyone or anything else again, not even the light. Even his obsession with ruling Caverna pained her, as if the city were a woman, and a rival.
~ Frances Hardinge
In God's eyes an evil thought is just as sinful as an evil deed. When we allow our minds to be filled with lust, hate, anger, bitterness, jealousy, greed, envy, selfishness, or even doubt, then we are guilty of sin.
~ Billy Graham
Envy and greed always—always—exact a terrible price. I have never met an envious or greedy person who was at peace.
~ Billy Graham
Those evil resentments you harbour in your breast against your neighbour, the failure to forgive those who have wronged you ... the jealousies, the envies, the prejudices, and the malices will take away your appetite for the things of the Spirit.
~ Billy Graham
Only God can give us a selfless love for others, as the Holy Spirit changes us from within. This is one reason we must receive Christ, for apart from His Spirit we can never be freed from the chains of selfishness, jealousy, and indifference. Will others see Christ's love in your life today?
~ Billy Graham
You want to give people a reason to hate my guts more? I'm making more money.
~ Billy Joel
what are you looking for? There is no Truth. There's only action, action obeying a million different impulses, ephemeral action, action subjected to every possible and imaginable contingency and contradiction, Life. Life is crime, theft, jealousy, hunger, lies, disgust,stupidity, sickness, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, piles of corpses. what can you do about it, my poor friend?
~ Blaise Cendrars
Some Will Hate You Pretend They Love You Now Then Behind They Try To Eliminate You
~ Bob Marley