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Quotes About Jealousy

Jay Cee's ugly as sin.
~ Sylvia Plath
There is something demoralising about watching two people get more and more crazy about each other, especially when you are the only extra person in that room
~ Sylvia Plath
If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain or bitter—for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.…
~ Sylvia Plath
There's something demoralizing about watching two people get more and more crazy about each other, especially when you're the only extra person in the room.
~ Sylvia Plath
Actually, it wasn't the idea of Buddy sleeping with somebody that bothered me. I mean I'd read about all sorts of people sleeping with each other, and if it had been any other boy I would merely have asked him the most interesting details, and maybe gone out and slept with somebody myself just to even things up, and then thought no more about it.
~ Sylvia Plath
I gathered all my news of Joan into a little, bitter heap, though I received it with surface gladness. Joan was the beaming double of my old best self, specially designed to follow and torment me.
~ Sylvia Plath
Then I thought, how could this Doctor Gordon help me anyway, with a beautiful wife and beautiful children and a beautiful dog haloing him like the angels on a Christmas card?
~ Sylvia Plath
I'm so jealous I can't speak. Nineteen years, and I hadn't been out of New England except for this trip to New York. It was my first big chance, but here I was, sitting back and letting it run through my fingers like so much water.
~ Sylvia Plath
The one man since I've lived who could blast Richard.
~ Sylvia Plath
If you will not have God (and He is a jealous God), you should pay your respects to Hitler or Stalin.
~ T.S. Eliot
violence spreads like a virus by contaminating others. ... Jealousy and suspicion spread like viruses too.
~ Tabish Khair
Sadly for my wedding plans, I learned that Nestor is a bardash. I envy the men who enjoy his favors. He has always treated me with friendship which I now value more than my old romantic feelings.
~ Tamora Pierce
Feelings, she learned, were hard to fight. She treasured his smiles and compliments and tried not to dwell on the fact that he gave this things to his friend Kel. His dreamy-eyed gazes, poems, and fits of passionate melancholy were for Uline. It was hard not to resent the older girl.
~ Tamora Pierce
If the watchers in the city had remarked that Cyrion was as handsome as the Arch-Demon himself, they would not have been the first to do so.
~ Tanith Lee
Sana Vera!" she murmured as he came forward, "but he's beautiful. More beautiful than you, you wretch." "So he is, and restrain your paws from him. His noble father wishes him kept virgin till the marriage night.
~ Tanith Lee
You could not resist the bait, this reputation of mine. It inflamed your vanity, Cyrion. As you reputation inflames mine. Jealousy. You must destroy the wicked Hasmun and his wax, and rule alone the cities of the coast. Eh, my honey? And I must and will destroy Cyrion.
~ Tanith Lee
hatred and jealousy must find a tongue; only the creatures which never feel those things have no need to talk.
~ Tanith Lee
Hanson got to sleep with you, and I didn't," he said, his own jaw a little tight. "So I stole his car.
~ Tara Janzen
I am no Othello, Othello was a lie.
~ Tayeb Salih
Suzy smiled and the whole class laughed at me, but when she spoke, I heard a new sound, not the song of an angel, but the words of a woman on a pedestal, coming down.
~ Taylor Mali
As Paul wrote, a love that is patient, showing no jealousy or arrogance, keeping no record of wrong, not seeking its own and not provoked by another's behavior. These are the evidences of true love which flows from those who know the Father and His limitless love for them.
~ Ted Dekker
But the more I succeeded in the world's eyes, the more I realized that that success itself was only another prison, fashioned by the values of this world. More wealth only demanded I maintain that wealth. More status only begged me to rise higher. And fame . . . What a cruel and jealous mistress fame is.
~ Ted Dekker
You humans are lovers, yes? So you have this awful tendency to reject Him who first loved you and follow after intoxicating sense. Evil is a jealous lover who will try to destroy what it cannot posses.
~ Ted Dekker
Realization of a dream brings resentment in its wake.
~ Julian Fellowes