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Quotes About Jealousy

Joe Stubbs was very jealous of me, especially after 'I Found a Love.' We'd be on stage and he'd lay traps for me, make me look bad.
~ Wilson Pickett
Why do we feel jealousy? Therapists often regard the demon as a scar of childhood trauma or a symptom of a psychological problem. And it's true that people who feel inadequate, insecure, or overly dependent tend to be more jealous than others.
~ Helen Fisher
I was always jealous of my violinist friends and cellist friends who traveled with their instruments.
~ Christian McKay
I was living in Bangkok and I had a girlfriend during this time, she was traveling and I was jealous. Y'know, I thought she might meet someone, might do something, and I was just worried, and I went and I wrote 'Nevermind.'
~ Dennis Lloyd
My dad treated Marilyn Monroe more like his daughter than me.
~ Susan Strasberg
Surely, early in my karting career it was tough because many people were jealous and thinking I had special treatment from the stewards and was getting special treatment. But generally I'm just happy to be a Magnussen.
~ Kevin Magnussen
If I look at my family tree and follow every generation before us, going all the way back to the slaves, then Eddie Murphy is the highest achievement as far as my bloodline is concerned. How could you be jealous? You can only be proud, unless you got some serious issues.
~ Charlie Murphy
It is remarkable that jealousy of individual property in land often goes along with very exaggerated doctrines of tribal or national property in land.
~ William Graham Sumner
Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.
~ Fulton J. Sheen
It is good to be jealous, if only of yourself. For what you feel you lack, you will show an abundance.
~ Robert Vanleeuwen
Love yourself because everyone is jealous of you.
~ Debasish Mridha
Somehow, it bothered her watching Garth's charm directed so effectively at another. Could he convince her so easily of an untruth?
~ Colleen Chen
People hate you for 1 of 3 reasons. 1) They hate themselves 2) They want to be you 3) They see you as a threat When you love yourself you are incapable of hating anyone no matter what they've done.
~ Tony Gaskins
Anybody that's got a problem with me is probably envious or wants to be me, and that's how I've always looked at it.
~ Young Jeezy
The Spirit of God is jealous over us; He doesn't want superficial fellowship, but genuine intimacy.
~ John Bevere
I'm envious of people who can sleep as long as they want. I have the circadian rhythm of a farmer.
~ Moby
Everyone wants a prodigy to fail; it makes our mediocrity more bearable.
~ Harold Bloom
If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and that is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are.
~ Baron de Montesquieu
I have a competition in me. I want no one else to succeed. I hate most people.
~ Daniel Day-Lewis
If your wife went out with Brad Pitt, you'd want to prove yourself, you know what I mean?
~ Chris Martin
Una relación amorosa es aquella en que el ser querido es libre de ser él mismo. De reír conmigo, pero nunca de mí. A llorar conmigo, pero nunca por mí. Amar la vida, amarse a sí mismo y amar al ser amado. Tal relación se basa en la libertad y nunca puede crecer en un corazón celoso. LEO F. BUSCAGLIA, ESCRITOR
~ Steve Allen
This was one of those mid-thirties moments when you take a look at the stale, half-chewed bagel your life has become and kiss jealousy on its smokey mouth.
~ Steve Almond
People get jealous and use whatever information they have to make you feel bad and themselves feel better.
~ Steve Harvey
No matter what they say, no matter what they do, no matter how many different ways they slice it, women like "Did I Marry a Man or a Boy?" feel like they just can't compete with The Other Woman—the mother.
~ Steve Harvey