Quotes About Jealousy

If there is any fruitless mental torment which is greater than that of jealousy it is perhaps remorse. Even the pains of loss may be less searching; and often of course these agonies combine, as now they did for me. I say remorse not repentance. I doubt if I have ever experienced repentance in a pure form; perhaps it does not exist in a pure form. Remorse contains guilt, but helpless hopeless guilt which knows of no cure for the painful bite.

I adore your jealousy, especially when it's so misplaced. I expect Shakespeare wrote a sonnet about that.

I have always wanted to kill you, all my life led to that blow. Jealousy and hatred compose my earliest memories. I have killed you every day in my thoughts.

But jealousy is a dreadful thing, Jessica. It is the most natural to us of the really wicked passions and it goes deep and envenoms the soul. It must be resisted with every honest cunning and with the deliberate thinking of generous thoughts, however abstract and empty these may seem in comparison with that wicked strength... There is no merit, Jessica, in a faithfulness which is poison to you and captivity to him.

I have always wanted to kill you, ever since the moment when I learnt of your existence.

Jealousy lasts forever. Bad news for the young.

Everyone seemed to be bright-eyed and bushy-tailed except me.

Es la risita adquisitiva; es la risita del hombre que acaba de obtener algo que deseaba ardientemente a expensas de algún otro. Relatos de los Viudas Negras (Kindle Location 215). LeLibros. Kindle Edition.

I felt an unrelenting restlessness. It was the first time I had ever experienced jealousy, and that emotion clung to my skin day and night like a dark stain, a contamination I could not shed; it became so unbearable that when finally I rid myself of it, I was freed forever of the desire to possess another person or the temptation ever to belong to anyone.

Hay grandeza y dignidad en la tragedia, por eso es fuente de inspiración, pero no quiero tragedia, por inmortal que sea, quiero una dicha sin bulla, íntima y muy discreta, para no provocar los celos de los dioses, siempre tan vengativos...

El problema con nosotros es que ella me da por sentado, mientras que yo vivo pensando en que ella se puede ir con otro», pensó.

Michael acusó a Turner de andar tras su esposa, Doris. Pero es difícil de creer, porque Doris era catorce años mayor y excepcionalmente fea.

Se vorbeste mereu de cat de mult iubeste o femeie, insa rareori de cat de mult a fost ea iubita. Am primit multa dragoste. Nici un barbat nu m-a parasit – un noroc incredibil, nu-i asa? N-a fost nevoie sa ucid pe nimeni din gelozie sau ciuda. (din "Viata si spirit")

An agent is a guy who is sore because an actor gets 90% of what he makes.

Fear of success can also be tied into the idea that success means someone else's loss. Some people are unconsciously guilty because they believe their victories are coming at the expense of another.

Blue is true, Yellow's jealous, Green's forsaken, Red's brazen, White is love, And black is death.

It is better to be envied than pitied.

To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.

Leonard Woolf in a letter to Lytton Strachey said he hated John Maynard Keynes "for his crass stupidity and hideous face".

Gossip is when you hear something you like about someone you don't.

The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.

Hatred seems to operate on the same glands as love; it even produces the same actions. If we had not been taught how to interpret the story of the Passion, would we have been able to say from their actions alone whether it was the jealous Judas or the cowardly Peter who loved Christ?

Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look.

There have been a handful of assignments over the years that I've had to turn down due to time constraints, and I was fairly envious when I saw the finished product, beautifully illustrated by someone else.