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Quotes About Jealousy

Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.
~ John Dryden
Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation.
~ Henry Fielding
There's no regret. You can't regret. I mean, I've felt regret but I've also refused to allow regret to sow a seed and live in me because I don't believe it. You feel it, it's like guilt, it's like jealousy, it's like all those horrible things. You've just got to snip them and get them out, because they're no good.
~ Jude Law
Can angels lie spine to spine?If not, how they must envy us humans
~ Kamila Shamsie, Kartography
Some people only hate you because of the way other people love you.
~ Karen Salmansohn
For a control freak, love and the desire to control others are synonymous. Once they lose control over the object of their desire, hostility takes over in full force.
~ Natalya Vorobyova
Those who pretend as if they don't love you, are the ones who would hate to see you love another person.
~ Michael Bassey Johnson
When lust combines with love, feelings like dissatisfaction, lack of trust, lack of understanding, jealousy and possessiveness are produced
~ Nirja
I lied to hurt you. For letting him be dead while you lived. For being loved by him more than he loved me!He loved you more than he ever loved any of the rest of us!
~ Robin Hobb, Assassin's Fate
The gods granted us misery, in jealousy over the thought that we two, always together, should enjoy our youth, and then come to the threshold of old age.
~ Homer, The Odyssey
[T]hat mutual jealousy, that intolerantly keen edge of criticism, that irrational hunger for a beautiful perfection, that life and wisdom do presently and most mercifully dull.
~ H.G. Wells
You will be my thunder. I'll be your lightning. Even the heavens will rage with jealousy.
~ Melody Lee, Moon Gypsy
Who cares if you have a girlfriend, anyway?""I care" Simon said gloomily. "Pretty soon the only people left without a girlfriend will be me and Wendell the school janitor. And he smells like windex.
~ Cassandra Clare, City of Bones
He fell in love with the way she fell in love with everything besides him.
~ Polkadot
Unless it is you, finding out who your lover's dream lover is is a nightmare.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Nothing humbles a beautiful woman better than not being wanted by a man whose girlfriend or wife is ugly (or not as beautiful as she is).
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
He better call Becky with the good hair.
~ Beyonce Knowles
Shame on you. Don't tell me you've been married for an hour and you've already got eyes for another woman.
~ Mordecai Richler
I feel jealous, I want to be something your mind consumes the most.
~ Azza Nazh
We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?
~ Jean Cocteau
Luck always seems like it belongs to someone else.
~ David Levien
just as readily as it is by the positives. THE SEVEN MAJOR NEGATIVE EMOTIONS The emotion of anger (quick and transitory) The emotion of fear (prominent and easily discernible) The emotion of greed (subtle and persistent) The emotion of jealousy (impulsive and spasmodic) The emotion of revenge (subtle and quiet) The emotion of hatred (subtle and persistent) The emotion of superstition (subtle and slow)
~ Napoleon Hill
The most successful men and women on earth have had to correct certain weak spots in their personalities before they began to succeed. The most outstanding of these weaknesses which stand between men and women and success are INTOLERANCE, CUPIDITY, GREED, JEALOUSY, SUSPICION, REVENGE, EGOTISM, CONCEIT, THE TENDENCY TO REAP WHERE THEY HAVE NOT SOWN, and the HABIT OF SPENDING MORE THAN THEY EARN.
~ Napoleon Hill
Bad-mouthing is the only genuine, never faked expression of admiration.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb