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Quotes About Jealousy

If I wasn't a man,I'd punch that jealous cat in the nose. His eyes lit up. I'll get Susie to do it.
~ Nora Roberts
She's everything I'm not. I'm comfortable with who I am, what I am, but when you come up against someone like that, it's a kick-in-the-butt reminder of what you're never going to be, never going to have. I don't like feeling inadequate or stupid.
~ Nora Roberts
follow-up, but the ugly bitch beside him
~ Nora Roberts
When others, out of Jealousy, Mistreat me with abuse, slander, and so on, I will practice accepting defeat And offering the victory to them.
~ Christopher Titmuss
Nothing drives people crazier than seeing someone have a good fucking life.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
I would pay snakes to bite her.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
And I want Seth dead. Worse than dead, I want him fat and bloated with water and insecure and emotional.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
The weakest people alive will try to glorify themselves by tearing down the truly amazing strength of the dead.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
He's the prettiest boy I've ever seen. He must be somebody's boyfriend.
~ CLAMP
Jealousy doesn't become you. Of course I care about your welfare as well as Sebastian's, and Temple's too, of course—but the last time I saw him he barely escaped poofing in the sun.
~ Colleen Gleason
Ah, piteous boy, Fortune came smiling; was it in jealousy that she then cruelly denied you to me
~ Virgil
I know what loves are trembling into fire; how jealousy shoots its green flashes hither and thither; how intricately love crosses love; love makes knots; love brutally tears them apart. I have been knotted; I have been torn apart.
~ Virginia Woolf
I ask now, standing with my scissors among my flowers, Where can the shadow enter? [. . .] I am sick of the body, I am sick of my own craft, industry and cunning, of the unscrupulous ways of the mother who protects, who collects under her jealous eyes at one long table her own children, always her own.
~ Virginia Woolf
But now the circle breaks. Now the current flows. Now we rush faster than before. Now passions that lay in wait down there in the dark weeds which grow at the bottom rise and pound us with their waves. Pain and jealousy, envy and desire, and something deeper than they are, stronger than love and more subterranean.
~ Virginia Woolf
That was her feeling - Othello's feeling, and she felt it, she was convinced, as strongly as Shakespeare meant Othello to feel it, all because she was coming down to dinner in a white frock to meet Sally Seton!
~ Virginia Woolf
I know what loves trembling into fire; how jealousy shoots its green flashes hither and thither; how intricately love crosses love; love makes knots; love brutally tears them apart. I have been knotted, I have been torn apart.
~ Virginia Woolf
I fear, I hate, I love, I envy and despise you […]
~ Virginia Woolf
It was jealousy that was at the bottom of it - jealousy which survives every other passion of mankind...
~ Virginia Woolf
Wildly, I pursued the shadow of her infidelity; but the scent I travelled upon was so slight as to be practically undistinguishable from a madman's fancy.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
I now wondered if Valechka (as the colonel called her) was really worth shooting, or strangling, or drowning. She had very vulnerable legs, and I decided I would limit myself to hurting her very horribly as soon as we were alone.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Time means succession, and succession, change: Hence timelessness is bound to disarrange Schedules of sentiment. We give advice 570  To widower. He has been married twice: He meets his wives; both loved, both loving, both Jealous of one another. Time means growth, And growth means nothing in Elysian life.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
we were bristling at each other as if she were still mine.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
yeah, maybe I should make you scream for me," he uttered against her skin. "I want every male in this building to know that you belong to me. Only me.
~ Lara Adrian
I'm so jealous," she whispered, and he blinked. "Of what?" Her head fell back on the pillow, and she stared up at the ceiling with the saddest eyes he'd ever seen. "You're so alive, Lore. There's fire in you. A will to live, when all I want is to be done with this life.
~ Larissa Ione