Quotes About Jealousy

Jealousy is the most dreadfully involuntary of all sins.

And a keen jealousy invades me, not of other people, but of that me made of ink and periods and commas, who wrote the novels I will write no more, the author who continues to enter the privacy of this young woman, while I, I here and now, with the physical energy I feel surging, much more reliable than the creative impulse, I am separated from her by the immense distance of a keyboard and a white page on the roller.

if your cart is empty and the others are full, you can only hold out so long: then you're overwhelmed by envy, heartbreak, and you can't stand it.

She's there every day,' the writer says. 'Every time I'm about to sit down at my desk I feel the need to look at her. Who knows what she's reading? I know it isn't a book of mine, and instinctively I suffer at the thought, I feel the jealousy of my books, which would like to be read the way she reads. I never tire of watching her: she seems to live in a sphere suspended in another time and another space.

Haces bien en estar celoso. Pero tú pretendes someter los celos a la razón. –Claro: así los hago más eficaces. –Tú razonas demasiado. ¿Por qué se razona con el amor? –Para amarte más. Cualquier cosa, si se hace razonando, aumenta su poder.

I feel the jealousy of my books, which would like to be read the way she reads.

He cannot repress a strong feeling of envy for that man who expresses himself with such methodical self-confidence.

Fai bene a esser geloso. Ma tu pretendi di sottomettere la gelosia alla ragione. - Certo: così la rendo più efficace. - Tu ragioni troppo. Perché mai l'amore va ragionato? - Per amarti di più. Ogni cosa, a farla ragionando, aumenta il suo potere. - Vivi sugli alberi e hai la mentalità di un notaio con la gotta. - Le imprese più ardite vanno vissute con l'animo più semplice.

Rita looked as though she would have liked nothing better than to seize the paper umbrella sticking out of Hermione's drink and thrust it up her nose.

Conosceva tutti i pettegolezzi del paese, ma non era maligna, anzi cercava di rimediare a tutte le gelosie, a tutte le invidie, mettendo una mezza parola di qua, una allusione benevola di la'. Sempre disposta a vedere il bene nascosto tra i mali come un fico maturo e succoso in mezzo alle pale spinose e impolverate della convivenza quotidiana.

At that point, when she'd been staring down the account-whoring, turbo-bitch's face, she wouldn't have much cared if her head spun around and she'd yarked up pea soup at warp speed all over her. At least it would have matched Linda's new color ranking.

Mary the Canary lives in a cloud of perfume and colours. She's an auxiliary nurse by day and a country and western singer by night: bed pans and power ballass. She's so glamorous she makes Mrs Hart look plain. She is the other woman and I'm bring trained to hate her even though I've never met her.

It's a polygamous culture, and Ouimet treated several men who had been anointed with boiling water by their jealous wives.

Annoying Andrea had on her mean face. She was mad because I came up with a great idea and she didn't. Mr. Cooper wrote down my idea and sent it to the

Yes, but everybody else gets more than us.

Pinched silence. Then, "You were the one making eyes at him, always putting yourself in his path.

I open my eyes and see that Chase isn't looking at me anymore. He's staring at Jeremy because that song, or course, is coming from Jeremy's mouth. From his heart. His soul.

See how fortune deludes us, and that which we put carefully into her hands, she either breaks or lets it fall from her hands, or causes it to be removed by the violence of another, or suffocates and poisons, or taints with suspicion, fear and jealousy to the great hurt and ruin of the possessor.

I have experienced jealousy, possessiveness, verbal abuse and violence from men, but I have also experienced jealousy, possessiveness, verbal abuse and violence from women, usually when I failed to respond to their advances.

There are many ways to be the odd girl out. Your pain can brief or lasting, visible to all or none, with one or many. One of the longest, quietest ways to be the odd girl out is to be friends with two girls who are closer to each other than to you.

I also pepper our sessions with reports of what I've discovered in my daily Google-stalking: the women Boyfriend must be dating (based on elaborate stories I create from social media Likes); how fabulous his life is without me (based on his Tweets about his business trip); how he isn't even sad about the breakup (because he photographs salads in restaurants—how can he even eat?).

Follow your envy - it shows what you want

think about how common it is, even in everyday situations, to be jealous of a spouse and how taboo it is to talk about that. Aren't we supposed to be happy for their good fortune? Isn't that what love is about?

No one knows why we hate Hattie. Maybe it's her wool skirts and kneesocks. Maybe it's because she's the last to develop. Maybe it's because she makes A's. Maybe it's because if we hate her, no one will hate us.