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Quotes About Jealousy

I wanted all of her and resented other boys for wanting any part of her.
~ Jonathan Franzen
Serious fans always need to feel uniquely connected to the object of their fandom; they jealously guard those points of connection, however tiny or imaginary, that justify the feeling of uniqueness.
~ Jonathan Franzen
Believe me,' [...] 'I would know about it. That's the difference between me and your girlfriend. I am the jealous type. I am the Spanish Inquisition when it comes to being fucked around on. No quarter will be given.
~ Jonathan Franzen
Jealousy, hatred, greed, and the like lead to suffering and dissatisfaction because they're out of step with reality. They paint a misleading picture of the world.
~ Jonathan Landaw
Blessings are just curses that other people envy.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
Celar es sostener la creencia de que mi amado le da a otra persona lo que solamente yo tengo derecho a querer de él. O como dice Ambrose Bierce en su Diccionario del diablo: "Celar es temer perder a alguien, que si uno perdiera por lo que teme perderlo... no valdría la pena haberlo conservado".
~ Jorge Bucay
Why do you seem so annoyed at what I'm saying? Because we're too much like each other. I loathe your face, which is a caricature of mine, I loathe your voice, which is a mockery of mine, I loathe your pathetic syntax, which is my own.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves.
~ Joseph Addison
Die Gesellschaft stellt eifersüchtig denen nach, die sich von ihr ausschließen, und wird kommen und an die Pforte pochen.
~ Joseph Campbell
Yahweh—a jealous god, who would hold men to himself and who turned mankind away from the Tree of Immortality, instead of leading us to it. Such a god in the Orient would be regarded as a deluding idol.
~ Joseph Campbell
Jealousy is the dragon in paradise; the hell of heaven; and the most bitter of the emotions because associated with the sweetest.
~ A. R. Orage
Love shouldn't be about jealousy or anything like that. It should be about commitment and being able to trust that person. If you can't have that from the get-go, there's a problem.
~ Aaron Carter
You will not accept credit that is due to another, or harbor jealousy of an explorer who is more fortunate.
~ Abbott L. Lowell
Envy Is Behind Flattery.
~ Abraham Verghese
and I said it is the nature of love to be infinite and in such an ocean any fear and jealousy is washed away
~ Adam Roberts
People may think they despise those not as virtuous as themselves, but there's no end to the reservoirs of wrath we bear for those we know to be better.
~ adam-troy castro
Eliza's constant harping didn't even get to Martha, although it sometimes seemed that Eliza's raison d'etre was to urinate on Martha's parade.
~ Adele Parks
Obviously, in dealing with a relationship, sexuality has to be involved, and jealousy and emotions like that. And I don't know, I've always been intrigued by those emotions.
~ Adrian Lyne
I missed out on everything. Sometimes on the street I see teenagers hanging out and going to the movies, going to concerts, and I get so jealous.
~ Adriana Lima
I like jealous men. I love jealousy. I do.
~ Adriana Lima
We lie under the sheet after making love, speaking of loneliness relieved in a book relived in a book so on that page the clot and fissure of it appears words of a man in pain a naked word entering the clot a hand grasping through bars: deliverance What happens between us has happened for centuries we know it from literature still it happens sexual jealousy outflung hand beating bed dryness of mouth after panting there are books that describe all this and they are useless
~ Adrienne Rich
As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.
~ Antisthenes
I liked the generation of Paul Scholes and Ryan Giggs, who I admired. I was a little bit jealous of Karel Poborsky who played in Manchester and experienced great matches. I know he still feels that love.
~ Pavel Nedved
Why do they cover Paul's songs but never mine?
~ Yoko Ono