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Quotes About Jealousy

I sometimes wonder if what I consider "romance" might be dying out— l'amour fou , crazy love, destructive passion, crippling jealousy, extreme and violent and tragic.
~ Edmund White
they don't talk at all only fight, the mother's will was unclear, Edward got a field up the Commons that William wanted to build on for the remarkable view and there followed dispute and foul play, a stream de-routed, a stream that animals drank from, Edward concluded it was his brother's dirty work
~ Edna O'Brien
Sin by its very nature is more often quiet and secretive than loud and public. For every overt episode of rage, there are dozens of jealousies, manipulations, white lies, and malicious thoughts, none of which immediately register on the conscience. And, according to Scripture, the greatest sin of all is even more covert: I do not love the Lord my God with my whole mind and heart. If our failure to consistently worship the true God is the key feature of sin, we are sinners all.
~ Edward T. Welch
Du joli, la passion dite amour. Si pas de jalousie, ennui. Si jalousie, enfer bestial. Elle une esclave, et lui une brute. Ignobles romanciers, bande de menteurs qui embellissaient la passion, en donnaient l'envie aux idiotes et aux idiots. Ignobles romanciers, fournisseurs et flagorneurs de la classe possédante. Et les idiotes aimaient ces sales mensonges, ces escroqueries, s'en nourissaient.
~ Albert Cohen
Si accorse che poteva ormai guardarla con freddezza e oggettività, con sguardo sgombro di sentimento. Prima, quando l'amava ancora, la contemplava senza veramente vederla; adesso la vedeva, come si vede un oggetto qualsiasi, senza contemplarla. (Piccola e gelosa)
~ Alberto Moravia
There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.
~ Aldous Huxley
was. He wasn't so much jealous as he wanted Kimiko to confess that she experienced lust independent of him—the thought of her sovereign lechery turned him on, because it frightened him.
~ Aleksandar Hemon
None of the young women who wanted her position knew what her position was.
~ Alexander Chee
No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.
~ Alexander Pope
No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her; but mainly a woman hates a man for being her friend.
~ Alexander Pope
I loved you: and, it may be, from my soul The former love has never gone away, But let it not recall to you my dole; I wish not sadden you in any way. I loved you silently, without hope, fully, In diffidence, in jealousy, in pain; I loved you so tenderly and truly, As let you else be loved by any man.
~ Alexander Pushkin
Our envy of others devours us most of all.
~ Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Rhett trapped her wrists in a circle of his fingers. "I love you, you abusive wench." His expression hardened. "And I'll kill that bastard Fenton if he tries to take you from me.
~ Alexandra Ripley
Jealousy is the art of injuring ourselves more than others.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Like hatred, jealousy is forbidden by the laws of life because it is essentially destructive.
~ Alexis Carrel
'Othello' is the most domestic of Shakespeare's tragedies and the one that's likely to strike a personal note with a lot of people watching it.
~ Andrew Davies
There's nothing like a man watching a roomful of guys look his woman up and down to make him desire what he already has (and vice versa).
~ Matthew Hussey
You will never see Lil Wayne in New Orleans. You will never see those type of guys in New Orleans because the hate and the jealousy is that real and it's that overwhelming.
~ Tyrann Mathieu
Players don't usually like anybody who makes more money than they do.
~ Dan Jenkins
Envy blinds men and makes it impossible for them to think clearly.
~ Malcolm X
Comics don't like to see other comics do well.
~ Carrot Top
We are bred to compare ourselves to the next person, to what they have and what they have accomplished.
~ Niecy Nash
Every woman likes her own way, but no woman can endure to see another woman master even over a man who does not concern her.
~ Richard Jefferies
If I was confronted with some 20-year-old American hotshot, I'd hate him.
~ Bo Burnham