Quotes About Jealousy

Lovers may be - and indeed generally are - enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

I've always been the breadwinner and men don't like that. They turn on you. They bite the hand that feeds them. Eventually, too, they become very jealous of the love one has with an audience.

Oh, the jealousy, the greed is the unraveling. It's the unraveling and it undoes all the joy that could be.

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo

Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude.

One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Who persuaded you to cut off the nose of your wife's lover? Wretched husband, that was not the part which outraged you! Fool, what have you done? Your wife has lost nothing by the operation

Love that is fed by jealousy dies hard

It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.

Love may exist without jealousy, although this is rare; but jealousy may exist without love, and this is common

The hardest thing to do is watch the one you love, love someone else.

Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy -- in fact, they're almost incompatible; one emotion hardly leaves room for the other. Both at once can produce unbearable turmoil...

Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.

A loving relationship is one in which the loved one is free to be himself -- to laugh with me, but never at me; to cry with me, but never because of me; to love life, to love himself, to love being loved. Such a relationship is based upon freedom and can never grow in a jealous heart.

When a man marries a widow his jealousies revert to the past: no man is as good as his wife says her first husband was

Most women have a good deal of pity for some other woman's husband

Everytime you speak about how much you like someone else, it kills me inside.

The seaweed is always greener in somebody else's lake.

Monica Seles: I'd hate to be next door to her on her wedding night.

Religion can make it worse. Are you supposing that if people were encouraged to believe in a transcendent reality, and to be encouraged by grand rituals and music and preaching, to love their neighbors, then they would put jealousy and frustration aside?

They looked shallow, self-absorbed. And a small, strangled part of me envied them.

Just this morning I'd been afraid that I might never meet the young man who loved her so. Now I feared if I ever did meet him, I would cut out his heart with a dull knife and feed it to the gulls. Finally,

Groothertog Fabrizio heeft een leuke nieuwe reden om me te haten. - Luciano