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Quotes About Jealousy

Resentment is like swallowing a poison and waiting for the other person to die.
~ Michael Robotham
Jealousy is a terrible thing. I know all the psychological triggers. The fear of losing control, the fear of loss, the fear of abandonment, neglect and loneliness...But the most destructive thing about jealousy is that it kills what it values-the love you want to save won't survive the constraints of jealousy. There is no entitlement. Love is either equal or a tragedy.
~ Michael Robotham
Why? You've already done enough for him. You're the best piece of tail he'll ever have," sending Hicks running from the room.
~ Michael Wolff
Trump simply could not abide the knowledge that somebody was getting a leg up at his expense. His was a zero-sum ecosystem. In the world of Trump, anything that he deemed of value either accrued to him or had been robbed from him.
~ Michael Wolff
The concern that some women show at the absence of their husbands, does not arise from their not seeing them and being with them, but from their apprehension that their husbands are enjoying pleasures in which they do not participate, and which, from their being at a distance, they have not the power of interrupting.
~ Michel de Montaigne
So let me see-you've got a boyfriend, a not boyfriend, and a secret admirer. " He shook his head at me. "Girl, no wonder someone tried to run you down.
~ Michele Jaffe
There's a chasm between envy and desire. Envy is like wanting something that's not yours. But desire is different. Desire comes out of wanting what is yours, and still wanting it even if it's not yet there, but it's not envy.
~ Michka Assayas
Most of us would like to be smarter than we are, stronger than we are, richer than we are, but we don't feel all that comfortable with people who are.
~ Unknown
Once a killer is in prison, we carry on with other investigations and do not pay much attention to those who are behind bars. This infuriates them and they get jealous. I compare it to sibling rivalry. I became the 'Bad Mother' object to our suspect and he vented his anger in those letters.
~ Unknown
He did not want the girlfriends any longer but he also did not want anyone else to have them. This is yet another example of a serial killer treating his victims like objects because of a lack of socialisation during the latency phase.
~ Unknown
A husband only worries about a particular Other Man; a wife distrusts her whole species.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
Spite is never lonely; envy always tags along.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
La envidia —gustaba repetir— la mantienen los que se empeñan en creerse envidiados, y las más de las persecuciones son efecto más de la manía persecutoria que no de la perseguidora.
~ Miguel de Unamuno
La envidia la mantienen los que se empeñan en creerse envidiados, y las más de las persecuciones son efecto de la manía persecutoria que no de la perseguidora.
~ Miguel de Unamuno
La envidia es mil veces más temible que el hambre porque es hambre espiritual.
~ Miguel de Unamuno
They detest you only because you stand so high above other men, and that is something that mediocre souls can never endure. And yet in each one of us lies the latent faculty of surpassing others. Of that I am sure.
~ Mika Waltari
How's being in love with your middle brother's girlfriend going?
~ Mike Gayle
I've been so fortunate in my life that my family has never been jealous of my success. They have shown true love and commitment to me by being supportive. They shared in it.
~ Mike Krzyzewski
It's like they take poison and then hope for the other person to die.
~ Mike Lupica
I know why they don't like me because they want the money I have.
~ Mike Tyson
I'm not really easy to live with! There needs to be unlimited patience and unconditional love. Men I've known before loved my independent spirit and were proud of my success, to the point that they'd become jealous of the time I devote to my career.
~ Milla Jovovich
But when you're winning, it makes them feel like they're losing or, worse yet, that maybe they should've tried to do something too, but now it's too late. And since they didn't, they want to stop you. You can't let them.
~ Mindy Kaling
when you're winning, it makes them feel like they're losing or, worse yet, that maybe they should've tried to do something too, but now it's too late. And since they didn't, they want to stop you. You can't let them.
~ Mindy Kaling
It had taken her keying Irene's car on the last day of school for him to figure out she was loony.
~ Unknown