Quotes About Jealousy

Surrounded by the flames of jealousy, the jealous one winds up, like the scorpion, turning the poisoned sting against himself.

My eyes are green, Cause I eat a lot of vegetables, It don't have nothing to do with your new friend

The spirit of the world encloses four kinds of spirits, diametrically opposed to charity--the spirit of resentment, spirit of aversion, spirit of jealousy and the spirit of indifference.

Comparison is a very foolish attitude, because each person is unique and incomparable. Once this understanding settles in you, jealousy disappears.

Envy and jealousy stem from the fundamental inability to rejoice at someone else's happiness or success

The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time.

Being with an insanely jealous person is like being in the room with a dead mammoth.

Envy lurks at the bottom of the human heart like a viper in its hole.

Jealousy is the suspicion of one's own inferiority.

Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.

Jealousy is the greatest of all evils, and the one that arouses the least pity in the person who causes it.

Whoever envies another confesses his superiority.

The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.

Jealousy is nothing more than a fear of abandonment

Jealousy sees things always with magnifying glasses which make little things large, of dwarfs giants, of suspicions truths.

Jealous people poison their own banquet and then eat it

Jealousy fuses megalomania and self-abandonment.

The shackles and the chains, the violence and aggression, the pettiness and scorn, the jealousy and hatred, the tempest and discord.

Envy is a littleness of soul, which cannot see beyond a certain point, and if it does not occupy the whole space feels itself excluded.

Here's what I think: the five most unattractive traits in people are cheapness, clinginess, neediness, unwillingness to change and jealousy. Jealousy is the worst, and by far the hardest to conceal.

Pride may go before a fall, but jealousy goes before destruction.

Trifles light as air are to the jealous confirmations strong as proofs of holy writ.

Possibly, more people kill themselves and others out of hurt vanity than out of envy, jealousy, malice or desire for revenge.

Without that poise and balance and gentle humor and caring sense, nothing happens at all. It's just egotism and vanity and jealousy and possessiveness.