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Quotes About Jealousy

Jealousy is not a nice feeling, I hate feeling jealous. But if you can admit it and laugh at yourself, then that's a good way of dealing with your feelings.
~ Kate Nash
Toy Story we found, sorta by accident, because we didnt know what we were doing, the idea of being replaced by somebody. Everybody has that fear, or encounters this jealousy at some point.
~ Pete Docter
Jealousy is an emotion. It doesn't have to make sense. In fact, it usually doesn't.
~ J. A. Jance
I got a lot of texts from friends and emails from friends and most of them were just pure jealousy.
~ Michael Schur
Envy grieves. Jealousy rages.
~ Mason Cooley
Jealousy is an ugly emotion, but it tells the truth. You mostly envy those who have what you desire.
~ Susan Cain
my mind ran over scenes of Shesheeb seducing Margaret until I was a wagon dragged by the runaway horses of my jealousy.
~ Louise Erdrich
What frenzy dictates, jealousy believes
~ John Gay
The jealous have but moments of Delight for years of Pain.
~ Eliza Haywood
Jealousy has the amazing power to illuminate a single person in an intense beam of light, keeping the multitude of others in total darkness.
~ Milan Kundera, Farewell Waltz
Strong jealousy in a beautiful love is the autumn in the middle of a hot summer!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
A jealous husband is an ugly thing.
~ Keith Ablow, Murder Suicide
Jealousy ... is an affliction of the spirit which, unlike some sins of the flesh, gives no one any pleasure.
~ Muriel Spark
anger and jealousy are spasms of the nerves, not of the heart.
~ Ellen Glasgow
My whole thing is I like to hang around winners, I like winning spirits, I have zero tolerance for jealousy.
~ Taryn Manning
Envy and jealousy are the private parts of the human soul. Perhaps the comparison can be extended.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Jealousy, which serves the struggle for survival, can deteriorate into the envy which draws defeat even from victory.
~ Willard Gaylin
If someone with whom one is having an affair keeps on mentioning some woman whom he knew in the past, however long ago it is since they separated, one is always irritated.
~ Sei Shonagon
Make an enemy of jealousy and envy. As fast and soon as you can…. The art world is high school with money.
~ Jerry Saltz
Bored by safety, the lover grows jealous and exacting.
~ Mason Cooley
Confidence is everywhere the parent of despotism. Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Jealous is every virtue of the others, and a dreadful thing is jealousy. Even virtues may succumb by jealousy.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Jealousy, an eminently credulous and suspicious passion, allows fancy the greatest possible play. But it does not bestow wit, it banishes all sense.
~ Honore de Balzac
when however small a measure of jealousy is mixed with misunderstanding, there is always going to be trouble.
~ John Irving