Quotes About Jealousy

Men of profound sadness betray themselves when they are happy: they have a mode of seizing upon happiness as though they would choke and strangle it, out of jealousy--ah, they know only too well that it will flee from them!

He whom the flame of jealousy encompasses, will at last, like the scorpion, turn the poisoned sting against himself.

One does not hate as long as one has a low esteem of someone, but only when one esteems him as an equal or a superior.

When some men fail to accomplish what they desire to do they exclaim angrily, "May the whole world perish!" This repulsive emotion is the pinnacle of envy, whose implication is "If I cannot have something, no one can have anything, no one is to be anything!

You go above and beyond them: but the higher you climb, the smaller you appear to the eye of envy. And he who flies is hated most of all.

As yet hath his knowledge not learned to smile, and to be without jealously ; as yet hath his gushing passion not become calm in beauty.

Os homens de profunda tristeza denunciam-se quando são felizes: têm um modo de pegar na felicidade como se quisessem esmagá-la e sufocá-la, por ciúme - ah, sabem bem de mais que lhes foge!

Cine-i înv?luit de flac?ra invidiei — acela îÅŸi întoarce pân? la urm?, ca scorpionul, acul înveninat spre sine însuÅŸi.

And often with our love we want merely to overleap envy. And often we attack and make ourselves enemies, to conceal that we are vulnerable.

Diese räucherigen, stubenwarmen, verbrauchten, vergrünten, vergrämelten Seelen - wie könnte ihr Neid mein Glück ertragen!

On account of those absolute and impatient ones, be not jealous, thou lover of truth! Never yet did truth cling to the arm of an absolute one.

but the higher you climb, the smaller you appear to the eye of envy. And he who flies is hated most of all.

For the gods have very sharp ears for boasts, or for declarations of happiness and self-satisfaction, or for assertions of a firm intention to do this or that, or for statements that this or that must surely happen, or any other words hinting that a man is in the slightest control of his own destiny. And the gods are jealous, easily angered, perverse, and swift to thwart.

This man was my equal—no, I admitted grudgingly, my superior—and I hated him for it. I hated him because I knew that in his dream of power no one must suffer. I hated him because, once, I had been weak enough to share his feelings.

Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.

It's a far cry from that, I just meant that in general people say all sorts of nonsense about me, but it's mostly out of jealousy. Don't you go believing anything of the stort. They're denouncing me me in order to deflect suspicion from themselves, but I myself can denounce them.

It's a far cry from that, I just meant that in general people say all sorts of nonsense about me, but it's mostly out of jealousy. Don't you go believing anything of the sort. They're denouncing me me in order to deflect suspicion from themselves, but I myself can denounce them.

It's a far cry from that, I just meant that in general people say all sorts of nonsense about me, but it's mostly out of jealousy. Don't you go believing anything of the sort. They're denouncing me in order to deflect suspicion from themselves, but I myself can denounce them.

It doesn't matter who wins if I don't. I only care if I win. I'm jealous of anyone else who wins.

People can do all kinds of things that maybe aren't wise in hindsight because of jealousy.

I remember wishing there was snow in L.A. And how jealous we used to get of those Christmas specials with kids playing in the snow.

I don't think any of us ever trusted Nashville. When you're in that town you know everybody is talking about everybody else. Everybody is wishing for the other guy to fail.

Governments are composed of human beings, and all of the frailties that humans possess are absorbed into these governments and become active within these governments. Hatred, anger, jealousy, fear, greed, distrust and the whole host of afflictions that humans must bear, lurk just beneath the surface of civility displayed by 'government.'

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.