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Quotes About Comparison

When I learned to switch jealousy for admiration, it unblocked a lot of things.
~ Alfonso Cuaron
Alarmed, I realized what my visceral reaction implied: jealousy. Over a guy I barely knew, with whom I'd exchanged more saliva than sentences.
~ Tammara Webber
Jealousy ... is the most obvious sign of impotency.
~ Helen Nielsen
Jealousy is sustained as often by pride as by affection.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
Envy suggests inferiority.
~ Wayne Gerard Trotman
Jealousy is a keen observer, but looks for all the wrong signs.
~ H. L. Mencken
There is not a single soul that jealousy looks good on. Nobody! It looks ugly on everybody and it makes us act ugly - it makes us act out of character.
~ Beth Moore
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
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
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
Jealousy ... is an affliction of the spirit which, unlike some sins of the flesh, gives no one any pleasure.
~ Muriel Spark
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
People may show jealousy, but hide their envy.
~ Mason Cooley
Jealousy's eyes are green.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
Animals don't know as much about jealousy as people, but they're not ignorant of it, either.
~ Stephen King, The Waste Lands
He was jealous of her future, and she of his past.
~ Anaïs Nin, Delta of Venus
Jealousy knows neither morality nor empathy.
~ Ella Leya, The Orphan Sky
Jealousy is a disease, it's like a poison.
~ Francesca Marciano, Casa Rossa
The jealousy I feel twards Orlando Bloom exists on many levels.
~ Sean Astin
The jealousy that arises from another's achievement is overcome by developing an awareness of and admiration for one's own and other's achievement.
~ Dalai Lama