Quotes and Sayings About Jealousy
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Love shouldn't be about jealousy or anything like that. It should be about commitment and being able to trust that person. If you can't have that from the get-go, there's a problem.
-- Aaron Carter -
You will not accept credit that is due to another, or harbor jealousy of an explorer who is more fortunate.
-- Abbott Lawrence Lowell -
Obviously, in dealing with a relationship, sexuality has to be involved, and jealousy and emotions like that. And I don't know, I've always been intrigued by those emotions.
-- Adrian Lyne -
It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.
-- Aeschylus -
Like hatred, jealousy is forbidden by the laws of life because it is essentially destructive.
-- Alexis Carrel -
Jealousy is the dragon in paradise; the hell of heaven; and the most bitter of the emotions because associated with the sweetest.
-- Alfred Richard Orage -
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
Gossip is just a tool to distract people who have nothing better to do from feeling jealous of those few of us still remaining with noble hearts.
-- Anna Godbersen -
Jealousy has always been my cross, the weakness and woundedness in me that has most often caused me to feel ugly and unlovable, like the Bad Seed.
-- Anne Lamott -
Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude.
-- Aphra Behn -
Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.
-- Aristotle -
Jealousy is one of the wickedest of all the passions. It is that which has been the most fruitful mother of tragedies, murders, and wars. But reprehensible though it is, jealousy is almost rather to be pitied than blamed--its first victims are those who harbour the feeling.
-- Arthur Alfred Lynch -
Passion can quickly slip to jealousy, or even hatred.
-- Arthur Golden -
The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.
-- Baltasar Gracian -
Jealousy is the lifelong noose hanging about the neck of love.
-- Caitlin Thomas -
If malice or envy were tangible and had a shape, it would be the shape of a boomerang.
-- Charley Reese -
But when I would see the surrogate, my first instinct, my first reaction would be jealousy, because she was doing what I wanted to do.
-- Cheryl Tiegs -
In my experience lust only ever leads to misery. All that suspicion and jealousy and anguish it unleashes. I don't want those things in my life.
-- Chrissie Hynde -
My birth neither shook the German Empire nor caused much of an upheaval in the home. It pleased mother, caused father a certain amount of pride and my elder brother the usual fraternal jealousy of a hitherto only son.
-- Conrad Veidt -
The jealous know nothing, suspect much, and fear everything.
-- Curt Goetz -
Nature is at work. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow.
-- David Seabury -
A jealous person is doubly unhappy-over what he has, which is judged inferior, and over which he has not, which is judged superior. Such a person is doubly removed from knowing the true blessing of creation.
-- Desmond Tutu -
Whoever had known sexual jealousy, that most destructive of emotions-and this would be so for men no less than women-had known madness and had now to know sympathy for someone who had been carried by jealousy this one terrible step too far, to murder.
-- Diana Trilling -
Jealousy had a taste, all right. A bitter and tongue-stinging flavor, like a peach pit.
-- Dolores Hitchens -
Foul jealousy! that turnest love divine to joyless dread, and makest the loving heart with hateful thoughts to languish and to pine.
-- Edmund Spenser -
Yet is there one more cursed than they all, That canker-worm, that monster, jealousie, Which eats the heart and feeds upon the gall, Turning all love's delight to misery, Through fear of losing his felicity.
-- Edmund Spenser
