I Am Jealous Quotes:

I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die.

- Oscar Wilde

source: Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray (Diversion Classics)”, p.32, Diversion Books

topic: Jealous, Doe, I Am Jealous

And yes, I'll admit, I am jealous. I'm jealous of every minute you spend with him, of every concerned expression you send his way, of every tear shed, of every glance, every touch, and every thought. I want to rip him to pieces and purge him from your mind and from your heart. But I can't.

- Colleen Houck

topic: Rip, Jealous, Heart, I Am Jealous

The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.

- William Penn

topic: Inspirational, Jealousy, Envy, Jealous And Envy, Jealous Love

I am jealous of anyone who can make other people care so much.

- David Levithan

topic: Jealous, People, Care, I Am Jealous

Too often I am jealous and my jealousy leads me to say things-things-that I regret.

- Kate Mosse

topic: Regret, Jealous, Leading Me, I Am Jealous

Know that whoever is trying to bring you down, is already below you.

- Boonaa Mohammed

source: FaceBook post by Boonaa Mohammed from Nov 22, 2013

topic: Jealousy, Trying, Your Jealous, Jealous Hater, Love Jealousy

As far as your ego is concerned and your jealousy is concerned, my whole work here is to help you become so loving that the energy that becomes jealousy is transformed into love. And you know perfectly well that jealousy always follows your love. You are not jealous without love. A man who does not love is not jealous. Jealousy is almost like a shadow of love. If we can grow our love, it takes over the whole energy of jealousy and transforms it into love. It is an alchemical change.

- Rajneesh

topic: Jealousy, Love You, Love Is, Jealous Man, Shadow Of Love

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

- Robert A. Heinlein

source: Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.340, Penguin

topic: Love, Life, Positive, Great Feelings, Always Happy

I am jealous of those who think more deeply, who write better, who draw better, who ski better, who look better, who live better, who love better than I.

- Sylvia Plath

topic: Jealous, Writing, Thinking, I Am Jealous

O, beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-ey'd monster, which doth mock The meat it feeds on.

- William Shakespeare

source: 'Othello' (1602-4) act 3, sc. 3, l. 165

topic: Jealousy, Envy, Tragedy, Jealous And Envy, Jealous Love

You can be the moon and still be jealous of the stars.

- Gary Allan

topic: Stars, Jealous, Moon, Jealous And Envy, Jealousy And Envy

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.

- William Hazlitt

source: William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1466, Delphi Classics

topic: Jealousy, Space, Envy, Jealous And Envy, Jealousy And Envy

The only thing more frustrating than slanderers is those foolish enough to listen to them.

- Criss Jami

source: Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.116, Criss Jami

topic: Funny, Jealousy, Hater, Jealous Hater, Jealous Of Me

Jealousy in romance is like salt in food. A little can enhance the savor, but too much can spoil the pleasure and, under certain circumstances, can be life-threatening.

- Maya Angelou

topic: Jealousy, Romance, Littles, Jealous And Envy, Jealousy And Envy

Don't be upset. Don't listen to me. I only meant that I am jealous of a dark, unconscious element, something irrational, unfathomable. I am jealous of your toilet articles, of the drops of sweat on your skin, of the germs in the air you breathe which could get into your blood and poison you. And I am jealous of Komarovsky, as if he were an infectious disease. Someday he will take you away, just as certainly as death will someday separate us. I know this must seem obscure and confused, but I can't say it more clearly. I love you madly, irrationally, infinitely.

- Boris Pasternak

topic: Confused, Love You, Jealous, Infectious Diseases, I Am Jealous

It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.

- Aeschylus

source: "The Oresteian Trilogy". Play by Aeschylus, 458 BC.

topic: Friendship, Jealousy, Character, Jealous And Envy, Jealousy And Envy

Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.

- George Eliot

topic: Relationship, Jealousy, Heart, Folds, Jealous And Envy

I am jealous of all those people who live on the shore of Dal Lake.

- Zubin Mehta

topic: Jealous, Lakes, People, I Am Jealous

I'm honestly not jealous of my wife at all - when she succeeds I'm psyched. It never occurred to me to feel threatened by her success. But the one thing I am jealous of is the number of awesome, interesting, artistic, productive, and cool people she gets to hang out with all day.

- Christopher Noxon

source: "Interview with a Plus One". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. February 13, 2015.

topic: Jealous, Numbers, Interesting, Cool People, Not Jealous

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

- H. G. Wells

topic: Jealousy, Witty, Humorous, Indignation, Moral Indignation

But I must confess I am jealous of the term atom; for though it is very easy to talk of atoms, it is very difficult to form a clear idea of their nature, especially when compounded bodies are under consideration.

- Michael Faraday

topic: Jealous, Science, Ideas, I Am Jealous

Is there a choice in life? It's always been like this. I am jealous that you have a lot of leisure and free time. You are jealous that I have a lot money.

- Yao Ming

topic: Jealous, Choices, Leisure, I Am Jealous, Free Time

As a jealous man, I suffer four times over: because I am jealous, because I blame myself for being so, because I fear that my jealousy will wound the other, because I allow myself to be subject to a banality: I suffer from being excluded, from being aggressive, from being crazy, and from being common.

- Roland Barthes

topic: Crazy, Jealous, Men, Jealous Man, Excluded

Awareness is fire; it burns all that is wrong in you. It burns your ego. It burns your greed, it burns your possessiveness, it burns your jealousy - it burns all that is wrong and negative, and it enhances all that is beautiful, graceful, divine.

- Rajneesh

topic: Beautiful, Jealousy, Fire, Possessiveness, Your Jealous