Quotes about Jealousy
Ignorance is jealousy's twin sister.
— Dean Frazer
There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire: it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.
— George Eliot
Jealousy is like a raging toothache. One cannot do anything when one is jealous, not even sit down. Once can only come and go. Back and forth.
— Milan Kundera
Envy expresses itself through condemnation. The louder the condemnation the greater the envy.
— Marty Rubin
He that is not jealous is not in love.
— St. Augustine
Of course Jonah is angry. When you haven't forgiven someone who has wronged you and then something good happens to them—when they are blessed or shown mercy or experience favor—it's infuriating.
— Rob Bell
You are a dog in the manger, Cathy, and desire no one to be loved but yourself!
— Emily Bronte
It formed a sweet picture. The long light hair curled slightly on the temples; the eyes were large and serious; the figure almost too graceful. I did not marvel how Catherine Earnshaw could forget her first friend for such an individual.
— Emily Bronte
False friends will launch their covert sneers; True friends will wish me dead; And I shall cause the bitterest tears That you have ever shed.
— Emily Bronte
Protect what belongs to you at all costs; don't desire what belongs to another.
— Epictetus
The words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton's first law of jealousy.
— Erica Jong
Die Gesellschaft stellt eifersüchtig denen nach, die sich von ihr ausschließen, und wird kommen und an die Pforte pochen.
— Joseph Campbell