101+ Jealousy Quotes, And Sayings

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Envy…since its lodgement is in the heart, not the brain, no degree of intellect supplies a guarantee against it. – Herman Melville does not overrate

I refused to believe that love could take any other form than mine: I measured love by the extent of my jealousy, and by that standard, of course, she could not love me at all. – Graham Greene,

Envy is the art of counting the other fellow’s blessings instead of your own. – Harold Coffin

Envy is the cowardly side of Hate, and all her ways are bleak and desolate. – Henry Abbey

I get jealous because I am afraid that someone is going to make me happier than I do.

Jealousy Quotes

The jealousy is troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves. – William Penn

Welcome to the wonderful world of jealousy, he thought. For the price of admission, you get a splitting headache, a nearly irresistible urge to commit murder, and an inferiority complex. Yippee.

Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius. – Fulton J. Sheen

The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause. – Baltasar Gracián

I am jealous of the rain that falls upon your skin where my hands can never be.

Surrounded by the flames of jealousy, the jealous one winds up, like the scorpion, turning the poisoned sting against himself. – Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

It’s a completely useless emotion – jealousy. I don’t go there. – Joy Behar

A sound heart is the life of the flesh: but envy the rottenness of the bones. – Proverbs 14:30

You never realize how much you love someone until you watch them loving someone else.

Anger, resentment, and jealousy don’t change the heart of others– it only changes yours.

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

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself, Love possesses not nor would it be possessed: For love is sufficient unto love. – Kahlil Gibran

Jealousy eats away at relationships like acid. It’s corrosive and destructive. It destroys trust and intimacy. – Dr. Gary Chapman

Isn’t it kind of silly to think that tearing someone else down builds you up?

Envy is thin because it bites but never eats. – Spanish Proverb

Jealousy is when you want something that is not yours. Territorial is protecting what’s already yours.

To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self. – Joan Didion

Jealousy eats away at relationships like acid. It’s corrosive and destructive. It destroys trust and intimacy. – Dr. Gary Chapman

Rust consumes iron and envy consumes itself. – Danish Proverb

Jealousy, that dragon that slays love under the pretense of keeping it alive.

You can only be jealous of someone who has something you think you ought to have yourself.

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

For God’s sake, let’s take the word ‘possess’ and put a brick around its neck and drown it. We can’t possess one another. We can only give and hazard all we have. – Dorothy L. Sayers

Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion. – John Berger

Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy. – François de la Rochefoucauld

Jealousy is a disease; love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy.

I roll my eyes. So when did I become so special? When they carted me off to the Capitol?

What sort of love is permeated by jealousy? You are jealous because you are unaware that everything you need is inside you. – Peter Deunov

The ugliest trait everyone should avoid is jealousy.

Envy is a littleness of the soul, which cannot see beyond a certain point, and if it does not occupy the whole space, feels itself excluded.– William Hazlitt

A unicorn doesn’t stand around and worry about what other unicorns think. It just sparkles.

Often those that criticize others reveal what he himself lacks.

Jealousy is that pain that a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves. – Joseph Addison

Jealousy is a disease that if not cured, will destroy the entire humanity.

Jealousy is, I think, the worst of all faults because it makes a victim of both parties.

Some people only hate you because of how others love you.

Well, I’m so sorry that I can’t be the right kind of monster for you, Bella.

Love sees sharply, hatred sees even sharper, but Jealousy sees the sharpest for it is love and hates at the same time. – Arab Proverb

They all laughed when I said I’d become a comedian. Well, they’re not laughing now. – Bob Monkhouse

I believe that there is no difference between jealousy and insecurity at all.

Take heed you harbor not that vice called Envy, lest another’s happiness be your torment, and God’s blessing become your curse.– Wellins Calcott

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Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits. – Paul Eldridge envy shoots itself

Jealousy is not good for your health. It is a silent killer, an untreatable disease.

Don’t waste time on jealousy. Sometimes you’re ahead, sometimes you’re behind. – Mary Schmich

Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind. – Buddha

The worst part of success is trying to find someone who is happy for you.

She had loved him for such a long time, she thought. How was it that she did now know him at all?

Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty. – Francois de la Rochefoucauld

Jealousy is a strong emotion that can break any strong relationship.

Jealousy is, I think, the worst of all faults because it makes a victim of both parties. – Gene Tierney

Jealousy is when you count someone else’s blessings instead of your own.

A person that is full of jealousy lacks confidence and trust.

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

More men die of jealousy than of cancer. – Joseph P. Kennedy

Friends ask you questions; enemies go around asking others about you looking for the answer they want to believe – Maria Nieves

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

Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die. – Carrie Fisher

A lot of people get so hung up on what they can’t have that they don’t think for a second about whether they really want it.

A man will do many things to get himself loved. He will do all things to get himself envied. – Mark Twain

The price of success is to bear the criticism of envy. – Denis Waitley

It is never wise to seek or wish for another’s misfortune. If malice or envy were tangible and had a shape, it would be the shape of a boomerang. – Charley Reese

If you could untie your wings and free your soul of jealousy, you and everyone around you would fly up like doves.

I think that honor goes to Chairman Meow. He’s only two.

A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity. – Robert A. Heinlein

The more you love, the more love you have to give. It’s the only feeling we have which is infinite…

The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time. – Johann Kaspar Lavater

I hope everybody understands why someone is jealous of something. It is because jealous people feel threatened that someone might take away what belongs to them.

Our envy of others devours us most of all. – Alexander Solzhenitsyn

So it’s true what they say about warlocks, then?

Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul. – John Dryden

There is nothing as useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all. – Peter F. Drucker

Envy, if surrounded on all sides by the brightness of another’s prosperity, like the scorpion confined within a circle of fire, will sting itself to death. – Charles Caleb Colton

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.

Or there are plenty of pretty girls here since apparently, your taste goes both ways, Is there anything you aren’t into?

Comparison is a very foolish attitude because each person is unique and incomparable. Once this understanding settles in you, jealousy disappears. – Osho

You cannot tell your mind what to feel and not to feel when you are jealous. It is like a poison that will slowly kill you.

I had forgotten. Disgust shadows desire. Another life is never safely envied. – Robert Wells

When you have a wit of your own, it’s a pleasure to credit other people for theirs.

Men are so constituted that every one undertakes what he sees another successful in, whether he has an aptitude for it or not. – Johann Von Goethe

Alec said savagely, and kicking back his chair, he got up from the table and stalked off into the crowd.

Surrounded by the flames of jealousy, the jealous one winds up, like the scorpion, turning the poisoned sting against himself. – Friedrich Nietzsche

Being jealous is normal, but when you have too much jealousy, then there must be something wrong. Jealousy is not good for your body and mind.

Envy among other ingredients has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are angrier at undeserved than at deserved good fortune. – William Hazlitt

Admire but not envy, follow but not imitate, praise but not flatter, and lead but not manipulate.

Earthquakes just happen. Tornadoes just happen. Your tongue does not just happen to fall into some other girl’s mouth!

Love may be blind but jealousy has 20-20 vision.

Jealousy is always there, but you can avoid it if you have plenty of trust and love. Always keep in mind that there are more beautiful things life is offering us than all these negativities in life.

Oh, what a bitter thing it is to look into happiness through another man’s eyes. – William Shakespeare

Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.- François de la Rochefoucauld

Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.

I would love to live in a world that is free of jealousy and whose people can be trusted.

The knives of jealousy are honed on details. – Ruth Rendell

Envy is more irreconcilable than hatred. – François de la Rochefoucauld

Hardly. Been there, done you. Adequate, but unremarkable.

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.

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice kindness. – Dalai Lama XIV

Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. Envy is a kind of praise. – John Gay

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

Some people suffer from the green-eyed monster called envy. – Ana Monnar

Envy is a symptom of a lack of appreciation of our own uniqueness and self-worth. Each of us has something to give that no one else has.

Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.

I am jealous of everybody who is with you when I am not with you. Everybody who passes you in the street. Yeah, you could say I’m jealous. ~ Blackpool

Feeling jealous shows me, loud and clear, that I am stifling my soul.

Jealousy is the dragon in paradise; the hell of heaven; and the most bitter of emotions because it is associated with the sweetest. – R. Orage

Envy shoots at others and wounds itself. – English Proverb

Their jealousy is proof that you are doing better than them.

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