Jealousy or envy is a feeling (or emotion) that people get when they want what others have. It’s a negative feeling. When someone is jealous of you, they usually don’t like the other person. These special emotions are usually caused by a person having an object or quality that he or she desires but cannot achieve. Jealousy is caused by a lack of self-confidence and judging your abilities. Jealousy is unreasonable. Keep your jealousy aside and keep a healthy relation with others with these jealousy quotes to held you move on with this negative feeling.
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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
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
I lost my first race at school and I was so jealous when the winner received a puppet that I said to myself, “I will carry on until I win a puppet.” — Svetlana Masterkova
Passion can quickly slip to jealousy, or even hatred. — Arthur Golden
It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it. — George Washington
To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter. — F. Sagan
Trifles light as air /Are to the jealous confirmations strong / As proofs of holy writ. — (Iago), William Shakespeare, Othello
Dogs are our link to paradise. They don’t know evil or jealousy or discontent. — Milan Kundera
Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority; envy our uneasiness under it. — Shenstone
Jealousy is a dog’s bark which attracts thieves. — Karl Kraus
When I see a good singer, I get teary-eyed. Part of it is jealousy because all comedians are frustrated rock stars. That’s a fact. — Jeff Ross
Jealousy is, I think, the worst of all faults because it makes a victim of both parties. — Gene Tierney
Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Jealousy is the tie that binds, and binds, and binds. — Helen Rowland
To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter. — Francoise Sagan
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
Jealousy… is mental cancer. — B. C. Forbes
Jealousy is, I think, the worst of all faults because it makes a victim of both parties. — Gene Tierney
Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius. — Fulton J. Sheen
You can only be jealous of someone who has something you think you ought to have yourself. — Margaret Atwood
The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents. — Salvador Dali
Jealous souls will not be answered so: / They are not ever jealous for the cause, / But jealous for they’re jealous. / It is a monster / Begot upon itself, born on itself. — (Emilia), William Shakespeare, Othello
You will not accept credit that is due to another or harbor jealousy of an explorer who is more fortunate. — Abbott L. Lowell
More men die of jealousy than of cancer. — Joseph P. Kennedy
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
I feel like a lot of the female relationships I see on TV or in movies are in some way free of the kind of jealousy and anxiety and posturing that has been such a huge part of my female friendships, which I hope lessens a little bit with age. — Lena Dunham
Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies. — Elizabeth Bowen
More men die of jealousy than of cancer. — Joseph P. Kennedy
I think it’s important to get your surroundings as well as yourself into a positive state – meaning surround yourself with positive people, not the kind who are negative and jealous of everything you do. — Heidi Klum
Jealous people destroy what they are incapable of creating. — Paul Guth
I like jealous men. I love jealousy. I do. — Adriana Lima
Love sees sharply, hatred sees even more sharp, but Jealousy sees the sharpest for it is love and hate at the same time. — Arab Proverb
Jealousy is simply and clearly the fear that you do not have value. Jealousy scans for evidence to prove the point – that others will be preferred and rewarded more than you. There is only one alternative – self-value. If you cannot love yourself, you will not believe that you are loved. You will always think it’s a mistake or luck. Take your eyes off others and turn the scanner within. Find the seeds of your jealousy, clear the old voices and experiences. Put all the energy into building your personal and emotional security. Then you will be the one others envy, and you can remember the pain and reach out to them. — Jennifer James
We are jealous of a rival, while we are envious of what other people have. — Jean le Rond d’Alembert
The jealousy and resentment that animate the terrorists also affect many of our former cold war allies. — Richard Perle
On the same line of reasoning, if Australians were to be Australians, or rather if Australians were as separate from any other nation as Australia from any other land, there would be no jealousy between them on England’s account. — Henry Lawson
Jealousy is always born with love, but does not die with it. In jealousy there is more of self-love than of love to another. — Francois de la Rochefoucauld
Though jealousy be produced by love, as ashes are by fire, yet jealousy extinguishes love as ashes smother the flame. — Margaret of Angoulême
I don’t get jealousy, I don’t get how people hate each other – I never did. — Nas
Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting. — George Orwell
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 the fear of comparison. — Max Frisch
The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents. — Salvador Dal
Jealousy is not at all low, but it catches us humbled and bowed down, at first sight. — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
What a plague of one’s thoughts, how great a rust of the heart, to be jealous of another. — Cyprian
Jealousy aims at the peaks; the winds storm the loftiest summits. — Ovid
Turn thee from these, or dare not to enquire / Of Him whose Name is Jealous, lest in wrath, / He hear and answers thine unblest desire: / Far better we should cross His lightning’s path, / Than be according to our idols heard, / And God should take us at our own vain word. — Keble
What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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There tends to be jealousy in England towards countries that are successful. — Chris O’Dowd
jealousy! thou magnifier of trifles. — Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller
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It is not loved that is blind, but jealousy. — Lawrence Durrell
Critics? Don’t talk to me of critics! You think some jackanapes journalist, his soul eaten away by the maggots of jealousy and failure, has anything worthwhile to say of art? I don’t. — Jonathan Raban
Curious thing, plain women are always jealous of their husbands, beautiful women never are! —Oscar Wilde
Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don’t complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief, and jealousy. Don’t bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live! — Bob Marley
Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies. — Elizabeth Bowen
Where love reigns, disturbing jealousy / Doth call himself affection’s sentinel. — (Venus), William Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis
That is ever the way. Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse. — J. M. Barrie
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had. — Erica Jong
Jealousy is like a hot pepper. Use it mildly, and you add spice to the relationship. Use too much of it and it can burn. — Ayala Pines
The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause. — Baltasar Gracian
As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion. — Antisthenes
The knives of jealousy are honed on details. — Ruth Rendell
Beware… of jealousy! / It is the green-eyed monster, which doth mock / The meat it feeds on. — (Iago), William Shakespeare, Othello
Back then I didn’t think a woman like that, or a relationship like that, could exist with complete freedom and no jealousy or possessiveness. I thought it sounded too good to be true and I was certainly convinced it wasn’t the life for me! — Sylvia Kristel
Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty. — Francois de la Rochefoucauld
Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo. — Herbert George (H.G.) Wells
I would rather drudge out my life on a cotton plantation, till the grave opened to give me rest, than to live with an unprincipled master and a jealous mistress. — Harriet Ann Jacobs
Jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire. — Solomon Ibn Gabirol
No true love there can be without its dread penalty – jealousy. — Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
It is with jealousy as with the gout; when such distempers are in the blood there is never any security against their breaking out, and that often on the slightest occasions, and when least suspected. — Fielding
I’ve spent most of my life walking under that hovering cloud, jealousy, whose acid raindrops blurred my vision and burned holes in my heart. Once I learned to use the umbrella of confidence, the skies cleared up for me and the sunshine called joy became my faithful companion. — Astrid Alauda
Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart. — George Eliot
To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self. — Joan Didion
Count your blessings, not your problems. Count your own blessings, not someone else’s. Remember that jealousy is when you count someone else’s blessings instead of your own. — Roy T. Bennett
Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart. — George Eliot
Jealousy is love bed of burning snarl. — George Meredith
Jealousy is the grave of affection. — Mary Baker Eddy
Like hatred, jealousy is forbidden by the laws of life because it is essentially destructive. — Alexis Carrel
O, Jealousy, thou ugliest fiend of hell! thy deadly venom preys on my vitals, turns the healthful hue of my fresh cheek to haggard sallowness, and drinks my spirit up. — H. More
Lovers may be and indeed generally are enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations. — George Byron
Oh! How bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man’s eyes. — William Shakespeare
There is no greater glory than love, nor any great punishment than jealously. — Lope de Vega
Don’t waste time on jealousy. Sometimes you’re ahead, sometimes you’re behind. — Mary Schmich
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
Jealousy isn’t a pleasant quality, but if it isn’t overdone (and if it’s combined with modesty), apart from its inconvenience there’s even something touching about it. — Milan Kundera
That is ever the way. ‘Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse. — James M. Barrie
It will be found unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it. — George Washington
The heart of the envious is gall and bitterness; his tongue spitteth venom; the success of his neighbor breaketh his rest. He sitteth in his cell repining; and the good that happeneth to another, is to him an evil. Hatred and malice feed upon his heart, and there is no rest in him. — Akhenaton
Jealousy is the very reverse of understanding, of sympathy, and of generous feeling. Never has jealousy added to character, never does it make the individual big and fine. — Emma Goldman
If you could untie your wings and free your soul of jealousy, you and everyone around you would fly up like doves. — Rumi
Jealousy – that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion. — Emil Cioran
He that is jealous is not in love. — Saint Augustine
Women detest a jealous man whom they do not love, but it angers them when a man they do love is not jealous. — L’Enclos
Lovers may be – and indeed generally are – enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations. — Lord Byron
It’s amazing the clarity that comes with psychotic jealousy. — Rupert Everett
To talk about balance, it’s easier to talk about what’s out of balance. And I think anytime that you have any disease, and disease meaning lack of ease, lack of flow… dis-ease. So any time there’s disease, you’re out of balance, whether it’s jealousy, anger, greed, anxiety, fear. — Ricky Williams
Envy…since it’s lodgement is in the heart, not the brain, no degree of intellect supplies a guarantee against it. — Herman Melville
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The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time. — Johann Kaspar Lavater
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 – in fact, they are almost incompatible; one emotion hardly leaves room for the other. — Robert A. Heinlein
Man is jealous because of his amour propre woman is jealous because of her lack of it. — Germaine Greer
A man will do many things to get himself loved. He will do all things to get himself envied. — Mark Twain
All jealousy must be strangled in its birth, or time will soon make it strong enough to overcome the truth. — Davenant
Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul. — John Dryden
What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels. — Saint Augustine
There is never jealousy where there is not strong regard. — Washington Irving
Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo. — H. G. Wells
Jealousy blinds the stricken heart, and without examining, believes everything it fears. — Pierre Corneille
A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity. — Robert A. Heinlein
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
The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time. — Johann Kaspar Lavater
It is my nature’s plague / To spy into abuses, and oft my jealousy / Shapes faults that are not. — (Iago), William Shakespeare, Othello
The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike. — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
There is no greater glory than love, nor any greater punishment than jealousy. — Felix Lope de Vega
No jealousy their dawn of love overcast, nor blasted were their wedded days with strife each season looked delightful as it passed, to the fond husband and the faithful wife. — James Beattie
You can be the moon and still be jealous of the stars. — Gary Allan
I do not say anything from jealousy. — Anna Held
It is not love that is blind, but jealousy. — Lawrence Durrell
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 Lynch
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
Love may be blind but jealousy has 20-20 vision. — Anonymous
Of all the passions, jealousy is that which exacts the hardest service, and pays the bitterest wages. Its service is – to watch the success of our enemy; its wages – to be sure of it. — Charles Caleb Colton
Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run. — George Bernard Shaw
But I like not these great success of yours for I know how jealous are the gods. — Herodotus
Jealousy is fueled by powerful, blinding masochism, in which the offended person revels in his or her victimization… The masochist searches for evidence that will inflict more pain and takes delight in increasingly abhorrent discoveries. Jealousy demonstrates the joy of suffering and the allure of pain. — Thomas Moore
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
Jealousy is not a barometer by which the depth of love can be read, it merely records the degree of the lover’s insecurity. — Margaret Mead
Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined. — Patrick Henry
Jealousy is a terrible thing. It resembles love, only it is precisely love’s contrary. Instead of wishing for the welfare of the object loved, it desires the dependence of that object upon itself, and its own triumph. — Henri-Frédéric Amiel
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What sort of love is permeated by jealousy? You are jealous because you are unaware that everything you need is inside you. — Peter Deunov
There will be no common faith between those who share in power, and each man will be jealous of his associate. — Lucan
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 neighbor to have them through envy. — Aristotle
Those who enjoy their own emotionally bad health and who habitually fill their own minds with the rank poisons of suspicion, jealousy, and hatred, as a rule, take umbrage at those who refuse to do likewise, and they find a perverted relief in trying to denigrate them. — Johannes Brahms
Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves. — Joseph Addison
Jealousy is said to be the offspring of love; yet unless the parent makes haste to strangle the child, the child will not rest till it has poisoned the parent. — Hare
The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves. — William Penn
It is remarkable that jealousy of individual property in land often goes along with very exaggerated doctrines of tribal or national property in land. — William Graham Sumner
Jealousy is a dog’s bark which attracts thieves. — Karl Kraus
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had. — Erica Jong
Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits. — Paul Eldridge
I do a lot of sexy publicity, but I have yet to have any bad experiences regarding jealousy. — Brooke Burke
Jealousy is the tie that binds, and binds, and binds. — Helen Rowland
Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Jealousy is a kind of civil war in the soul, where judgment and imagination are at perpetual jars. This civil dissension in the mind, like that of the body politic, commits great disorders, and lays all waste. Nothing stands safe in its way; Nature, interest, religion, must yield to its fury. It violates contracts, dissolves society, breaks wedlock, betrays friends and neighbours. No body is good, and every one is either doing or designing them a mischief. It has a venom that more or less rankles wherever it bites: And as it reports fancies or facts, so it disturbs its own house as often as other folks. — William Penn
Hunger, revenge, to sleep are petty foes, But only death the jealous eyes can close. — William Wycherley
The worst part of success is trying to find someone who is happy for you. — Bette Midler
Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive. — Havelock Ellis
A jealous ear hears all things. — Wisdom of Solomon
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
People can do all kinds of things that maybe aren’t wise in hindsight because of jealousy. — Kristin Bauer van Straten
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Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive. — Havelock Ellis
The surest route to breeding jealousy is to compare. Since jealousy comes from feeling less than another, comparisons only fan the fires. — Dorothy Corkville Briggs
I don’t watch that much comedy. I think it’s professional jealousy. That and a lack of support for my community. — Michael Ian Black
From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me. — Ludovico Ariosto
Jealousy – that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion. — Emile M. Cioran
A little jealousy arouses a happy love that is asleep. — Antoinette Deshoulieres
Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul. — John Dryden
Jealousy is nothing but the foolish child of pride. — Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais
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