“Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.”
Jealousy is the emotion nobody wants to admit to but everybody recognizes. These quotes examine envy, comparison, possessiveness, and the surprisingly useful information that jealousy can reveal about what you actually want.
“Man is jealous because of his amour propre woman is jealous because of her lack of it.”
“Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.”
“A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.”
“The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.”
“That is ever the way. 'Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse.”
“It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.”
“Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.”
“My wife's jealousy is getting ridiculous. The other day she looked at my calendar and wanted to know who May was.”
“Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.”
“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.”
“Jealousy is, I think, the worst of all faults because it makes a victim of both parties.”
“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.”
“Jealousy - that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion.”
“What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.”
“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.”
“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.”