“Jealous, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping.”
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.
“That is ever the way. 'Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse.”
“Jealous, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent.”
“Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.”
“He that is jealous is not in love.”
“Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.”
“Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.”
“But I like not these great success of yours for I know how jealous are the gods.”
“The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.”
“Jealousy is the tie that binds, and binds, and binds.”
“A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.”
“Jealousy... is a mental cancer.”
“That is ever the way. 'Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse.”
“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.”