“He that is jealous is not in love.”
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.
“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.”
“He that is jealous is not in love.”
“Don't waste time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind.”
“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.”
“Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.”
“Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.”
“It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it.”
“Like hatred, jealousy is forbidden by the laws of life because it is essentially destructive.”
“I have experienced jealousy, possessiveness, verbal abuse and violence from men, but I have also experienced jealousy, possessiveness, verbal abuse and violence from women, usually when I failed to respond to their advances.”
“Jealousy... is a mental cancer.”
“There is something mean in human nature that prefers to think evil, that gives a willing ear and a ready welcome to calumny, a sort of jealousy of goodness and greatness and things of good report.”
“Jealous, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping.”
“Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.”
“Jealousy is a dog's bark which attracts thieves.”
“Jealousy is the tie that binds, and binds, and binds.”
“That's the way I got along in life. I don't ever remember being particularly jealous of anybody, because I figured if I can't do it myself, I don't deserve to get it.”