“There is never jealousy where there is not strong regard.”
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.
“Don't waste time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind.”
“There is never jealousy where there is not strong regard.”
“The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.”
“Like hatred, jealousy is forbidden by the laws of life because it is essentially destructive.”
“He that is jealous is not in love.”
“Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.”
“Religion can make it worse. Are you supposing that if people were encouraged to believe in a transcendent reality, and to be encouraged by grand rituals and music and preaching, to love their neighbors, then they would put jealousy and frustration aside?”
“Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And, what is more, they find it everywhere.”
“Man is jealous because of his amour propre woman is jealous because of her lack of it.”
“The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.”
“Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.”
“What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.”
“Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent.”
“Jealousy is a dog's bark which attracts thieves.”
“Jealousy is the tie that binds, and binds, and binds.”
“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.”