“But I like not these great success of yours for I know how jealous are the gods.”
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.
“There is never jealousy where there is not strong regard.”
“But I like not these great success of yours for I know how jealous are the gods.”
“Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.”
“My wife's jealousy is getting ridiculous. The other day she looked at my calendar and wanted to know who May was.”
“Jealousy... is a mental cancer.”
“The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent.”
“Don't waste time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind.”
“Jealousy is the tie that binds, and binds, and binds.”
“A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.”
“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?”
“Jealousy - that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion.”
“Jealousy is, I think, the worst of all faults because it makes a victim of both parties.”