“Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent.”
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.
“Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.”
“Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent.”
“But I like not these great success of yours for I know how jealous are the gods.”
“I am drawn to women who are independent and creative, which is problematic because it's a struggle, a competition of careers. There's jealousy.”
“There is never jealousy where there is not strong regard.”
“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.”
“It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it.”
“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.”
“Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.”
“The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.”
“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.”
“Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.”
“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 - that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion.”
“Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.”