“A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.”
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 grave of affection.”
“A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.”
“Jealousy... is a mental cancer.”
“The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.”
“Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.”
“The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.”
“He that is jealous is not in love.”
“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.”
“Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.”
“It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.”
“Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.”
“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.”
“Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.”
“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.”
“Man is jealous because of his amour propre woman is jealous because of her lack of it.”
“It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it.”