“What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.”
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.”
“What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.”
“But I like not these great success of yours for I know how jealous are the gods.”
“Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.”
“It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.”
“Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don't complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!”
“When I see a good singer, I get teary-eyed. Part of it is jealousy because all comedians are frustrated rock stars. That's a fact.”
“Don't waste time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind.”
“The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.”
“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 is the grave of affection.”
“Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.”
“Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.”
“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.”
“Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.”
“My wife's jealousy is getting ridiculous. The other day she looked at my calendar and wanted to know who May was.”