Jealousy quotes
310 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too."
"Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality."
"what are you looking for? There is no Truth. There's only action, action obeying a million different impulses, ephemeral action, action subjected to every possible and imaginable contingency and contradiction, Life. Life is crime, theft, jealousy, hunger, lies, disgust,stupidity, sickness, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, piles of corpses. what can you do about it, my poor friend?"
"Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours."
"Don't you complicate your mind Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy."
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"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."
"Isn't it kind of silly to think that tearing someone else down builds you up?"
"The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents."
"A jealous husband doesnt doubt his wife, but himself."
"To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self."
"Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always so occupied with being jealous of other women's husbands."
"To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter."
"It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered."
"So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt."
"The desire to create continually is vulgar and betrays jealousy, envy, ambition. If one is something one really does not need to make anything --and one nonetheless does very much. There exists above the ''productive'' man a yet higher species."
"Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent."
"A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity."
"Jealousy is just love and hate at the same time."
"Jealousy is indeed a poor medium to secure love, but it is a secure medium to destroy one's self-respect. For jealous people, like dope-fiends, stoop to the lowest level and in the end inspire only disgust and loathing."
"Time is jealous of you, and wars against your lilies and your roses."
"If someone is being unkind or petty or jealous or distant or weird, you don't have to take it in. You don't have to turn it into a big psychodrama about your worth. That behavior so often is not even about you. Don't own other people's crap."
"Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that."
"Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy."
"The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause."
"Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy."
