Jealousy Quotes

Jealousy Quotes

Jealousy… is a mental cancer. B. C. Forbes

Jealousy is the grave of affection. Mary Baker Eddy

Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul. John Dryden

Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius. Fulton J. Sheen

You can be the moon and still be jealous of the stars. Gary Allan

A heart at peace gives life to the body, but envy rots the bones  -Bible/Proverbs 14:30

The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause. Baltasar Gracian

From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me. Ludovico Ariosto

Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love. Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There is no greater glory than love, nor any greater punishment than jealousy. Lope de Vega

As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion. Antisthenes

Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that. Oliver Stone

Hunger, revenge, to sleep are petty foes, But only death the jealous eyes can close. William Wycherley

For where you have envy and selfish ambition, there you find disorder and every evil practice.
Bible/James 3:16

My wife’s jealousy is getting ridiculous. The other day she looked at my calendar and wanted to know who May was. Rodney Dangerfield

A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity. Robert A. Heinlein

Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And, what is more, they find it everywhere. Van Wyck Brooks

I don’t get jealous of people. Jealousy is such a waste of time because you’re jealous of them, and they go about their lives and have a wonderful time, so what’s the point? Joy Behar

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! Bob Marley

Why do we feel jealousy? Therapists often regard the demon as a scar of childhood trauma or a symptom of a psychological problem. And it’s true that people who feel inadequate, insecure, or overly dependent tend to be more jealous than others. Helen Fisher

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. Robert A. Heinlein

Red is such an interesting color to correlate with emotion, because it’s on both ends of the spectrum. On one end you have happiness, falling in love, infatuation with someone, passion, all that. On the other end, you’ve got obsession, jealousy, danger, fear, anger and frustration. Taylor Swift

Governments are composed of human beings, and all of the frailties that humans possess are absorbed into these governments and become active within these governments. Hatred, anger, jealousy, fear, greed, distrust and the whole host of afflictions that humans must bear, lurk just beneath the surface of civility displayed by ‘government.’ John McAfee

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