Jealousy is a complex emotion that can consist of anger, resentment, inadequacy, helplessness or disgust. Jealousy is a typical experience in human relationships and strikes people of all ages. Inspirational jealousy quotes will encourage growth in life, make you wiser and broaden your perspective.
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Famous Jealousy Quotes
I love people who gossip behind my back. That’s exactly where they belong. Behind my back. Unknown
Jealousy in romance is like salt in food. A little can enhance the savor, but too much can spoil the pleasure and, under certain circumstances, can be life-threatening. Maya Angelou
Jealousy is a disease. Get well soon. Unknown
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 – in fact, they are almost incompatible; one emotion hardly leaves room for the other. Robert A. Heinlein
Jealous people want to see you do good, but never better than them. Unknown
Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive. Havelock Ellis
A flower never thinks of competing with the flower next to it. It just blooms Unknown
The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents. Salvador Dal
The people who know the least about you, always have the most to say. Unknown
Winners focus on winning. Losers focus on winners Unknown
Some people only hate you because of the way other people love you. Unknown
You can only be jealous of someone who has something you think you ought to have yourself. Margaret Atwood
What sort of love is permeated by jealousy? You are jealous because you are unaware that everything you need is inside you. Peter Deunov
The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves. William Penn
People only rain on your parade because they’re jealous of your sun and tired of their shade. Unknown
Inspirational Jealousy Quotes
Jealousy is natural but it isn’t necessary Unknown
Someone else’s success does not rob you of anything. Unknown
I’ve spent most of my life walking under that hovering cloud, jealousy, whose acid raindrops blurred my vision and burned holes in my heart. Once I learned to use the umbrella of confidence, the skies cleared up for me and the sunshine called joy became my faithful companion. Astrid Alauda
Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius. Fulton J. Sheen
To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self Joan Didion
Jealousy-Tormenting yourself, for fear you should be tormented by another. Paul Chatfield
Jealousy has a lot to do with how people see themselves. If you are comparing yourself to someone, stop doing this. You were created to be exactly who you are. Stanley Steel
Jealousy only eats up your beauty. Have faith in yourself. You have something that other’s don’t Unknown
In jealousy there is more self-love than love. François de la Rochefoucauld, Maxims, 1665
Love sees sharply, hatred sees even more sharp, but Jealousy sees the sharpest for it is love and hate at the same time. Arab Proverb
Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run. George Bernard Shaw
Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart. George Eliot
Dismiss personal jealousy and complaints. Learn to have tolerance and patience, both with yourself and with others. Thomas Erikson
Jealousy in romance is like salt in food. A little can enhance the savor, but too much can spoil the pleasure and, under certain circumstances, can be life-threatening. Maya Angelou
Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy. François de la Rochefoucauld
The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause. Baltasar Gracián
Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves. Joseph Addison
Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits. Paul Eldridge
Jealousy is not a barometer by which the depth of love can be read, it merely records the degree of the lover’s insecurity. Margaret Mead
It is never wise to seek or wish for another’s misfortune. If malice or envy were tangible and had a shape, it would be the shape of a boomerang. Charley Reese
Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty. Francois de la Rochefoucauld
Envy, if surrounded on all sides by the brightness of another’s prosperity, like the scorpion confined within a circle of fire, will sting itself to death. Charles Caleb Colton
Envy is the coward side of Hate, and all her ways are bleak and desolate. Henry Abbey
Jealousy is one of the wickedest of all the passions. It is that which has been the most fruitful mother of tragedies, murders, and wars. But reprehensible though it is, jealousy is almost rather to be pitied than blamed–its first victims are those who harbour the feeling. Arthur Lynch
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. Emma Goldman
Deep Jealousy Quotes
Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty. Francois de la Rochefoucauld
Envy is a littleness of soul, which cannot see beyond a certain point, and if it does not occupy the whole space, feels itself excluded. William Hazlitt
Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind. Buddha
It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered. Aeschylus
Surrounded by the flames of jealousy, the jealous one winds up, like the scorpion, turning the poisoned sting against himself. Friedrich Nietzsche
Jealousy is not a barometer by which the depth of love can be read, it merely records the degree of the lover’s insecurity. Margaret Mead
Envy…since it’s lodgement is in the heart, not the brain, no degree of intellect supplies a guarantee against it. Herman Melville
A man will do many things to get himself loved. He will do all things to get himself envied. Mark Twain
Oh! How bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man’s eyes. William Shakespeare
Rust consumes iron and envy consumes itself. Danish Proverb
Envy among other ingredients has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good-fortune. William Hazlitt
Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise. John Gay
Envy is more irreconcilable than hatred. François de la Rochefoucauld
A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity. Robert A. Heinlein
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. Aristotle
The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time. Johann Kaspar Lavater
To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter. F. Sagan
Envy is a symptom of lack of appreciation of our own uniqueness and self worth. Each of us has something to give that no one else has. Unknown
Keep yourselves far from envy; it eateth up and taketh away good actions, like as fire eateth up and burneth wood. Muhammad
Envy is ever joined with the comparing of a man’s self; and where there is no comparison, no envy. Francis Bacon
The envious person grows lean with the fatness of their neighbor. Socrates
Envy is like a fly that passes all the body’s sounder parts, and dwells upon the sores. Arthur Chapman
Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run. George Bernard Shaw
Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul. John Dryden
Comparison is a very foolish attitude, because each person is unique and incomparable. Once this understanding settles in you, jealousy disappears. Osho
More men die of jealousy than of cancer. Joseph P. Kennedy
Love may be blind but jealousy has 20-20 vision. Anonymous
I refused to believe that love could take any other form than mine: I measured love by the extent of my jealousy, and by that standard of course she could not love me at all. Graham Greene
The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause. Baltasar Gracián, translated from Spanish
Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope. Josh Billings
Envy is the art of counting the other fellow’s blessings instead of your own. Harold Coffin
