Jealousy Quotes - Page 3

Time is jealous of you, and wars against your lilies and your roses.

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.

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

Welcome to the wonderful world of jealousy, he thought. For the price of admission, you get a splitting headache, a nearly irresistable urge to commit murder, and an inferiority complex. Yippee.

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.

Jealousy is the result of one's lack of self-confidence, self-worth, and self-acceptance.

What sort of love is permeated by jealousy? You are jealous because you are unaware that everything you need is inside you.

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.

Love can make a great celebration out of your life - but only love, not lust, not ego, not possessiveness, not jealousy, not dependence.

Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.

Jealousy comes from self-love rather than from true love.

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.

Jealousy is the fear of comparison.

Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

O, beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-ey'd monster, which doth mock The meat it feeds on.

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

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.

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

The others were only my wives. But you, my dear, will be my widow.

It's amazing the clarity that comes with psychotic jealousy.

What does jealousy indicate? Jealousy is love manifested in the physical world. If you are jealous you have a debt to pay; if someone is jealous of you, he has a debt to pay to you.

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

There's no regret. You can't regret. I mean, I've felt regret but I've also refused to allow regret to sow a seed and live in me because I don't believe it. You feel it, it's like guilt, it's like jealousy, it's like all those horrible things. You've just got to snip them and get them out, because they're no good.