Jealousy Quotes - Page 7

Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves.

A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.

Jealousy is the most dreadfully involuntary of all sins.

Jealousy is not love, but self-love.

Jealousy is indeed a poor medium to secure love, but it is a secure medium to destroy one

Nature is at work. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow.

Although we are all the same in not wanting problems and wanting a peaceful life, we tend to create a lot of problems for ourselves. Encountering those problems, anger develops and overwhelms our mind, which leads to violence. A good way to counter this and to work for a more peaceful world is to develop concern for others. Then our anger, jealousy and other destructive emotions will naturally weaken and diminish.

Mentally, physically and emotionally we are the same. We each have the potential to good and bad and to be overcome by disturbing emotions such as anger, fear, hatred, suspicion and greed. These emotions can be the cause of many problems. On the other hand if you cultivate loving kindness, compassion and concern for others, there will be no room for anger, hatred and jealousy.

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.

Like hatred, jealousy is forbidden by the laws of life because it is essentially destructive.

I had rather be a toad, and live upon the vapor of a dungeon than keep a corner in the thing I love for others uses.

Drop envy and jealousy, otherwise there is no possibility - because love cannot exist where envy and jealousies exist. Then your search is only for a certain type of power: that in the name of love you are just trying to fulfill the ego. And it is arduous to drop, because love exists only when all the negative elements of the mind are dropped. It is very arduous.

Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits.

Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure

The Green-eyed Monster causes much woe, but the absence of this ugly serpent argues the presence of a corpse whose name is Eros.

Jealousy is one of love's parasites.

The jealous man's disease is of so malignant a nature, that it converts all it takes into its own nourishment.

Don't hold grudges; it's pointless. Jealousy too is a non-cathartic, negative emotion. .

He who is jealous, is never jealous of what you see, with what is imagined is enough.

Jealousy is love bed of burning snarl.

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.

Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.

O jealousy! thou magnifier of trifles.

The truest mark of being born with great qualities is to be born without envy.

Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.