JEALOUSY QUOTES III

quotations about jealousy

Jealousy is a secret avowal we make of our own inferiority.

JOHN XERES

attributed, Day's Collacon


Jealousy, the jaundice of the soul.

JOHN DRYDEN

The Hind and the Panther

Tags: John Dryden


It is said that jealousy is love, but I deny it; for though jealousy be procured by love, as ashes are by fire, yet jealousy extinguishes love as ashes smother the flame.

MARGARET OF NAVARRE

attributed, Day's Collacon


Men are jealous of every woman, even when they don't have the slightest interest in her themselves.

JAN NERUDA

Prague Tales


You are jealous because you are unaware that everything you need is inside you.

PETER DEUNOV

Love Is All Forgiving: Reflections on Love and Spirituality


If I shall be condemn'd
Upon surmises, all proofs sleeping else
But what your jealousies awake, I tell you,
'Tis rigour, and not law.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

The Winter's Tale

Tags: William Shakespeare


Jealousy seldom punishes with the severity it suffers.

NORMAN MACDONALD

Maxims and Moral Reflections

Tags: Norman MacDonald


I'd rather be with someone who's a little jealous than someone who's never jealous. There's something a little dead fish about them.

SCARLETT JOHANSSON

"Scarlett Johansson Is 2013's Sexiest Woman Alive", Esquire, November 2013

Tags: Scarlett Johansson


Love, as it is divine with loyalty, so is it hellish with jealousy.

RICHARD WALL

attributed, Day's Collacon


O jealousy,
Thou ugliest fiend of hell! thy deadly venom
Preys on my vitals, turns the healthful hue
Of my fresh cheek to haggard sallowness,
And drinks my spirit up!

HANNAH MORE

David and Goliath


Jealousy is a pain which eagerly seeks what causes pain.

LODOVICO ARIOSTO

attributed, Day's Collacon


The jealous man is not able, nor does he have the will, to imagine the opposite of what he fears, indeed he cannot feel joy except in the magnification of his own sorrow, and by suffering through the magnified enjoyment from which he knows he is banned. The pleasures of love are pains that become desirable, where sweetness and torment blend, and so love is voluntary insanity, infernal paradise, and celestial hell -- in short, harmony of opposite yearnings, sorrowful laughter, soft diamond.

UMBERTO ECO

The Island of the Day Before

Tags: Umberto Eco


You can only be jealous of someone who has something you think you ought to have yourself.

MARGARET ATWOOD

The Handmaid's Tale

Tags: Margaret Atwood


A jealous man sleeps dog sleep.

THOMAS OVERBURY

The Miscellaneous Works in Verse and Prose of Sir Thomas Overbury


Most haters are stuck in a poisonous mental prison of jealousy and self-doubt that blinds them to their own potentiality.

STEVE MARABOLI

Unapologetically You


Surrounded by the flames of jealousy, the jealous one winds up, like the scorpion, turning the poisoned sting against himself.

FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE

Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Tags: Friedrich Nietzsche


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

lecture, "Jealousy: Causes and a Possible Cure,", Red Emma Speaks, c. 1912

Tags: Emma Goldman


Love expels jealousy.

THALES

attributed, Day's Collacon

Tags: Thales


Jealousy is a heavy and grievous enemy to the holy estate of matrimony.

ST. ANSELM

attributed, Day's Collacon


The thing with jealousy is that we often confuse it with care. How many times were you dismissed by friends and family when you expressed concern over a jealous partner? "It just means that he cares" or "she is doing it because she cannot bear to be away" or, worse still, "this is his/her way of showing love" -- there is always something to justify this unhealthy behavior. But, guess what, jealousy is always toxic!

AINEE NIZAMI

"5 Times Jealousy Is NOT Romantic", iDiva, February 2, 2018