Jealousy is no more than feeling alone among smiling enemies.
Elizabeth Bowen
Though jealousy be produced by love, as ashes are by fire, yet jealousy extinguishes love as ashes smother the flame.
Margaret of Navarre
In jealousy there is more self-love than love.
François Duc de La Rochefoucauld
The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.
William Penn
He that is not jealous is not in love.
St. Augustine
Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.
Fulton J. Sheen
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
Jealousy is the dragon in paradise; the hell of heaven; and the most bitter of the emotions because associated with the sweetest.
A.R. Orage
Jealousy is always born with love, but does not always die with it.
François Duc de La Rochefoucauld
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
It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.
Lawrence Durrell
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 nothing more than a fear of abandonment.
Anonymous
Envy is the art of counting the other fellow’s blessings instead of your own.
Harold Coffin
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
Erica Jong
For the ear of jealousy heareth all things: and the noise of murmurings is not hid.
Bible: Wisdom
A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.
Robert A. Heinlein
The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.
Baltasar Gracian
Jealousy is inconsolable because it cannot know the beloved’s innermost thoughts.
Mason Cooley
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 an awkward homage which inferiority renders to merit.
Mme. de Puixieux
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce
Don’t waste your life on jealousy. Sometimes you’re ahead, sometimes you’re behind. The race is long, and in the end it’s only you with yourself
Anonymous
Jealousy is the effect of guilt of ones own mishaps.
Robert Nellums
There is never jealousy where there is not strong regard.
Washington Irving
Envy is the most stupid of vices, for there is no single advantage to be gained from it.
Honore de Balzac
There is no greater glory than love, nor any greater punishment than jealousy.
Lope de Vega
Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits.
Paul Eldridge
Jealousy is simply and clearly the fear that you do not have value. Jealousy scans for evidence to prove the point – that others will be preferred and rewarded more than you. There is only one alternative – self-value. If you cannot love yourself, you will not believe that you are loved. You will always think it’s a mistake or luck. Take your eyes off others and turn the scanner within. Find the seeds of your jealousy, clear the old voices and experiences. Put all the energy into building your personal and emotional security. Then you will be the one others envy, and you can remember the pain and reach out to them.
Jennifer James
Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.
François de la Rochefoucauld
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’re almost incompatible; one emotion hardly leaves room for the other. Both at once can produce unbearable turmoil…
Robert Heinlein
Jealousy feeds upon suspicion, and it turns into fury or it ends as soon as we pass from suspicion to certainty.
François de la Rochefoucauld
Peace of mind makes the body healthy, but jealousy is like a cancer.
Bible
Jealousy injures us with the dagger of self-doubt.
Leslie Grimutter
The jealous bring down the curse they fear upon their own heads.
Dorothy Dix
Jealousy is the greatest of all evils, and the one which arouses the least pity in the person who causes it.
François de la Rochefoucauld
It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.
Aeschylus
Jealousy is a tiger that tears not only its prey but also its own raging heart.
Anonymous
Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.
François Duc de La Rochefoucauld
Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretense of keeping it alive.
Havelock Ellis
Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
Buddha
When you’re a beautiful person on the inside, there is nothing in the world that can change that about you. Jealousy is the result of one’s lack of self-confidence, self-worth, and self-acceptance. The Lesson: If you can’t accept yourself, then certainly no one else will.
Sasha Azevedo
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
Jealousy is the injured lover’s hell.
John Milton
To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self.
Joan Didion
The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.
Salvador Dali
Jealousy is the fear of comparison.
Max Frisch
Jealousy and love are sisters.
Russian Proverb
Jealousy is a waste of time.
Anonymous
Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.
George Eliot
Jealous people poison their own banquet and then eat it.
Anonymous
Envy slays itself by its own arrows.
Anonymous
Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude.
Aphra Behn
Love may exist without jealousy, although this is rare; but jealousy may exist without love, and this is common.
Anonymous
Love that is fed by jealousy dies hard.
Ovid
Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
Josh Billings
Jealousy is the great exaggerator.
Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller
Jealousy is the most dreadfully involuntary of all sins.
Iris Murdoch
Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
Socrates
Jealousy… is a mental cancer.
B.C. Forbes