Jealousy Quotes
Jealousy is a mirror reflecting our deepest insecurities and unspoken desires. It whispers comparisons, fuels resentment, and yet holds the raw potential for profound self-awareness. This collection of quotes about jealousy cuts through the green-eyed fog, offering wisdom on transforming envy into clarity. Whether you are wrestling with romantic doubt, professional rivalry, or the quiet ache of wanting what others have, these words illuminate the path from bitterness to understanding. Let the voices of poets, philosophers, and sages guide you through this complex emotion, revealing how jealousy can become a teacher rather than a tormentor. Discover the liberating truth hidden within its sharp edges.
Jealousy Quotes (59)
"Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don't complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!"
— Bob Marley"The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves."
— William Penn"Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that."
— Oliver Stone"You can be the moon and still be jealous of the stars."
— Gary Allan"Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius."
— Fulton J. Sheen"I think it's important to get your surroundings as well as yourself into a positive state - meaning surround yourself with positive people, not the kind who are negative and jealous of everything you do."
— Heidi Klum"As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion."
— Antisthenes"There is no greater glory than love, nor any greater punishment than jealousy."
— Lope De Vega"Jealousy is the fear of comparison."
— Max Frisch"Jealousy... is a mental cancer."
— B. C. Forbes"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"A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy."
— Jean Baudrillard"My wife's jealousy is getting ridiculous. The other day she looked at my calendar and wanted to know who May was."
— Rodney Dangerfield"The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time."
— Johann Kaspar Lavater"Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious."
— Baruch Spinoza"He that is jealous is not in love."
— Saint Augustine"More men die of jealousy than of cancer."
— Joseph P. Kennedy"There is never jealousy where there is not strong regard."
— Washington Irving"Don't waste time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind."
— Mary Schmich"Jealousy is a dog's bark which attracts thieves."
— Karl Kraus"Jealousy is all the fun you think they had."
— Erica Jong"The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause."
— Baltasar Gracian"Jealousy is the grave of affection."
— Mary Baker Eddy"To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter."
— Francoise Sagan"Those who enjoy their own emotionally bad health and who habitually fill their own minds with the rank poisons of suspicion, jealousy and hatred, as a rule take umbrage at those who refuse to do likewise, and they find a perverted relief in trying to denigrate them."
— Johannes Brahms"Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo."
— H. G. Wells"Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul."
— John Dryden"Jealousy is, I think, the worst of all faults because it makes a victim of both parties."
— Gene Tierney"It is not love that is blind, but jealousy."
— Lawrence Durrell"Jealousy is the tie that binds, and binds, and binds."
— Helen Rowland