J Quotes
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“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 bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.”
“Jealousy is but a manifestation of artha’s corruptive influence on man which in due course became the insurmountable hurdle for him on the path of moksha. It is in man’s power to curtail it to manage his passage to moksha. One needs only to understand the physics of jealousy to appreciate the chemistry of its affects on human nature.”
Source: Jewel-less Crown: Saga of Life
“Jealousy is comparison. And we have been taught to compare, we have been conditioned to compare, always compare. Somebody else has a better house, somebody else has a more beautiful body, somebody else has more money, somebody else has a more charismatic personality. Compare, go on comparing yourself with everybody else you pass by, and great jealousy will be the outcome; it is the by-product of the conditioning for comparison.”
“jealousy is conceived only in insecurity and must be nourished in fear.”
Source: The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou
“Jealousy is cruel as a tomb, its embers are embers of fire.”
“Jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame. [Therefore do not compare your lot with another's lest you see their advantages and lose the joy of what you already have.]”
“Jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire.”
“Jealousy is in a manner just and reasonable, as it tends to preserve a good which belongs, or which we believe belongs to us, on the other hand envy is a fury which cannot endure the happiness of others.”
“Jealousy is in some measure just and reasonable, since it merely aims at keeping something that belongs to us or we think belongsto us, whereas envy is a frenzy that cannot bear anything that belongs to others.”
“Jealousy is inconsolable because it cannot know the beloved”
“Jealousy is indeed a poor medium to secure love, but it is a secure medium to destroy one”
Source: Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader
“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.”
Source: Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader
“jealousy is indeed the shadow of love.”
Source: Romantic Jealousy: Causes, Symptoms, Cures
“Jealousy is insecurity wrapped up in self-loathing, because deep down, you think you’re not good enough.”
Source: Ruthless Knight
“Jealousy is just love and hate at the same time.”
“Jealousy is like a cactus its respond and reaction is thorny”
“Jealousy is like a hot pepper. Use it mildly, and you add spice to the relationship. Use too much of it and it can burn.”
Source: Romantic Jealousy: Causes, Symptoms, Cures
“Jealousy is like a raging toothache. One cannot do anything when one is jealous, not even sit down. Once can only come and go. Back and forth.”
Source: Farewell Waltz
“Jealousy is like wood ants, it will nibble away, until there's nothing left.”
“Jealousy is love bed of burning snarl.”
“Jealousy is love in competition.”
Source: My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
“Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.”
Source: The Mill on the Floss: Top Novelist Focus
“Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.”
“Jealousy is not a barometer by which the depth of love can be read. It merely records the degree of the lover's insecurity.”
Source: Studying Contemporary Western Society: Method and Theory
“Jealousy is not a nice feeling, I hate feeling jealous. But if you can admit it and laugh at yourself, then that's a good way of dealing with your feelings.”
“Jealousy is not at all low, but it catches us humbled and bowed down, at first sight.”
“Jealousy is not contemptible, real love has a beak and claws.”
Source: The Woman Destroyed
“Jealousy is not love, but self-love.”
“Jealousy is not ones want for another's possessions or looks. Jealousy is ones fear that another is better than them.”
“Jealousy is not so much the love of another as the love of ourselves.”
“Jealousy is not something you can turn off, it’s one of the natural feeling just like love.”
“Jealousy is not the remedy.
It is the illness.”
“Jealousy is nothing but a fear of being abandoned”
Source: The Girl from Everywhere
“Jealousy is nothing more than a fear of abandonment”
“Jealousy is often only an anxious need to be tyrannical applied to matters of love.”
Source: The Captive / The Fugitive
“Jealousy is one of love's parasites.”
“Jealousy is one of the blackest emotions that humans possess: it stems out of weakness and ultimately bears the bitter fruits of wickedness, which quite often end up poisoning the innocent victims, who have never done any harm to the possessor.”
Source: The Web of Karma
“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.”
“Jealousy is perhaps the most involuntary of all strong emotions. It steals consciousness, it lies deeper than thought. It is always there, like a blackness in the eye, it discolours the world.”
Source: The Sea, The Sea
“Jealousy is projected self-pity.”
“Jealousy is such a direct attack on whatever measure of confidence you’ve been able to muster. But if you continue to write, you are probably going to have to deal with it, because some wonderful, dazzling successes are going to happen for some of the most awful, angry, undeserving writers you know-people who are, in other words, not you.”
Source: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
“Jealousy is such a penalty for oneself that applies, without a verdict”
“Jealousy is such an ugly emotion.”
Source: City of Fallen Angels
“Jealousy is sustained as often by pride as by affection.”
“Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves.”
Source: The spectator
“Jealousy is the art of burning yourself inside out.”
“jealousy is the direct result of self-betrayal.”
“Jealousy is the dragon in paradise; the hell of heaven; and the most bitter of the emotions because associated with the sweetest.”
Source: Essays and aphorisms
“Jealousy is the fear of comparison.”