J Quotes
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“Jealousy is the fear of losing the thing you love most. It's very normal. Suspicion is the thing that's abnormal.”
“Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.”
Source: Essays on Men and Manners
“Jealousy is the feeling of self-destruction, its work is to take you up on the sky and throw you on the ground, breaking you in the pieces that you don't accept, and see.”
“Jealousy is the fire of envy that seeks to destroy another's beauty, rather than to create its own.”
“Jealousy is the fire that destroys only its owner.”
“Jealousy is the forerunner of love, and often its awakener.”
“Jealousy is the fuel of relationships and marriage. At the same time, envy kills affection in love.”
“Jealousy is the grave of affection.”
Source: Science And Health
“Jealousy is the greatest of all evils, and the one that arouses the least pity in the person who causes it.”
“Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.”
Source: The Poems of John Dryden
“Jealousy is the lifelong noose hanging about the neck of love.”
“Jealousy is the loss of joy.”
“Jealousy is the most absurd pain of all. How one resents it! To be made to suffer in public–the public indignity, the private pain. The shock of it lays dreadful waste in one’s soul; it discolors the whole world, cancels every remembrance of tenderness.”
Source: A Game of Hide and Seek
“Jealousy is the most dreadfully involuntary of all sins.”
Source: The Black Prince
“Jealousy is the most radical primeval and naked form of admiration in war paint, so to speak.”
Source: Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes: And, The Amateur Emigrant
“Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure”
“Jealousy is the paralysis of love.”
“Jealousy is the result of one's lack of self-confidence, self-worth, and self-acceptance.”
“Jealousy is the spike in my heart rate when I glimpse news of Athena's success on Twitter - another book contract, awards nominations, foreign rights deals. Jealousy is constantly comparing myself to her and coming up short, is panicking that I'm not writing well enough or fast enough, that I am not, and never will be, enough”
Source: Yellowface
“Jealousy is the suspicion of one's own inferiority.”
Source: Purple & Fine Linen: By Emily Post
“Jealousy is the symptom of a hollow heart.”
“Jealousy is the theory that some other fellow has just as little taste.”
“Jealousy is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.”
“Jealousy is the ugliest stepsister. Like Cinderella's ugly stepsisters whose jealousy of Cinderella caused their family's demise, a woman who is jealous of the success of their sister, sister-in-law or friend is showing their ugly insecure, low-self-esteem side. Get over it, get a makeover, and focus on developing yourself so you're happy with who you are rather than who they are. - Strong by Kailin Gow”
“Jealousy is the very reverse of understanding, of sympathy, and of generous feeling. Never has jealousy added to character, never does it make the individual big and fine.”
Source: Anarchy and the Sex Question: Essays on Women and Emancipation, 1896–1926
“Jealousy is the worst trait in any person.”
“Jealousy is theif of joy.”
“Jealousy is when their reflection in the mirror that is your progress, is attacked rather than appreciated, begrudged rather than understood.”
Source: 500 Relationships And Life Quotes: Bite-Sized Advice For Busy People
“Jealousy is when you want something that you can’t have, something that doesn't belong to you. Being protective is defending what’s yours.” He leaned in, his hand closing around my jaw as his nose skimmed up to mine. “And you better believe that I’ll be protecting what’s mine.”
Source: Undeniably Chosen
“Jealousy is, I think, the worst of all faults because it makes a victim of both parties.”
Source: Self-portrait
“Jealousy isn't a pleasant quality, but if it isn't overdone (and if it's combined with modesty), apart from its inconvenience there's even something touching about it.”
Source: Laughable Loves
“Jealousy isn't something we deal with well, but some of us have been around long enough to know when to let go, and what is most important. The happiness of my two best friends should be more important than some ancient feud.”
“Jealousy. It’s an ugly word. It has a bad reputation. But in the end, it’s an instinctive feeling. It’s not something we choose to feel any more than anger or pain. It is how we react to it that is the key.”
“Jealousy knows more than truth does.”
“Jealousy knows neither morality nor empathy.”
Source: The Orphan Sky
“Jealousy knows no logic, nor does it respect reciprocity.”
Source: Eisenhower in War and Peace
“Jealousy leads to a lack of joy.”
“Jealousy, lie, and above on the fool tricks, such people are within themselves a foolish.”
“Jealousy likes photos, that's why instagram is such a hit.”
“Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.”
“Jealousy looks like love but it is actually police trying to capture a prisoner on the run”
Source: The Great Pearl of Wisdom
“Jealousy makes people act dumb sometimes”
Source: The Little Guy (or The Motor Scooter): The story of a diminutive soldier in the rear with the gear
“Jealousy means ego, jealousy means unconsciousness. Jealousy means that you have not known even a moment of joy and bliss; you are living in misery. Jealousy is a by-product of misery, ego, unconsciousness.”
“Jealousy means the silent collapse of oneself.”
“Jealousy-my mother told me it was a monster that left no joy in its wake. I never understood it as well as I did in the year before I met her.”
Source: Bold
“Jealousy of another means you need to work on making you proud of yourself.”
Source: 500 Relationships And Life Quotes: Bite-Sized Advice For Busy People
“Jealousy of other people's success is a sure sign that you feel unfulfilled in your own life. Seeing them enjoy the fruits of their labors is a painful reminder that you do not have what you want nor have you been actively seeking it.”
“Jealousy often turns people into irresponsible storytellers.”
“Jealousy ought to be tragic, to save it from being ridiculous.”
Source: Romance and Reality
“Jealousy results from lack of respect towards self.”