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In love, Jealousy is the great exaggerator.
Sep 24, 2025
What sort of love is permeated by jealousy? You are jealous because you are unaware that everything you need is inside you.
I like jealous men. I love jealousy. I do.
A jealous man always finds more than he is looking for.
Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
The jealous man's disease is of so malignant a nature, that it converts all it takes into its own nourishment.
Jealousy is indeed a poor medium to secure love, but it is a secure medium to destroy one
Jealousy is just love and hate at the same time.
Love sees sharply, hatred sees even more sharp, but Jealousy sees the sharpest for it is love and hate at the same time.
So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.
To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.
Know that whoever is trying to bring you down, is already below you.
Emotional occasions, especially violent ones, are extremely potent in precipitating mental rearrangements. The sudden and explosive ways in which love, jealousy, guilt, fear, remorse, or anger can seize upon one are known to everybody. . . . And emotions that come in this explosive way seldom leave things as they found them.
Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.
In the past, traditional art was based on making manifest what is enduring in man, like love, jealousy, hatred, envy, and greed... . Today art has to look again at these unchanging qualities, because society is no longer unchanging. It is up to art today to show us what has become of these unchanging qualities in a world which is moving and changing.
Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits.
Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
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.
I love you. And I don't want to lose you.
The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time.
To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self.
A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
Humans are suspicious and jealous creatures. When they see something perfect, they want to find a flaw.
I had rather be a toad, and live upon the vapor of a dungeon than keep a corner in the thing I love for others uses.
It is matrimonial suicide to be jealous when you have a really good reason.
Trifles light as air are to the jealous confirmations strong as proofs of holy writ.
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.
O, beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-ey'd monster, which doth mock The meat it feeds on.
It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.
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.
You can only be jealous of someone who has something you think you ought to have yourself.
Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.
Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.
The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.
You can be the moon and still be jealous of the stars.
Remember, people only rain on your parade because they're jealous of your sun and tired of their shade.
Don't waste time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind.
The heart of the jealous knows the best and most satisfying love, that of the other's bed, where the rival perfects the lover's imperfections.
Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always so occupied with being jealous of other women's husbands.
Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... 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.
Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves.
Whoever wrote Shakespeare is a working class hero be he an aristocrat or a peasant. Shakespeare is a great leveler. We're presented with kings, queens, emperors and giants who feel the same things as everyone else: jealousy, love, anger, bitterness, grief, loss.
The Bobbit case, which brought to life the ancient mythic archetype of woman as castrator, demonstrated that women are as aggressive as men and that sex is a dark, dangerous force of nature. But of course the feminist establishment, stuck in its battered-woman blinders, learned nothing as usual from this lurid refutation of its normal views. Classic art works like Bizet's Carmen tell us more about the irrationality of love, jealousy and revenge than do all the pat formulas of the counseling industry.
It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.
Love may exist without jealousy, although this is rare: but jealousy may exist without love, and this is common; for jealousy can feed on that which is bitter no less than on that which is sweet, and is sustained by pride as often as by affection.
The reason for not going out and sinning all you like is the same as the reason for not going out and putting your nose in a slicing machine: its dumb, stupid, and no fun. Some individual sins may have pleasure still attached to them because of the residual goodness of the realities they are abusing: adultery can indeed be pleasant and tying one on can amuse. But betrayal, jealousy, love grown cold, and the gray dawn of the morning after are nobody's idea of a good time.
Jealousy is the result of one's lack of self-confidence, self-worth, and self-acceptance.
The Green-eyed Monster causes much woe, but the absence of this ugly serpent argues the presence of a corpse whose name is Eros.