Jealousy Quotes

52. That’s the way I got along in life. I don’t ever remember being particularly jealous of anybody, because I figured if I can’t do it myself, I don’t deserve to get it.

^{Clyde Tombaugh}

53. The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.

^{Sidonie Gabrielle Colette}

54. I would rather drudge out my life on a cotton plantation, till the grave opened to give me rest, than to live with an unprincipled master and a jealous mistress.

^{Harriet Ann Jacobs}

55. A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.

^{Robert A. Heinlein}

56. I’m not really easy to live with! There needs to be unlimited patience and unconditional love. Men I’ve known before loved my independent spirit and were proud of my success, to the point that they’d become jealous of the time I devote to my career.

^{Milla Jovovich}

57. I am drawn to women who are independent and creative, which is problematic because it’s a struggle, a competition of careers. There’s jealousy.

^{Marilyn Manson}

58. Jealousy – that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion.

^{Emil Cioran}

59. 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.

^{Robert A. Heinlein}

60. Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.

^{George Orwell}

61. Red is such an interesting color to correlate with emotion, because it’s on both ends of the spectrum. On one end you have happiness, falling in love, infatuation with someone, passion, all that. On the other end, you’ve got obsession, jealousy, danger, fear, anger and frustration.

^{Taylor Swift}

62. Jealousy is just love and hate at the same time.

^Drake

63. Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness, of hatred, of jealousy, and, most easily of all, the gate of fear.

^{Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.}

64. The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.

^{Salvador Dali}

65. Dogs are our link to paradise. They don’t know evil or jealousy or discontent.

^{Milan Kundera}

66. I think that the Bible teaches that homosexuality is a sin, but the Bible also teaches that pride is a sin, jealousy is a sin, and hate is a sin, evil thoughts are a sin. So I don’t think that homosexuality should be chosen as the overwhelming sin that we are doing today.

^{Billy Graham}

67. There’s a constant tension between the excitement of new people and security with one person. If you go with excitement, you create chaos; you hurt people. There’s jealousy, and it gets very messy. If you have security, it can be boring, and you die inside because of all the opportunities missed.

^{Alain de Botton}

68. It’s amazing the clarity that comes with psychotic jealousy.

^{Rupert Everett}

69. I’m an imperfect person. I’ve let anger, jealousy, all the emotions, get the best of me. If I go into books, word by word, little by little, they help re-center and re-ground me and put me on the right path. Life is a journey. I’m very focused on the things I do and have learned not to be pressured.

^{Keith Thurman}

70. I don’t think that you can fake warmth. You can fake lust, jealousy, anger; those are all quite easy. But actual, genuine warmth? I don’t think you can fake it.

^{Keira Knightley}

71. Envy and jealousy are incurable diseases.

^{Robert Kraft}

72. I don’t get jealousy, I don’t get how people hate each other – I never did.

^Nas

73. Human mind has way too many shades. It would be so boring if this world was all sugar and gloss, just happy, colourful lives. People singing songs is not always the reality. Just like happiness and love, people also feel wrath, jealousy and vengeance!

^{Shweta Basu Prasad}

74. In westerns, you meet a hardy bunch of characters. There is no jealousy on such pictures.

^{John Wayne}

75. I don’t want anything negative in my life, like hate, comparison, competition, and jealousy. I think these things are very heavy and take away from you the way of enjoying life.

^{Vivek Oberoi}

76. Money brings jealousy and bitterness.

^{Phil Taylor}

77. Governments are composed of human beings, and all of the frailties that humans possess are absorbed into these governments and become active within these governments. Hatred, anger, jealousy, fear, greed, distrust and the whole host of afflictions that humans must bear, lurk just beneath the surface of civility displayed by ‘government.’

^{John McAfee}

78. Jealousy is a hell of a thing. There’s a reason it’s one of the deadly sins.

^{Chael Sonnen}

79. Sure, I can get a little bit jealous. The good part about jealousy is that it comes from passion. It’s also the dangerous part and it’s an ugly emotion that hurts.

^{Matthew McConaughey}

80. You have to be sincere in your feelings. And fear is one of those, sometimes; doubt is one of those; jealousy, anger – all your emotions are not going to be considered the strong emotions; all of them are not going to be love, happiness, joy.

^Common

81. I like jealous men. I love jealousy. I do.

^{Adriana Lima}

82. People don’t do theology in a vacuum but in a community with other theological thinkers, where there’s jealousy, vanity, hurt pride, all those things.

^{Frederica Mathewes-Green}

83. It would be impossible to estimate how much time and energy we invest in trying to fix, change and deny our emotions – especially the ones that shake us at our very core, like hurt, jealousy,loneliness, shame, rage and grief.

^{Debbie Ford}

84. Drama can be an addiction. It’s so, so sneaky. Jealousy – all of those things can really send you in a lot of different crazy directions.

^{Christian Slater}

85. That is ever the way. ‘Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse.

^{James M. Barrie}

86. ‘Game of Thrones,’ people say that it’s a fantasy series, but it’s a hell of a lot more than that. It attracts the so-called geeks and nerds, and God bless them, they’re wonderful for getting right into the show. But primarily it’s about family; it’s power and betrayal and jealousy. It’s all those wonderful things that a fantastic drama is about.

^{Liam Cunningham}

87. I do a lot of sexy publicity, but I have yet to have any bad experiences regarding jealousy.

^{Brooke Burke}

88. Lovers may be – and indeed generally are – enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

^{Lord Byron}

89. Jealousy is the worst trait in any person.

^{Adam DeVine}

90. A person’s current personality of love, hatred, jealousy, rage or a murderous intent and so on is formed upon genetic elements, education, the environment and a family a person grows in.

^{Kim Ki-duk}

91. There’s really not much friendship between the girls on tour. There’s so much rivalry and jealousy, so everyone just hangs out in their own camp. In the locker room and players’ lounge, you can feel the jealousy.

^{Ana Ivanovic}

92. I think that there’s more jealousy in sports than racism, really. I think racism exists in the works, but when I faced racism in hockey, a lot of times from jealousy, because when I was young, I was always one of the better players. And I think a lot of people were threatened by that.

^{P.K. Subban}

93. There’s so much jealousy in our business. They don’t like anything new or different. They don’t like change.

^{Bob Baffert}

94. Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.

^{George Eliot}

95. Obviously, in dealing with a relationship, sexuality has to be involved, and jealousy and emotions like that. And I don’t know, I’ve always been intrigued by those emotions.

^{Adrian Lyne}

96. I’m getting used to this as a coach because it’s a little jealousy from a lot of these coaches around the country. I do understand that, because we are NBA players trying to come back, and we didn’t have any experience as college coaches. So we didn’t, quote, unquote, ‘Pay our dues.’

^{Penny Hardaway}

97. ‘Carl Sagan: A Life,’ though a riveting tale, tells as much about the all-too-human feelings of jealousy and resentment as it does about the individual who inspired them.

^{Carolyn Porco}

98. I want my music to be accessible to every listener because I know that I really have something to say in terms of really, you know, removing thorns from people, thorns that really makes us unaware that we are bleeding with these thorns, like pain, grief, jealousy and so on.

^{Vusi Mahlasela}

99. I grew up watching ‘Taker, and he used to scare me as a kid, so I think it would only add to the excitement to be in a casket match with a guy like that. There’s definitely some jealousy.

^{Baron Corbin}

100. Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.

^{Francois de La Rochefoucauld}

101. What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

^{Saint Augustine}

102. Part of the reason people abroad resent the United States is something Americans can do very little about: envy. The richest, most powerful country in the world attracts the jealousy of othersin much the same way that the richest, most powerful man in a small town attracts the jealousy of others.

^{Mohsin Hamid}

103. Discord or jealousy inhibits the ability of the Holy Ghost to teach us and inhibits our ability to receive light and truth. And the feelings of disappointment that invariably follow are the seeds of greater discord and faultfinding among those who expected a learning experience that did not come.

^{Henry B. Eyring}