Jealousy Quotes

104. I saw my friends in medical school seeming to be more engaged with the real world. That provoked a sort of jealousy, and I decided to go to medical school after all.

^{Harold E. Varmus}

105. Because racism is not like jealousy or selfishness, it is not a primal urge or a basic instinct, it is a 400-year-old political and economic system that has infected our institutions, our culture and even our thinking.

^{David Olusoga}

106. Jealousy is unavoidable – it’s part of the price we pay for intimacy.

^{Rachel Simmons}

107. I have long believed that there are fundamentally two forces or emotions that drive our decisions – love and fear. Love has its many manifestations: compassion, gratitude, kindness, and joy. Fear often manifests in cynicism, anger, jealousy, and anxiety. I worry that many of our communities are being driven by fear.

^{Vivek Murthy}

108. Jealousy is a scary thing.

^{Laura Dern}

109. People want a story – and my horror films have never been about only ghosts and spirits. They have their share of love, hatred, jealousy and complexity of relationships involved.

^{Vikram Bhatt}

110. If there’s an inkling of abuse, I have to move on. Even jealousy – seems cute it first, but if they’re getting in my head, it’s not right for me. It’s okay to be alone. It’s okay to be single. The right thing will come along.

^{Christina Milian}

111. What we used to say was whoever had the bow tie got to lead the band. There was never any jealousy.

^{Pete Fountain}

112. I could see jealousy coming up, I could see anger, I could see frustration. I could see people’s agendas. I could see my kids going wild – because we never had any money, and suddenly, we had money.

^{Erin Brockovich}

113. I feel like a lot of the female relationships I see on TV or in movies are in some way free of the kind of jealousy and anxiety and posturing that has been such a huge part of my female friendships, which I hope lessens a little bit with age.

^{Lena Dunham}

114. Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits.

^{Paul Eldridge}

115. It is disgusting that ‘Life & Style’ and ‘InTouch’ magazines continue to print these false stories about my life: the status of my marriage, false reports about a miscarriage, the horrible lie that my dad is not my biological father, jealousy over my sisters’ lives, etc.

^{Khloe Kardashian}

116. We are becoming able to see the pursuit of external power for what it is and the futility of trying to escape the pain of powerlessness by changing the world. When we look inward, not outward, we can dismantle the parts of our personalities that have controlled us for so long – such as anger, jealousy, vindictiveness, superiority, inferiority.

^{Gary Zukav}

117. No jealousy their dawn of love overcast, nor blasted were their wedded days with strife; each season looked delightful as it past, to the fond husband and the faithful wife.

^{James Beattie}

118. Fear is sort of like jealousy. It’s an unnecessary emotion.

^{Matt Skiba}

119. Jealousy, greed, fear. We’re all full of these things. But also love and compassion. If you saw a drowning baby, it wouldn’t matter if you were wearing a tuxedo on the way to your own wedding. You’d jump in to save him.

^{John McAfee}

120. I would miss months of school and then return with bright blond hair. Needless to say, there was bullying. I wasn’t beaten up daily, but there was name-calling and jealousy. You have to bear in mind that ‘Harry Potter’ wasn’t cool. I wasn’t part of the ‘Terminator’ franchise.

^{Tom Felton}

121. People can do all kinds of things that maybe aren’t wise in hindsight because of jealousy.

^{Kristin Bauer van Straten}

122. You will not accept credit that is due to another, or harbor jealousy of an explorer who is more fortunate.

^{Abbott L. Lowell}

123. There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.

^{George Eliot}

124. Philosophers see no harm in the Jesuits other than in their effect on humanity and the sciences. The vulgar and especially the prejudiced only hate them from an envy and jealousy born out of conspiracy and intrigue at an organisation which overshadows them.

^{Cesare Beccaria}

125. When I see a good singer, I get teary-eyed. Part of it is jealousy because all comedians are frustrated rock stars. That’s a fact.

^{Jeff Ross}

126. My rule of writing is that no one can do what you can do, so jealousy or competitiveness are pointless. I am always happy when one of my sisters has a book published that I get to read.

^{Hallie Ephron}

127. Jealousy can even be good for love. One partner may feel secretly flattered when the other is mildly jealous. And catching someone flirting with your beloved can spark the kind of lust and romance that reignites a relationship.

^{Helen Fisher}

128. On the same line of reasoning, if Australians were to be Australians, or rather if Australians were as separate from any other nation as Australia from any other land, there would be no jealousy between them on England’s account.

^{Henry Lawson}

129. That’s one of the reasons I moved to Florida. Of course, the main reason is the weather and the training. But there’s more jealousy in Switzerland because it’s so little and they don’t have so many athletes.

^{Martina Hingis}

130. Religion can make it worse. Are you supposing that if people were encouraged to believe in a transcendent reality, and to be encouraged by grand rituals and music and preaching, to love their neighbors, then they would put jealousy and frustration aside?

^{Mary Douglas}

131. See how fortune deludes us, and that which we put carefully into her hands, she either breaks or lets it fall from her hands, or causes it to be removed by the violence of another, or suffocates and poisons, or taints with suspicion, fear and jealousy to the great hurt and ruin of the possessor.

^{Giordano Bruno}

132. Your sweetheart calls you by another’s name. His eyes linger too long on your best friend. He talks with excitement about a girl at work. And the fire catches. Jealousy – that sickening combination of possessiveness, suspicion, rage, and humiliation – can overtake your mind and threaten your very core as you contemplate your rival.

^{Helen Fisher}

133. To talk about balance, it’s easier to talk about what’s out of balance. And I think anytime that you have any disease, and disease meaning lack of ease, lack of flow… dis-ease. So any time there’s disease, you’re out of balance, whether it’s jealousy, anger, greed, anxiety, fear.

^{Ricky Williams}

134. In ‘The Beginning,’ each one of us was introduced, but the audience didn’t know our back stories and the drama. You wouldn’t have known how deep Bhallaladeva’s jealousy for Baahubali is.

^{Rana Daggubati}

135. Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.

^{Francois de La Rochefoucauld}

136. Why do we feel jealousy? Therapists often regard the demon as a scar of childhood trauma or a symptom of a psychological problem. And it’s true that people who feel inadequate, insecure, or overly dependent tend to be more jealous than others.

^{Helen Fisher}

137. Even if people pretend that they’re OK with it, jealousy can eat people alive.

^{Phoebe Fox}

138. I don’t think Othello is a jealous man – he is a man who has been deceived by another person, just as everybody in the play is deceived by that person… The playwright uses the word ‘jealousy’ over and over and over again, but I don’t think it has anything to do with being jealous.

^{Laurence Fishburne}

139. Yes, I’ve heard of the ‘Mad Men’ comparisons, but I like to think ‘The Hour’ has its own distinctive voice. Although it is set in 1956, I have tried to give it a contemporary edge, and its themes of love, passion, romance, fury, professional jealousy, and personal failure are universal, I think.

^{Abi Morgan}

140. Jealousy is not at all low, but it catches us humbled and bowed down, at first sight.

^{Sidonie Gabrielle Colette}

141. We stress humanity, and this is done at considerable cost. We can’t have a lot of dramatics that other shows get away with – promiscuity, greed, jealousy. None of those have a place in ‘Star Trek.’

^{Gene Roddenberry}

142. The human voice: mysterious, spontaneous, primal. For me, the human voice is the vessel on which all emotions travel – except perhaps jealousy. And the breath, the breath is the captain of that vessel^.

^{Claron McFadden}

143. It is jealousy that leads people to tarnish you.

^Priyadarshan

144. It is remarkable that jealousy of individual property in land often goes along with very exaggerated doctrines of tribal or national property in land.

^{William Graham Sumner}

145. I hate jealousy, I hate possessiveness. I’m nobody’s possession.

^{Olga Kurylenko}

146. Jealousy is a natural feeling, even when your happy for the person and you love them.

^{Sonja Morgan}

147. When I go to see theater, I’m consumed with professional jealousy.

^{Brad Hall}

148. Jealousy is love bed of burning snarl.

^{George Meredith}

149. I have always hoped and prayed that everyone grows in their lives, but I still want to be the smallest person. I am scared to become big. It fills you with unnecessary things such as ego, jealousy, etc.

^{Rajpal Yadav}

150. We all have the same core emotions of love, jealousy, rage – it’s just how they’re expressed.

^{Sophie Cookson}

151. I’ve yet to meet a bitter teenager. Bitterness, jealousy and jadedness, I think, are the most unattractive qualities in a person, and unfortunately they do seem to come with age.

^{Jane Goldman}

152. Fans in China are very different from those overseas. In China, many people really love me and care about my life. But there is always some jealousy mixed up in this feeling of love. I think that is the big difference. Overseas, there is none of that.

^{Gong Li}

153. It’s a completely useless emotion – jealousy. I don’t go there.

^{Joy Behar}

154. ‘Under the Poppy’ is the love story of Istvan and Rupert, lovers and friends from childhood, who’ve been parted by jealousy – and a secret betrayal by Istvan’s sister, Decca, who also loves Rupert, with whom she runs the brothel called Under the Poppy, where the floozies cater to every taste from saucy to peculiar.

^{Kathe Koja}

155. The surest route to breeding jealousy is to compare. Since jealousy comes from feeling less than another, comparisons only fan the fires.

^{Dorothy Corkille Briggs}