jealousy

That quiet, burning ache in the chest is rarely just about what someone else possesses; it is a mirror reflecting our own deepest insecurities and unfulfilled desires. Across generations, thinkers and writers have grappled with this complex emotion, dissecting how it corrodes the spirit from the inside out while often masquerading as righteousness, ambition, or protective instinct. These reflections capture the bitter irony of a passion that punishes only the person carrying it, offering sharp insights into the turbulent mechanics of the human heart. Take a moment to explore these perspectives and discover how brilliant minds have articulated the shadows of envy.

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Top Authors in jealousy

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

George Eliot

Robert A. Heinlein

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Saint Augustine

Bob Marley

Pete Fountain

Johannes Brahms

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All jealousy Quotes

"You can be the moon and still be jealous of the stars."

"Like hatred, jealousy is forbidden by the laws of life because it is essentially destructive."

"Jealousy - that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion."

"Hunger, revenge, to sleep are petty foes, But only death the jealous eyes can close."

"Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious."

"There is never jealousy where there is not strong regard."

"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."

"The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause."

"I have never been jealous. Not even when my dad finished fifth grade a year before I did."

"Jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire."

"Jealousy is the tie that binds, and binds, and binds."

"Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And, what is more, they find it everywhere."

"From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me."

"Passion can quickly slip to jealousy, or even hatred."

"Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul."

"Jealousy is the grave of affection."

"Man is jealous because of his amour propre woman is jealous because of her lack of it."

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

"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."

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

"What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them."

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

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

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

"But when I would see the surrogate, my first instinct, my first reaction would be jealousy, because she was doing what I wanted to do."

"I do not say anything from jealousy."

"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."

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

"The jealousy and resentment that animate the terrorists also affect many of our former cold war allies."

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

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