Stretch an unwavering tenacity when facing bad to worse attitudes.
Topic
jealousy
/jealousy-quotes-and-sayings
Topic Summary
About the jealousy quote collection
The jealousy page groups 676 quotes under one canonical topic hub so readers and answer engines can cite a stable source instead of fragmented search results.
Topic Feed
Quotes filed under jealousy
What's wrong with (Captain) Jack Aubrey?""Everything, since he has a command and I have not.
Jealousy is like a cactus its respond and reaction is thorny
Did you talk to him about it?""Oh, sure. Nothing happened, yadda yadda. The usual. But my maydar went off like crazy.""Maydar?""As in, he may be thinking about super hot sex with her. Like radar, only not as sure.
Oh. I just assumed... That because I am so absorbed by him everyone must be too.
Humans are a creature who are always unpleased and have a weak emotion of jealousy. You become jealous of someone because you believe they have something better than you do or something you should have for yourself. However, we don__ recognize that our jealousy will last longer than the reason of our jealously. Even though jealousy is a part of our human nature, it is not a satisfying quality to occupy yourself with _ it is a sign of your failure. It is like a burning fire, which will eventually burn you from inside. Therefore, don__ let yourself burn along the fire of your jealousy, as a matter of fact, make it your stepping stone for your own accomplishment.
Those.. we use to abuse in front of others..somewhere deep inside.. we wish to be like them..
I'm not saying you are jealous or insecure. I'm just saying that you obsessing over another person's accomplishments makes you look that way.
Now, now._ I placed a hand on his back. __ealousy colors you black, Geoff. If you wanted to be a pretty princess too, I would have bought you a crown. I__l be back soon.
Truly competent Literary Detectives are as rare as truthful men, Mr. Tweed -- you can see her potential as clearly as I can. Frightened of someone stealing your thunder, perhaps?
A friendship has but one chief adversary and that is envy. It is sired by resentment with the potential consequence of unresolved estrangement." She looked at the woman in conflict and said, "Do not envy her but imagine what it took for her to have what you resent her for. Would you want to embark upon her journey instead of your own to procure it? You notice her abundance but overlook her losses; do not envy her because she would rather have your friendship than your envy." The woman looked at her and nodded in accord, "And how do you do that?" she asked. The woman sighed in reflective thought. "By changing the way you think.
There are no preconditions for jealousy. You don't have to be right, you don't have to be reasonable.
Jealousy, you know, is usually not an affair of causes. It is much more-how shall I say?-fundamental than that. Based on the knowledge that one's love is not returned. And so one goes on waiting, watching, expecting...that the loved one will turn to someone else.
Jealousy was essentially "I want what you have," while envy was "I want what you have, but I also want to take it away so you can't have it.
Are you busy?" I ask."I'm working on a paper. Recall? The phone conversation we had fifteen minutes ago?"I glance up at a clock in the hall, and then back at his smart-ass mouth."It was twenty minutes ago.""I need coffee," he says, and why is he being such an adorable dick, still smiling at me like that? "Want to walk up to Dunkin' Donuts?""What about Millie?" I say."What about her?""Does she want any?""Should we call her and ask?""Isn't she upstairs?""How hard did you hit your head last night?
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.
Every user needs a loser, every winner is an intrusion.
...the real poison within families is not the poison that you put in your food, but the poison that grows up in the heart when people are jealous of one another and cannot speak these feelings and drain out the poison that way.