Jealousy

Jealousy happens when we are angry with others when we perceive they are diverting attention away from ourselves. Jealousy also occurs when we desire something that someone else possesses. Below are some of the greatest jealousy quotes on the web, to help you deal with this emotional desire.

"The surest route to breeding jealousy is to compare. Since jealousy comes from feeling less than another, comparisons only fan the fires."
― Dorothy Corkville Briggs
"Nature is at work. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow."
― David Seabury
"But I like not these great success of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods."
― Herodotus
"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
"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
"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."
― Heidi Klum
"Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo."
― H. G. Wells
"Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive."
― Havelock Ellis
"Dogs are our link to paradise. They don’t know evil or jealousy or discontent."
― Milan Kundera
"Jealousy is the fear of comparison."
― Max Frisch

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