Jealousy is a complex emotion that often arises from feelings of comparison and insecurity. It can consume individuals and negatively impact relationships. Quotes about jealousy offer insight and perspective on this powerful emotion. They remind us that jealousy stems from our own insecurities and can be destructive if not addressed. Such quotes may encourage self-reflection and a deeper understanding of jealousy's harmful effects.
Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul. — John Dryden
Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive. — Havelock Ellis
Jealousy is the result of one's lack of self-confidence, self-worth, and self-acceptance. — Sasha Azevedo
You can only be jealous of someone who has something you think you ought to have yourself. — Margaret Atwood
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had. — Erica Jong
Welcome to the wonderful world of jealousy, he thought. For the price of admission, you get a splitting headache, a nearly irresistable urge to commit murder, and an inferiority complex. Yippee. — J.R. Ward
Jealousy is just love and hate at the same time. — Drake
Jealousy in romance is like salt in food. A little can enhance the savor, but too much can spoil the pleasure and, under certain circumstances, can be life-threatening. — Maya Angelou
With fear, possessiveness enters the picture, then jealousy rears its ugly head. Jealousy is the opposite of desiring life and freedom of choice for one's partner. — Peter Shepherd
Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies. — Elizabeth Bowen
To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter. — Francoise Sagan
A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity. — Lazarus Long
I don't mind saying in advance that in my opinion jealousy is normal and healthy. Jealousy arises out of the fact that children love. If they have no capacity to love, then they don't show jealousy. — Donald Woods Winnicott
We envy people whose traits compete with our desirability as a mate. — Gad Saad
Surrounded by the flames of jealousy, the jealous one winds up, like the scorpion, turning the poisoned sting against himself. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Short Jealousy Quotes
Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. — Bob Marley
Be who you want to be and not care about what others think. — Andy Biersack
Don't compare your life to others. You have no idea what they have been through. — Sam Cawthorn
Don't you complicate your mind
Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. — Bob Marley
Anger, ego, jealousy are the biggest diseases,Keep yourself aloof from these three diseases. — Sathya Sai Baba
The store of rice in your attic is your enemy — it makes them who have none very jealous. — Thai Proverbs
Believe in yourself and don't care about haters. — Perrie Edwards
I love you. And I don't want to lose you. — Cassandra Clare
Surround yourself with positive people. — Melanie
The envious never give praise, they only take it in. — Mexican Proverbs
Jealousy Image Quotes
The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents. — Salvador Dali
Isn't it kind of silly to think that tearing someone else down builds you up? — Sean Covey
A jealous husband doesnt doubt his wife, but himself. — Honore de Balzac
There is a battle of two wolves inside us all. One is evil. It is anger, jealousy, greed, resentment, lies, inferiority and ego. The other is good. It is joy, peace, love, hope, humility, kindness, empathy and truth. The wolf that wins? The one you feed.
No Jealousy Quotes
No thank you to all the bustas, cowards, and FAKE HOMIES who showed me the depths of jealousy, envy and greed. — Tupac Shakur
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. — Van Wyck Brooks
Space-ships and time machines are no escape from the human condition. Let Othello subject Desdemona to a lie-detector test; his jealousy will still blind him to the evidence. Let Oedipus triumph over gravity; he won't triumph over his fate. — Arthur Koestler
Never speak from a place of hate, jealousy, anger or insecurity. Evaluate your words before you let them leave your lips. Sometimes it's best to be quiet.
Haters...are all failures. It's 100% across the board. No one who is truly brilliant at anything is a hater. — Sayings
If you wish to prosper, let your customer prosper...When people have learned this lesson, everyone will seek his individual welfare in the general welfare. Then jealousies between man and man, city and city, province and province, nation and nation, will no longer trouble the world. — Fr
If you are honest, truthful, and transparent, people trust you. If people trust you, you have no grounds for fear, suspicion or jealousy. — Dalai Lama
Jealousy is a good indication that you are doing things the right way. People never get jealous of losers.
Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love. — George Eliot
A military force, at the command of Congress, can execute no laws, but such as the people perceive to be just and constitutional; for they will possess the power, and jealousy will instantly inspire the inclination, to resist the execution of a law which appears to them unjust and oppressive. — Noah Webster
Envy is the most stupid of vices, for there is no single advantage to be gained from it. — Honore de Balzac
Insecurity And Jealousy Quotes
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
Insecure people only eclipse your sun because they’re jealous of your daylight and tired of their dark, starless nights. — Shannon Alder
Insecurity is an ugly thing. It makes you hate people you don't even know. — Drake
Greed pulls people in, and fear pushes them out. — Naved Abdali
Whoever envies another confesses his superiority. — Samuel Johnson
Jealousy is the dragon in paradise; the hell of heaven; and the most bitter of the emotions because associated with the sweetest. — Alfred Richard Orage
Then you will be the one others envy, and you can remember the pain and reach out to them. — Jennifer James
We hide in relationships. We hide in material possessions. We hide in ambitions, secret desires, hates, frustrations, jealousy, self-ptiy, in our insecurity - and more than anything our vanity and our egotism. — Frederick Lenz
Love deeply, love without jealousy, love blissfully and help each other to be more meditative. — Osho
Love Jealousy Quotes
Love withers under constraints: its very essence is liberty: it is compatible neither with obedience, jealousy, nor fear. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
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
Love is as strong as death; its jealousy as unyielding as the grave. It burns like a blazing fire; like a mighty flame. Many waters cannot quench love, rivers cannot wash it away — Solomon
Togetherness, passion, laughter, faith, trust, and jealousy are the essential ingredients of love — Shahrukh Khan
Don’t try to make someone hate the person he loves. For he will go on loving but he will hate you. — African Proverbs
To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self. — Joan Didion
Google only loves you when everyone else loves you first. — Brian Dean
So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt. — William Shakespeare
A trustworthy marriage has weathered temptation and anger and jealousy, resentment, self-righteousness and a little bit of selfishness. When you get over and get through that, then maybe you can see the light to love. — Ruby Dee
Envy And Jealousy Quotes
Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours. — Epictetus
When you feel jealousy, you shift all your attention and energy to whoever is making you jealous. — Tim Grover
Competition between women is good only if it does not prevail; that is to say if it coexists with affinity, affection, with a real sense of being mutually indispensable, with sudden peaks of solidarity in spite of envy, jealousy and the whole inevitable cohort of bad feelings. — Elena Ferrante
Anger, resentment and jealousy doesn’t change the heart of others – it only changes yours. — Shannon Alder
I’m a coward. I succumbed to jealousy and now it eats my heart. — Antonio Vivaldi
Three great obstacles to progress: guilt, envy, and resentment. — Dan Sullivan
Few men have the natural strength to honor a friend's success without envy. — Aeschylus
People get a taste of success and lose their appetite. — 21 Savage
Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that. — Oliver Stone
Disgust is often more deeply buried than envy and anger, but it compounds and intensifies the other negative emotions. — Martha C. Nussbaum
Haters And Jealousy Quotes
"Haters only hate things they can't have and the people they can't be. It's just a little thing called jealousy." — Lil Wayne
Remember, people only rain on your parade because they're jealous of your sun and tired of their shade. — Kim Kardashian
When people don't want the best for you, they are not the best for you. — Gayle King
Love your haters - they're your biggest fans — Kanye West
Remember that only God can judge us; forget the haters, because Somebody loves you. — Miley Cyrus
Behind every sucessful person lies a pack of haters — Eminem
Learn to use the criticism as fuel and you will never run out of energy. — Orrin Woodward
We've been living on a high, they've been talking on the low. But it's cool, know you heard it all before. — Drake
I think that everybody wants to be heard, and the easiest way to be the loudest is to be the hater. — Tavi Gevinson
If you don't like me, why do you waste your time making fun of me? — Chad Anderson
Friend Jealousy Quotes
I helped several of my competitors get started. People seem to think we ought to hate each other, but we’ve stayed good friends. — Glen Bell
Know that whoever is trying to bring you down, is already below you. — Boonaa Mohammed
A truthful enemy is better than a deceitful friend. — Matshona Dhliwayo
A thug is what I want and a thug is what I need. And my friends don't understand, and I think it's jealousy. — 50 Cent
Among real friends there is no rivalry or jealousy of one another, but they are satisfied and contented alike whether they are equal or one of them is superior. — Plutarch
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
Our very best friends have a tincture of jealousy even in their friendship; and when they hear us praised by others, will ascribe it to sinister and interested motives if they can. — Charles Caleb Colton
The venom clamours of a jealous woman poison more deadly than a mad dog's tooth. — William Shakespeare
I got a lot of texts from friends and emails from friends and most of them were just pure jealousy. — Michael Schur
Jealousy isn't something we deal with well, but some of us have been around long enough to know when to let go, and what is most important. The happiness of my two best friends should be more important than some ancient feud. — Julie Kagawa
A loving relationship is one in which the loved one is free to be himself -- to laugh with me, but never at me; to cry with me, but never because of me; to love life, to love himself, to love being loved. Such a relationship is based upon freedom and can never grow in a jealous heart — Leo Buscaglia
Am I jealous? he thought, astonished. Jealous of the chance object to which she has attached herself? Jealous of something that does not concern me? One can be jealous of a love that has turned away, but not of that to which it has turned. — Erich Maria Remarque
Nico's voice was like broken glass. "I- I wasn't in love with Annabeth." "You were jealous of her," Jason said. "That's why you didn't want to be around her. Especially why you don't want to be around... him. It makes total sense. — Rick Riordan
Jealousy is indeed a poor medium to secure love, but it is a secure medium to destroy one's self-respect. For jealous people, like dope-fiends, stoop to the lowest level and in the end inspire only disgust and loathing. — Emma Goldman
What sort of love is permeated by jealousy? You are jealous because you are unaware that everything you need is inside you. — Peter Deunov
I am jealous of those who think more deeply, who write better, who draw better, who ski better, who look better, who live better, who love better than I. — Sylvia Plath
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
Don't waste time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind. — Mary Schmich
Jealous And Envy Quotes
Negative states of mind, such as anger, resentment, fear, envy, and jealousy, are products of the ego. — Eckhart Tolle
Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it. — William Shenstone
The only thing more frustrating than slanderers is those foolish enough to listen to them. — Criss Jami
Jealousy is the tie that binds, and binds, and binds. — Helen Rowland
Comparison is a very foolish attitude, because each person is unique and incomparable. Once this understanding settles in you, jealousy disappears. — Osho
Unjust criticism is usually disguised compliment. It often means that you have aroused jealously and envy. Remember that no one ever kicks a dead log. — Dale Carnegie
Envy is a littleness of soul, which cannot see beyond a certain point, and if it does not occupy the whole space feels itself excluded. — William Hazlitt
Trifles light as air are to the jealous confirmations strong as proofs of holy writ. — William Shakespeare
People destroy beauty when they find it. (Acheron) How so? (Artemis) By nature, people are petty and jealous. They envy what they lack and because they don’t know how to acquire something, they try to destroy anyone who has it. Beauty is one of those things they hate most in others. (Acheron) — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Being Jealous Quotes
Males shouldnt be jealous. Thats a female trait. — Jay-Z
Being jealous of a beautiful woman is not going to make you more beautiful. — Zsa Zsa Gabor
I gotta be honest with you. Im kind of jealous of the way my dad gets to talk to my mom sometimes. Where are all those old-school women you can just take your day out on? When did they stop making those angels? — Bill Burr
Ladies, if you saw me jackin off in a ferrari would you be jealous? — Lil B
Don't be jealous of other people's success. Celebrate it, use it as inspiration. Life is way more fun that way. — Lex Fridman
Is 'fat' really the worst thing a human being can be? Is 'fat' worse than 'vindictive', 'jealous', 'shallow', 'vain', 'boring' or 'cruel'? Not to me. — J. K. Rowling
Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always so occupied with being jealous of other women's husbands. — Oscar Wilde
Men must stop being jealous of their power and generously allow freedom and responsibility to others. The reward is harmonious families and society. — Delphine de Girardin
I'm Liam Gallagher and I'm in Oasis. The whole world is jealous of me. It should be. — Liam Gallagher
And I don’t see how Sebastian can be all that fond of Jace, either. He was horribly jealous of him all his life. He thought Jace was Valentine’s favorite,” added Clary. “Not to mention,” Magnus noted, “that Jace killed him. That would put anyone off. — Cassandra Clare
Jealous People Quotes
You must realize that if you are going to reach the heights you have been called to reach, you may elicit some criticism from those who are jealous, petty or angry because they were left behind. — T. D. Jakes
Tohru(thinking): There is an umeboshi-- on your back. Tohru (outloud): Maybe the reason people get jealous of eachother is because they can clearly see the umeboshi on other people's backs. I can see them too. I can see them perfectly. There is an amazing umeboshi on your back, Kyo-kun. — Natsuki Takaya
Gossip is just a tool to distract people who have nothing better to do from feeling jealous of those few of us still remaining with noble hearts. — Anna Godbersen
A lot of people get so hung up on what they can't have that they don't think for a second about whether they really want it. — Lionel Shriver
[We often] criticize the people on TV: 'He just can't act.' 'You call that singing?' ... We get jealous not because we're evil, but because we have little artists pent up inside us. — Young-ha Kim
If someone is being unkind or petty or jealous or distant or weird, you don't have to take it in. You don't have to turn it into a big psychodrama about your worth. That behavior so often is not even about you. Don't own other people's crap. — Cheryl Strayed
If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway. — Mother Teresa
I can't really change my life to accommodate people who are jealous. I don't see why I should. — Sting
How does hating get started? It's started by the jealous people, and they get mad over the things you have. — Master P
We learn from here the humility of the Holy One, Blessed is He. Since man is in the likeness of the angels, and they would be jealous of him, for this reason, He consulted them. — Rashi
Art is a jealous thing; it requires the whole and entire man. — Michelangelo
Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Part of being a man is learning to take responsibility for your successes, and for your failures. You can't go blaming others, or being jealous. Seeing somebody else's success as your failure is a cancerous way to live. — Kevin Bacon
We have a double standard, which is to say, a man can show how much he cares by being violent-see, he's jealous, he cares-a woman shows how much she cares by how much she's willing to be hurt; by how much she will take; how much she will endure; how suicidal she's prepared to be. — Andrea Dworkin
A jealous man only sees his own spectrum when he looks upon other men, and gives his character in theirs. — William Penn
I call that mind free which jealously guards its intellectual rights and powers, which calls no man master, which does not content itself with a passive or hereditary faith, [and] receives new truth as an angel from Heaven. — Woody Allen
Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted. — Unknown
We plant seeds that will flower as results in our lives, so best to remove the weeds of anger, avarice, envy and doubt, that peace and abundance may manifest for all. — Dorothy Day
The survivors (of a nuclear war) would envy the dead. — Nikita Khrushchev
Anger, resentment, envy, and self-pity are wasteful reactions. They greatly drain one's time. They sap energy better devoted to productive endeavors. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter, and to lead but not manipulate. — William Arthur Ward
The ignorant and the deluded are, I think, in a strange way to be envied. That which is not known of does not trouble us, while an imagined but insubstantial peril does not harm us. To know the truths behind reality is a far greater burden. — H. P. Lovecraft
Virtues are formed by prayer. Prayer preserves temperance. Prayer suppresses anger. Prayer prevents emotions of pride and envy. Prayer draws into the soul the Holy Spirit, and raises man to Heaven. — Ephrem the Syrian
I do not believe that any peacock envies another peacock his tail, because every peacock is persuaded that his own tail is the finest in the world. The consequence of this is that peacocks are peaceable birds. — John Ruskin
The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch. — Jim Rohn
Most of the world is like a mental hospital. Some persons are sick with jealousy, others with anger, hatred, passion. They are victims of their habits and emotions. But you can make your home a place of peace. — Paramahansa Yogananda
In the land of "I know," there is always competitiveness, jealousy, pretence, pride and arrogance. It is an aggressive realm - the realm of the ego. I say refuse citizenship. In the land of "I dont know," the inhabitants move without conflict and are naturally quiet, happy and peaceful. The wise stay here. — Mooji
Cultivate peace first in the garden of your heart by removing the weeds of lust, hatred, greed, selfishness, and jealousy. Then only you can manifest it externally. Then only, those who come in contact with you, will be benefited by your vibrations of peace and harmony. — Sivananda
Whatever you desire for yourself, affirm it for others, and it will help you both. We reap what we sow. If we send out thoughts of love and health, they return to us like bread cast upon the waters; but if we send out thoughts of fear, worry, jealousy, anger, hate, etc., we will reap the results in our own lives. — Charles F. Haanel
Music is something that takes you to a world which is very different from the world of hatred,jealousy, and all those negative emotions — A. R. Rahman
Life is like any other contact sport; you’re gonna get your knocks. But it’s not the knocks that count, it’s how you handle them. If you handle them with anger, distrust, jealousy, hate, this in return is what you’re going to get. But if you handle these knocks with love and understanding, they don’t mean much. They just dissipate. — Sydney Banks
Some people live as though they are already dead. There are people moving around us who are consumed by their past, terrified of their future, and stuck in their anger and jealousy. They are not alive; they are just walking corpses. — Nhat Hanh
Let's be honest, the cards' on the table:
Jealousy's a sin, Cain killed Abel.
Backstabber...Caesar had Brutus.
It's hard to weed 'em out, even Jesus had Judas. — Pusha T
Go on bravely. Do not expect success in a day or a year. Always hold on to the highest. Be steady. Avoid jealousy and selfishness. Be obedient and eternally faithful to the cause of truth, humanity, and your country, and you will move the world. — Swami Vivekananda
What the horrors of war are, no one can imagine. They are not wounds and blood and fever, spotted and low, or dysentery, chronic and acute, cold and heat and famine. They are intoxication, drunken brutality, demoralization and disorder on the part of the inferior... jealousies, meanness, indifference, selfish brutality on the part of the superior. — Florence Nightingale
I believe I understand anti-Semitism which is a very complex movement. I see it as a Jew, but without hatred or fear. I recognize what is anti-Semitism is rude jesting, vulgar jealousy of métier, hereditary prejudice; but also what can be considered as in fact legitimate defence. — Theodor Herzl
The first step to this end is to develop peace and goodwill within our borders, by training our youth of both sexes to its practice as their habit of life, so that the jealousies of town against town, class against class and sect against sect no longer exist; and then to extend this good feeling beyond our frontiers towards our neighbours. — Robert Baden-Powell
In Conclusion
These quotes emphasize the importance of self-acceptance, trust, and gratitude, and encourage individuals to focus on their own journey rather than comparing themselves to others. They remind us that jealousy only hinders personal growth and happiness, and that true contentment lies in embracing who we are and appreciating what we have. Quotes about jealousy serve as gentle reminders to let go of envy and cultivate a positive mindset, fostering healthier relationships and personal well-being.
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