Showing posts with label quotes on jealousy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label quotes on jealousy. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Lord Byron

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.

Robert A. Heinlein

Love" is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy.

AlexisCarrel

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

Bob Marley

Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don't complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!

B. C. Forbes

Jealousy... is a mental cancer.

Henry Ellis

Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.

Paul Eldridge

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Jealousy springs more from love of self than from love of another.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

Tierney

Jealousy is, I think, the worst of all faults because it makes a victim of both parties. Gene

Fulton J. Sheen

Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.

Helen Rowland

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

John Dryden

Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.

Mary Baker Eddy

Jealousy is the grave of affection.

WilliamShenstone

Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.

Max Frisch

Jealousy is the fear of comparison.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Jealousy is not so much the love of another as the love of ourselves.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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

Elizabeth Bowen

Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.

George Eliot

Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.