31 Quotes About Jealousy

Jealousy is normally associated with a negative emotion. What if jealousy could work in your favor? These quotes about jealousy show what the effects can be when you allow your emotions to take control over your mentality and actions.

“A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.”

“Comparison is a very foolish attitude, because each person is unique and incomparable. Once this understanding settles in you, jealousy disappears.”

“Don’t waste time on jealousy. Sometimes you’re ahead, sometimes you’re behind.”

“Envy and jealousy are incurable diseases.”

“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.”

“I’ve spent most of my life walking under that hovering cloud, jealousy, whose acid raindrops blurred my vision and burned holes in my heart. Once I learned to use the umbrella of confidence, the skies cleared up for me and the sunshine called joy became my faithful companion.”

“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.”

“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 – in fact, they are almost incompatible; one emotion hardly leaves room for the other.”

“Jealousy is a kind of civil war in the soul, where judgment and imagination are at perpetual jars. This civil dissension in the mind, like that of the body politic, commits great disorders, and lays all waste.”

“Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbor to have them through envy.”

“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.”

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

“Jealousy is not a barometer by which the depth of love can be read, it merely records the degree of the lover’s insecurity.”

“Jealousy is one of the wickedest of all the passions. It is that which has been the most fruitful mother of tragedies, murders, and wars.”

“Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves.”

“Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.”

“Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.”

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

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

“Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretense of keeping it alive.”

“Love sees sharply, hatred sees even more sharp, but Jealousy sees the sharpest for it is love and hate at the same time.”

“More men die of jealousy than of cancer.”

“Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.”

“The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time.”

“The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.”

“The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.”

“To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self.”

“To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.”

“What sort of love is permeated by jealousy? You are jealous because you are unaware that everything you need is inside you.”

“You can be the moon and still be jealous of the stars.”

“You can only be jealous of someone who has something you think you ought to have yourself.”

For many, being an inner critic can end up alienating you from those closest to you.