47 Overcoming Jealousy Quotes and Sayings

Jealousy is a vile emotion to experience. Responsible for the experience of many emotions ranging from anger, hurt, discontentment, insecurity, and more. There is not much room for jealousy to exist in the life of a happy person. Here are some amazing overcoming jealous quotes and sayings that capture the spirit and essence of this volatile emotion.

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

“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.”

“And yes, I’ll admit, I am jealous. I’m jealous of every minute you spend with him, of every concerned expression you send his way, of every tear shed, of every glance, every touch, and every thought.”

“Anger, resentment and jealousy doesn’t change the heart of others– it only changes yours.”

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

“Earthquakes just happen. Tornadoes just happen. Your tongue does not just happen to fall into some other girls mouth!”

“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.”

“I love being in love, but I also love other things, like not being jealous, overly sensitive, or needy.”

“Isn’t it kind of silly to think that tearing someone else down builds you up?”

“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.”

“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 neighbour 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. But reprehensible though it is, jealousy is almost rather to be pitied than blamed–its first victims are those who harbour the feeling.”

“Jealousy is simply and clearly the fear that you do not have value. Jealousy scans for evidence to prove the point – that others will be preferred and rewarded more than you.”

“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 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 pretence of keeping it alive.”

“Kai neared his desk again, seeing that the fugitive’s profile had been transferred to the screen. His frown deepened. Perhaps not dangerous, but young and inarguably good-looking.”

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

“Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.”

“Most haters are stuck in a poisonous mental prison of jealousy and self-doubt that blinds them to their own potentiality.”

“Nothing brings on jealousy like laughter.”

“Often those that criticise others reveal what he himself lacks.”

“Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.”

“Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.”

“She had loved him for such a long time, she thought. How was it that she did now know him at all?”

“So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.”

“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 more you love,the more love you have to give.It’s the only feeling we have which is infinite…”

“The only thing more frustrating than slanderers is those foolish enough to listen to them.”

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

“The worst part of success is trying to find someone who is happy for you.”

“There will always be someone willing to hurt you, put you down, gossip about you, belittle your accomplishments and judge your soul.”

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

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

“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.”

“Well, I’m so sorry that I can’t be the right kind of monster for you, Bella.”

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

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

There is nothing more troublesome to experience than that of the feelings surrounding jealousy. Find a way to minimize and eventually eliminate these emotions out of your life.