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Here are the best inspirational quotes and sayings for 2023 about jealousy that will inspire you to deal with envy, hatred, and anger.
What Is Jealousy Sayings
1. “Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority” – William Shenstone
2. “Jealousy is simply and clearly the fear that you do not have value” – Jennifer James
3. “Jealousy is when you count someone else’s blessings instead of your own” – Amanda Metcalf
4. “Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies” – Elizabeth Bowen
5. “Jealousy is the tie that binds, and binds, and binds” – Helen Rowland
6. “Jealousy is the very reverse of understanding, of sympathy, and of generous feeling. Never has jealousy added to character, never does it make the individual big and fine” – Emma Goldman
7. “Jealousy is an inner consciousness of one’s own inferiority” – B.C. Forbes
8. “Jealousy – that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion” – Emil Cioran
Short Quotes About Jealousy
9. “Jealousy’s a weak emotion” – Jay-Z
10. “You can’t be yourself within jealousy” – Toba Beta
11. “Jealousy is the fear of comparison” – Max Frisch
12. “Jealousy is the great exaggerator” – Johann Chrisoph Friedrich von Schiller
13. “Jealousy is a disease. Get well soon” – Paris Hilton
14. “Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul” – John Dryden
15. “The knives of jealousy are honed on details” – Ruth Rendell
16. “Jealousy is all the fun you think they had” – Erica Jong
Quotes About Jealousy In Love
17. “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
18. “He that is jealous is not in love” – Saint Augustine
19. “Jealousy is unavoidable – it’s part of the price we pay for intimacy” – Rachel Simmons
20. “Jealousy is the grave of affection” – Mary Baker Eddy
21. “Jealousy is just love and hate at the same time” – Drake
22. “Jealousy hyphenates love in all the wrong places” – Terri Guillemets
23. “Jealousy is always born with love, but does not die with it” – François de La Rochefoucauld
24. “Jealousy is not a barometer by which the depth of love can be read, it merely records the degree of the lover’s insecurity” – Margaret Mead
Jealousy Is Dangerous Quotes
25. “Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure” – Patrick Henry
26. “Jealousy is the dragon in paradise; he hell of heaven; and the most bitter of the emotions because associated with the sweetest” – Alfred R. Orage
27. “Jealousy injures us with the dagger of self-doubt” – Terri Guillemets
28. “Even if people pretend that they’re OK with it, jealousy can eat people alive” – Phoebe Fox
29. “Surrounded by the flames of jealousy, the jealous one winds up, like the scorpion, turning the poisoned sting against himself” – Friedrich Nietzsche
30. “Jealousy is the worst of all faults because it makes a victim of both parties” – Gene Tierney
31. “The jealous bring down the curse they fear upon their own heads” – Dorothy Dix
32. “Jealousy is a miserable feeling. It means you aspire to something that you cannot have” – Sophia Loren
Deep Quotes About Jealousy
33. “Jealousy is beautiful only on a young and ardent face. After the first wrinkles, trust must return” – Alfred Camus
34. “Don’t waste time on jealousy. Sometimes you’re ahead, sometimes you’re behind” – Mary Schmich
35. “The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves” – William Penn
36. “Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretense of keeping it alive” – Havelock Ellis
37. “Jealousy is a keen observer, but looks for all the wrong signs” – H.L. Mencken
38. “Nobody is ever jealous about the process, only the results” – Regan Jacklin
39. “Jealousy is information. It tells you what you desire, what you admire, what you despise in yourself” – Marcus Aurelius
40. “Jealousy sees things always with magnifying glasses which make little things large, of dwarfs giants, of suspicions truths” – Miguel de Cervantes
Jealousy Quotes In Relationships
41. “Jealousy eats away at relationships like acid. It’s corrosive and destructive. It destroys trust and intimacy” – Dr. Gary Chapman
42. “Jealousy can open the blood, it can make black roses” – Sylvia Plath
43. “The best way to get over jealousy is to realize how little it matters” – William Shakespeare
44. “Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits” – Paul Eldridge
45. “Never hate jealous people. They are jealous because they think you are better than them” – Paulo Coelho
46. “Jealousy is almost rather to be pitied than blamed – its first victims are those who harbor the feeling” – Arthur Lynch
47. “It is not love that is blind, but jealousy” – Lawrence Durrell
48. “Jealousy is a terrible thing. It resembles love, only it is precisely love’s contrary. Instead of wishing for the welfare of the object loved, it desires the dependence of that object upon itself, and its own triumph” – Henri-Frédéric Amiel
Funny Quotes About Jealousy
49. “Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius” – Fulton J. Sheen
50. “Jealousy is such a waste of time because you’re jealous of them, and they go about their lives and have a wonderful time, so what’s the point?” – Joy Behar
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