Jealousy Envy Quotes - Page 2

• Envy lurks at the bottom of the human heart like a viper in its hole.

  Honore de Balzac

  Jealousy, Heart, Envy

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• There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.

  George Eliot

  Jealousy, Passion, Fire

  George Eliot (1994). “Middlemarch”, p.175, Wordsworth Editions

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• Envy and jealousy are very harmful because you are never ever satisfied with what you have and you never reflect on what you have. You constantly live your life on what you do not have.

  Tsem Tulku

  Buddhist, Inspiration, Envy

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• Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.

  Josh Billings

  Relationship, Jealousy, Hate

  Josh Billings (1874). “Everybody's Friend, Or Josh Billing's Encyclopedia and Proverbial Philosophy of Wit and Humor”, p.304

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• Then you will be the one others envy, and you can remember the pain and reach out to them.

  Jennifer James

  Jealousy, Pain, Envy

  Jennifer James (1986). “Success Is the Quality of Your Journey”, William Morrow Paperbacks

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• Trifles light as air are to the jealous confirmations strong as proofs of holy writ.

  William Shakespeare

  Jealousy, Strong, Light

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 3, sc. 3, l. 323

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

  Joan Didion

  Jealousy, Self, Cures

  FaceBook post by Joan Didion from Jul 17, 2011

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• 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

  Jealousy, Space, Envy

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1466, Delphi Classics

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

  Heraclitus

  Inspirational, Happiness, Jealousy

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

  Havelock Ellis

  Love, Jealousy, Hate

  Havelock Ellis (2013). “On Life and Sex: Essays of Love & Virtue”, p.73, Elsevier

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• Jealousy is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Jealousy, Envy, Catholic

  "Walk with God".

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

  George Eliot

  Relationship, Jealousy, Heart

  George Eliot (2016). “The Mill on the Floss: Top Novelist Focus”, p.394, 谷月社

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  The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Jealousy, Winning, Envy

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• It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.

  Lawrence Durrell

  Love, Jealousy, Envy

  Lawrence Durrell (1957). “Justine: By Lawrence Durrell”

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• 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.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Love, Jealousy, Mistake

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.340, Penguin

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• Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.

  John Dryden

  Jealousy, Soul, Jaundice

  John Dryden, Samuel Johnson (1822). “The Poems of John Dryden”

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

  William Shenstone

  Jealousy, Envy, Envious

  William Shenstone (1804). “Essays on Men and Manners”, p.137

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

  Paul Eldridge

  Jealousy, Passion, Love Is

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

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Jealousy, Time, Mad

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

  William Penn

  Inspirational, Jealousy, Envy

  William Penn (1782). “The Select Works of William Penn....”, p.188

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• If malice or envy were tangible and had a shape, it would be the shape of a boomerang.

  Charley Reese

  Jealousy, Hate, Envy

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• To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.

  Francoise Sagan

  Happiness, Jealousy, Laughter

  1965 La Chamade, ch.9.

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• Drop envy and jealousy, otherwise there is no possibility - because love cannot exist where envy and jealousies exist. Then your search is only for a certain type of power: that in the name of love you are just trying to fulfill the ego. And it is arduous to drop, because love exists only when all the negative elements of the mind are dropped. It is very arduous.

  Rajneesh

  Jealousy, Love You, Names

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• The cure for the sin of envy and jealousy is to find our contentment in God

  Jerry Bridges

  Envy, Contentment, Sin

  Jerry Bridges (2016). “The Pursuit of Holiness”, p.95, NavPress

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• Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.

  Oliver Stone

  Jealousy, Envy, Underestimate

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