Jealousy Quotes
To feel jealous is normal. But if it is too much, it becomes a poison that can destroy trust in any relationship. Envy is not a good emotion to feel. It prevents us from moving forward, and it fixates us on what others have, instead of what we want to achieve.
Whether you’re surrounded by jealous friends, or working through your own feelings of envy, we have compiled a list of the best jealousy quotes to get you through.
60 Quotes About Jealousy & Envy
“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
“Envy, if surrounded on all sides by the brightness of another’s prosperity, like the scorpion confined within a circle of fire, will sting itself to death.”- Charles Caleb Colton
“Anger, resentment and jealousy doesn’t change the heart of others– it only changes yours.”
― Shannon Alder
― Shannon Alder
“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.”― Robert A. Heinlein
“Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.”- Buddha
“Insecure people only eclipse your sun because they’re jealous of your daylight and tired of their dark, starless nights.”― Shannon L. Alder
“Most haters are stuck in a poisonous mental prison of jealousy and self-doubt that blinds them to their own potentiality.”― Steve Maraboli
“Keep yourselves far from envy; it eateth up and taketh away good actions, like as fire eateth up and burneth wood.”- Muhammad
“Jealousy—Tormenting yourself, for fear you should be tormented by another.”- Paul Chatfield
“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. There is only one alternative – self-value. If you cannot love yourself, you will not believe that you are loved. You will always think it’s a mistake or luck.”- Jennifer James
“I love being in love, but I also love other things, like not being jealous, overly sensitive, or needy.
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― Dark Jar Tin Zoo
― Dark Jar Tin Zoo
“Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.”- François de la Rochefoucauld
“You can only be jealous of someone who has something you think you ought to have yourself.”― Margaret Atwood
“It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.”- Aeschylus
“Margaret was not a ready lover, but where she loved she loved passionately, and with no small degree of jealousy.”― Elizabeth Gaskell
“Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive. ”― Havelock Ellis
“The envious person grows lean with the fatness of their neighbor.”- Socrates
“Jealousy is an awkward homage which inferiority renders to merit.”- de Puixieux
“Envy lurks at the bottom of the human heart like a viper in its hole.” – Honoré de Balzac
“Jealousy hyphenates love in all the wrong places.”- Terri Guillemets
“Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.” – George Eliot
“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
“He that is not jealous is not in love.”- Augustine
“What sort of love is permeated by jealousy? You are jealous because you are unaware that everything you need is inside you.”― Peter Deunov
“The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.”- Baltasar Gracián
“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.”― Anna Godbersen
“Rust consumes iron and envy consumes itself.”- Danish Proverb
“For a second I was almost jealous of the clouds. Why was he looking to them for an escape when I was right here beside him?”― Kamila Shamsie
“He was jealous of her future, and she of his past.”― Anaïs Nin
“Envy is like a fly that passes all the body’s sounder parts, and dwells upon the sores.”- Arthur Chapman
“The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.”- William Penn
“Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.” – George Eliot
“Never love unless you can bear with all the faults of man: Men will sometimes jealous be, Though but little cause they see.” – Thomas Campion
“Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.” – William Shenstone
“Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.” – George Eliot
Never hate jealous people. They are jealous because they think you are better than them. Paulo Coelho
“It is never wise to seek or wish for another’s misfortune. If malice or envy were tangible and had a shape, it would be the shape of a boomerang.”- Charley Reese
“O, beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-ey’d monster, which doth mock The meat it feeds on.”
― William Shakespeare
― William Shakespeare
“Oh, what a bitter thing it is to look into happiness through another man’s eyes.”- William Shakespeare
“Men are jealous of every woman, even when they don’t have the slightest interest in her themselves.”
― Jan Neruda
― Jan Neruda
“Jealousy isn’t a pleasant quality, but if it isn’t overdone (and if it’s combined with modesty), apart from its inconvenience there’s even something touching about it.”― Milan Kundera
“Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.”- George Bernard Shaw
“Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.”- Josh Billings
“Jealousy injures us with the dagger of self-doubt.” – Terri Guillemets
“Trifles light as air, are to the jealous confirmations strong as proofs of holy writ.” – William Shakespeare
“Envy assails the noblest: the winds howl around the highest peaks.” – Ovid
A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity. Robert A. Heinlein
“Envy is thin because it bites but never eats.” – Spanish Proverb
“Nothing brings on jealousy like laughter.”― Françoise Sagan
“Envy is a symptom of lack of appreciation of our own uniqueness and self worth. Each of us has something to give that no one else has.”- Unknown
“The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.”― Salvador Dali
“Jealousy’s a weak emotion.”― Jay-Z
“It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.”- Lawrence Durrell, Justine
“Envy is the art of counting the other fellow’s blessings instead of your own.”- Harold Coffin
“The jealous bring down the curse they fear upon their own heads.” – Dorothy Dix
“Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits.” – Paul Eldridge
“The truest mark of being born with great qualities is being born without envy.” – François de la Rochefoucauld
“O jealousy! thou magnifier of trifles.” – Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller
You can be the moon and still be jealous of the stars. Gary Allan
“Envy is the coward side of Hate, and all her ways are bleak and desolate.”- Henry Abbey