Jealousy aka as the “green-eyed monster” is a common negative emotion (thoughts and feelings) of insecurity, fear and anxiety among us humans. If jealousy is not contained or overcome, it could lead to bitterness.
It is said that the causes of jealousy is because one lacks of self-image, and confidence and the feeling of fear and insecurity.
Here I have gathered a good selection of jealousy or jealous quotes:
“Yet he was jealous, though he did not show it, For jealousy dislikes the world to know it” – Lord Byron
“There is no greater glory than love, nor any greater punishment than jealousy.” – Lope de Vega
“Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.” – George Bernard Shaw
“Love sees sharply, hatred sees even more sharp, but jealousy sees the sharpest for it is love and hate at the same time” – Arab Proverb
“It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.” – Lawrence Durrell
“The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.” – William Penn
“Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.” – Elizabeth
Bowen
“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
“Jealousy is the great exaggerator.” – Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller
“Jealousy and love are sisters.” – Russian Proverb
“Jealous people poison their own banquet and then eat it” – Unknown
“Jealousy is a tiger that tears not only its prey but also its own raging heart” – Unknown
“Jealousy injures us with the dagger of self-doubt.” – Terri Guillemets
“To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter” – F. Sagan
“The jealous bring down the curse they fear upon their own heads.” – Dorothy Dix
“Jealousy is always born with love, but does not always die with it.” – François Duc de La Rochefoucauld
“Jealousy… is a mental cancer.” – B.C. Forbes
“Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always so occupied with being jealous of other women’s husbands.” – Oscar Wilde
“Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.” – Erica Jong
“Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure” – Unknown
“Love that is fed by jealousy dies hard” – Ovid
“There is never jealousy where there is not strong regard” – Washington Irving