Quotes about jealousy

Those people, who hate you, envy your freedom.
- Santosh Kalwar

Jealousy is always born with love, but does not die with it. In jealousy there is more of self-love than of love to another.
- Francois de la Rochefoucauld

Envy is thin because it bites but never eats.
- Spanish Proverb

Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
- Erica Jong

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

The desire to change yourself breeds envy, jealousy; whereas, in the understanding of what you are, there is a transformation of what you are.
- Jiddu Krishnamurti

Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.
- William Shenstone

I keep my head held high and smile, because there are people who will kill to see me fall.

Jealousy springs more from love of self than from love of another.

It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.
- Lawrence Durrell

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

Jealousy is natural but it isn’t necessary.

Envy is the art of counting the other fellow’s blessings instead of your own.
- Harold Coffin

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

Even jealousy is based on fantasies: a fantasy that someone else has what belongs to you.
- Anna Deavere Smith

Envy is for people who don’t have the self-esteem to be jealous.
- Benson Bruno

Jealousy endlessly eats through my mind, and jealously endlessly makes me be unkind.
- Lou Reed

Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead.
- Mark Twain

Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.
- George Bernard Shaw

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

Jealousy is the fire of envy that seeks to destroy another’s beauty, rather than to create its own.
- Wes Fesler

I refused to believe that love could take any other form than mine: I measured love by the extent of my jealousy, and by that standard of course she could not love me at all.
- Graham Greene

Envy is ever joined with the comparing of a man’s self; and where there is no comparison, no envy.
- Francis Bacon