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Jealousy Quotes


"Jealousy - that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion."


"Jealousy has always been my cross, the weakness and woundedness in me that has most often caused me to feel ugly and unlovable, like the Bad Seed."


"What we used to say was whoever had the bow tie got to lead the band. There was never any jealousy."


"That is ever the way. 'Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse."


"To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter."


"The gods, so says the old superstition, do not like to behold too happy mortals. It is certain, at least, that some human beings do not."


"Envy: Instead of focusing on your own goals, your goal becomes throwing off the rails other people's goals and at the end of the day you gain nothing but a mischievous satisfaction that you have destroyed someone's dream."


"Because he has finally realized that it is it and not him that is loved by the woman he loves, many a man is jealous of his own car, house, wardrobe, or salary."



"Jealousy appears to be a redoubtable pitfall for love, on the toll road of self-absorption and unshareability. When love has to remain cloistered and ostentatiously exclusionary, envy may show its pernicious power, cause wounding harms and unchain emotional twisters. ['Why has Shé got stars in the sky?']"
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