Jealousy is a feeling we all know too well. It’s that twist in your stomach when someone else has what you want. It’s a natural emotion, yet it can be so consuming. Quotes about jealousy help us understand and deal with this powerful feeling.
These quotes offer wisdom from those who have faced jealousy and learned from it. They remind us that we are not alone in our struggles. Dive in and find comfort and guidance through these words about jealousy and envy.
Classic Literature Jealousy Quotes
“O, beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock the meat it feeds on.”
“Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.”
“Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.”
“Yet he was jealous, though he did not show it, for he was proud.”
“To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self.”
“Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.”
“Jealousy is the essence of love.”
“Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.”
“Envy is the art of counting the other fellow’s blessings instead of your own.”
“Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretense of keeping it alive.”
“Jealousy is the paralysis of love.”
“The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.”
“Trifles light as air are to the jealous confirmations strong as proofs of holy writ.”
“Jealousy, unlike self-preservation, is not an instinct. It is a result of thought.”
“Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.”
“Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.”
“The envious die not once, but as oft as the envièd win applause.”
“Jealousy is a dog’s bark which attracts thieves.”
“Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude.”
“Envy and jealousy, twin sisters, come with the cunning of the fox to steal away our peace of mind.”
“It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.”
“Keep your heart a little softer than your head, but let your mind rule over jealousy.”
“Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.”
“There is never jealousy where there is not strong regard.”
“Jealousy is a mental cancer.”
“The jealous bring down the curse they fear upon their own heads.”
“Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.”
“Jealousy is the dragon in paradise; the hell of heaven; and the most bitter of the emotions because it is associated with the sweetest.”
“The truest mark of being born with great qualities is being born without envy.”
“Jealousy is a tahitian pain.”
“Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.”
“Jealousy presumes to think that it is in a position to find out everything about the loved one, and the next step is to include the loved one’s thoughts, feelings and dreams.”
“Jealousy is the source of many of the world’s sorrows.”
Celebrity Jealousy Quotes
“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’re almost incompatible; one emotion hardly leaves room for the other.”
“Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.”
“Don’t waste time on jealousy. Sometimes you’re ahead, sometimes you’re behind. The race is long and, it’s only with yourself.”
“The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.”
“Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.”
“Jealousy is the fear of comparison.”
“Jealousy is a terrible thing. It not only allows you to watch your happiness slip through your fingers, but it makes you angry about it while it happens.”
“Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.”
“Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.”
“Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.”
“To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self.”
“Crystal-clear love is not honed on jealousy.”
“Jealousy fades away at the sight of true happiness and love.”
“Envy is the art of counting the other fellow’s blessings instead of your own.”
“Jealousy is just love and hate at the same time.”
“Envy is ignorance.”
“Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.”
“The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.”
“Jealousy is an inner consciousness of one’s own inferiority. It is a mental cancer.”
“Jealousy injures us with the dagger of self-doubt.”
“The jealous bring down the curse they fear upon their own heads.”
“Pride, envy, avarice – these are the sparks that have set on fire the hearts of all men.”
“In jealousy there is more of self-love than love.”
“Jealousy is the grave of affection.”
“Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.”
“You can only be jealous of someone who has something you think you ought to have yourself.”
“O beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock the meat it feeds on.”
“Jealousy is the very reverse of understanding, of sympathy, and of generous feeling.”
“A little jealousy can be a good thing, but when it’s more than a little, it can destroy you and your relationship.”
“Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude.”
“Jealousy is the tie that binds, and binds, and binds.”
“The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time.”
Jealousy Quotes from Philosophers
Aristotle: “Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbor to have them through envy.”
Seneca: “There is no one more troubled about the outcome of life than he who plants jealousy among the seeds of his heart.”
Plato: “The soul that has conceived one genuine virtue can only be envious of no man.”
Marcus Aurelius: “The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor.”
Friedrich Nietzsche: “Jealousy is often just a polite expression of one’s own inferiority.”
Baruch Spinoza: “Count not him among your friends who will retail your privacies to the world. The man who is vain enough to be jealous is, in that degree, unreliable.”
Jean-Paul Sartre: “Jealousy is the most dreadfully involuntary joy one can feel.”
Immanuel Kant: “Jealousy is a sentiment which contains more of self-love than of love.”
David Hume: “Jealousy can only be found with those who are conscious of their own inferiority.”
Bertrand Russell: “Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.”
Arthur Schopenhauer: “Every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud, adopts as a last resource pride in the nation to which he belongs; he is ready and happy to defend all its faults and follies tooth and nail, thus reimbursing himself for his own inferiority.”
Rene Descartes: “It is not enough to possess a good mind; one must use it well. Jealousy is a reflection of that mind unused.”
Karl Marx: “The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs, and nothing evokes jealousy as much as this stance.”
Hannah Arendt: “Jealousy is an element of biography which nothing can eradicate.”
Simone de Beauvoir: “Why one man rather than another? It was odd. You find yourself involved with a fellow for life just because he was the one who met you when you were young enough to be helpful.”
Michel Foucault: “Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same: leave it to our bureaucrats and our police to see that our papers are in order.”
Soren Kierkegaard: “Jealousy is nothing but a fear of being abandoned.”
Original Quote: “Jealousy is the smoke that shows there is a fire in the heart.”
Hypatia: “Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all; jealousy kills this right.”
Zhuangzi: “When people do not envy, the world will be at peace.”
Blaise Pascal: “All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone, and jealousy seeps through this discomfort.”
William James: “The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another, and jealousy is a thought best left unchosen.”
Thomas Hobbes: “The passion of jealousy brings nothing but a continual torment of the mind.”
Giordano Bruno: “Jealousy is the greatest enemy of love and progress.”
Lao Tzu: “He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.”
Hegel: “History teaches that the vitality of mankind, its spirit, is jealous of its own freedom.”
Original Quote: “Jealousy is a mirror that reveals our deepest insecurities.”
John Stuart Mill: “He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that.”
Gilles Deleuze: “Jealousy is nothing more than a lack of detachment.”
Original Quote: “Jealousy is the thief of joy’s serenity, a poison to the heart’s delight.”
Heraclitus: “To be even-minded is the greatest virtue. Jealousy is the opposite.”
Confucius: “The superior man is modest in his speech but exceeds in his actions.”
Modern Film Jealousy Quotes
“I can’t stand it to think my life is going so fast and I’m not really living it.”
“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.”
“People want to see you doing well, but not better than them.”
“Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.”
“The jealous are troublesome to others but a torment to themselves.”
“You know it’s love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you’re not part of their happiness.”
“Jealousy is just love and hate at the same time.”
“The envious die not once but as oft as the envied win applause.”
“Never hate jealous people. They are jealous because they think you are better than them.”
“Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.”
“Isn’t it kind of silly to think that tearing someone else down builds you up?”
“Jealousy is a lack of self-confidence.”
“Comparison is the thief of joy.”
“The worst part of success is trying to find someone who is happy for you.”
“A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.”
“Jealousy doesn’t show how much you love someone, it shows how insecure you are.”
“Envy is an insult to oneself.”
“Jealousy is the fear of comparison.”
“The truest form of love is how you behave toward someone, not how you feel about them.”
“Don’t waste time on jealousy. Sometimes you’re ahead, sometimes you’re behind.”
“Envy eats nothing but its own heart.”
“To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self.”
“Jealousy only eats up your beauty. Have more faith in yourself, you got something that other people don’t.”
“Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.”
“Jealousy is the fear of losing something that you don’t even have.”
“The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time.”
“Envy is the art of counting the other fellow’s blessings instead of your own.”
“Jealousy has the power to destroy every good thing in your life.”
“Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.”
“Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.”
“Jealousy is the grave of affection.”
“Jealousy is a green-eyed monster that devours the heart.”
Inspirational Quotes on Overcoming Jealousy
“Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.”
“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.”
“The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.”
“Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.”
“Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.”
“Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.”
“Keep your eyes on the stars and your feet on the ground.”
“Envy is the art of counting the other fellow’s blessings instead of your own.”
“To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self.”
“The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.”
“Surround yourself with positive people and situations, and avoid negativity.”
“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.”
“Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.”
“Turn jealousy into admiration and what you admire will become part of your life.”
“Comparison is the thief of joy.”
“When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everyone will respect you.”
“Don’t waste your time on jealousy. Sometimes you’re ahead, sometimes you’re behind.”
“Envy is ignorance, imitation is suicide.”
“Goodbye Jealousy, you’ve been a good companion, but I have new friends now.”
“Jealousy is nothing more than a fear of abandonment.”
“Jealousy is an emotion, which, if controlled, can be turned into positive motivation.”
“In jealousy there is more of self-love than love.”
“Only the mind can solve its own problems.”
“Be a witness, not a judge. Focus on yourself, not on others. Listen to your heart, not to the crowd.”
“Don’t compare your life to others. There’s no comparison between the sun and the moon. They shine when it’s their time.”
“The best way to escape from your problem is to solve it.”
“A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything.”
“Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please.”
“Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.”
“Jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire.”
“What comes easy won’t last. What lasts won’t come easy.”
“A flower does not think of competing with the flower next to it. It just blooms.”
Humorous Jealousy Quotes
“Jealousy is just love and hate at the same time.”
“Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.”
“A jealous girlfriend is a faithful girlfriend. If she doesn’t get jealous when someone has your attention, it’s because someone has hers.”
“Jealousy: the green-eyed monster that doth mock the meat it feeds on.”
“I don’t get jealous; I just get even.”
“It’s not love that makes you miserable; it’s the jealousy and possessiveness.”
“I told my husband he should embrace his mistakes. He gave me a hug.”
“Jealousy is when you count someone else’s blessings instead of your own.”
“When we are jealous, we poison ourselves with a cocktail of insecurity and suspicion.”
“I get jealous because I’m afraid someone is going to make you happier than I do.”
“Jealousy is a terrible disease…get well soon!”
“If you think I’m jealous, then you’re right. I probably am.”
“I’m not really a jealous person, but when I see someone else holding your hand, I want to break theirs.”
“If at first you don’t succeed, try doing it the way your wife told you.”
“That awkward moment when you see your ex and you’re looking at each other like, ‘I knew you were crazy.'”
“A little jealousy in a romantic relationship is like salt in food. Too much can ruin the dish, but a pinch can enhance the flavor.”
“Sometimes I get jealous of myself when I imagine someone else enjoying your company.”
“If you want to find out who’s really your friend, get yourself a girlfriend and wait to see who gets jealous.”
“A jealous man can only produce a jealous mind.”
“Some people only hate you because of the way other people love you.”
“The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.”
“Keep calm and make your ex jealous.”
“I’m not jealous, I’m just territorial. Jealous is when you want something that’s not yours. Territorial is protecting what’s already yours.”
“A little jealousy can be cute now and then; a lot of jealousy can be a restraining order waiting to happen.”
“They say love is all you need, but a little jealousy makes it more interesting.”
“Jealousy is counting someone else’s blessings instead of your own.”
“Sometimes I get jealous of my phone. It’s the only thing you hold all day and night.”
“Jealousy is like a volcano: not pretty when it erupts but fascinating to observe from a distance.”
“I don’t get jealous, I get suspicious. And then I go looking for answers I don’t want to find.”
“Jealousy is just love in competition.”
“You can only be jealous of someone who has something you think you ought to have yourself.”
“Jealousy is a disease; I hope you get well soon.”
“If jealousy was truly a green-eyed monster, I’d be keeping it as a pet.”
Deep Jealousy Quotes from Poets
“Jealousy is a green-eyed monster which doth mock the meat it feeds on.”
“Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.”
“Envy is the art of counting the other fellow’s blessings instead of your own.”
“Jealousy is just love and hate at the same time.”
“O, beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock the meat it feeds on.”
“Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.”
“Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.”
“The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.”
“I have never been jealous. Not even when my dad finished fifth grade a year before I did.”
“Jealousy is the tie that binds, and binds, and binds.”
“Jealousy… is a mental cancer.”
“The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.”
“What we feel as envy when others succeed is a challenge for us to pursue our own paths to success.”
“The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time.”
“Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.”
“The cure for the bitter bite of jealousy is the sweet taste of contentment.”
“Is it not the same distance between envy and admiration, as between hypocrisy and virtue?”
“Comparisons are odious.”
“Envy is ignorance.”
“The jealous bring down the curse they fear upon their own heads.”
“Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.”
“Jealousy is the grave of affection.”
“Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.”
“The venom clamours of a jealous woman poison more deadly than a mad dog’s tooth.”
“Jealousy is the fear of comparison.”
“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.”
“Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.”
“Jealousy—tormenting yourself, for fear you should be tormented by another.”
“Don’t let jealousy be your compass; there is no true direction in its erratic nature.”
“Envy is thin because it bites but never eats.”
“Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.”
“Envy and wrath shorten the life.”
Jealousy Quotes from Famous Psychologists
“Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretense of keeping it alive.”
“Jealousy… is a mental cancer.”
“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.”
“The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.”
“Jealousy is the tie that binds, and binds, and binds.”
“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.”
“Jealousy is an awkward homage which inferiority renders to merit.”
“It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.”
“Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.”
“Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.”
“Jealousy is the art of counting someone else’s blessings instead of 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.”
“Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.”
“The envious die not once but as oft as the envied win applause.”
“To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self.”
“Jealousy is a self-inflicted wound.”
“Jealousy is the fear of comparison.”
“Jealousy is superstition in love.”
“Jealousy is the fear that you have no value.”
“Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.”
“Envy aims very high.”
“He that is not jealous is not in love.”
“Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes itself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow its neighbor to have them through envy.”
“Jealousy is always born with love, but does not always die with it.”
“Jealousy sees things always with magnifying glasses which make little things large, of dwarfs giants, of suspicions truths.”
“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.”
“The jealous bring down the curse they fear upon their own heads.”
“Jealousy is like a shadow cast by the sun; no one is immune to its darkness.”
“Jealousy is a form of hatred built upon insecurity.”
“Jealousy is a green-eyed monster that dwells in the depths of our hearts.”
“Jealousy is the other side of love. When love is gone, jealousy fades away.”
The Last Word
Jealousy is an emotion everyone feels at some point. It can be tough, but it also reminds us of our desires and what matters most. By reading and reflecting on these quotes, we can better understand our feelings and learn how to handle them.
Thanks for spending time with our list of jealousy quotes. We hope they offered some comfort and insight. Next time jealousy arises, remember these words of wisdom. They might just help you through it.
