107 Quotes About Jealousy In Friendship & Love

If you’re jealous of a friend or lover, or they’re jealous of you, read through this list of helpful quotes about jealousy to help cope with the feeling and find peace in yourself.

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Jealousy Quotes

“She let the jealousy slip out of her fingertips.” – Jodi Lynn Anderson

“He who is jealous, is never jealous of what you see, with what is imagined is enough.” – Jacinto Benavente

“Envy suggests inferiority.” – Wayne Gerard Trotman

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

“The jealous bring down the curse they fear upon their own heads.” – Dorothy Dix

“Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves.” – Joseph Addison

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“Envy is thin because it bites but never eats.” – Spanish Proverb

“You can be the moon and still be jealous of the stars.” – Gary Allan

“Jealousy blurs the focus.” – Toba Beta

“I’ve never been jealous before I met you, it burns, luv. Like silver through my veins.” – Jeaniene Frost

“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, Characteristics, 1823

“Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.” – John Dryden

“Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.” – Francois de la Rochefoucauld

“The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.” – Salvador Dal

“Jealousy is the great exaggerator.” – Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller, The Conspiracy of Fiesco, 1783

“Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead.” – Mark Twain

“Beware of those who are bitter, for they will never allow you to enjoy your fruit.” – Suzy Kassem

“Envy is like a fly that passes all the body’s sounder parts, and dwells upon the sores.” – Arthur Chapman

“The envious person grows lean with the fatness of their neighbor.” – Socrates

“O jealousy! thou magnifier of trifles.” – Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller

“What is jealousy but a reflection of your own failures?” – Michael Connelly

“Nothing sharpens sight like envy.” – Thomas Fuller

“Stop worrying about someone taking your spot. God already have it reserved. Do the work to get there and fill it!” – Yvonne Pierre

“My heart is too valuable to allow hatred and jealousy to rent a spot.” – Mufti Ismail Menk

“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

“Oh, what a bitter thing it is to look into happiness through another man’s eyes.” – William Shakespeare

“Jealousy hyphenates love in all the wrong places.” – Terri Guillemets

“To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.” – F. Sagan

“Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise.” – John Gay

“Envy is more irreconcilable than hatred.” – François de la Rochefoucauld

“Love bears two negative feelings; fear and jealousy, overcoming that, beautify life; otherwise, these become self-hurting.” – Ehsan Sehgal

“What sort of love is permeated by jealousy? You are jealous because you are unaware that everything you need is inside you.” – Peter Deunov

“Pure love allows no room for jealousy.- James Lendall Basford (1845” – 1915), Sparks from the Philosopher’s Stone

“The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.” – Colette

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

“Jealousy is the dragon in paradise; the hell of heaven; and the most bitter of the emotions because associated with the sweetest.” – R. Orage

“Envy is a waste of time.” – Unknown

“Jealousy is the grave of affection.” – Mary Baker Eddy

“Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival.” – Thomas Jefferson

“Jealousy is, I think, the worst of all faults because it makes a victim of both parties.” – Gene Tierney

“Jealousy – that sickening combination of possessiveness, suspicion, rage, and humiliation – can overtake your mind and threaten your very core as you contemplate your rival.” – Helen Fisher

“It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.” – Aeschylus

“Jealousy—Tormenting yourself, for fear you should be tormented by another.” – Paul Chatfield

“Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.” – Fulton J. Sheen

“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.” – Elizabeth O’Connor

“Jealousy is one of the wickedest of all the passions. It is that which has been the most fruitful mother of tragedies, murders, and wars. But reprehensible though it is, jealousy is almost rather to be pitied than blamed–its first victims are those who harbour the feeling.” – Arthur Lynch

“Feeling Jealous of Same-field Friends is Normal, But Don’t Let It Ruin Your Creativity. Focus -Learn more about your innate talents Instead.” – Chandima Gangodawila

“If you are getting jealous of someone excellence, believe me it will make you upset, disturbing, nervous, confused, distressing, and so on.” – Santosh Kumar

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

“A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.” – Robert A. Heinlein

“Take heed you harbor not that vice called Envy, lest another’s happiness be your torment, and God’s blessing become your curse.” – Wellins Calcott

“Even if people pretend that they’re OK with it, jealousy can eat people alive.” – Phoebe Fox

“Jealousy is the tie that binds, and binds, and binds.” – Helen Rowland

“Dismiss personal jealousy and complaints. Learn to have tolerance and patience, both with yourself and with others.” – Thomas Erikson

“Surrounded by the flames of jealousy, the jealous one winds up, like the scorpion, turning the poisoned sting against himself.” – Friedrich Nietzsche

“As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.” – Antisthenes

“Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.” – Carrie Fisher

“Marriage and its entourage of possession and jealousy enslave the spirit.” – Irvin D. Yalom

“I am used to jealousy and people putting me in a box and labeling me without really knowing me.” – Sonja Morgan

“Jealousy is always born with love, but does not always die with it.” – François de la Rochefoucauld, Maxims

“The worst part of success is trying to find someone who is happy for you.” – Bette Midler

“Men are so constituted that every one undertakes what he sees another successful in, whether he has aptitude for it or not.” – Johann Von Goethe

“It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.” – Aeschylus

“Grudges get heavier, the longer they are carried.” – F. P.K. Thomajan

“A jealous husband is an ugly thing.” – Keith Ablow

“Envy assails the noblest: the winds howl around the highest peaks.” – Ovid

“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

“Jealousy is a funny thing. We spend so much of high school consumed by it, hating that another person has something we don’t, wishing we could taste what it’s like to be them.” – Casey McQuiston

“Rust consumes iron and envy consumes itself.” – Danish Proverb

“Jealousy – that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion.” – Emile M. Cioran

“It’s a completely useless emotion – jealousy. I don’t go there.” – Joy Behar

“Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.” – Elizabeth Bowen

“Envy is thin because it bites but never eats.” – Spanish Proverb

“Comparison is a very foolish attitude, because each person is unique and incomparable. Once this understanding settles in you, jealousy disappears.” – Osho

“Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.” – George Eliot

“Jealousy is a crutch.” – Terri Guillemets

“Jealousy is love in competition.” – Toba Beta

“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

“Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.” – Josh Billings

“Anger, resentment, and jealousy don’t change the heart of others – it only changes yours.” – Shannon Alder

“Envy lurks at the bottom of the human heart like a viper in its hole.” – Honoré de Balzac

“The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.” – Baltasar Gracián

“Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.” – George Eliot

“Envy is the coward side of Hate, and all her ways are bleak and desolate.” – Henry Abbey

“Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretense of keeping it alive.” – Havelock Ellis, On Life and Sex: Essays of Love and Virtue, 1937

“Jealousy is a disease. Get well soon.” – Paris Hilton

“You can only be jealous of someone who has something you think you ought to have yourself.” – Margaret Atwood

“I don’t ever remember being particularly jealous of anybody, because I figured if I can’t do it myself, I don’t deserve to get it.” – Clyde Tombaugh

“Envy is the most stupid of vices, for there is no single advantage to be gained from it.” – Honore de Balzac

“Insecure people only eclipse your sun because they’re jealous of your daylight and tired of their dark, starless nights.” – Shannon L. Alder

“You can’t be friends with someone who wants your life.” – Oprah Winfrey

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

“Jealousy is an attempt to hold by force what you know you can’t hold by merit” – Bangambiki Habyarimana

“Envy among other ingredients has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good-fortune.” – William Hazlitt

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

“Jealousy cuts across, and does not necessarily blend with, other aspects of a relationship.” – Terri Apter

“Whoever envies another confesses his superiority.” – Samuel Johnson, The Rambler

“Every other sin hath some pleasure annexed to it, or will admit of an excuse: envy alone wants both.” – Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy

“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

“The venom clamors of a jealous woman poison more deadly than a mad dog’s tooth.” – William Shakespeare

“O! Beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock the meat it feeds on.” – William Shakespeare, Othello

“If two people can fully trust one another and are good at communicating with each other, jealousy will never win. NEVER!” – Robert Rain

“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, ‘Never Love Unless’