Jealousy Envy Quotes

• The desire to create continually is vulgar and betrays jealousy, envy, ambition. If one is something one really does not need to make anything --and one nonetheless does very much. There exists above the ''productive'' man a yet higher species.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Jealousy, Betrayal, Creativity

  Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.97, Cambridge University Press

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• I think it's important to get your surroundings as well as yourself into a positive state - meaning surround yourself with positive people, not the kind who are negative and jealous of everything you do.

  Heidi Klum

  Positive, Jealousy, Thinking

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• Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead.

  Mark Twain

  Jealousy, Envy, Gossip

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.75, Courier Corporation

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• Jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire.

  Solomon Ibn Gabirol

  Jealousy, Fire, Coal

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• There is never jealousy where there is not strong regard.

  Washington Irving

  Jealousy, Strong, Regard

  Washington Irving (1835). “The complete works”, p.475

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• The soul of the world is nourished by people's Happiness.

  Paulo Coelho

  People, Soul, Alchemist

  Paulo Coelho (2009). “The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.22, Harper Collins

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• Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Jealousy, Doubt, Madness

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• I'm emotionless, yet I breathe jealousy and envy
  People kill for me or die to defend me

  Kirk Jones

  Rap, People, Envy

  Song: Money Talks

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• 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

  Jealousy, Pain, Men

  Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd (1811). “The Spectator”, p.356

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• Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Humble, Humility, Ambitious

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• There is no greater glory than love, nor any greater punishment than jealousy.

  Lope de Vega

  Jealousy, Punishment, Glory

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• Jealousy is the result of one's lack of self-confidence, self-worth, and self-acceptance.

  Sasha Azevedo

  Sad, Jealousy, Self Confidence

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A loving relationship is one in which the loved one is free to be himself -- to laugh with me, but never at me; to cry with me, but never because of me; to love life, to love himself, to love being loved. Such a relationship is based upon freedom and can never grow in a jealous heart

  Leo Buscaglia

  Love, Relationship, Marriage

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• Envy lurks at the bottom of the human heart like a viper in its hole.

  Honore de Balzac

  Jealousy, Heart, Envy

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• The Soul of the World is nourished by people's happiness. And also by unhappiness, envy, and jealousy. To realize one's Personal Legend is a person's only real obligation. All things are one.

  Paulo Coelho

  Real, People, Envy

  Paulo Coelho (2009). “The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.22, Harper Collins

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

  Rajneesh

  Jealousy, Attitude, Unique

  Rajneesh (Bhagwan Shree), Swami Krishna Prem (1984). “From I to Q”

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• Some men just want to watch the world burn

  Michael Caine

  Crush, Depressing, Dark

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• I have never been jealous. Not even when my dad finished fifth grade a year before I did.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Funny, Graduation, Jealousy

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• Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.

  Carrie Fisher

  Inspirational, Friendship, Positive

  Carrie Fisher (2012). “Wishful Drinking”, p.153, Simon and Schuster

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• There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.

  George Eliot

  Jealousy, Passion, Fire

  George Eliot (1994). “Middlemarch”, p.175, Wordsworth Editions

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• Respect kindly all religions that teach loving kindness, and have no respect for envy and jealousy. Never follow hate.

  Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo

  Love, Kindness, Hate

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• Love shouldn't be about jealousy or anything like that. It should be about commitment and being able to trust that person. If you can't have that from the get-go, there's a problem.

  Aaron Carter

  Jealousy, Commitment, Able

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• We must seek ways to solve difficulties such as hatred, envy and jealousy.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Envy, Hatred, Way

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• The heart of the jealous knows the best and most satisfying love, that of the other's bed, where the rival perfects the lover's imperfections.

  Djuna Barnes

  Jealous, Heart, Imperfection

  Djuna Barnes (2014). “Nightwood”, p.70, Faber & Faber

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• The only thing more frustrating than slanderers is those foolish enough to listen to them.

  Criss Jami

  Funny, Jealousy, Hater

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.116, Criss Jami

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