Top 1200 Jealousy And Envy Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

jealousy is indeed the shadow of love.

Jealousy - the Auschwitz of emotions.

Jealousy's eyes are green.

Money brings jealousy and bitterness.

Jealousy... is a mental cancer.

What is freedom? It consists in two things: to know each his own limitations and accept them - that is the same thing as to know oneself, and accept oneself as one is, without fear, or envy, or distaste; and to recognise and accept the conditions under which one lives, also without fear or envy, or distaste. When you do this, you shall be free.

Jealousy is a disease, it's like a poison.

Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.

It's amazing the clarity that comes with psychotic jealousy.

Jealousy will drive you mad.

All jealousy must be strangled in its birth.

I do not envy a clergyman's life as an easy life, nor do I envy the clergyman who makes it an easy life.

Jealousy is the suspicion of one's own inferiority.

Jealousy fuses megalomania and self-abandonment.

I measured love by the extent of my jealousy.

I do not say anything from jealousy.

In love, Jealousy is the great exaggerator.

The knives of jealousy are honed on details.

The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.

Jealousy is a scary thing.

No tears to damn you when jealousy burns.

jealousy is the direct result of self-betrayal.

Because of jealousy you are in constant suffering; you become mean to others. And because of jealousy you start becoming phony, because you start pretending. You start pretending things that you don't have, you start pretending things which you CAN'T have, which are not natural to you. You become more and more artificial. Imitating others, competing with others, what else can you do? If somebody has something and you don't have it, and you don't have a natural possibility of having it, the only way is to have some cheap substitute for it.

Oppressed cultures often envy those which are not, or oppressed individuals do, and sometimes those which - and who - are not envy those which - who - are.

Greed, envy, sloth, pride and gluttony: these are not vices anymore. No, these are marketing tools. Lust is our way of life. Envy is just a nudge towards another sale. Even in our relationships we consume each other, each of us looking for what we can get out of the other. Our appetites are often satisfied at the expense of those around us. In a dog-eat-dog world we lose part of our humanity.

Once you become more and more watchful of your inner workings things become simple. Then a few things have to be dropped. One has not to be jealous if one wants to be loving. It becomes so clear that there is no question about it; one can simply see the point that if you are jealous, love is impossible. Jealousy is bound to create misery. Jealousy is part of ego, the shadow of the ego, the shadow of a shadow - and love needs egolessness. They can't go together, they can't co-exist.

Ignorance is jealousy's twin sister.

Jealousy is the grave of affection.

Jealousy is the fear of comparison.

Jealousy ... is the most obvious sign of impotency.

Jealousy is such an ugly emotion.

The jealousy of the dead is lasting!

O jealousy! thou magnifier of trifles.

We are the wise. Do not envy us— We who are too wise to draw near the fire Lest we get burned; We who are too wise to love Lest love should vanish and we be hurt. We are the wise. Do not envy us our wisdom— We who are too wise to live Lest we should die.

Jealousy’s a weak emotion.

Jealousy always gets the best of me.

Jealousy is a strange transformer of characters.

And oft, my jealousy shapes faults that are not.

Jealousy dislikes the world to know it.

Jealousy, the old worm that bites.

To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self.

Jealousy is the most dreadfully involuntary of all sins.

It's a completely useless emotion - jealousy. I don't go there.

Drop jealousy and love wells up. Jealousy means that I am the owner. It is an ego trip, and wherever there is ego there is poison, and the poison kills the very source of love. One has to become aware of just these few things and discard them and one's life becomes a lotus of love. And then there is no need to go in any search of god, god will come in search of you. This is my observation, that god always comes seeking the true seeker. Whenever the disciple is ready the master appears.

Jealousy is comparison. And we have been taught to compare, we have been conditioned to compare, always compare. Somebody else has a better house, somebody else has a more beautiful body, somebody else has more money, somebody else has a more charismatic personality. Compare, go on comparing yourself with everybody else you pass by, and great jealousy will be the outcome; it is the by-product of the conditioning for comparison.

There's no jealousy in the grave.

The test of Ahimsa is absence of jealousy.

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

It is jealousy that leads people to tarnish you.

It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.

Jealousy does not wait for reasons.

There is never jealousy where there is not strong regard.

I believe in healthy competition not jealousy.

In Tibet there is no marriage, and there is no jealousy, yet we know that marriage is a much higher state. The Tibetans have not known the wonderful enjoyment, the blessing of chastity, the happiness of having a chaste, virtuous wife, or a chaste, virtuous husband. These people cannot feel that. And similarly they do not feel the intense jealousy of the chaste wife or husband, or the misery caused by unfaithfulness on either side, with all the heart-burnings and sorrows which believers in chastity experience. On one side, the latter gain happiness, but on the other, they suffer misery too.

Don't waste your time on jealousy.

My reaction to Radiohead isn't as simple as jealousy. Jealousy just burns; Radiohead infuriate me. But if it were only that, I wouldn't go back and listen to those records again and again. Listening to Radiohead makes me fell like I'm a Salieri to their Mozart. Yorke's lyrics make me want to give up. I could never in my wildest dreams find something as beautiful as they find for a single song - let alone album after album.

Jealousy is one of love's parasites.

Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.

Jealousy is the paralysis of love.

What frenzy dictates, jealousy believes