QUOTES ABOUT JEALOUSY: THE MOST BEAUTIFUL QUOTES ABOUT THIS HUMAN FEELING

Very often, jealousy is confused with envy, but the two are very different feelings. In fact, envy consists in desiring something that belongs to another. While jealousy is the fear of losing someone you love or care about particularly because they choose to bond with another person. Hence doubts, a sharp decline in self-esteem and a strong sense of insecurity. We fear being betrayed because we are not up to par. In this regard, did you know that, among all the zodiac signs, some are considered more traitors than others?

In any case, jealousy has over time become the main theme of many texts and phrases by famous authors. We have collected the most beautiful and touching aphorisms about this natural human fear which is not always to be condemned, but which, of course, must be limited.

The aphorisms that explain what jealousy is

Who better than the great authors can explain what this phantom jealousy is? In each sentence on this theme, the writers highlight a different aspect of it and, in general, condemn it because, if left unchecked, it risks doing irreparable damage.

Jealousy is a dog barking that attracts thieves.
Karl Kraus

Jealousy is a lack of esteem for a loved one.
Ivan Alekseevič Bunin

Jealousy is a green-eyed monster that makes fun of the flesh it feeds on.
William Shakespeare

Jealousy is often just a restless need for tyranny applied to the things of love.
Marcel Proust

Love is as strong as death; jealousy is as cruel as the grave.
William Shakespeare

Jealousy arises as an invisible dot, close to the chest, then gradually grows and takes the whole heart.
Some days you feel it advancing and advancing with incredible fury.
The whole body is not enough to contain it.
Fabrizio Caramagna

He who is jealous is never jealous of what he sees; what he imagines is enough.
Jacinto Benavente

Jealousy is the greatest of all evils and the one that gives less pity to those who cause it.
François de La Rochefoucauld

Jealousy is nothing more than a form of allergy, where the "pollen" is the rival in love.
Gianni Monduzzi

Jealousy is the disease of the soul.
David Herbert Lawrence

A competent and self-confident person is incapable of any sort of jealousy. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.
Robert Heinlein

Jealousy is a mixture of love, hate, greed and pride.
Alphonse Karr

The best quotes on jealousy as the antithesis of love

It is said that jealousy is born with love, but that, however, it is the main cause of its end. Many authors have thus underlined that it is not synonymous with the feeling of love, on the contrary. Jealousy would represent the opposite of love, which is made up of trust, respect and esteem.

Jealous love lights its torch in the fire of the Furies.
Edmund Burke

Loving each other means being sure of each other. There is no room for suspicion, for betrayal, for jealousy. Jealousy is the worst of evils, because it is the only one against which pride is powerless.
Michal Choromanski

Jealousy always comes with love, but it doesn't always die with him.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It is not infidelity that destroys most couples, but rather jealousy.
Fredric Brown

If jealousy is a sign of love, it is like a sick person's fever, for which having it is a sign of life, but of a sick and ill-disposed life.
Miguel de Cervantes

Jealousy is the daughter of pride but passes itself off as the sister of love.
Anonymous

Love gives rise to jealousy, but jealousy makes love die.
Christina of Sweden

The jealous person loves a lot, but the one who isn't jealous loves better.
Molière

In jealousy there is more self-love than love.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

To love, to be deceived, to be jealous - these things happen. But the other way is more uncomfortable: being jealous, being deceived, loving!
Karl Kraus

Jealousy of love is an exasperated feeling of ownership.
Paul Brulat

Jealousy, that dragon that kills love under the pretext of keeping it alive.
Havelock Ellis

The most beautiful phrases about jealousy as a support for love

Not everyone, however, entirely condemns jealousy in relationships. Some writers have pointed out how it can add liveliness to a couple's life and make the partner feel loved, when, of course, it does not degenerate into obsession. Here are a few sentences on this issue.

Jealousy has to enter into love, like nutmeg in food. It has to be there, but it doesn't have to be felt.
Francesco Algarotti

Jealousy. The other side of love.
Ambrose Bierce

Whoever lives jealous, cuckold dies.
Proverb

A pinch of jealousy can work wonders, two can make a mess.
Paolo Crepet

Jealousy at the right point: tease without suffocating.
Marta Marzotto

Women rarely forgive us for being jealous; but he will never forgive us for not being.
Paul-Jean Toulet

Jealousy is in a certain sense just and reasonable, since it tends only to preserve a good that belongs to us, or that we believe belongs to us; while envy is a fury that cannot bear the good of others.
François de La Rochefoucauld

Jealousy kills love, but leaves desire intact.
Carlos Fuentes

Who is not jealous does not love.
Augustine of Hippo

Aphorisms about jealousy not only in love

Jealousy doesn't just show up in love. One can also be jealous in friendship, in family, in other social relationships and even in one's dreams.

I am jealous of my personal dignity, of what makes me aware of myself. A law cannot establish what I am, what I ought to be. Only biology has begun to explain it. My embryo is my being: body, intellect, spirit, in unum. Woe to anyone who had touched my existence, were I also blind and thalassemic; I'd break his head.
Luigi Maria Verzé

I think I'm one of the most jealous people in the world. My right hand is jealous if the left paints a nice picture.
Andy Warhol

Friendship has its jealous, like love.
George Sand

The record industry is full of hatred and jealousy. Everyone in it is a missed bass player. Everyone wants to get on stage.
Morrissey

I am jealous of what is obscure, unconscious, of what an explanation is unthinkable for, which cannot be foreseen.
I am jealous of the objects in your toilet, the drops of sweat on your skin, the airborne infectious diseases, which can attach themselves to you and poison your blood.
Boris Pasternak

Drying a friend's tears is easy, it is harder to stand in the audience and applaud him at the moment of triumph.
Gianfranco Ravasi

The best phrases about the suffering caused by jealousy

Being jealous doesn't feel good. We live constantly in the anxiety that our loved one may be unfaithful and that he will not reciprocate our love in the same way. We have collected the quotes that best explain the suffering caused by this fear.

Of all the arduous feats that can be attempted in the world, none are as difficult as the healing of the jealous.
Elias Canetti

Welcome to the wonderful world of jealousy. With the ticket price, you get a headache, an almost irresistible urge to commit murder, and an inferiority complex.
JR Ward

In the search for torment, in the persistence of suffering, only the jealous can compete with the martyr. Yet, one is canonized and the other is ridiculed.
Emil Cioran

Jealousy, when angry, commits more crimes than interest and ambition.
Voltaire

Jealousy feeds on suspicion, and turns into fury or dies when suspicion turns into certainty.
François de La Rochefoucauld

I am afraid of losing the wonder of your statuesque eyes and the cadence that the solitary rose of breath rests on my cheek at night.
Federico Garcia Lorca

I speak of the jealousy that empties the veins at the idea that being loved penetrates another's body, the jealousy that bends the legs, takes away sleep, destroys the liver, torments the thoughts, the jealousy that poisons the intelligence with suspicious questions, fears, and mortifies the dignity with investigations, complaints, traps, making you feel robbed.
Oriana Fallaci

It's not so much jealousy, maybe it's just sorrow in knowing how easily replaceable we are.
Anonymous

He wondered: what happened? And he answered: nothing, and he remembered that jealousy was a feeling that humiliated him and his wife, but again in the living room he was convinced that something had happened.
Lev Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

You get used to not eating, to suffer from toothache or stomach pain, you even get used to the absence of being loved, but you don't get used to jealousy.
Colette

As jealous, I suffer four times: because I am jealous, because I reproach myself for being jealous, because I fear that my jealousy will end up hurting the other, because I allow myself to be subjugated by a banality: I suffer from being excluded, to be aggressive, to be crazy and to be like everyone else.
Roland Barthes

Jealousy is a nuisance to others, but it is a torment to itself.
William Penn

Ironic and irreverent quotes about jealousy

Finally, we wanted to conclude with some funny and pungent phrases about jealousy.

Don't be jealous if you see your ex with someone else. Mom taught us that you have to give used toys to the less fortunate.
Marilyn Monroe

Ugly women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never have the time. They are always so busy being jealous of each other's husbands.
Oscar Wilde

A man makes his partner jealous of others. A gentleman makes other women jealous of his.
Anonymous

The jealous man is like a snail: his eyes are well placed to watch over his beloved, but a little too much on the tips of his horns.
Tudor Vasiliu