#jealous

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels. ↗

— Saint Augustine

#around #bonds #burst #caught #eager

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

#best #heart #imperfections #jealous #knows

That is ever the way. 'Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse. ↗

— James M. Barrie

#bride #corpse #ever #good #good wishes

Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies. ↗

— Elizabeth Bowen

#against #alone #feeling #more #smiling

Jealousy - that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#aversion #jumble #ostensible #secret #worship

Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits. ↗

— Paul Eldridge

#far #far less #jealousy #less #love

If one of two lovers is loyal, and the other jealous and false, how may their friendship last, for Love is slain! ↗

— Marie de France

#false #friendship #how #jealous #last

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

— Solomon Ibn Gabirol

#coals #cruel #fire #grave #thereof

I am drawn to women who are independent and creative, which is problematic because it's a struggle, a competition of careers. There's jealousy. ↗

— Marilyn Manson

#am #because #careers #competition #creative

I told them how excited I would be to go into space and how thrilled I was when Alan Shepard made his historic flight, and when John Kennedy announced on the news that the men had landed safely on the moon, and how jealous I was of those men. ↗

— Christa McAuliffe

#announced #excited #flight #go #had