#jealous

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

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

#bred #cloudy #damp #despondency #egoism

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

— Jeff Foxworthy

#been #before #dad #did #even

There is something mean in human nature that prefers to think evil, that gives a willing ear and a ready welcome to calumny, a sort of jealousy of goodness and greatness and things of good report. ↗

— Richard Le Gallienne

#ear #evil #gives #good #goodness

There's no regret. You can't regret. I mean, I've felt regret but I've also refused to allow regret to sow a seed and live in me because I don't believe it. You feel it, it's like guilt, it's like jealousy, it's like all those horrible things. You've just got to snip them and get them out, because they're no good. ↗

— Jude Law

#allow #also #because #believe #feel

On the same line of reasoning, if Australians were to be Australians, or rather if Australians were as separate from any other nation as Australia from any other land, there would be no jealousy between them on England's account. ↗

— Henry Lawson

#any #australia #australians #between #england

It is matrimonial suicide to be jealous when you have a really good reason. ↗

— Clare Boothe Luce

#good reason #jealous #really #reason #suicide

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

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

— Solomon Ibn Gabirol

#coals #cruel #fire #grave #thereof

You will not accept credit that is due to another, or harbor jealousy of an explorer who is more fortunate. ↗