#jealousy

Fame is a jealous mistress And will brook no rival. ↗

— Thiruvalluvar

#greatness #jealousy #virtue #jealousy

The words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton's first law of jealousy. ↗

— Erica Jong

#jealousy

At that time, he was satisfying a sensual curiosity by experiencing the pleasures of people who live for love. He had believed he could stop there, that he would not be obliged to learn their sorrows; how small a thing her charm was for him now compared with the astounding terror that extended out from it like a murky halo, the immense anguish of not knowing at every moment what she had been doing, of not possessing her everywhere and always! ↗

— Marcel Proust

#love #jealousy

Okay, guys. Stop it. Are you going to start peeing on me to mark your territory? ↗

— Maegan Lynn Moores

#humour #jealousy #men #humor

Jealousy is an ugly emotion that makes people do some seriously whacked shit and when a woman is experiencing it, it's worse. ↗

— Kristen Ashley

#kane-allen #tack #dreams

Like hatred, jealousy is forbidden by the laws of life because it is essentially destructive. ↗

— Alexis Carrel

#because #destructive #essentially #forbidden #hatred

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love. ↗

— George Eliot

#bear #jealousy #lose #love #more

It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it. ↗

— George Washington

#abuse #deprive #found #his #liberty

Passion can quickly slip to jealousy, or even hatred. ↗

— Arthur Golden

#even #hatred #passion #quickly #slip

Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined. ↗

— Patrick Henry

#approaches #attention #downright #everyone #force