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

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.

Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.

I do not think that you can fake warmth. You can fake lust, jealousy, anger those are all quite easy. But actual, genuine warmth? I do not think you can fake it.

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

Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.

It is amazing the clarity that comes with psychotic jealousy.

Lovers may be - and indeed generally are - enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.

Love shouldn't be about jealousy or anything like that. It should be about commitment and being able to trust that person. If you can not have that from the get-go, there is a problem.

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.

The surest route to breeding jealousy is to compare. Since jealousy comes from feeling less than another, comparisons only fan the fires.

Dogs are our link to paradise. They do not know evil or jealousy or discontent.

To talk about balance, it is easier to talk about what's out of balance. And I think anytime that you have any disease, and disease meaning lack of ease, lack of flow... dis-ease. So any time there is disease, you are out of balance, whether it is jealousy, anger, greed, anxiety, fear.

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

Back then I did not think a woman like that, or a relationship like that, could exist with complete freedom and no jealousy or possessiveness. I thought it sounded too good to be true and I was certainly convinced it was not the life for me!

Jealousy is not at all low, but it catches us humbled and bowed down, at first sight.

Nature is at work. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow.

People can do all kinds of things that maybe aren't wise in hindsight because of jealousy.

In my experience lust only ever leads to misery. All that suspicion and jealousy and anguish it unleashes. I do not want those things in my life.