Posts Tagged ‘jealousy’

I was going through some old documents I had, blog posts, various things I had in old computer files and journals. I found some interesting things about jealousy that I’d saved. Don’t read too much into the subject matter, though; it’s just interesting and not a veiled cry for help. :)

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

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

Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
François de La Rochefoucauld

Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.
Havelock Ellis

Jealousy is indeed a poor medium to secure love, but it is a secure medium to destroy one’s self-respect. For jealous people, like dope-fiends, stoop to the lowest level and in the end inspire only disgust and loathing.
Emma Goldman