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Jealousy
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Green-Eyed Monster Unveiled.
Jealousy is the painful and complex emotion arising from the perceived threat to a valued relationship or possession, often fueled by insecurity and fear of loss. It is a primal force that, while potentially destructive, reveals the profound importance we place on connection, belonging, and the things we cherish, motivating us to protect and preserve what we hold dear.
# Jealousy & Emotions
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Context: • Imam Ali, Ghurar al-hikam. Āmidī, ʻAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Muḥammad (2012), Exalted aphorisms and pearls of speech: a translation of Ghurar al-hikam wa-durar al-kalim: a collection of aphorisms of Imam ʻAli ibn Abi Talib, (1st ed.) page: 294, place: Qum, Iran, publisher: Ansariyan Publications, ISBN: 9642192802
• Source: Wikiquote: "Jealousy" (Quotes)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Jealousy" (Quotes)
“A believer is never jealous.”
— Unknown
Emotions
Interpersonal relationships
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Context: • Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene (1589-96), Book I, Canto VIII, Stanza 40.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Jealousy" (Quotes)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Jealousy" (Quotes)
“Entire affection hateth nicer hands.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Eve, "Let Me Blow Ya Mind", Scorpion (6 March 2001), New York: Ruff Ryders Entertainment
• Source: Wikiquote: "Jealousy" (Quotes)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Jealousy" (Quotes)
“Jealousy: Let it go; results could be tragic.”
— Unknown
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Context: • François de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims (1665), No. 334.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Jealousy" (Quotes)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Jealousy" (Quotes)
“In jealousy there is more self-love than love.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Alexander Pope, Prologue to the Satires, line 197.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Jealousy" (Quotes, Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 403-04.)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Jealousy" (Quotes, Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 403-04.)
“Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne.”
— Unknown
# Jealousy & Interpersonal relationships
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Context: • O jealousy! thou magnifier of trifles.
• Friedrich Schiller, Fiesco, I, 1.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Jealousy" (Quotes, Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 403-04.)
• Friedrich Schiller, Fiesco, I, 1.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Jealousy" (Quotes, Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 403-04.)
“O, der alles vergrössernden Eifersucht.”
— Unknown
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“Love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave.”
— Unknown
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Context: • John Milton, Paradise Lost (1667; 1674), Book V, line 449.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Jealousy" (Quotes)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Jealousy" (Quotes)
“Nor jealousy
Was understood, the injur'd lover's hell.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Owen Meredith (Lord Lytton), Lucile (1860), Part II, Canto I, Stanza 24, line 8.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Jealousy" (Quotes, Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 403-04.)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Jealousy" (Quotes, Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 403-04.)
“No true love there can be without
Its dread penalty—jealousy.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Men are the cause of women not loving one another.
• La Bruyère.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Jealousy" (Quotes, Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 403-04.)
• La Bruyère.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Jealousy" (Quotes, Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 403-04.)
“Les hommes sont la cause que les femmes ne s'aiment point.”
— Unknown
# Jealousy & Vices
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“Anger is cruel and fury overwhelming, but who can stand before jealousy?”
— Unknown
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Context: • George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss (1860), Book I, Chapter X.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Jealousy" (Quotes)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Jealousy" (Quotes)
“Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.”
— Unknown
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Context: • William Shakespeare, Hamlet (1600-02), Act IV, scene 5, line 19.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Jealousy" (Quotes)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Jealousy" (Quotes)
“So full of artless jealousy is guilt,
It spills itself in fearing to be spilt!”
— Unknown
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“It doesn't matter what they say in the jealous games people play; our lips are sealed.”
— Unknown
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Context: • The Go-Go's, "Our Lips Are Sealed", Beauty and the Beat (8 July 1981), I.R.S. Records
• Source: Wikiquote: "Jealousy" (Quotes)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Jealousy" (Quotes)
“It doesn't matter, what they say. In the jealous games people play, our lips are sealed.”
— Unknown
More Quotes
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Context: • Imam Ali, Ghurar al-hikam. Āmidī, ʻAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Muḥammad (2012), Exalted aphorisms and pearls of speech: a translation of Ghurar al-hikam wa-durar al-kalim: a collection of aphorisms of Imam ʻAli ibn Abi Talib, (1st ed.) page: 294, place: Qum, Iran, publisher: Ansariyan Publications, ISBN: 9642192802
• Source: Wikiquote: "Jealousy" (Quotes)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Jealousy" (Quotes)
“A believer is never jealous.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene (1589-96), Book I, Canto VIII, Stanza 40.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Jealousy" (Quotes)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Jealousy" (Quotes)
“Entire affection hateth nicer hands.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Eve, "Let Me Blow Ya Mind", Scorpion (6 March 2001), New York: Ruff Ryders Entertainment
• Source: Wikiquote: "Jealousy" (Quotes)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Jealousy" (Quotes)
“Jealousy: Let it go; results could be tragic.”
— Unknown
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Context: • François de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims (1665), No. 334.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Jealousy" (Quotes)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Jealousy" (Quotes)
“In jealousy there is more self-love than love.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Alexander Pope, Prologue to the Satires, line 197.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Jealousy" (Quotes, Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 403-04.)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Jealousy" (Quotes, Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 403-04.)
“Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne.”
— Unknown
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Context: • O jealousy! thou magnifier of trifles.
• Friedrich Schiller, Fiesco, I, 1.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Jealousy" (Quotes, Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 403-04.)
• Friedrich Schiller, Fiesco, I, 1.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Jealousy" (Quotes, Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 403-04.)
“O, der alles vergrössernden Eifersucht.”
— Unknown
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“Love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave.”
— Unknown
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Context: • John Milton, Paradise Lost (1667; 1674), Book V, line 449.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Jealousy" (Quotes)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Jealousy" (Quotes)
“Nor jealousy
Was understood, the injur'd lover's hell.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Owen Meredith (Lord Lytton), Lucile (1860), Part II, Canto I, Stanza 24, line 8.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Jealousy" (Quotes, Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 403-04.)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Jealousy" (Quotes, Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 403-04.)
“No true love there can be without
Its dread penalty—jealousy.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Men are the cause of women not loving one another.
• La Bruyère.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Jealousy" (Quotes, Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 403-04.)
• La Bruyère.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Jealousy" (Quotes, Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 403-04.)
“Les hommes sont la cause que les femmes ne s'aiment point.”
— Unknown
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“Anger is cruel and fury overwhelming, but who can stand before jealousy?”
— Unknown
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Context: • George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss (1860), Book I, Chapter X.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Jealousy" (Quotes)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Jealousy" (Quotes)
“Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.”
— Unknown
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Context: • William Shakespeare, Hamlet (1600-02), Act IV, scene 5, line 19.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Jealousy" (Quotes)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Jealousy" (Quotes)
“So full of artless jealousy is guilt,
It spills itself in fearing to be spilt!”
— Unknown
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“It doesn't matter what they say in the jealous games people play; our lips are sealed.”
— Unknown
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Context: • The Go-Go's, "Our Lips Are Sealed", Beauty and the Beat (8 July 1981), I.R.S. Records
• Source: Wikiquote: "Jealousy" (Quotes)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Jealousy" (Quotes)
“It doesn't matter, what they say. In the jealous games people play, our lips are sealed.”
— Unknown
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Context: • William Shakespeare, Othello (c. 1603), Act III, scene 3, line 322.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Jealousy" (Quotes)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Jealousy" (Quotes)
“Trifles light as air
Are to the jealous confirmations strong
As proofs of holy writ.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Lord Byron, Don Juan (1818-24), Canto I, Stanza 65
• Source: Wikiquote: "Jealousy" (Quotes)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Jealousy" (Quotes)
“Yet he was jealous, though he did not show it,
For jealousy dislikes the world to know it.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Ambrose Bierce, The Cynic's Dictionary (1906); republished as The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Jealousy" (Quotes)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Jealousy" (Quotes)
“JEALOUS, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping.”
— Unknown
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Context: • François de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims (1665).
• Source: Wikiquote: "Jealousy" (Quotes)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Jealousy" (Quotes)
“Jealousy feeds upon suspicion, and it turns into fury or it ends as soon as we pass from suspicion into certainty.”
— Unknown
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Context: • George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss (1860), Book VI, Chapter X.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Jealousy" (Quotes)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Jealousy" (Quotes)
“Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.”
— Unknown
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