Zitat des Tages über Eifersucht / Jealousy:
I have never written a book about my life, despite being offered purses of gold. I made 'Boxes' because I wanted to make a sincere depiction of a daughter who has lost her father, or the jealousy one can feel towards a daughter who has become more beautiful than you and whose stepfather starts to take her shopping.
I want my books to explore motives which make people think, 'Wow! Imagine the psychological state you'd have to be in for that to be your motive!' Whereas things like blackmail, jealousy - they're rational reasons for committing murder.
My parents are very competitive, so we are very competitive as kids. But it's a good kind of competition; it's not a jealousy. You always want to do your best, and if it can't be you, you want it to be your brother or your sister, you know what I mean?
The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.
Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.
In my experience lust only ever leads to misery. All that suspicion and jealousy and anguish it unleashes. I don't want those things in my life.
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.
My wife's jealousy is getting ridiculous. The other day she looked at my calendar and wanted to know who May was.
There is no greater glory than love, nor any greater punishment than jealousy.
To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.
The human voice: mysterious, spontaneous, primal. For me, the human voice is the vessel on which all emotions travel - except perhaps jealousy. And the breath, the breath is the captain of that vessel.
That's one of the reasons I moved to Florida. Of course, the main reason is the weather and the training. But there's more jealousy in Switzerland because it's so little and they don't have so many athletes.
Jealousy is the grave of affection.
Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don't complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!
More men die of jealousy than of cancer.
You will not accept credit that is due to another, or harbor jealousy of an explorer who is more fortunate.
From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me.
A person's current personality of love, hatred, jealousy, rage or a murderous intent and so on is formed upon genetic elements, education, the environment and a family a person grows in.
There's really not much friendship between the girls on tour. There's so much rivalry and jealousy, so everyone just hangs out in their own camp. In the locker room and players' lounge, you can feel the jealousy.
It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it.
Religion can make it worse. Are you supposing that if people were encouraged to believe in a transcendent reality, and to be encouraged by grand rituals and music and preaching, to love their neighbors, then they would put jealousy and frustration aside?
Passion can quickly slip to jealousy, or even hatred.
Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude.
I don't think Othello is a jealous man - he is a man who has been deceived by another person, just as everybody in the play is deceived by that person... The playwright uses the word 'jealousy' over and over and over again, but I don't think it has anything to do with being jealous.
I want my music to be accessible to every listener because I know that I really have something to say in terms of really, you know, removing thorns from people, thorns that really makes us unaware that we are bleeding with these thorns, like pain, grief, jealousy and so on.
Jealousy is the fear of comparison.
Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.
It's amazing the clarity that comes with psychotic jealousy.
The jealousy and resentment that animate the terrorists also affect many of our former cold war allies.
I do not say anything from jealousy.
Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.
Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.
Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.
But when I would see the surrogate, my first instinct, my first reaction would be jealousy, because she was doing what I wanted to do.
Jealousy is, I think, the worst of all faults because it makes a victim of both parties.
