#jealousy

At a period when Literature was wont to attribute the grief of living exclusively to the mischances of disappointed love or the jealousy of adulterous deceptions, he had said not a word of these childish maladies, but had sounded those more incurable, more poignant and more profound: wounds that are inflicted by satiety, disillusion and contempt in ruined souls tortured by the present, disgusted with the past, terrified and desperate of the future. ↗

— Joris-Karl Huysmans

#jealousy

Modern Romans insisted that there was only one god, a notion that struck Alobar as comically simplistic. Worse, this Semitic deity was reputed to be jealous (what was there to be jealous of if there were no other gods?), vindictive, and altogether foul-tempered. If you didn't serve the nasty fellow, the Romans would burn your house down. If you did serve him, you were called a Christian and got to burn other people's houses down. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#christianity #gods #jealousy #religion #romans

Don't waste your time with jealousy. Some times your ahead, some times your behind. The race is long and in the end, it's only with yourself. ↗

— Baz Luhrmann

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Once she was standing by her locker and her puka shells broke and scattered and she made a joke about it but he could tell she was upset. He wanted to buy her some more. He wanted to give her a million strands of little nesting polished shells, and tropical flowers and ice creams and lemonades and a pale blue surfboard to teach her to surf on and anything else she wanted. Instead he let his checkered Vans step on one of the rolling shells and crush it. ↗

— Francesca Lia Block

#envy #jealous #jealousy #jealousy

Envy, jealousy, revenge and negativity are some of the basic instinct of women. They cannot help it. We prefer negative thoughts at first place due to the feeling of insecurity. ↗

— Himmilicious

#women #jealousy

He had been dazzled. Because of the dazzling brightness, he had had to kill [Seigen]. All who had encountered Seigen had had their hearts stolen by that brightness. That envy had turned to malice. ↗

— Takayuki Yamaguchi

#antipathy #enemies #envy #heart #human-nature

...Ah, but the Moon my Love is jealous, and can you blame him? You outshine him with your virtues... ↗

— John Geddes

#love #moon #virtues #jealousy

You can TRUST you LOVE ONE, but not EVERYONE around them. ↗

— Marx

#love #trust #jealousy

Love" is a that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own...Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#love #selflessness #jealousy

He seems like a man who knows what he wants, and the problem is he wants what I want. ↗

— Abbi Glines

#love #jealousy