#jealousy

I refused to believe that love could take any other form than mine: I measured love by the extent of my jealousy, and by that standard of course she could not love me at all. ↗

— Graham Greene

#love #jealousy

To , nothing is more frightful than laughter. ↗

— فرانسواز ساجان

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Quando Odette deixasse de ser para ele uma criatura sempre ausente, cobiçada, imaginária, quando o sentimento que ele tinha por ela não fosse mais aquela mesma perturbação misteriosa que lhe causava a frase da sonata e sim afeto, reconhecimento, quando se estabelecessem entre ambos relações normais que poriam fim à loucura e à tristeza dele, então sem dúvida os atos da vida de Odette lhe pareceriam si mesmos pouco interessantes. ↗

— Marcel Proust

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I like the sound of 'claps of no sound.. ↗

— Himanshu rathore

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We like to stress the commonness of heroes. Essences seem undemocratic. We feel oppressed by the call to greatness. We regard an interest in glory or perfection as a sign of mental unhealthiness, and have decided that high achievers, who are called overachievers, owe their surplus ambition to a defect in mothering (either too little or too much). We want to admire but think we have a right not to be intimidated. We dislike feeling inferior to an ideal. So away with ideals, with essences. The only ideals allowed are healthy ones -- those everyone may aspire to, or comfortably imagine oneself possessing. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#ambition #democracy #egalitarianism #equality #essence

I'm sorry.' Congratulations.' Can you tell me why you're so upset?' The thing is, Tobey should get this. I mean, he's gotten everything else about me. And I don't want to explain it all. So much of it has to do with jealousy, and I know it's stupid to be mad at him because he had a life before me. But I am anyway. ↗

— Susane Colasanti

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On my resume I have an awards category. It has one entry. It is the highlight of my life. I’m not trying to impress you or make you overly jealous. I’m merely documenting. OK, so maybe I am gloating a bit. Here it is, exactly as it appears on my resume. “Awards: I won third place in the 100-yard dash in the fourth grade. I still carry around my green ribbon with me wherever I go. The ribbon is available for authenticity inspection upon request, and my fourth grade PE coach’s phone number can also be provided to corroborate the validity of my claim.”
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— Jarod Kintz

#award #awards #category #claim #coach

I've always looked on criticism as a sort of envious tribute. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#envy #jealousy #the-beautiful-and-damned #tribute #beauty

Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#love #pain #philosophical #equality

Marriage and its entourage of possession and jealousy enslave the spirit. ↗

— Irvin D. Yalom

#jealousy #marriage #possession #jealousy