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 - in fact, they are almost incompatible; one emotion hardly leaves room for the other.
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Robert A. Heinlein
And yes, I’ll admit, I am jealous. I’m jealous of every minute you spend with him, of every concerned expression you send his way, of every tear shed, of every glance, every touch, and every thought. I want to rip him to pieces and purge...
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Colleen Houck
The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.
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Anonymous
Men are jealous of every woman, even when they don’t have the slightest interest in her themselves.
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Jan Neruda
A person shows signs of clutching on too fast, of being needy, of not hearing the word "no, " of jealousy, of guarding you and your freedom. But the signs can be so small they skitter right past you. Sometimes they dance past, looking satiny,...
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Deb Caletti
More Quotes By Clarice Lispector
I ask myself: is every story that has ever been written in this world, a story of suffering and affliction?
In the world there exists no aesthetic plane, not even the aesthetic plane of goodness.
But the crime is more important than the punishment. I enliven all of me in my happy instinct for destruction.
I have grown weary of literature: silence alone comforts me. If I continue to write, it’s because I have nothing more to accomplish in this world except to wait for death. Searching for the word in darkness. Any little success invades me and puts me...
Do not mourn the dead. They know what they are doing.
