Jealousy is a normal human emotion, but when jealousy becomes extreme, it can cause problems in relationships.

These quotes will help you understand what jealousy is and how it affects relationships, as well as how to deal with it.

My favorite quote about jealousy:

„Jealousy in romance is like salt in food. A little can enhance the savor, but too much can spoil the pleasure and, under certain circumstances, can be life-threatening”.  Maya Angelou

 „You can be the moon and still be jealous of the stars”. Gary Allan

„You can only be jealous of someone who has something you think you ought to have yourself.” Margaret Atwood

„What sort of love is permeated by jealousy? You are jealous because you are unaware that everything you need is inside you.” Peter Deunov

„The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time.” Johann Kaspar Lavater

„Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.” Francois de la Rochefoucauld

“In jealousy, there is more self-love than love.” François de la Rochefoucauld

„Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.” Fulton J. Sheen

„Love sees sharply, hatred sees even sharper, but Jealousy sees the sharpest for it is love and hate at the same time.” Arab Proverb

„Jealousy only eats up your beauty. Have faith in yourself. You have something that others don’t” Unknown

„You can be the moon and still be jealous of the stars.” Gary Allan

„Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretense of keeping it alive.” Havelock Ellis

„The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time.” Johann Kaspar Lavater

„Our envy of others devours us most of all.” Alexander Solzhenitsyn

„To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.” F. Sagan

„Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.” George Bernard Shaw

„Jealousy is simply and clearly the fear that you do not have value. Jealousy scans for evidence to prove the point – that others will be preferred and rewarded more than you. There is only one alternative – self-value. If you cannot love yourself, you will not believe that you are loved. You will always think it’s a mistake or luck. Take your eyes off others and turn the scanner within. Find the seeds of your jealousy, clear the old voices and experiences. Put all the energy into building your personal and emotional security. Then you will be the one others envy, and you can remember the pain and reach out to them.”  Jennifer James

“ Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.” John Dryden

„O jealousy! thou magnifier of trifles.” Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller

“People only rain on your parade because they’re jealous of your sun and tired of their shade.” Unknown

„The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.” William Penn

„Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart”.  George Eliot

„Comparison is a very foolish attitude because each person is unique and incomparable. Once this understanding settles in you, jealousy disappears.” Osho

„Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits.” Paul Eldridge

„More men die of jealousy than of cancer.” Joseph P. Kennedy

“Jealousy is not a barometer by which the depth of love can be read, it merely records the degree of the lover’s insecurity.” Margaret Mead

„Love may be blind but jealousy has 20-20 vision.” Anonymous

„The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.” Jim Rohn

 „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

„Our envy of others devours us most of all.” Alexander Solzhenitsyn

„I’ve spent most of my life walking under that hovering cloud, jealousy, whose acid raindrops blurred my vision and burned holes in my heart. Once I learned to use the umbrella of confidence, the skies cleared up for me and the sunshine called joy became my faithful companion.” Astrid Alauda

“The people who know the least about you, always have the most to say.” Unknown

„Men are so constituted that everyone undertakes what he sees another successful in, whether he has an aptitude for it or not.” Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

„Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.” Martin Luther King, Jr.

„Jealousy is one of the wickedest of all the passions. It is that which has been the most fruitful mother of tragedies, murders, and wars. But reprehensible though it is, jealousy is almost rather to be pitied than blamed-its first victims are those who harbor the feeling.” Arthur Lynch

„Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.” Buddha

“Winners focus on winning. Losers focus on winners” Unknown

“Some people only hate you because of the way other people love you.” Unknown

„The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.” Jim Rohn

“Jealousy is a disease. Get well soon.” Unknown

„The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents”. Salvador Dali

“A flower never thinks of competing with the flower next to it. It just blooms” Unknown

„My wife’s jealousy is getting ridiculous. The other day she looked at my calendar and wanted to know who May was”. Rodney Dangerfield

“Jealous people want to see you do good, but never better than them.” Unknown

„Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness”.Martin Luther King, Jr.

“I love people who gossip behind my back. That’s exactly where they belong. Behind my back.”  Unknown

„Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always so occupied with being jealous of other women’s husbands”. Oscar Wilde

„I love it when people stare me down. It’s like they have nothing better to do, but it makes me feel better and I look that damn good”. Unknown

„I’ve never been jealous. Not even when my dad finished the fifth grade a year before I did”. Jeff Foxworthy

„If you are going to make a rumor about me, at least, make a new one that I have never heard of before. Unknown