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Green-Eyed Monster Unveiled.

Jealousy is the painful and complex emotion arising from the perceived threat to a valued relationship or possession, often fueled by insecurity and fear of loss. It is a primal force that, while potentially destructive, reveals the profound importance we place on connection, belonging, and the things we cherish, motivating us to protect and preserve what we hold dear.

Jealousy

# Jealousy & Emotions

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Context: • Imam Ali, Ghurar al-hikam. Āmidī, ʻAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Muḥammad (2012), Exalted aphorisms and pearls of speech: a translation of Ghurar al-hikam wa-durar al-kalim: a collection of aphorisms of Imam ʻAli ibn Abi Talib, (1st ed.) page: 294, place: Qum, Iran, publisher: Ansariyan Publications, ISBN: 9642192802
• Source: Wikiquote: "Jealousy" (Quotes)
“A believer is never jealous.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene (1589-96), Book I, Canto VIII, Stanza 40.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Jealousy" (Quotes)
“Entire affection hateth nicer hands.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Eve, "Let Me Blow Ya Mind", Scorpion (6 March 2001), New York: Ruff Ryders Entertainment
• Source: Wikiquote: "Jealousy" (Quotes)
“Jealousy: Let it go; results could be tragic.”
— Unknown
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Context: • François de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims (1665), No. 334.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Jealousy" (Quotes)
“In jealousy there is more self-love than love.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Alexander Pope, Prologue to the Satires, line 197.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Jealousy" (Quotes, Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 403-04.)
“Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne.”
— Unknown

# Jealousy & Interpersonal relationships

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Context: • O jealousy! thou magnifier of trifles.
• Friedrich Schiller, Fiesco, I, 1.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Jealousy" (Quotes, Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 403-04.)
“O, der alles vergrössernden Eifersucht.”
— Unknown
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Context: • The Song of Solomon viii. 6, The Bible
• Source: Wikiquote: "Jealousy" (Quotes)
“Love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave.”
— Unknown
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Context: • John Milton, Paradise Lost (1667; 1674), Book V, line 449.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Jealousy" (Quotes)
“Nor jealousy
Was understood, the injur'd lover's hell.
”
— Unknown
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Context: • Owen Meredith (Lord Lytton), Lucile (1860), Part II, Canto I, Stanza 24, line 8.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Jealousy" (Quotes, Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 403-04.)
“No true love there can be without
Its dread penalty—jealousy.
”
— Unknown
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Context: • Men are the cause of women not loving one another.
• La Bruyère.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Jealousy" (Quotes, Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 403-04.)
“Les hommes sont la cause que les femmes ne s'aiment point.”
— Unknown

# Jealousy & Vices

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Context: • Proverbs 27:4, The Bible
• Source: Wikiquote: "Jealousy" (Quotes)
“Anger is cruel and fury overwhelming, but who can stand before jealousy?”
— Unknown
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Context: • George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss (1860), Book I, Chapter X.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Jealousy" (Quotes)
“Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.”
— Unknown
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Context: • William Shakespeare, Hamlet (1600-02), Act IV, scene 5, line 19.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Jealousy" (Quotes)
“So full of artless jealousy is guilt,
It spills itself in fearing to be spilt!
”
— Unknown
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Context: • Go-Go's, "Our Lips Are Sealed"
• Source: Wikiquote: "Jealousy" (Quotes)
“It doesn't matter what they say in the jealous games people play; our lips are sealed.”
— Unknown
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Context: • The Go-Go's, "Our Lips Are Sealed", Beauty and the Beat (8 July 1981), I.R.S. Records
• Source: Wikiquote: "Jealousy" (Quotes)
“It doesn't matter, what they say. In the jealous games people play, our lips are sealed.”
— Unknown
More Quotes
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Context: • Imam Ali, Ghurar al-hikam. Āmidī, ʻAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Muḥammad (2012), Exalted aphorisms and pearls of speech: a translation of Ghurar al-hikam wa-durar al-kalim: a collection of aphorisms of Imam ʻAli ibn Abi Talib, (1st ed.) page: 294, place: Qum, Iran, publisher: Ansariyan Publications, ISBN: 9642192802
• Source: Wikiquote: "Jealousy" (Quotes)
“A believer is never jealous.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene (1589-96), Book I, Canto VIII, Stanza 40.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Jealousy" (Quotes)
“Entire affection hateth nicer hands.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Eve, "Let Me Blow Ya Mind", Scorpion (6 March 2001), New York: Ruff Ryders Entertainment
• Source: Wikiquote: "Jealousy" (Quotes)
“Jealousy: Let it go; results could be tragic.”
— Unknown
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Context: • François de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims (1665), No. 334.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Jealousy" (Quotes)
“In jealousy there is more self-love than love.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Alexander Pope, Prologue to the Satires, line 197.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Jealousy" (Quotes, Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 403-04.)
“Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne.”
— Unknown
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Context: • O jealousy! thou magnifier of trifles.
• Friedrich Schiller, Fiesco, I, 1.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Jealousy" (Quotes, Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 403-04.)
“O, der alles vergrössernden Eifersucht.”
— Unknown
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Context: • The Song of Solomon viii. 6, The Bible
• Source: Wikiquote: "Jealousy" (Quotes)
“Love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave.”
— Unknown
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Context: • John Milton, Paradise Lost (1667; 1674), Book V, line 449.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Jealousy" (Quotes)
“Nor jealousy
Was understood, the injur'd lover's hell.
”
— Unknown
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Context: • Owen Meredith (Lord Lytton), Lucile (1860), Part II, Canto I, Stanza 24, line 8.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Jealousy" (Quotes, Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 403-04.)
“No true love there can be without
Its dread penalty—jealousy.
”
— Unknown
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Context: • Men are the cause of women not loving one another.
• La Bruyère.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Jealousy" (Quotes, Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 403-04.)
“Les hommes sont la cause que les femmes ne s'aiment point.”
— Unknown
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