Gerald Brenan Quotes

I measured love by the extent of my jealousy.

Bored by safety, the lover grows jealous and exacting.

I do not want no pretty woman. First thing you know, you fall in love with her-then you got to kill somebody about her. She'll make you so jealous, you'll bust!

For love, thou know'st, is full of jealousy

It’s like when you’re excited about a girl and you see a couple holding hands, and you feel so happy for them. And other times you see the same couple, and they make you so mad. And all you want is to feel happy for them because you know that if you do, then it means you’re happy, too.

That I have no right to be jealous is irrelevant. It is a human passion: the sick, white underbelly of love.

Lovers may be - and indeed generally are - enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

He that is jealous is not in love.

Men don't want another man to look at their woman because they don't know how to handle it.

Love and hate are two of the strongest emotions we feel in relationships.

I'm not a jealous guy.

Although jealousy is a strong word, who would like to see the person they love romance someone else, even onscreen?

If you hear that my soul mate still tells one or more of his exes he loves her, I want to know. Audio recording is preferable.

I endeavor not to conceal that I believe there is a great mixture of desire in the passion which is called love--or rather, without any far-fetched strain on words, it may be called the companion of love.

Just Me, Just Me Sweet Marie, she loves just me (She also loves Maurice McGhee). No she don't, she loves just me (She also loves Louise Dupree). No she don't, she loves just me (She also loves the willow tree). No she don't, she loves just me! (Poor, poor fool, why can't you see She can love others and still love thee.)

If you are in passionate love and want to celebrate your passion, read poetry. If your ardor has calmed and you want to understand your evolving relationship, read psychology. But if you have just ended a relationship and would like to believe you are better off without love, read philosophy.

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.

Jealousy is always born with love, but does not die with it. In jealousy there is more of self-love than of love to another.

I expect we are all jealous of the women in their past, but how much less exciting if the women had not kept the bed warm.

Tell me if the lovers are losers... tell me if any get more than the lovers.

I never said I didn't like kissing you. The problem is too many guys have like kissing you." - Erik Night to Zoey Redbird (Ch 26)

L'amour n'est pas seulement un sentiment, il est un art aussi. Love is not only a feeling; it is also an art.

You can quickly go from having passion and love to passion and hate when an act of betrayal happens.

The anger of lovers renews the strength of love.