Lawrence Durrell Quotes

Love may exist without jealousy, although this is rare: but jealousy may exist without love, and this is common; for jealousy can feed on that which is bitter no less than on that which is sweet, and is sustained by pride as often as by affection.

Jealously is always born with love but it does not die with it.

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.

Jealousy is not so much the love of another as the love of ourselves.

Jealousy is the fear of losing the thing you love most. It's very normal. Suspicion is the thing that's abnormal.

It's the sort of subject that always interests me: jealousy and the language of suspicion and guilt. I think it interests people.

Jealousy is not a barometer by which the depth of love can be read. It merely records the degree of the lover's insecurity.

Now, she could't help but think he was just a big version of a jealous boy friend.

Jealousy comes from self-love rather than from true love.

Jealousy, you know, is usually not an affair of causes. It is much more-how shall I say?-fundamental than that. Based on the knowledge that one's love is not returned. And so one goes on waiting, watching, expecting...that the loved one will turn to someone else.

Sure, I can get a little bit jealous. The good part about jealousy is that it comes from passion. It's also the dangerous part and it's an ugly emotion that hurts.

Jealousy is just love and hate at the same time.

He that is jealous is not in love.

I like jealous men. I love jealousy. I do.

Jealousy is love bed of burning snarl.

Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.

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

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.

Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.

Jealousy is not at all low, but it catches us humbled and bowed down, at first sight.

I don't like being jealous.

Jealousy is unavoidable - it's part of the price we pay for intimacy.

I don't get jealous or insecure.

jealousy is conceived only in insecurity and must be nourished in fear.

Jealousy is an emotion. It doesn't have to make sense. In fact, it usually doesn't.