Quotes about Emotions
The spirit of the world encloses four kinds of spirits, diametrically opposed to charity--the spirit of resentment, spirit of aversion, spirit of jealousy and the spirit of indifference.
- Jacques-Benigne Bossuet
Don't hold grudges; it's pointless. Jealousy too is a non-cathartic, negative emotion.
- John Milton
There is not a single soul that jealousy looks good on. Nobody! It looks ugly on everybody and it makes us act ugly - it makes us act out of character.
- Beth Moore
Anger and jealousy are spasms of the nerves, not of the heart.
- Ellen Glasgow
The worst thing about jealousy is how low it makes you reach.
- Erica Jong
Coming closer to home, there is so much of jealousy, pride, arrogance, and carping criticism; fathers who rise in anger over small, inconsequential things and make wives weep and children fear.
- Gordon Hinckley
Ignorance is jealousy's twin sister.
- Dean Frazer
Jealousy is like a raging toothache. One cannot do anything when one is jealous, not even sit down. Once can only come and go. Back and forth.
- Milan Kundera
He that is not jealous is not in love.
- St. Augustine
Kindness acts Not always as you think; a hated hand Renders it odious.
- Pierre Corneille
I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.
- Anne Frank
I feel that books, just like people, have a destiny. Some invite sorrow, others joy, some both.
- Elie Wiesel