“when however small a measure of jealousy is mixed with misunderstanding, there is always going to be trouble.”
Source: A Prayer for Owen Meany
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American novelist and screenwriter 1942Related quotes
“I measured love by the extent of my jealousy.”
Graham Greene book The End of the Affair
Source: The End of the Affair
“The real reason for the disaster was, however, pride and jealousy and political ambition.”
J.E. Gordon (1913–1998) Materials scientist
Source: Structures (or, Why Things Don't Fall Down) (1978), Chapter 15, A Chapter of accidents
Context: The immediate technical cause of was the tearing of the fabric of the outer envelope; this fabric had apparently been embrittled by improper doping treatment. The real reason for the disaster was, however, pride and jealousy and political ambition.
“there is always
a comforting thought
in time of trouble when
it is not our trouble”
Don Marquis (1878–1937) American writer
comforting thoughts
archy does his part (1935)
“Whom the gods notice they destroy. Be small…and you will escape the jealousy of the great.”
Philip K. Dick book The Man in the High Castle
The Man in the High Castle (1962)
“Jealousy is always born with love but does not always die with it.”
François de La Rochefoucauld book Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims
La jalousie naît toujours avec l'amour, mais elle ne meurt pas toujours avec lui.
Maxim 361.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)
G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936) English mystery novelist and Christian apologist
Source: The Autobiography of G.K. Chesterton http://books.google.com/books?id=9_m6AAAAIAAJ&q=%22Half+the+trouble+about+the+modern+man+is+that+he+is+educated+to+understand+foreign+languages+and+misunderstand+foreigners%22&pg=PA322#v=onepage (1936)
Ursula K. Le Guin (1929–2018) American writer
Source: Earthsea Books, The Farthest Shore (1972), Chapter 5, "Sea Dreams" (Arren and Ged)
Aphra Behn (1640–1689) British playwright, poet, translator and fiction writer
The History of Agnes de Castro, or the Force of Generous Love (1688).
“I knew I would always want to go on living with myself, however hollow I became, however diseased.”
John Fowles book The Magus
Daniel Martin (1977)
Source: The Magus
Context: I saw that I was from now on, for ever, contemptible. I had been and remained, intensely depressed, but I had also been, and always would be, intensely false; in existentialist terms, inauthentic. I knew I would never kill myself, I knew I would always want to go on living with myself, however hollow I became, however diseased.