Helen Fisher Quotes

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

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

I'd always been insecure. Being the fourth of five kids means attention is divided five ways, and to do this equally is impossible. I grew up feeling like the little orphan in the family, the one who didn't fit in.

Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.

I hate jealous guys! Everyone can be jealous. We all have that in us. Push the demon down or it's going to drive the other person away.

Younger guys are just too jealous.

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

My parents were very volatile but very loving. My father would get jealous if my mother looked at somebody. I used to be insanely jealous. It comes out of insecurity. It can come and go, but you get to the point in life where you don't have this raging jealousy and protectiveness about your world.

I grew up feeling like the ugly duckling, and things have not changed that much.

I don't get jealous - I get suspicious.

I grew up as a child who felt she was very inferior to everyone else.

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

Feeling jealous doesn't make you a terrible person.

We have a tendency to always test people's love. 'I want to see how badly I have to behave before you'll leave me. Because I don't really think you want me anyhow.'

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.

Sometimes you can be with someone that you love, but you know it's not healthy for you. You stay with them because you can't stand the thought of them being with someone else. It kills you.

Jealousy is the suspicion of one's own inferiority.

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

Genius inspires resentment. A sad fact of life.

People with a meagre soul always try to make others feel small too.

Jealousy is an ugly emotion, but it tells the truth. You mostly envy those who have what you desire.

All the things that girls feel they are not when they fear that if they become, if they are, they will no longer be loved by the sisters whose hearts they have not meant to break. And besides, if the sisters are gone and only the beloved remains with his dense curls and his lips, how safe are you then? You have to have him or you will die if the sisters are gone with their listening ears and their feet to rub and their bodies to dress and their shared loneliness.

Her hand touched me at the wrist. "If I gave you my life, you would drop it. Wouldn't you?" I didn't say anything.

So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.

She wanted to lose herself in him. To tie his arms around her like a tourniquet. If she showed him how much she needed him, he'd run away.