Jealousy

Literary.. Jealousy defined as

a person's fears and anxieties around attention that they perceive is being given to or by someone else who is important to them. 

yes, I can give one common example.. one woman might experience jealousy at the sight of her husband or boyfriend dancing with another woman. That's Jealousy... :)

 jealousy as a single emotion, but actually it is a bundle of feelings that hanged together. Jealousy can output it as

• anger
• fear
• hurt
• betrayal
• anxiety
• agitation
• sadness
• paranoia
• depression
• loneliness
• envy
• coveting
• feeling powerless
• feeling inadequate
• feeling excluded.

It helps to identify what is the exact mix of feelings you experience when you feel jealous. What is the primary emotion you feel when you are jealous?. Is it always the same for you or does the mix change from time to time depending on circumstances? For instance, one woman figured out that her jealousy was about 50% fear, 20% anger, 20% feeling powerless and 10% feeling betrayed. How nice. i also feel angry and powerless but not fear. I found some remarkable quotes about jealousy. unfortunately i don't know these guys.  

In jealousy there is more self-love than love. 
François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims, 1665

The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.  
~William Penn, Some Fruits of Solitude, 1693

For most of us, even if jealousy produces tremendous pain and distress, it remains an inner experience that does not cross the boundary into violent action. But anyone who has experienced intense jealousy is well aware of its power and potential destructiveness.
 So I ended up with these six words "Envy is a waste of time".