There are shades of schadenfreude. My favorite shade is…

“For me, the badlands are entirely too naughty. The whole time I was in South Dakota I felt like I needed a spanking.”

— Jarod Kintz

“A spanking with a tree branch, now that’s slapstick.”

— Jarod Kintz

“Really, I’ve never understood why we haven’t thought of an English word for Schadenfreude.”

— Gilly Macmillan

“Like you, the dead enjoy watching conflict. Schadenfreude thrills them, as do music and spectacle and loss. With the right mix, you can get…

— Charles Tan

To a generation beaten down by skyrocketing unemployment, plunging retirement savings, and mounting home foreclosures, 'Mad Men' offers the schadenfreude-filled message that their predecessors…

— Adam Cohen

To hear that your neighbor was worse off than yourself was not an altogether unpleasant experience.

— Lizette Woodworth Reese

“German had a lumbering, bull-in-china-shop feel, yet their culture gave birth to essential words that told much of what lay within: Schadenfreude, Angst, Weltschmerz—joy…

— Gregory Benford

“...No small amount of schadenfreude. Do you know what that means?" "Dad, it's the lifeline of gossip. Of course I know what it means.”

— Cristina Garcia

“Ferocity occurs in all conditions save in joy. Schadenfreude, malicious joy, is a misrepresentation. To do evil is a pleasure, not a joy. Joy,…

— Emil M. Cioran

People respect unhappiness and find it especially hard to forgive success.

— Francoise Sagan

We are all the judges and the judged, victims of the casual malice and fantasy of others, and ready sources of fantasy and malice…

— Iris Murdoch

“The English feel schadenfreude even about themselves.”

— Martin Amis

“Joy can span from the pleasure of others’ good fortune, what Buddhists call mudita, to the pleasure in others’ misfortune, what the Germans call…

— Dalai Lama XIV

“GRUBELEIEN: German word for a not entirely unpleasant form of brooding; a sort of inward directed schadenfreude, i.e., perverse delight in one's own troubles”

— Jon Winokur

The times are too difficult and the crisis too severe to indulge in schadenfreude. Looking at it in perspective, the fact that there would…

— Noam Chomsky