“Really, I’ve never understood why we haven’t thought of an English word for Schadenfreude.” — Gilly Macmillan Copy Share Image
To hear that your neighbor was worse off than yourself was not an altogether unpleasant experience. — Lizette Woodworth Reese Copy Share Image
People respect unhappiness and find it especially hard to forgive success. — Francoise Sagan Copy Share Image
“Hell was a place ruled by the logic of children. Schadenfreude that lasted for eternity.” — Andrew Michael Hurley Copy Share Image
“...No small amount of schadenfreude. Do you know what that means?" "Dad, it's the lifeline of gossip. Of course I know what… — Cristina Garcia Copy Share Image
“Thus there’s dopaminergic activation during schadenfreude—gloating over an envied person’s fall from grace.” — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
“GRUBELEIEN: German word for a not entirely unpleasant form of brooding; a sort of inward directed schadenfreude, i.e., perverse delight in one's… — Jon Winokur Copy Share Image
“Like you, the dead enjoy watching conflict. Schadenfreude thrills them, as do music and spectacle and loss. With the right mix, you… — Charles Tan Copy Share Image
“Do you know, by the way, that German is the only language in the world that has a word for ‘pleasure derived… — John Dolan Copy Share Image
Since Madonna is positioned as always 'cooler than thou,' we all are primed for schadenfreude if something in her fabulous life goes… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
“Joy can span from the pleasure of others’ good fortune, what Buddhists call mudita, to the pleasure in others’ misfortune, what the… — Dalai Lama XIV Copy Share Image
We are all the judges and the judged, victims of the casual malice and fantasy of others, and ready sources of fantasy… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
“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,… — Gregory Benford Copy Share Image
At some time in the history of the universe, there were no human minds, and at some time later, there were. Within… — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
To a generation beaten down by skyrocketing unemployment, plunging retirement savings, and mounting home foreclosures, 'Mad Men' offers the schadenfreude-filled message that… — Adam Cohen Copy Share Image
I'll always understand the Schadenfreude aspect to short-selling. I get that no one will always like it. I'm also convinced to the… — James Chanos Copy Share Image
The times are too difficult and the crisis too severe to indulge in schadenfreude. Looking at it in perspective, the fact that… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Ferocity occurs in all conditions save in joy. Schadenfreude, malicious joy, is a misrepresentation. To do evil is a pleasure, not a… — Emil M. Cioran Copy Share Image
“Winter denial: therein lay the key to California Schadenfreude--the secret joy that the rest of the country feels at the misfortune of… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
“When failing spectacularly the trick is to employ an inverted Schadenfreude. Take ownership of your misfortune.” — Dean Cavanagh Copy Share Image
“Jealousy always trumps schadenfreude! It’s a rule from the heartbreak version of ‘rock, paper, scissors.” — Julie Klausner Copy Share Image
In sad truth, half our forebodings of our neighbors are but our own wishes, which we are ashamed to utter in any… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
“Don't reach for the halo too soon. You have plenty of time to enjoy yourself, even a little maliciously sometimes, before you… — Ellis Peters Copy Share Image
“but my schadenfreude was dampened by the knowledge that if Detective Hernandez didn’t have it in for me before, she sure as… — Pamela Burford Copy Share Image
Laughter to begin with was probably glee at the misfortunes of others. The baring of the teeth in laughter hints at its… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
I often find myself worrying about celebrities. It's an entirely caring thing; it's not like the people who commission those photographs with… — Peter York Copy Share Image
I remember learning German - so beautiful, so strange - at school in Australia on the other side of the earth. My… — Anna Funder Copy Share Image
“When I was little, I used to pour salt on slugs. I liked watching them dissolve before my eyes. Cruelty is always… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
