Schadenfreude Quotes
- At some time in the history of the universe, there were no human minds, and at some time later, there were. Within the blink of… — David Berlinski
- 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 deepest part of… — James Chanos
- I often find myself worrying about celebrities. It's an entirely caring thing; it's not like the people who commission those photographs with cruel arrows to… — Peter York
- Laughter to begin with was probably glee at the misfortunes of others. The baring of the teeth in laughter hints at its savage ancestry. Animals… — Eric Hoffer
- Since Madonna is positioned as always 'cooler than thou,' we all are primed for schadenfreude if something in her fabulous life goes amiss. — Naomi Wolf
- To feel envy is human, to savour schadenfreude is devilish — Arthur Schopenhauer
- The times are too difficult and the crisis too severe to indulge in schadenfreude. Looking at it in perspective, the fact that there would be… — Noam Chomsky
- I remember learning German - so beautiful, so strange - at school in Australia on the other side of the earth. My family was nonplussed… — Anna Funder
- We are all the judges and the judged, victims of the casual malice and fantasy of others, and ready sources of fantasy and malice in… — Iris Murdoch