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“The English feel schadenfreude even about themselves.”

— Martin Amis

“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

“There is not even a Scrabble word for how bad I feel.”

— E. Lockhart

“I had hoped to be disliked by most, not by way of rebellion, but by way of excellence, disdain for the habitual, and the…

— Jamie Weise

“I had a terror of the world. None knew me; all would mistake me. I had seen so many in my life who made…

— George Eliot

“Never had I beheld such despair.”

— Kien Nguyen

“Joy melts away the frown from our faces, it takes away anxiety, worries and fears.”

— Euginia Herlihy

“Maybe all Americans who suffer from melancholy act as if they have gone mad. But I truly thought he might throw himself in the…

— Amy Tan

“It's so easy to focus on the anguish and the misery; it's harder, somehow, to acknowledge the positive, maybe for fear of jinxing it,…

— Harriet Brown

“For he used to say...that knowledge of the soul would unfailingly make us melancholy if the pleasures of expression did not keep us alert…

— Thomas Mann

“It must sound, I know, as if I had no pity for him; it wasn't true. I was angry because I was terrified. But…

— Jacqueline Carey

“There's a funny thing I've noticed about life. When you really dread something, it turns out not to be so bad. It's the unexpected…

— Anonymous