Language Quote by John Dolan

“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

“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

“The English feel schadenfreude even about themselves.”

— Martin Amis

“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

“We, who teach the Word purely with great zeal and diligence, and seek nothing else than the welfare of Germany, are bearing the bitterest…

— Martin Luther

“My biggest fear is that Germans will suddenly be relaxed and in a good mood. We need our unfriendliness. We need our bad moods.…

— Diana Mauer

“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

“What is there in our nature that is for ever urging us on towards pain and misery? We are not formed for enjoyment; and,…

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

“Maybe the best proof that the language is patriarchal is that it oversimplifies feeling. I'd like to have at my disposal complicated hybrid emotions.…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“The gift of words, the source of enjoyment, the source of delight that comes within and the unfading beauty and energy of words.”

— Euginia Herlihy

“People caused harm to others because they were of malevolent disposition, that was shear human wickedness. something that has always existed and always would.Some…

— Alexander McCall Smith

“...the world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willingly avoids the sight of distress.”

— W Somerset Maugham