Brooding Quote by Jon Winokur

The brooding is better than the joy because even if the heart fills with happiness, it still mourns.

— Irving Stone

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

— Gilly Macmillan

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

“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

“There are shades of schadenfreude. My favorite shade is bright red, from a haughty spanking.”

— Jarod Kintz

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