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“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

I'm not the type of person to have a schadenfreude.

— Larry Wilmore

“Because of these exaggerated dopamine responses, once they focus on the chance to get a reward, psychopaths are unable to alter their attention until…

— Kevin Dutton

“Every pain, addiction, anguish, longing, depression, anger or fear is an orphaned part of us seeking joy, some disowned shadow wanting to return to…

— Jacob Nordby

“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

“The Dopamine Paradigm by Stewart Stafford Never so connected, Yet, never further apart, A crowded room's isolation, An aspic suitors' false start. Fear and…

— Stewart Stafford

“Do you know, by the way, that German is the only language in the world that has a word for ‘pleasure derived from the…

— John Dolan

“And thus for the first time my unhappiness was regarded no longer as a fault for which I must be punished, but as an…

— Marcel Proust

Despair doth strike as deep a furrow in the brain as mischief or remorse.

— Bryan Procter

“What does despair mean to someone who interprets that emotion as a chemical reaction in the brain?”

— Mitchell Heisman

“One who would really like to know himself would have to be a restless, fanatical collector of disappointments, and seeking disappointing experiences must be…

— Pascal Mercier

“There are people who from early on reveal a great talent for misfortune. Unhappiness pummels at them like a stoning, every other day, and…

— José Eduardo Agualusa