Quotes About Schadenfreude

#1. My younger sister's a comedian. She has a sketch comedy group in Chicago called Schadenfreude and I look at her with such admiration and envy because it's such an amazing thing to make someone laugh.

Brian D'Arcy James

#2. Do you know, by the way, that German is the only language in the world that has a word for 'pleasure derived from the misfortune of others'? Schadenfreude.

John Dolan

#3. Schadenfreude is as old as the Scriptures. Believe me, when the girls in the Red Sea bowling league heard that Lot's wife had morphed into a pillar of salt, the deer-lick jokes flew.

Dennis Miller

#4. Joy can span from the pleasure of others' good fortune, what Buddhists call mudita, to the pleasure in others' misfortune, what the Germans call schadenfreude.

Dalai Lama XIV

#5. 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

#6. Like you, the dead enjoy watching conflict. Schadenfreude thrills them, as do music and spectacle and loss. With the right mix, you can get a whole lot of them to watch you all the time. Faye

Charles Tan

#7. If you look up schadenfreude on Wikipedia, you'll see a picture of me with a snide smile on my face.

Maggie Stiefvater

#8. Tell me, is it true there's no word for Schadenfreude in English?

Amos Oz

#9. 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 a financial crisis was perfectly predictable: its general nature, if not its magnitude. Markets are always inefficient.

Noam Chomsky

#10. The English feel schadenfreude even about themselves.

Martin Amis

#11. Schadenfreude is so nutritious.

Will Self

#12. 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 my bones that short-selling plays the role of real-time financial watchdog. It's one of the few checks and balances in the market.

James Chanos

#13. She became a morality tale stiff with Schadenfreude, and so many columnists made allusion to Icarus that Private Eye ran a special column.

Robert Galbraith

#14. The NSA is looking for terrorists. They're not getting psychosexual pleasure out of their schadenfreude about you. -

Jon Ronson

#15. Schadenfreude,' Colin said. Finding pleasure in others' pain.

John Green

#16. To feel envy is human, to savour schadenfreude is devilish.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#17. He remembered the Professor's advice to his eager employees during his first year: With us, feelings are described through images, and in the world of television, there are only seven feelings: well-being, Schadenfreude, sentimentality, shock, outrage, disgust, and anger. Nothing else.

Erik Valeur

#18. 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

#19. It wasn't like the news delighted her, nothing like. But I saw her get a tiny tickle in the schadenfreude as she registered that this happened on Dad's watch.

Joshilyn Jackson

#20. Humor is just Schadenfreude with a clear conscience

Friedrich Nietzsche

#21. When failing spectacularly the trick is to employ an inverted Schadenfreude. Take ownership of your misfortune.

Dean Cavanagh

#22. Jealousy always trumps schadenfreude! It's a rule from the heartbreak version of 'rock, paper, scissors.

Julie Klausner

#23. Don't reach for the halo too soon. You have plenty of time to enjoy yourself, even a little maliciously sometimes, before you settle down to being a saint.

Ellis Peters

#24. It's not going well!

Deyth Banger

#25. (About a woman's funeral) Do you remember the part in The Wizard of Oz when the witch is dead and the Munchkins start singing? Think that kind of happiness. I swear every woman there was ready to break into song. Maybe a few of the men, too. (p. 80)

Julie Mulhern

#26. 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 our turn. And if we are sometimes accused of sins of which we are innocent, are there not also other sins of which we are guilty and of which the world knows nothing?

Iris Murdoch

#27. I'm confident in my art.

Kid Cudi

#28. But it does make you feel smaller, which is a relief in some ways. When you screw up, it seems less terrible. all these people, everybody screwing up.

Rebecca Scherm

#29. The Hummer hovered there a second, and then flipped over the second vehicle. Through the air it tipped over and over
something was flung from one of the windows, perhaps a person.
Seatbelts save lives.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#30. To hear that your neighbor was worse off than yourself was not an altogether unpleasant experience.

Lizette Woodworth Reese

#31. Habitual texters may not only cheat their existing relationships, they can also limit their ability to form future ones since they don't get to practice the art of interpreting nonverbal visual cues.

Jeffrey Kluger

#32. I watched you fall
in love again
and couldn't help
but laugh.

Pamela August Russell

#33. Even if you break with me and crush my heart, I'm never getting back together with Dawn. I know that the world isn't flat now, I'm not going back.

Rainbow Rowell

#34. Boxing is rough. Even if you win, you get hurt.

Joyce Carol Oates

#35. When you're riding with your mom, and you're a kid, you'd listen to 'Dear Mama' and the radio friendly records. I used to sneak and listen to Too $hort.

Nayvadius Cash