Quotes About Schadenfreude

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

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.

Schadenfreude is so nutritious.

Vulgar people take huge delight in the faults and follies of great men.

Our purest form of joy comes when people we envy get hurt. That most genuine form of joy.

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.

People don't want their lives improved. They want the lives of people they hate made worse.

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.

The OED does include schadenfreude, a word borrowed from German, which means "to take pleasure in the misfortune of another." But it left out one of my personal favorites, epicharicacy, which means the same thing as schadenfreude, and was in English dictionaries until the early nineteenth century. Misdevout

People who are envious cannot help feeling some glee when they hear of the bad luck of those they envy.

Thus there's dopaminergic activation during schadenfreude—gloating over an envied person's fall from grace.

the brain becomes literal when we do the flip side of empathy.10 It's painful watching a hated competitor succeed, and we activate the ACC at that time. Conversely, if he fails, we gloat, feel schadenfreude, get pleasure from his pain, and activate dopaminergic reward pathways. Forget "Your pain is my pain." Your pain is my gain.

The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others.

Since Madonna is positioned as always "cooler than thou", we all are primed for schadenfreude if something in her fabulous life goes amiss.

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They weren't sorry Catherine was dead at all. Certainly they hadn't particularly liked her when she was alive. Lisa had called her a stuck-up southern cow only last week, when Mr Scott had read out a chunk of her essay on Steinbeck. They were enjoying every minute of this. They weren't in the least sorry that Catherine would never take her place again in the front row for English. But she didn't say

That woman's a ghoul – the delight she takes in other people's misery.

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

There is nothing that makes us feel so good as the idea that someone else is an evildoer.

Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.

We have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and pains of others.

Do you are laugh because you are successful or because another one is unfortunate?

Some people talk about other people's failures with so much pleasure that you would swear they are talking about their own successes.

When people really deteriorate, their only contribution is malicious joy in the misfortune of others.