Quotes About Schadenfreude

Sometimes, we just take too much glee in the downfall of people in power.

At its best, fiction cultivates fantasy and compassion; at its worst, memoir provokes schadenfreude and prurience. The ugly truth, I fear, is that many people are drawn to sensational memoirs for the same reason they watch 'The Apprentice': they like to witness actual suffering, before-your-very-eyes humiliation.

We buy the tabloids to witness someone else's life go wrong, so we can feel a bit better about our own troubles.

Schadenfreude, delighting in the misfortune of others. I often wonder why there is no equivalent term in English. There should be, considering it's a great American pastime.

We laugh at inferior or ugly individuals, because we feel a joy at feeling superior to them.

spare me your delight in the greater misfortune of others.' He paused, as a thought struck him. 'There really ought to be a word for that quality since so many people seem to relish the misfortune of others.' Cato cleared his throat.

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

It's a real primal thing, watching someone get hurt. It's funny and accessible.

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

I often find myself worrying about celebrities. It's an entirely caring thing; it's not like the people who commission those photographs with cruel arrows to go on the covers of the celebrity magazines. The photographs show botched plastic surgery, raging eczema, weight gain and horrible clothes for maximum schadenfreude.

half the town would claim they'd seen it coming, just because they thrived on downfalls of any sort.

HAPPINESS, n. An agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.

People love to see people fall.

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.

Patachula habla de la información como de una droga adictiva. Cree que en el fondo no nos interesa la noticia, sino la sensación placentera que nos produce. ¡Qué alivio saber que una desgracia le ha ocurrido al prójimo y no a nosotros!

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.

People derived too much pleasure from seeing their fellow man morally humiliated to spoil that pleasure by hearing out an explanation.

Everybody loves to see justice done on somebody else.

The internet can be many things, of course. Too often it's a cesspool of distraction, a place we indulge in the modern sport of snark and schandenfrende, building the case for our own bigotries, where we mock and thereby dismiss the suggering of others.

People like it when others are gossiping. When you hear a story about someone's demise or some big faux-pas they made, everyone wants to tune into it, because it's nice to know that someone else made a mistake. It makes you feel elevated for a moment.

The demise of Jeb Bush has been a source of immeasurable pleasure for, well, nearly everyone.

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

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.

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