Quotes About Schadenfreude

Die reinste Freude ist die Schadenfreude.

No hay mayor placer que el terror. Siempre y cuando sea el de otra persona

The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others.

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 were equally unhappy - and that the bleakness meter in American life has always been set on high.

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

Veronika had noticed that a lot of people she knew would talk about the horros in other people's lives as if they were genuinely concerned to help them, but the truth was that they took pleasure in the suffering of others, because that made them believe they were happy and that life had been generous with them

There's nothing quite as funny as someone else's misery - Cassel Sharpe

Occasionally, Americans in large numbers are moved by a vanquished athlete's grief. Larry Bird with a towel over his head in 1979 comes immediately to mind. But more often, sports fans do the opposite - they delight in the desolation of a defeated archrival.

Their delight seemeth not so much to be in the catch, nor in the chase, but in hoping to see me trip and hurt myself as I fall.

One of the greatest sorrows of human existence is that some people aren't happy merely to be alive but find their happiness only in the misery of others.

I luxuriated in that delightful feeling that comes when we observe someone having to do something unpleasant that we are not required to do ourselves.

There's a word we learned in social studies: schadenfreude. It's when you enjoy watching someone else suffer. The real question though, is why? I think part of it is self preservation. And part of it is because a group always feels more like a group when it's banded together against an enemy. It doesn't matter if that enemy has never done anything to hurt you-you just have to pretend you hate someone even more than you hate yourself.

My Schadenfreude phaser is set to Meh.

I was born with a priceless gift, the ability to laugh at the misfortunes of others.

Somehow I enjoy watching people suffer.

Any misfortune that happens to another person is funny. If it happens to someone else and not me, it's very funny.

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

People simply couldn't resist watching someone else's misfortune.