Schottenfreude Book Quotes & Sayings

The child that was human civilization had opened the door to her home and glanced outside. The endless night terrified her so much that she shuddered against the expansive and profound darkness, and shut the door firmly. — Liu Cixin

Yet, it's our emotions and imperfections that makes us human. — Clyde DeSouza

You know, I have found out in the course of a long public life that the things I did not say never hurt me. — Calvin Coolidge

Obviously, some part of us loves feeling 1) right and 2) wronged. But outrage is like a lot of other things that feel good but, over time, devour us from the inside out. Except it's even more insidious than most vices because we don't even consciously acknowledge it's a pleasure. We prefer to think of it as a disagreeable but fundamentally healthy reaction to negative stimuli, like pain or nausea, rather than admit that it's a shameful kick we eagerly indulge again and again, like compulsive masturbation. — Tim Kreider

I didn't want to be cut, but it made me a better person and a better player. — Jason Spezza

The winds with wonder whist, Smoothly the waters kisst. — John Milton

The profession of being a creative thinker is not so obvious. — David M. Kelley

Taylor qanq over everythanq. — Khalifa

If human equality is to be for ever averted - if the High, as we have called them, are to keep their places permanently - then the prevailing mental condition must be controlled insanity. — George Orwell

After years on a drunken bender, Americans are awakening to lies masked in patriotism and glory. — Chris Hedges

What's silly is paying five bucks for hot milk and flavored syrup! But now I see what's really been going on all this time! They charge you all that money because they need it for the R & D! Somewhere on the outskirts of Seattle, there's a secret facility with higher security than Area 51, and inside there are men with poor eyesight and bad haircuts wearing white coats, and they're trying to make the Holy Grail of all coffee drinks.
The bacon latte?
No, Atticus, I already told you those exist! I'm talking about the prophecy! 'Out of the steam and the foam and the froth, a man in white with poor eyesight will craft a liquid paradox, and it shall be called the Triple Nonfat Double Bacon Five-Cheese Mocha!'
Oberon, what the F
? — Kevin Hearne