Sibel Kekilli Quotes

By bringing shame to a person, how could one expect to make him a better man?

I'm not the type of person to have a schadenfreude.

I think people just like seeing failure.

People love to see people fall.

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

Disgust is often more deeply buried than envy and anger, but it compounds and intensifies the other negative emotions.

Jealousy is a rather enjoyable emotion to watch.

Some people drink to unleash their libidos, and other people drink to prop up their egos.

Two or three times a week, I drive by the houses of numbers 78-100 just to rub it in.

Nothing feels worse than other people's good times.

Jealousy isn't a pleasant quality, but if it isn't overdone (and if it's combined with modesty), apart from its inconvenience there's even something touching about it.

Genius inspires resentment. A sad fact of life.

We feel a kind of bittersweet pricking of malicious delight in contemplating the misfortunes of others.

I have learned over the course of my many years that it is a bad idea, usually, to investigate piteous weeping but always a fine thing to look into a giggle.

Jealousy is in a manner just and reasonable, as it tends to preserve a good which belongs, or which we believe belongs to us, on the other hand envy is a fury which cannot endure the happiness of others.

Failure makes us envious. Success makes us greedy.

I think superstition has a lot to do with fear: the less, the better.

It is the natural disposition of all men to listen with pleasure to abuse and slander of their neighbour, and to hear with impatience those who utter praises of themselves.

When you feel humiliated or things like that, you either use it as fuel to change or you get covered by it.

It is well known that humor, more than anything else in the human make-up, can afford an aloofness and an ability to rise above any situation, even if only for a few seconds.

It wasn't enough for Megadeth to do well; I wanted Metallica to fail.

I am convinced that we have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and pain of others

Jealousy is in some measure just and reasonable, since it merely aims at keeping something that belongs to us or we think belongsto us, whereas envy is a frenzy that cannot bear anything that belongs to others.

When we think of cruelty, we must try to remember the stupidity, the envy, the frustration from which it has arisen.

That incessant envy wherewith the common rate of mankind pursues all superior natures to their own.