“Kenneth Burke calls form the satisfaction of an expectation; The Man Who Loved Children is full of such satisfactions, but it has a good deal of the deliberate disappointment of an expectation that is also form.” MenChildrenFormDealsHe ManExpectationsDisappointmentSatisfactionDeliberateKenneth Author:Randall Jarrell
“I'm only trying to present as honest a portrayal of the grimness of human ambition as I can. I'd hope it's rather uplifting, actually, since I find the sort of blind optimism and empty laughter of a great deal of "contemporary culture" to be more depressing than something that admits to a potential for disappointment and a gnawing sense of existential mockery.” TryingHumansI CanCultureDealsHonestAmbitionLaughterEmptyOptimismBlindDisappointmentContemporaryUpliftingDepressingExistentialMockeryPortrayalBlind Optimism Author:Chris Ware
“If you light upon an impertinent talker, that sticks to you like a bur, to the disappointment of your important occasions, deal freely with him, break off the discourse, and pursue your business.” IfsImportantLightDealsTalkingBreakSticksDisappointmentPursueOccasionsDiscourseTalkersBreak Off Book:Plutarch's Morals Source: Plutarch's Morals
“A new world of complex relationships and feelings opens up when the peer group takes its place alongside the family as the emotional focus of the child's life. Early peer relationships contribute significantly to the child's ability to participate in a group (and in that sense, society), deal with competition and disappointment, enjoy the intimacy of friendships, and intuitively understand social relationships as they play out at school, in the neighborhood, and later in the workplace and adult family.” WorldChildrenPlayFeelingsSchoolSocialEnjoyAbilityDealsFocusGroupsEmotionalAdultsCompetitionComplexesDisappointmentIntimacyNeighborhoodNew WorldPeersWorkplaceSocial RelationshipsPeer GroupComplex Relationships Author:Stanley Greenspan
“A science can diagnose a cancer and can even find a cure for it, but it can't, and a scientist will be the first to say, it's can't help you to deal with the stress and disappointment and terror that comes with a diagnosis, and nor can it help you to die well, like Socrates, kindly, not railing against faith, but in possession of your own death. For these imponderable questions people have turned to mythos.” PeopleFirstsWellsHelpingDiesDealsScientistStressCancerTerrorDisappointmentPossessionCuresDiagnosis Author:Karen Armstrong