“I didn't cry at my father's funeral, and I felt guilty about that. Of course, he got sick not too long after he and I had had that final altercation, and I felt real guilty because of that, too. Then years later, one day, I was probably in my late twenties, early thirties, and I just broke down crying, because I finally got my father.” YearsLongRealCoursesFatherFeltCryOne DayLateSickTwentiesFinalsGuiltyBrokeFuneralLate Twenties Author:Billy Bob Thornton
“a woman may be called a wife and mother for most of her life, while a man is called a husband and father only at his funeral.” MenMayMotherFatherWifeHusbandFuneralWives And MothersHusband And Father Book:One's Company: Reflections on Living Alone Source: One's Company: Reflections on Living Alone
“In every Magical, or similar system, it is invariably the first condition which the Aspirant must fulfill: he must once and for all and for ever put his family outside his magical circle.Even the Gospels insist clearly and weightily on this.Christ himself (i.e. whoever is meant by this name in this passage) callously disowns his mother and his brethren (Luke VIII, 19). And he repeatedly makes discipleship contingent on the total renunciation of all family ties. He would not even allow a man to attend his father's funeral!Is the magical tradition less rigid?Not on your life!” MenFirstsMotherFatherNamesChristConditionsTraditionCirclesTiesFuneralPassagesDiscipleshipBrethrenLukeRenunciationFamily Ties Author:Aleister Crowley
“When my mother died, my father was in a crisis, my sister was in a crisis, everyone was in a crisis. I went round the night my mother was lying in the kitchen, and I organised everything, from the undertaker to the funeral... I looked after everybody, I sorted it all out and Ive done so ever since.” DoneLyingMotherNightFatherDiedCrisisRoundsKitchenFuneralMy SisterOrganisedUndertakerMother Died Author:Stuart Rose