“Everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for the funeral expenses.” MenSaidLawMotherHe ManDiedExpensesFuneralIn-lawsMother In LawDrawbacks Author:St. Jerome
“People are usually pretty hungry after a funeral. I guess it's because we all realize that time is running out and we better eat all we can. Please don't mention that to my mother.” PeopleRunningMotherRealizingPleaseHungryFuneralTime Is Running OutTime Running Out Book:What's Eating Gilbert Grape Source: What's Eating Gilbert Grape
“I am too sick to work and haven't money enough to last 2 months and pay income tax. I want to keep going but do not see quite how, and there is no alternative - rather than justify my mother's 25-year dread of my "coming back on her, sick," I must kill myself. If she has to pay funeral costs, at least she will cut them to the bone and I will not be here to endure her martyrdom and prolong it by living.” IfsWantYearsEnoughLastsMotherPayCuttingHavensMonthsCostTaxesSickEndureBonesIncomeAlternativesJustifyKeep GoingFuneralDreadComing BackIncome TaxMartyrdom Author:Rose Wilder Lane
“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