{"quotes":[{"text":"The thing you let Die within when you are Alive, will be carried with your Soul after Death.","author":"Usha Cosmico","tags":["after-death","death","desires","emotions","ghost","inferiority-complex","mysticism","secrets","soul","spirit","spirituality","unfulfillment","wisdom"],"id":4524,"author_id":"Usha+Cosmico"},{"text":"He gave everything to everybody. Except to me.","author":"J.K. Rowling","tags":["after-death","anger","bitter","sadness","the-ones-we-leave-behind"],"id":17477,"author_id":"J.K.+Rowling"},{"text":"And now let us love and take that which is given us, and be happy; for in the grave there is no love and no warmth, nor any touching of the lips. Nothing perchance, or perchance but bitter memories of what might have been.","author":"H. Rider Haggard","tags":["after-death","death","life","love","lovers","mortality"],"id":22414,"author_id":"H.+Rider+Haggard"},{"text":"At the end of life, nobody knows where the spirit goes.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["after-death","after-life","believers","christian-living","christianity-consciousness","christianity","death-and-dying","death","death-wish","deathbed","faith","faith-in-god","faith","god-s-plan","grave-robbing","graveyard","graveyard-book","life-and-death","life-and-living","life-philosophy","life","resurrection","sickness-and-diseases","sickness-and-health","sickness-of-the-mind","spirit","spiritual-life","spiritual","spiritual-sayings","spirituality","wisdom","wise","wise-words"],"id":40537,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"Hasn’t stopped us before. And besides, if they wanted to kill us, we’d be dead by now and would be having an entirely different conversation. I wonder if I’d still be mad at you, or if we would talk in words or pictures. Maybe in smells. That would be cool.” -Janco.","author":"Maria V. Snyder","tags":["after-death","afterlife-speculation","funny-and-random","funny-but-true","funny","humor","thought-provoking"],"id":43540,"author_id":"Maria+V.+Snyder"},{"text":"I am constantly mystified by what John ends up remembering… I just don’t understand why he’s able to hang on to information like that, while so many other more important memories evaporate. Then again, I suppose so much of what stays with us is often insignificant. The memories we take to the ends of our lives have no real rhyme or reason, especially when you think of the endless things that you do over the course of a day, a week, a month, a year, a lifetime. All the cups of coffee, hand-washings, changes of clothes, lunches, goings to the bathroom, headaches, naps, walks to school, trips to the grocery store, conversations about the weather—all the things so unimportant they should be immediately forgotten. Yet they aren’t. I often think of the Chinese red bathrobe I had when I was twenty-seven years old; the sound of our first cat Charlie’s feet on the linoleum of our old house; the hot rarefied air around aluminum pot the moment before the kernels of popcorn burst open. I think of these things as often as I think about getting married or giving birth or the end of the Second World War. What is truly amazing is that before you know it, sixty years go by and you can remember maybe eight or nine important events, along with a thousand meaningless ones. How can that be?You want to think there’s a pattern to it all because it makes you feel better, gives you some sense of a reason why we’re here, but there really isn’t any. People look for God in these patterns, these reasons, but only because they don’t know where else to look.Things happen to us: some of it important, most of it not, and a little of it stays with us till the end. What stays after that? I’ll be damned if I know.(pp.174-175).","author":"Michael Zadoorian","tags":["after-death","aging","end-of-life","end-of-life-musings","lifetime","meaningful-life","memories","memory","memory-loss","moments","ordinary-life","patterns","reason","time","time-passing"],"id":48060,"author_id":"Michael+Zadoorian"},{"text":"It's not what I'd want for at my funeral. When I die, I just want them to plant me somewhere warm. And then when the pretty women walk over my grave I would grab their ankles, like in that movie.","author":"Neil Gaiman","tags":["after-death","death","funerals","humorous"],"id":125128,"author_id":"Neil+Gaiman"},{"text":"The sun still, surprisingly, came up and shone down onto the cold, metal leftovers. No loud noises. No screams. No breaking glass. Just silence and sunshine. You would be forgiven for thinking that this all happened on another planet. It didn’t.","author":"pleasefindthis","tags":["after-death","death-of-a-loved-one","grief"],"id":147895,"author_id":"pleasefindthis"},{"text":"Marina wouldn't want to be remembered because she dead. She would want to be remembered because she's good.","author":"Anne Fadiman","tags":["after-death","being-remembered","memory","talent"],"id":148166,"author_id":"Anne+Fadiman"},{"text":"I didn't know who tobelievebutone thing I doknow: when a man islivingmany claim relationshipsthat are hardlysoand after he dies, well,then it's everybody'sparty.","author":"Charles Bukowski","tags":["after-death","after-life","afterlife","bukowski","death","die","fake","fakery","friendship","irony","life","love","poem","poetry","relationships"],"id":157438,"author_id":"Charles+Bukowski"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":25,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}