{"quotes":[{"text":"Death would not surprise us as often as it does, if we let go of the misbelief that newborns are less mortal than the elderly.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["age","aged","aphorism","aphorisms","aphorist","aphorists","belief","beliefs","birth","burial","bury","child","children","cycle","dead","death","die","elder","elders","fallacies","fallacy","funeral","funerals","funny","gone-too-soon","hereafter","hilarious","humor","humorous","humour","immortal","immortality","joke","jokes","kid","kids","life","life-after-death","life-and-death","misbelief","misbeliefs","misconception","misconceptions","mortal","mortality","newborn","newborns","offspring","old","old-age","old-age-home","old-age-homes","philosopher","philosophers-cry","philosophic","philosophy","prepare","prepared","quotations","quotes","rest-in-peace","rip","satire","stoic","stoicism","stoics","surprise","surprising","the-elders","the-hereafter","tomb","tombstone","tombstones","unprepared","weep"],"id":54786,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"The notion of burial had always struck him as stifling and cold. He liked the Indian way better, setting the bodies up high, as if passing them to the heavens.","author":"Michael Punke","tags":["burial","bury","funeral","heaven","the-revenant"],"id":61475,"author_id":"Michael+Punke"},{"text":"A hopeful life is a successful life. People who bury their hopes and crave for someone’s success never know that their diamond is hidden as they envy other’s silver!","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["achieve","bury","crave","diamond","envious","envy","food-for-thought","hidden","hope","hopeful","israelmore-ayivor","jealous","jealousy","life","silver","success","successful","successful-life","successful-people"],"id":96296,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"The more you talk about it, rehash it, rethink it, cross analyze it, debate it, respond to it, get paranoid about it, compete with it, complain about it, immortalize it, cry over it, kick it, defame it, stalk it, gossip about it, pray over it, put it down or dissect its motives it continues to rot in your brain. It is dead. It is over. It is gone. It is done. It is time to bury it because it is smelling up your life and no one wants to be near your rotted corpse of memories and decaying attitude. Be the funeral director of your life and bury that thing!","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["alienating","bad-memories","blaming-others","broken-records","brutal-truth","bury","burying","dating","degrading-yourself","distancing","drowning-others","family","family-conflict","fights","find-joy","finding-focus","focus-on-positive","forget-it","forgive","friends","funeral-director","funny","give-it-up","happiness","hating-others","humor","hurting-others","issues","joyful-living","let-go","let-it-go","letting-go","life-coach","life-coaching","love-one-another","move-on","moving-on","obnoxious","over-thinking","paranoia","peace","relationships","rotted-corpse","siblings","staying-positive","stayingpositiveu-com"],"id":116213,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"At the very point that I’ve taken something for granted, I have at that same moment taken it to its grave. And if I look around, I realize I’ve cultivated quite a cemetery.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["appreciate","appreciation","buried","bury","careless","cemetery","entitled","entitlement","foolish","granted","grave","ignorance","kill","killed","rights","selfish","terminate","terminated","value"],"id":116929,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"The fact that you have just buried your parent or parents and/or sibling or siblings does not make you less likely to die today.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["aphorism","aphorisms","aphorist","aphorists","brother","brothers","buried","bury","dead","death","die","dying","families","family","funeral","funerals","funny","guarantee","guaranteed","hilarious","humor","humorous","humour","joke","jokes","life","parent","parents","predict","predictable","probability","probable","satire","sibling","siblings","sister","sisters","unpredictable"],"id":117857,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"At her words, words of forgiveness from Rose, an honest and just woman, something broke inside of Wince. His tears began to flow. Age seemed to drift from his face like misty ghosts from a morning field. Katie lifted his chin and, holding back her own tears, looked into his eyes. 'Thank you, Wince.'Eve placed her free hand on his shoulder. 'May we hold her now?'Wince nodded and gently released the baby into the waiting arms of her sisters.'You did the right thing, Wince.' Rose gave Wince a hug. 'And you can help us bury her after Wilson and the Tar Ponds City Police see if they can find anybody to lay charges against after all this time.","author":"Beatrice Rose Roberts","tags":["baby","bury","canada","cape-breton","community","cops","crime","criminal","cry","crying","depression","family","forgiveness","friendship","funeral","grief","help","lonliness","man","nova-scotia","police","redemption","regret","science","sisters","stillbirth","sydney-tar-ponds","testing","twins","unborn"],"id":145189,"author_id":"Beatrice+Rose+Roberts"},{"text":"In the graveyard built on a garden. The death of Every flower added a little life to the heart of the corpses buried deep inside.","author":"Akshay Vasu","tags":["bury","corpse","deep","flower","garden","graveyard","heart","life"],"id":149263,"author_id":"Akshay+Vasu"},{"text":"Give me one more night to taste the darkWhen wolves imitate a lone dog's bark Let those secrets remain unspoken Fallen angel's heart now lover's token Light grows dim burying riddle’s death Just breathe to free your one last breath.","author":"Munia Khan","tags":["breathe","breathing","bury","burying","dark","darkness","death","dogs","fallen","fallen-angels","free","imitate","imitation","last-breath","light","lovers","night","night-sky","poem","poetry","poetry","poetry","riddle","secret","secrets","taste","unspoken","wolf","wolfen","wolves"],"id":180935,"author_id":"Munia+Khan"},{"text":"It is the best investment to make an impact on others, because even when you're dead money alone will not bury you.","author":"Gift Gugu Mona","tags":["best-investment","bury","dead","money","return-on-investment"],"id":183552,"author_id":"Gift+Gugu+Mona"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":27,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}