{"quotes":[{"text":"She’d sworn she wouldn’t end up like her little brother, but loneliness didn’t arrive with flashing bulbs and a warning label. The descent was as simple and complex as a faked smile, white lies about being “okay,” and the nod and acceptance as her own peers didn’t delve deeper, shutting the coffin lid for her.","author":"Katherine McIntyre","tags":["coffin","darkness","death","descent","lies","loneliness","problems","suicide","warning"],"id":10252,"author_id":"Katherine+McIntyre"},{"text":"Are you kidding? I'm supposed to put my books in this filthy tin coffin?","author":"Kami Garcia","tags":["coffin","locker","ridley","school"],"id":30297,"author_id":"Kami+Garcia"},{"text":"Having parked up at the entrance to the football ground I’d like my coffin to be taken from the hearse and carried around the mile and a half perimeter of the pitch in a fitting lap of honour. Then, after the lap of honour, I would like the undertakers to lift me out of my coffin, dress me in the home strip and sit with me in the Evans Halshaw Home Stand for a match against any team in the Essex and Suffolk Border League Division One. (From Undertaker's Question Time, 2016).","author":"Nick John Whittle","tags":["coffin","comedy","death-and-dying"],"id":34079,"author_id":"Nick+John+Whittle"},{"text":"An expensive coffin does not decrease the deceased’s chances of going to hell.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["adage","adages","afterlife-hereafter","aphorism","aphorisms","axiom","axioms","casket","caskets","coffin","coffins","dead","death","deep","denial-of-death","devil","dictum","dictums","epigram","epigrams","evil","funeral","funeral-parlor","funeral-parlors","funeral-parlour","funeral-parlours","funerals","gnome","gnomes","god","heaven","hell","humor","humour","insightful","made-me-think","make-you-think","materialism","materialistic","maxim","maxims","poor","poverty","profound","proverb","proverbs","provoke-thought","quotation","quotations","quote","quotes","religion","religious","rest-in-peace","rich","riches","rip","satan","satire","satirical","saying","sayings","show-off","sin","sinner","sinners","thought-provoking","thoughtful","wealth","wealthy"],"id":39761,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"Now get the fuck up off the ground so I can put you in it... Like a coffin. Because you'll be fucking dead after I kill you, you fucking asshole.","author":"Robert Kirkman","tags":["asshole","coffin","dead","ground","murder","negan"],"id":54776,"author_id":"Robert+Kirkman"},{"text":"Like the coffin was settling down for a long, long nap, for a forever nap.","author":"Sherman Alexie","tags":["coffin","forever","nap"],"id":133618,"author_id":"Sherman+Alexie"},{"text":"Well, that was the end of me, the real end. Two pound ten every Tuesday and a room of the Gray's Inn Road. Saved, rescued and with my place to hide in - what more did I want? I crept in and hid. The lid of the coffin shut down with a bang. Now I no longer wish to be loved, beautiful, happy or successful. I want one thing and one thing only - to be left alone. No more pawings, no more pryings - leave me alone.","author":"Jean Rhys","tags":["alone","beautiful","coffin","end","happy","hide","left-alone","love","rescued","room","saved","successful","wish"],"id":141087,"author_id":"Jean+Rhys"},{"text":"When you're reaching the end of the semester and you just wanna die. Coffin Making 101 is literally killing me.-Karen Quan and Jarod Kintz.","author":"Karen Quan","tags":["absurd","class","coffin","college","death","die","humor","kill","killing","pressure","school","semester","stress","surreal","university"],"id":143346,"author_id":"Karen+Quan"},{"text":"It's all right if people think we are idiots.It's all right if we lie face down on the earth.It's all right if we open the coffin and climb in.","author":"Robert Bly","tags":["coffin","earth","idiots"],"id":147636,"author_id":"Robert+Bly"},{"text":"We do know that we are cheated from birth to the overcharge on our coffins.","author":"John Steinbeck","tags":["birth","cheating","coffin","death"],"id":152770,"author_id":"John+Steinbeck"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":31,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}