{"quotes":[{"text":"There are things far worse than death, for when it comes to us it is final. What lies beyond it is a matter of faith in what we had hope for.","author":"R. Alan Woods","tags":["death","death-and-dying","death-of-a-loved-one","r-alan-woods"],"id":655,"author_id":"R.+Alan+Woods"},{"text":"Death pulls people from our spaces so often and we accept it as our final payment for having been here and having lived, however big or small. We don’t always have time to notice how things have changed in the absence of some of them. But then death pulls away someone we love, and we find that time. In here, we notice everything; growing grass and fingernails, and songs that end in a minor key. We are too sad to do anything else but watch a clock, applying seconds, minutes, and hours to the trauma and the lacerations. Time, the forever healer, they say. We find the time to wonder how everyone else is moving on, around our paralyzed selves. Ourselves unsure of roads and trees and birds and things. It all blurs and words aren’t words anymore. We find the time to attempt to figure a way to rethink everything we thought about this world and why we came to it.","author":"Darnell Lamont Walker","tags":["death","death-and-love","death-of-a-child","death-of-a-loved-one","dying"],"id":6314,"author_id":"Darnell+Lamont+Walker"},{"text":"Even if you are alive somewhere, the absence of the other person who used to be there beside you obliterates your presence. Everything in the room, even the stars in the sky, can disappear in a second, changing one scene for another, just like in a dream.","author":"Hwang Sok-yong","tags":["death","death-of-a-loved-one","dreaming","hwang-sok-yong","loneliness","solitude","the-old-garden"],"id":8230,"author_id":"Hwang+Sok-yong"},{"text":"There is a deep sense in which we are all ghost towns. We are all haunted by the memory of those we love, those with whom we feel we have unfinished business. While they may no longer be with us, a faint aroma of their presence remains, a presence that haunts us until we make our peace with them and let them go. The problem, however, is that we tend to spend a great deal of energy in attempting to avoid the truth. We construct an image of ourselves that seeks to shield us from a confrontation with our ghosts. Hence we often encounter them only late at night, in the corridors of our dreams.","author":"Peter Rollins","tags":["death-of-a-loved-one","loss"],"id":9210,"author_id":"Peter+Rollins"},{"text":"It's not that people don't know when they'll die. It's that they don't seem to know they'll die.","author":"Raheel Farooq","tags":["dead-and-gone","dead-people","death","death-and-dying","death-of-a-loved-one","life-and-death","life-lessons"],"id":11400,"author_id":"Raheel+Farooq"},{"text":"Such a funny thing death is for mortals. You cry. You morn. You grieve. You get angry. But death is not always tragic, dear one. Sometimes death is the ultimate expression of love.","author":"R.K. Ryals","tags":["death","death-of-a-loved-one","grief","love"],"id":12377,"author_id":"R.K.+Ryals"},{"text":"Tears don't bring people back.' Pain stabs from my chest to my fingertips.'Tears aren't for the people we've lost. They are for us. So that we can remember and celebrate and miss them and feel human.","author":"C.J. Redwine","tags":["crying-over-dead","death-of-a-loved-one","encouragement","heartbreak","loss","tears"],"id":14419,"author_id":"C.J.+Redwine"},{"text":"The only way to get over a death is by seeing it as a life completed, instead of a life interrupted.","author":"Anonymous","tags":["dead-death","death","death-and-dying","death-and-love","death-of-a-loved-one","life","trauma"],"id":17277,"author_id":"Anonymous"},{"text":"But he drank a lot. When love dies, he told me, there are no survivors.","author":"Eion Colfer","tags":["death","death-and-dying","death-of-a-loved-one","love"],"id":20202,"author_id":"Eion+Colfer"},{"text":"There is one invisible bridge for every one of us and death is the first step of it. On this side, there is life where there are questions and fear but on that other side of that bridge, there is a whole new world full of answers and peace.","author":"Viraj J. Mahajan","tags":["death","death-and-dying","death-of-a-child","death-of-a-loved-one","death","life-philosophy","magic","philosophy"],"id":23039,"author_id":"Viraj+J.+Mahajan"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":219,"pages":22,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}