{"quotes":[{"text":"The dead only knows their world.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["death-and-dying","death-and-sickness","death-of-a-child","death-of-a-loved-one","death-wish","dying-well","dying-words","dying-young","grave","grave-peril","gravestone","graveyard-book","graveyards","life-and-death","life-and-death-life","life-lesson","life-philosophy","life","note-to-self","wisdom","wise","wise-words"],"id":24336,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"Carve your name on hearts, not tombstones. A legacy is etched into the minds of others and the stories they share about you.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["achievements","charity","commencement-speech","death","death-and-dying","dying","epitaph","eulogy","funerals","goals","gravestone","hearts","kindness","legacy","life","life-lessons","life-missions","life-purpose","purpose","speeches","stories","story","tombstones","tribute"],"id":34396,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"In the grave, there is neither learning nor working. Learn while you can, work while you can.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["grave","gravestone","graveyard","learn","learning","learning-process","work","work-ethic","working","working-man","working-together","working-with-people"],"id":104525,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"I've never written a quote I feel would be suitable for my gravestone. Wouldn't it be ironic if it were this one? Oh, and could you pull a few weeds while you're here?","author":"Ryan Lilly","tags":["death-humor","funny","funny","funny","grave","gravestone","humorous","humour","ironic","irony","lawn","lawns","quotable","quotable","quotables","quote","quotes","thistle","thistles","weeds"],"id":140811,"author_id":"Ryan+Lilly"},{"text":"I thought of the new stone, of my new wife, and of the newly buried white bones beneath us, and I felt that fate had made sport of us all.","author":"Sōseki Natsume","tags":["bones","death","fate","gravestone"],"id":159819,"author_id":"S%C5%8Dseki+Natsume"},{"text":"He’d seen a lot of bizarre items left at gravesides, like a carton of eggs, a pair of reading glasses, a bag of licorice, smooth stones, a spoon.","author":"Sheri Webber","tags":["cemetery","death","death-and-dying","grave","gravestone","graveyard"],"id":195932,"author_id":"Sheri+Webber"},{"text":"The greatest loss is the loss of life.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["death","death-and-dying","death-and-sickness","death-note","death-of-a-child","deathbed","grave","gravestone","graveyard","graveyard-book","life-and-death","life-and-death-life","life-lessons","life","live-and-die","loss"],"id":203551,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"He spake well who said that graves are the footprints of angels.","author":"Henry Wadsworth Longfellow","tags":["angel","death","death-angel","footprints","gravestone"],"id":218879,"author_id":"Henry+Wadsworth+Longfellow"},{"text":"The last to fall were the buildings, distant and solemn, the gravestones for an entire world.","author":"Dan Wells","tags":["apocalypse","building","gravestone"],"id":288308,"author_id":"Dan+Wells"},{"text":"Handcuffs weigh much more than gravestones.(from 'Gratitude').","author":"Visar Zhiti","tags":["gravestone","handcuffs","prison","prisoners"],"id":314325,"author_id":"Visar+Zhiti"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":12,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}