{"quotes":[{"text":"Life is a process during which one initially gets less and less dependent, independent, and then more and more dependent.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["adage","adages","adolescent","adolescents","adult","adulthood","adults","africa","african","ancient","aphorism","aphorisms","axiom","axioms","child","children","dead","death","deep","dependence","dependent","develop","developing","development","dictum","dictums","epigram","epigrams","existence","four-stages-of-life","funny","gnome","gnomes","grandparent","grandparents","grow","growing","growth","humor","humorous","humour","immortal","immortality","independence","independent","infant","infants","insightful","life","made-me-think","make-you-think","maxim","maxims","mortal","mortality","newborn","newborns","old","old-age","old-age-home","old-age-homes","phase","phases","philosopher","prepubescent","process","profound","proverb","proverbs","provoke-thought","quotation","quotations","quote","of-the-day","quotes","retire","retired","retiree","retirees","retirement","satire","satirical","satirist","satirists","saying","sayings","senile","senility","south-africa","south-african","stage","stages","stages-of-life","teenage","teenager","teenagers","thought-provoking","thoughtful","young","youth","youths"],"id":6452,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"We are temporarily immortal, until we have fulfilled God's plans for our lives...Then we become temporarily mortal, waiting to become permanently immortal at last.","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["destiny","god-s-plan","god-s-plans","immortal","immortality","life","life-accomplishment","mortal","mortality","our-lives","permanent","plan","purpose","stages-of-life","temporal"],"id":9085,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"When mortals discuss about the eternity,conclusively it will be a lifetime discussion.","author":"Toba Beta","tags":["discuss","eternity","life","lifetime","mortal","truth"],"id":19884,"author_id":"Toba+Beta"},{"text":"It wasn’t only his city that was healing, Raphael thought, his eyes catching the refracted light that betrayed Aodhan’s presence in the sky; his people were, too. And it had all begun with a single, vulnerable mortal who did not accept that to be an archangel was to be always right.","author":"Nalini Singh","tags":["healing","love","mortal"],"id":27556,"author_id":"Nalini+Singh"},{"text":"If a choice is given to us between being mortal and being immortal, you will find no one in the group of mortals!","author":"Mehmet Murat ildan","tags":["ildan-words-of-wisdom","immortal","immortality","immortality","immortals","mortal","mortals","murat-ildan","turkish-literature"],"id":29312,"author_id":"Mehmet+Murat+ildan"},{"text":"Perfection is an everlasting goal to pursue. It reminds us that we are mortal beings capable of making mistakes. When we correct them, it gives us an opportunity to become better people.","author":"Ellen J. Barrier","tags":["goals","mistakes","mortal","opportunity","people","perfection"],"id":36696,"author_id":"Ellen+J.+Barrier"},{"text":"Other than the promise of life after death, nothing consoles the poor better than the fact that rich people are also subject to death.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["affluent","comfort","consolation","consolation-prize","console","dead","death","hereafter","immortal","immortality","life","life-after-death","mortal","mortality","poor","poverty","poverty-stricken","rich","wealth","wealthy"],"id":53958,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"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":"You are mortal. You age, you die. If that is not hell, pray tell me, what is?","author":"Cassandra Clare","tags":["age","city-of-ashes","death","humans","life","mortal"],"id":66688,"author_id":"Cassandra+Clare"},{"text":"Your real name is a mortal name. Now you need one that is immortal, the one that takes the high stage and plays above the rest. You can't be immortal and mortal at the same time.","author":"Keith Buckley","tags":["immortal","immortality","mortal","mortality","pseudonym"],"id":68484,"author_id":"Keith+Buckley"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":61,"pages":7,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}