{"quotes":[{"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":"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":"Not everyone who died had left a 'memory' and not everyone who had left a memory had left a 'blessed' one. Therefore, not all have died should be tagged '...Of a blessed memory.","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["a-blessed-memory","bless","blessed","blessed-memory","burial","dead","death","die","died","dies","food-for-thought","impact","israelmore-ayivor","legacy","linger","linger-on","memorial","memory","mission","name","pass-away","passed-away","passed-on","passion","r-i-p","rest-in-peace","rip","tag","tagged","title","vision"],"id":166477,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"My life will end someday, but it will end at my convenience.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["burial","control","death","decision","departure","destiny","end-of-life","epitaph","final-day","funeral","ghost","giving-up","grave","graveyard","karma","karmic","michael-bassey-johnson","mortal","mortality","obsequies","rest-in-peace","sickness","six-feet","spirituality","tomb","tombstone"],"id":193988,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"},{"text":"But, Aunt... I don't want to go to the grave site set aside for me a few years ago at the ancestral grave site. I don't want to go there. When I lived here and woke up from the fog in my head, I would walk by myself to the grave site set aside for me, so that I could feel comfortable if I lived there after death. It was sunny, and I liked the pine tree that stood bent but tall, but remaining a member of this family even in death would be too much and too hard. To try to change my mind, I would sing and pull weeds, sitting there until the sun set, but nothing made me feel comfortable there. I lived with this family for over fifty years; please let me go now.","author":"Kyung-Sook Shin","tags":["after-life","death","grave","let-me-go","rest-in-peace","seeking-comfort"],"id":272331,"author_id":"Kyung-Sook+Shin"},{"text":"Attending a funeral would leave the average person insane, if they truly believed that sooner or later they are also going to die.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["aphorism","aphorisms","aphorist","aphorists","attend","believe","crazy","dead","death","defense-mechanism","defense-mechanisms","denial","denial-of-death","die","funeral","funerals","funny","gone-too-soon","hereafter","hilarious","humor","humorous","humour","immortal","immortality","insane","insanity","joke","jokes","life","life-after-death","life-and-death","mortal","mortality","mourn","quotations","quotes","rest-in-peace","rip","sane","sanity","satire","sincere","sincerity","the-hereafter"],"id":292085,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"The ancients said that for persons who cultivated body and mind, and who are virtuous and honorable, death is an experience of liberation, a long-awaited rest from a lifetime of labors. Death helps the unscrupulous person to put an end to the misery of desire. Death, then, for everyone is a kind of homecoming. That is why the ancient sages speak of a dying person as a person who is 'going home.","author":"Liezi","tags":["death","dying","home","homecoming","life-and-death","peace","rest","rest-in-peace","taoism"],"id":294032,"author_id":"Liezi"},{"text":"It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing their dreams.","author":"Gabriel García Márquez","tags":["inspirational","rest-in-peace"],"id":316857,"author_id":"Gabriel+Garc%C3%ADa+M%C3%A1rquez"},{"text":"We tell the dead to rest in peace, when we should worry about the living to live in peace.","author":"Anthony Liccione","tags":["death","human-nature","live-in-peace","rest-in-peace","war","worry"],"id":324938,"author_id":"Anthony+Liccione"},{"text":"When your heart is heavy, sometimes it's just easier to retweet the words of another person who seems to know exactly how you feel.","author":"Germany Kent","tags":["death","heaven-and-earth","heavy-heart","heavy-hearted","life","life-and-death","life-and-pain","life-experience","life-lessons","life-philosophy","rest-in-peace","social-media","social-media-advice","sympathy","tweets-to-live-by","twitter","twitter-audiences","twitter-mind","twitter-nation","twitter","you-are-what-you-tweet"],"id":377058,"author_id":"Germany+Kent"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":12,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}