{"quotes":[{"text":"Death is beautiful, part of life... No, it is sad. It’s sad when anyone dies. Even though every single human dies. 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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":"The power of the sin is in its secrecy. Rip the covers off!","author":"TemitOpe Ibrahim","tags":["cover","expose","inspirational","life-lessons","motivational","rip","secret","sin","snatch-the-covers-off","truth","uncover"],"id":263293,"author_id":"TemitOpe+Ibrahim"},{"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":"If I had to, I was going to rip every inch of me open, give him as much blood as he needed to survive.","author":"Ada Adams","tags":["blood","dawn","rip","survive"],"id":330802,"author_id":"Ada+Adams"},{"text":"But you don't need anything. You have everything,' I tell him.Rip looks at me. 'No I don't.''What?''No I don't.'There's a pause and then I ask, 'Oh, shit, Rip, What don't you have?''I don't have anything to loose.","author":"Bret Easton Ellis","tags":["clay","los-angeles","rip","youth"],"id":401471,"author_id":"Bret+Easton+Ellis"},{"text":"RECURRENT CURRENTSLike the ocean, life ebbs and flows with the occasional ripKamil Ali.","author":"Kamil Ali","tags":["ali","current","dawn","kamil","kamilthe","ocean","philosophy","rip","spawn","tide"],"id":416794,"author_id":"Kamil+Ali"},{"text":"The child inside me wouldn't stop crying. Every time it loses something so important to it. A person or a thing it loves the most, I pretend like nothing happened. But I hear it sobbing helplessly inside me. And the pathetic part of all this is, It neither grows up nor dies. Every time I stand in front of a mirror, it stares at me through my eyes. With its tear-stained face and that intense eyes that rip my ribs apart and the cry of it echoes through every room of my soul.","author":"Akshay Vasu","tags":["child","cry","dissapointment","echo","eyes","face","inside","lose","mirror","pain","ribs","rip","room","soul","tear"],"id":424597,"author_id":"Akshay+Vasu"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":14,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}