“Death was easy. Life was complicated.”— Callie Hunter Related Quotes “Question and AnswerDurban, Birmingham,Cape Town, Alabama,Johannesburg, Watts,The earth aroundStruggling, fighting,Dying–for what?A world to gain.Groping, hoping,Waiting–for what?A world to gain.Dreams kicked asunder,Why not go under?There’s a world to gain.But suppose I don’t want it,Why take it?To remake it.”— Langston Hughes “To date or not to date that is the question. It’s almost as important as Shakespeare’s to be or not to be which deals with death.”— Al Goldstein “Sadness and boredom were more bearable than the effort of living a normal life. Perhaps the idea of death began to hover over her during that period, as a kind of higher order of lassitude in which she would not have to move the blood in her veins or the air in her lungs; her repose would be absolute- not to think, not to feel, not to be.”— Isabel Allende