Quotes About Gilgamesh

#1. Gilgamesh was called a god and a man; Enkidu was an animal and a man. It is the story of their becoming human together.

Herbert Mason

#2. Gilgamesh said to him, to Utnapishtim the remote,
What can I do, Utnapishtim? Where can I go?
A thief has stolen my flesh.
Death lives in the house where my bed is,
and wherever I set my feet, there Death is.

John Gardner

#3. What have you known of loss
That makes you different from other men?
- The Epic of Gilgamesh

Aga Shahid Ali

#4. Look for the copper tablet-box,
Undo its bronze lock,
Open the door to its secret,
Lift out the lapis lazuli tablet and read it,
The story of that man, Gilgamesh, who went through all kinds of sufferings.

Stephanie Dalley

#5. It is possible to take the story of Noah figuratively, although virtually every Near East ancient civilization has its own version of the flood story (including the amoral epic of Gilgamesh).

Ben Shapiro

#6. Tarvek: "You call that 'throwing?'"
Gilgamesh: "Hey, at least I got his hat!

Phil Foglio

#7. But my hand was too small to do the gathering. [Epic of Gilgamesh, p. 79]

Herbert Mason

#8. When the gods created man, Gilgamesh had learned, they set death as man's inevitable destiny, and man must learn to live with it.

Yuval Noah Harari

#9. Said Gilgamesh to him, to Uta-napishti the Distant:
'O Uta-napishti, what should I do and where should I go?
A thief has taken hold of my flesh!
For there in my bed-chamber Death does abide,
and wherever I turn, there too will be Death.

Anonymous

#10. Gilgamesh's sperm! That is the true treasure . . . YOU CAN CREATE THE WORLD'S MIGHTIEST ARMY BY USING HIS SPERM!

Kazuo Koike

#11. Why, O Gish, does thou run about?
The life that thou seekest, thou wilt not find.

Anonymous

#12. I don't lose my temper often; about once every twenty years perhaps.

Dirk Bogarde

#13. Evil people can still keep promises. Many have done just that, girl, though they are usually not promises you 'rational' people wish them to keep.

Tim Reed

#14. I think, as most people are, I'm fascinated with love, relationships, and my daily life so I'm very inclined to make films about those things.

Mark Webber

#15. Love is antithetical to human nature. Humans seek their own good. Their own survival. Their own glorification. But love seeks the good of the other, even to the detriment of the self. Even to the detriment of others.

Christina Daley

#16. Whatever you have to do to have a good time, let's get on with it, so long as it doesn't cause a murder.

Frank Zappa

#17. Choose to live and choose to love;
choose to rise above and give back
what you yourself were given.

Gilgamesh

#18. The joyful will stoop with sorrow, and when you have gone to the earth I will let my hair grow long for your sake, I will wander through the wilderness in the skin of a lion

Michael Ondaatje

#19. You cannot beat the feeling of sitting on top of the charts. I had almost forgotten what it feels like ... It feels great! It is really a very exciting time and I am enjoying the ride.

Lionel Richie

#20. With that, Andrew caught Neil's face in his hands and leaned in.

Nora Sakavic

#21. He entered the city asked a blind man if he had ever heard the name Enkidu, and the old man shrugged and shook his head, then turned away, as if to say, 'It is impossible to keep the names of friends whom we have lost

Herbert Mason

#22. What is this sleep which holds you now?
You are lost in the dark and cannot hear me.

The Epic Of Gilgamesh