The Epic of Gilgamesh/Quotes

"How, O how could I stay silent, how, O how could I keep quiet?

My friend whom I love has turned to clay:

Enkidu my friend whom I love has turned to clay.

Am I not like him? Must I lie down too, never to rise again?"

- Tablet X

"You will not find the life you seek.

When the Gods created Man,

Death for mankind they set aside,

Life in their own hands retaining."

- Siduri to Gilgamesh

"We're the Mesopotamians!

Sargon, Hammurabi, Ashurbanipal and Gilgamesh..."

- They Might Be Giants, "The Mesopotamians"