quotes

"Don't be afraid, said Gilgamesh. We are together. There is nothing we should fear." (pg. 28, Gilgamesh)

"He became bitter in his tone again: because of her. She made me see things as a man, and a man sees death in things. that is what it is to be a man. You'll know when you have lost the strength to see the way you once did." (Pg 49, Gilgamesh)

"but a little hunger will replace their arrogance with new desire.. Then Anu acceded to her wish. The Bull of Heaven descended to the earth and killed at once three hundred men, and than attacked king Gilgamesh."(Pg 45 Gilgamesh)

"I think compassion is our gods pure act which burns forever, and be it in heaven or in hell doesnt matter for me; because Hell is the everlasting gift of his presence to the lonely heart who is longing amidst perishing phantoms and doesnt care to find any immorality if not in the pure loneliness of the holy one, this loneliness which he enjoys forever inside and outside of his creation. It is enough for one who loves to find his only one singled in himself. And that is the cup of Immortaility." Pg74,75, Gilgamesh

" The war god touched my forehead; he blessed my family and said: before this you wer just a man, but now you and your wife shall be like gods. You shall live in the distance at the rivers' mouth, at the source. I allowed myself to be taken far way from all that i had seen. sometimes even in love we yearn to leave mankind. only the loneliness of the only one who never acts like gods is bearable." (Pg 79 Gilgamesh)