“Who isthere in strong-walled Uruk who has wisdom like this? Strangethings have been spoken, why does your heart speak strangely?
“It wasI who cut down the cedar,I who leveled the forest,I who slew Humbaba andnow see what has becomeof me.
gilgamesh talking to Enkidu
“Once I ran for you,for the water of life, and I now have nothing.”
“Who isthere in strong-walled Uruk who has wisdom like this? Strangethings have been spoken, why does your heart speak strangely?
the third night enkidu talking to gilgamesh
“My friend, the great goddess cursed me and Imust die in shame. I shall not die like a man fallen in battle;I feared to fall, but happy is the man who falls in the battle,for I must die in shame.”
“How can I rest, how can I be at peace?
the house where the food is dust and clay is the meat.