Ancient Mesopotamia Quotes

“Now any King who wants to call himself my equal wherever I went let him go."
Sargon the Great / Enheduanna from
Heaven Earth and Time by D P BUCKLEY”
― Daniel Peter Buckley, Heaven Earth and Time

“In a different lifetime, he would have been able to hold her every day. He would have been able to kiss her, and dote upon her, and listen to her every thought. He wanted it for this lifetime, too.

But she was a rising priestess, and he, a monster.”
― Eli Hinze, The Wretched Spy

“Uruk town-so-full-of-shepherds. Divided into three parts: The town itself, the palm grove and the prairie.”
― The Epic of Gilgamesh (Tablet XI)

“When walking with the strong or with the dead, Do not wear clothes of purple or of red.”
― The Epic of Gilgamesh (Tablet XII)