Ereshkigal Quotes & Sayings

Welcome to Irkalla, the Land of the Dead," the woman said. "I am Ereshkigal, Queen of the Underworld. — Alan Kinross

No TV show in history, no movie ever made - nothing you can imagine as being written or filmed or performed can turn a normal human being into a Dexter. — Jeff Lindsay

Glimpses do you seem to see of that mortally intolerable truth; that all deep, earnest thinking is but the intrepid effort of the soul to keep the open independence of her sea; while the wildest winds of heaven and earth conspire to cast her on the treacherous, slavish shore?
But as in landlessness alone resides the highest truth, shoreless, indefinite as God
so, better is it to perish in that howling infinite, than be ingloriously dashed upon the lee, even if that were safety! For worm-like, then, oh! who would craven crawl to land! Terrors of the terrible! is all this agony so vain? Take heart, take heart, O Bulkington! Bear thee grimly, demigod! Up from the spray of thy ocean-perishing
straight up, leaps thy apotheosis! — Herman Melville

I don't have to make a point. I'm George Bush. I'm the president. I built that arena, so I don't have to make a point. — Shaquille O'Neal

A good Dianetic auditor can take a broken-down, sorrow-drenched lady of thirty-eight and knock out her past periods of physical and mental pain and have on his hands somebody who appears to be twenty-five-and a bright, cheerful twenty-five at that. — L. Ron Hubbard

The disorientation and reorientation which comes with the initiation into any mystery is the most wonderful experience which is possible to have. — Henry Miller

The language of women should be luminous, but not voluminous. — Douglas William Jerrold

Colour is, on the evidence of language alone, very bound up with the feelings. — Marion Milner

The perfect critic is one ... that sees with the eyes of posterity. — Austin O'Malley

a light that made me think of long hours in dusty libraries, and old books, and silence. — Donna Tartt

From the ancient Inanna forcing herself to the underworld to visit her sister, Ereshkigal - passing through the seven gates of the underworld and then being hung on a hook, rotting - where she had to look at her sister, and her sister had to look at her. Both needed to see inside themselves, to see inside their own shadows. To come to terms with who they really were, not who they thought they were. — Tori Amos

God is not a drug, and He certainly does not create experiences and emotions that make us feel better but not become better. — Erwin Raphael McManus