"To whom can I speak today? Gentleness has perished And the violent man has come down on everyone."
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
Second Poem of the Man, st. 3 (tr. Faulkner)
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Dispute_Between_a_Man_and_His_Ba
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
Dispute Between a Man and His Ba
13 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by Dispute Between a Man and His Ba β
Related Quotes
"To whom can I speak today? Brothers are evil And the friends of today unlovable."
"Lo, my name reeks Lo, more than carrion smell On summer days of burning sky. [...] Lo, my name reeks Lo, more than thβ¦"
"To whom can I speak today? I am heavy-laden with trouble Through lack of an intimate friend.To whom can I speak todayβ¦"
"Death is in my sight today As when a man desires to see home When he has spent many years in captivity."
"What my ba said to me: "Now throw complaint on the [wood-pile], you my comrade, my brother! Whether you offer on the β¦"
"(As for) that which my ba had said to me: "Give up the complaints about the stalling of this companion, my brother, wβ¦"
"R. O. Faulkner, "The Man Who Was Tired of Life", The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, vol. 42 (1956) pp. 21β40"
"H. Goedicke, The Report about the Dispute of a Man with his Ba (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins Press, 1970)"
"V. A. Tobin, in W. K. Simpson (ed.) The Literature of Ancient Egypt: An Anthology of Stories, Instructions, and Poetrβ¦"
"M. Lichtheim, Ancient Egyptian Literature, vol. 1: The Old and Middle Kingdoms (U of California P, 1975) pp. 163β169"