Full Idea
The gods alone are the ones who live forever with Shamash. / As for humans, their days are numbered.
Gist of Idea
The gods alone live forever with Shamash. The days of humans are numbered.
Source
Anon (Gilg) (The Epic of Gilgamesh [c.2300 BCE], 3.2.34), quoted by Michèle Friend - Introducing the Philosophy of Mathematics 1.2
Book Reference
Friend,Michèle: 'Introducing the Philosophy of Mathematics' [Acumen 2007], p.2
A Reaction
Friend quotes this to show the antiquity of the concept of infinity. It also, of course, shows that Sumerians at that time did not believe in human immortality.