Robert E. Howard Quotes

I live, I burn with life, I love, I slay, & am content.

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Coming, as I do, from mountain folk on one side and sea followers on the other, there are few old songs of the hills or the sea with which I am not familiar.

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Over the souls of men spread the condor wings of colossal monsters and all manner of evil things prey upon the heart and soul and body of Man. Yet it may be in some far day the shadows shall fade and the Prince of Darkness be chained forever in his hell. And till then mankind can but stand up stoutly to the monsters in his own heart and without, and with the aid of God he may yet triumph.

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Every twinge of sensation, even of agony, was a negation of death.

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In this world men struggle and suffer vainly, finding pleasure only in the bright madness of battle; dying, their souls enter a gray misty realm of clouds and icy winds, to wander cheerlessly throughout eternity.

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Some mechanism in my sub-consciousness took the dominant characteristics of various prize-fighters, gunmen, bootleggers, oil field bullies, gamblers, and honest workmen I had come in contact with, and combining them all, produced the amalgamation I call Conan the Cimmerian.

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I'm not going out of my way looking for devils; but I wouldn't step out of my path to let one go by.

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Man is still an ape in that he forgets what is not ever before his eyes.

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Don't you think that as a people, Americans have less poetry, real poetry, in their souls than any other nations?

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When a nation forgets her skill in war, when her religion becomes a mockery, when the whole nation becomes a nation of money-grabbers, then the wild tribes, the barbarians drive in... Who will our invaders be? From whence will they come?

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Hither came Conan, the Cimmerian, black-haired, sullen-eyed, sword in hand, a thief, a reaver, a slayer, with gigantic melancholies and gigantic mirth, to tread the jeweled thrones of the Earth under his sandaled feet.

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It is not pleasant to come upon Death in a lonely place at midnight.

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Before the invader sound was born, the Universe was silent and shall be again.

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If I was wealthy I'd never do anything but poke around in ruined cities all over the world - and probably get snake-bit.

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Barbarism is the natural state of mankind.

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We're making tin gods out of those poor buffoons in Hollywood; I dote on movies and appreciate the scanty art therein but I consider the profession about the most debased and debasing I know.

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I have no fear of the Hereafter. An orthodox hell could hardly be more torture than my life has been.

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All fled—all done, so lift me on the pyre— The Feast is over, and the lamps expire.

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Man is better without knowledge of things to come, for what is to be will be, and man can neither avert nor hasten. It is better to go in the dark when the road must pass a lion and there is no other road.

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I have put off the past like a worn-out cloak.

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