Robert E. Howard Quotes, Dark Quotes

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 see in the papers where Roy Guthrie committed suicide. Why, I wonder?

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He was . . . a strange blending of Puritan and Cavalier, with a touch of the ancient philosopher, and more than a touch of the pagan. . . . A hunger in his soul drove him on and on, an urge to right all wrongs, protect all weaker things. . . . Wayward and restless as the wind, he was consistent in only one respect—he was true to his ideals of justice and right. Such was Solomon Kane.

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Rome got some peachy pastings when she tried to lick the Irish.

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A woman in such an emotional tempest is as perilous as a blind cobra to any about her.

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No man can be convinced when he will not.

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

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Animals are neither gods nor fiends, but men in their way without the lust and greed of man.

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

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I have accomplished little enough, but such as it is, it is the result of my own efforts.

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The more I see of what you call civilization, the more highly I think of what you call savagery!

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I became a writer in spite of my environments.

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I never saw a man fight as Conan fought. He put his back to the courtyard wall, and before they overpowered him the dead men were strewn in heaps thigh-deep about him. But at last they dragged him down, a hundred against one.

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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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Any but the most brutish of men must be touched with a certain awe or wonder at the baring of a woman's naked soul.

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It is an ill thing to meet a man you thought dead in the woodland at dusk.

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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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But not all men seek rest and peace; some are born with the spirit of the storm in their blood.

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