Robert E. Howard Quotes, Death Quotes, Stand Alone Quotes

When I cannot stand alone, it will be time to die.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Robert E. Howard Quotes , Death Quotes , Stand Alone Quotes

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

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Robert E. Howard Quotes , Animal Quotes , Men Quotes

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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Robert E. Howard Quotes , Hands Quotes , Feet Quotes

Break the skin of civilization and you find the ape, roaring and red-handed.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Robert E. Howard Quotes , Civilization Quotes , Skins Quotes

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

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Robert E. Howard Quotes , Past Quotes , Cloaks Quotes

I reckon if I ever marry, she will have to be a strong woman in a circus or something.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Robert E. Howard Quotes , Strong Women Quotes , Strong Quotes

My characters are more like men than these real men are, see. They're rough and rude, they got hands and they got bellies. They hate and they lust; break the skin of civilization and you find the ape, roaring and red-handed.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Robert E. Howard Quotes , Hate Quotes , Real Quotes

Know, oh prince, that between the years when the oceans drank Atlantis and the gleaming cities, and the years of the rise of the Sons of Aryas, there was an Age undreamed of, when shining kingdoms lay spread across the world like blue mantles beneath the stars.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Robert E. Howard Quotes , Stars Quotes , Ocean Quotes

I had neither expert aid nor advice. I studied no courses in writing; until a year or so ago, I never read a book by anybody advising writers how to write.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Robert E. Howard Quotes , Book Quotes , Writing Quotes

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

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Robert E. Howard Quotes , Death Quotes , Lonely Quotes

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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Robert E. Howard Quotes , Heart Quotes , Men Quotes

No man can be convinced when he will not.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Robert E. Howard Quotes , Men Quotes

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

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Robert E. Howard Quotes , Suicide Quotes , Paper Quotes

Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Robert E. Howard Quotes , Live Life Quotes , Men Quotes

The printed page was like wine to me.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Robert E. Howard Quotes , Wine Quotes , Pages Quotes

Time and times are but cogwheels, unmatched, grinding on oblivious to one another. Occasionally - oh, very rarely! - the cogs fit; the pieces of the plot snap together momentarily and give men faint glimpses beyond the veil of this everyday blindness we call reality.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Robert E. Howard Quotes , Reality Quotes , Men Quotes

One man's bane is another's bliss.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Robert E. Howard Quotes , Men Quotes , Bliss Quotes

Man can be that which he wishes to be; form and substance, they are but shadows. The mind, the ego, the essence of the god-dream -- that is real, that is immortal.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Robert E. Howard Quotes , Dream Quotes , Real Quotes

In the hill country, civilization steals in last, and the people retain much of the crude but vigorous mode of expression of the colonial days and earlier.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Robert E. Howard Quotes , Country Quotes , Expression Quotes

Youngsters of this generation seem not quite so hazardous except in the way of mechanical speed, bad liquor and venereal diseases.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Robert E. Howard Quotes , This Generation Quotes , Generations Quotes