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

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Money and muscle, that's what I want; to be able to do any damned thing I want and get away with it. Money won't do that altogether, because if a man is a weakling, all the money in the world won't enable him to soak an enemy himself; on the other hand, unless he has money he may not be able to get away with it.

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Musings The little poets sing of little things: Hope, cheer, and faith, small queens and puppet kings; Lovers who kissed and then were made as one, And modest flowers waving in the sun. The mighty poets write in blood and tears And agony that, flame-like, bites and sears. They reach their mad blind hands into the night, To plumb abysses dead to human sight; To drag from gulfs where lunacy lies curled, Mad, monstrous nightmare shapes to blast the world. [click on the thumbnail by Jack "King" Kirby]

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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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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.

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

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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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Life is but a web spun of ghosts and dreams and illusions.

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I have gone into yesterday and tomorrow and both were as real as today -- which is like the dreams of ghosts!

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

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

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

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The sea-road is good for wanderers and landless men. There is quenching of thirst on the grey paths of the winds, and the flying clouds to still the sting of lost dreams.

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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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I became a writer in spite of my environments.

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It seems to me that many writers, by virtue of environments of culture, art and education, slip into writing because of their environments.

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I have known many gods. He who denies them is as blind as he who trusts them too deeply. I see not beyond death. Let me live while I live; let me know the rich juices of red meat and stinging wine on my palate, the hot embrace of white arms, the mad exultation of battle when the blue blades flame and crimson, and I am content. I know this: if life is an illusion, then I am no less than an illusion, and being thus, the illusion is real to me. I live, I burn with life, I love, I slay, and am content.

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