Robert E. Howard Quotes

Time and times are but cogwheels, unmatched, grinding on oblivious to one another. Occasionally - oh...

I have known many gods. He who denies them is as blind as he who trusts them too deeply. I seek not ...

Know, oh prince, that between the years when the oceans drank Atlantis and the gleaming cities, and ...

Hither came Conan, the Cimmerian, black-haired, sullen-eyed, sword in hand, a thief, a reaver, a sla...

Over the souls of men spread the condor wings of colossal monsters and all manner of evil things pre...

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

What do I know of cultured ways, the gilt, the craft and the lie?I, who was born in a naked land and...

My characters are more like men than these real men are, see. They're rough and rude, they got hands...

It is only the promise of death that makes life worth living.

Gleaming shell of an outworn lie; fable of Right divine—You gained your crowns by heritage, but Bloo...

Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without havi...

The Lion banner sways and falls in the horror-haunted gloom;A scarlet Dragon rustles by, borne on wi...

Barbarianism is the natural state of mankind. Civilization is unnatural. It is the whim of circumsta...

It was no ape, neither was it a man. It was some shambling horror spawned in the mysterious, nameles...

How can I wear the harness of toilAnd sweat at the daily round,While in my soul foreverThe drums of ...

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