Robert E. Howard

Quotes

• “Over the souls of men spread the condor wings of colossal monsters and all manner of evil things prey upon the heart and...”
• “The Lion banner sways and falls in the horror-haunted gloom;A scarlet Dragon rustles by, borne on winds of doom.In heaps...”
• “It was no ape, neither was it a man. It was some shambling horror spawned in the mysterious, nameless jungles of the sou...”
• “Time and times are but cogwheels, unmatched, grinding on oblivious to one another. Occasionally - oh, very rarely! - the...”
• “Gleaming shell of an outworn lie; fable of Right divine—You gained your crowns by heritage, but Blood was the price of m...”
• “Know, oh prince, that between the years when the oceans drank Atlantis and the gleaming cities, and the years of the ris...”
• “What do I know of cultured ways, the gilt, the craft and the lie?I, who was born in a naked land and bred in the open sk...”
• “My characters are more like men than these real men are, see. They're rough and rude, they got hands and they got bellie...”
• “Hither came Conan, the Cimmerian, black-haired, sullen-eyed, sword in hand, a thief, a reaver, a slayer, with gigantic m...”
• “Barbarianism is the natural state of mankind. Civilization is unnatural. It is the whim of circumstance. And barbarianis...”
• “It is only the promise of death that makes life worth living.”