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Barbarism is the natural state of mankind,
— Robert E. Howard
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.
— Robert E. Howard
I have gone into yesterday and tomorrow and both were as real as today which is like the dreams of ghosts! — Robert E. Howard
I have not been a success, and probably never will be.
— Robert E. Howard
Animals are neither gods nor fiends, but men in their way without the lust and greed of man.
— Robert E. Howard
Over shadowy spires and gleaming towers lay the ghostly darkness and silence that runs before dawn.
— Robert E. Howard
By this axe I rule!
— Robert E. Howard
He had a stellar talent. I not only lost a contemporary in the death of Robert E. Howard. The world lost a writer of extraordinary gifts.
— Murray Leinster
Up in the glade, and notch an arrow.
— Robert E. Howard
For man's only weapon is courage that flinches not from the gates of Hell itself, and against such not even the legions of Hell can stand.
— Robert E. Howard
Wits and swords are as straws against the wisdom of the Darkness ...
— Robert E. Howard
He was no defensive fighter; even in the teeth of overwhelming odds he always carried the war to the enemy.
— Robert E. Howard
When I cannot stand alone, it will be time to die.
— Robert E. Howard
It is not pleasant to come upon Death in a lonely place at midnight.
— Robert E. Howard
I don't believe I ever saw an Oklahoman who wouldn't fight at the drop of a hat and frequently drop the hat himself. — Robert E. Howard
My body seems a mere encumbrance to me; an imbecillic wagon, hitched to the horse of desire, which is the soul.
— Robert E. Howard
No man can be convinced when he will not.
— Robert E. Howard
A woman in such an emotional tempest is as perilous as a blind cobra to any about her.
— Robert E. Howard
One man's bane is another's bliss.
— Robert E. Howard
There is always a way, if the desire be coupled with courage," answered the Cimmerian
— Robert E. Howard
I became a writer in spite of my environments.
— Robert E. Howard
I'll say one thing about an oil boom; it will teach a kid that Life's a pretty rotten thing as quick as anything I can think of.
— Robert E. Howard
Lift that scimitar against me, you Hyrkanian pig and I'll gut you where you stand!
— Robert E. Howard
I have accomplished little enough, but such as it is, it is the result of my own efforts.
— Robert E. Howard
The printed page was like wine to me.
— Robert E. Howard
Men are but men, and the greatest men are they who soonest learn the simpler things.
— Robert E. Howard
I am unable to rouse much interest in any highly civilized race, country or epoch, including this one.
— Robert E. Howard
Don't you think that as a people, Americans have less poetry, real poetry, in their souls than any other nations?
— Robert E. Howard
If I was wealthy I'd never do anything but poke around in ruined cities all over the world - and probably get snake-bit.
— Robert E. Howard
A wolf was no less a wolf because a whim of chance caused him to run with the watch-dogs.
— Robert E. Howard
You black dog!" A red mist of fury swept across Conan's eyes. "Were I free I'd give you a broken back!
— Robert E. Howard
Suddenly the black torturer laid down the pipes and rose, towering over the writhing white figure.
— Robert E. Howard
Well, I like a good hater. But that can wait.
— Robert E. Howard
I have no fear of the Hereafter. An orthodox hell could hardly be more torture than my life has been.
— Robert E. Howard
A true fanatic, his promptings were reasons enough for his actions.
— Robert E. Howard
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.
— Robert E. Howard
Civilization is a natural and inevitable consequence - whether good or evil I am not prepared to state.
— Robert E. Howard
What always was must always be.
— Robert E. Howard
Man is still an ape in that he forgets what is not ever before his eyes.
— Robert E. Howard
Civilization is a network and a maze of precedences and custom.
— Robert E. Howard
Barbarianism is the natural state of mankind. Civilization is unnatural. It is the whim of circumstance. And barbarianism must ultimately triumph
— Robert E. Howard
I live, I burn with life, I love, I slay, & am content.
— Robert E. Howard
In the old free days all I wanted was a sharp sword and a straight path to my enemies. Now no paths are straight and my sword is useless.
— Robert E. Howard
The black went down like a felled tree, gushing blood,
— Robert E. Howard
I see in the papers where Roy Guthrie committed suicide. Why, I wonder?
— Robert E. Howard
Youngsters of this generation seem not quite so hazardous except in the way of mechanical speed, bad liquor and venereal diseases.
— Robert E. Howard
Men spoke of tribal war, of a gathering of vultures in the southeast, and a terrible leader who led his swiftly increasing hordes to victory.
— Robert E. Howard
I have come to believe that mankind eternally hovers on the brinks of secret oceans of which it knows nothing.
— Robert E. Howard
I reckon if I ever marry, she will have to be a strong woman in a circus or something.
— Robert E. Howard
It is better to go in the dark when the road must pass a lion and there is no other road.
— Robert E. Howard
Blast your soul, you hussy!" he exclaimed in exasperation.
— Robert E. Howard
They take little interest in waking life, choosing to lie most of the time in death-like sleep." "Then
— Robert E. Howard
The only safe enemy was a headless enemy.
— Robert E. Howard
Rome got some peachy pastings when she tried to lick the Irish.
— Robert E. Howard
When the oceans drown the world, women will take time for jealousy.
— Robert E. Howard
I have put off the past like a worn-out cloak.
— Robert E. Howard
Aye, you white dog, you are like all your race; but to a black man gold can never pay for blood.
— Robert E. Howard
All fled - all done, so lift me on the pyreThe Feast is over, and the lamps expire. — Robert E. Howard
It is an ill thing to meet a man you thought dead in the woodland at dusk.
— Robert E. Howard
I think (Robert E.) Howard often wrote with his heart, but not always with his head.
— Stephen Jones
A kingdom is not lost by a single defeat.
— Robert E. Howard
It is only the promise of death that makes life worth living.
— Robert E. Howard
When you allow the elevation of a man, one can be sure that you'll profit by his advancement.
— Robert E. Howard
But not all men seek rest and peace; some are born with the spirit of the storm in their blood.
— Robert E. Howard
where did these people their food? i'm hungry.
— Robert E. Howard
While we may open the books of the past, we may but grant flying glances of the future, through the mist that veils it.
— Robert E. Howard
What shall a man say when a friend has vanished behind the doors of Death? A mere tangle of barren words, only words.
— Robert E. Howard
Every twinge of sensation, even of agony, was a negation of death.
— Robert E. Howard
the mere fact of a black figure racing across the landscape carrying a white captive was bizarre enough,
— Robert E. Howard
These figures are black, yet they are not like negroes. I have never seen their like." "Let
— Robert E. Howard
the skin was yellow, the eyes slightly slanted;
— Robert E. Howard
It seems to me that many writers, by virtue of environments of culture, art and education, slip into writing because of their environments.
— Robert E. Howard
Life is but a web spun of ghosts and dreams and illusions.
— Robert E. Howard
How can I wear the harness of toilAnd sweat at the daily round,
While in my soul forever
The drums of Pictdom sound? — Robert E. Howard
The more I see of what you call civilization, the more highly I think of what you call savagery!
— Robert E. Howard
