Edgar Rice Burroughs

Death, only, renders hope futile.

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

exsistance is not the cure it is the problem

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

Traveling through space is stupifyingly monotonous.

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

“I had had to discard my rifle”

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

I could write stories just as rotten.

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

Am I alive and a reality, or am I but a dream?

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

“and yet I feel that I cannot go on living forever;”

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

I shall have to believe even though I cannot understand.

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

“And so he learned to read. From then on his progress was rapid.”

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

“may God help the coward, for cowardice is of a surety its own punishment.”

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

“P37- none of them could understand how a child could be so and backward in learning to care for itself.”

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

It never seems to occur to some people, that, like beauty, a sense of humor may sometimes be fatal.

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

“...my civilization is not even skin deep - it does not go deeper than my clothes.”

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

Even brave men, and D'Arnot was a brave man, are sometimes frightened by solitude.

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

“Kho closed and sought my jugular with his teeth. He seemed to forget the hatchet dangling by”

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

For myself, I always assume that a lion is ferocious, and so I am never caught off my guard.

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

“He was a mighty beast, mightily muscled, and the urge that has made males fight since the dawn of life on earth…

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

“For three days he has pursued me," she said, "through this horrible world. How I have passed through in safety I cannot…

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

“The path of the mighty beast was guided telepathically by the two people who sat in a huge saddle that was cinched…

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

“(..)how a force of six or eight fight­ing men could have done so un­ob­served is be­yond me. We shall soon know, how­ev­er,…

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

“But this I do know that since you have told me that ten years have elapsed since I departed from this earth…

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

“Men were indeed more foolish and more cruel than the beasts of the jungle! How fortunate was he who lived in the…

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

They say that none of us exists, except in the imagination of his fellows, other than as an intangible, invisible mentality.

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

“If man spoke only when he had something worth while to say and said that as quickly as possible, ninety-eight per cent…

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

Fortunate indeed are those in which there is combined a little good and a little bad, a little knowledge of many things…

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

“His straight and perfect figure, muscled as the best of the ancient Roman gladiators must have been muscled, and yet with the…

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

“Early the next morning I was astir. Considerable freedom was allowed me, as Sola had informed me that so long as I…

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

“The whole fabric of our religion is based on superstitious belief in lies that have been foisted upon us for ages by…

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

“Imagine, if you can, a huge grizzly with ten legs armed with mighty talons and an enormous froglike mouth splitting his head…

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

“As he dropped the last grisly fragment of the dismembered and mutilated body into the small vat of nitric acid that was…

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

“At heart they hate their horrid fates, and so wreak their poor spite on me who stand for everything they have not,…

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

“Seizing a cudgel from the nearest priest, he laid about him like a veritable demon as he forged his rapid way toward…

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

“Emerging, as we had, from the dark and gloomy bowels of the earth, the scene before us presented a view of wondrous…

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

“In his savage, untutored breast new emotions were stirring. He could not fathom them. He wondered why he felt so great an…

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

“His great bulk swaying to and fro as he threw his weight first upon one side and then upon the other, Tantor…

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

“[The little black boy] had seen Tarzan bring down a buck, just as Numa, the lion, might have done... Tibo had shuddered…

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

“I thought of my friends of the outer world, and of how they all would go on living their lives in total…

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

“Like its master, it was entirely devoid of hair, but was of a dark slate color and exceeding smooth and glossy. Its…

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

Even theories must have foundations.

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

“[...] smiles are the foundation of beauty.”

— Edgar Rice Burroughs