How can I wear the harness of toil And sweat at the daily round, While in my soul forever The drums of… — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
All fled—all done, so lift me on the pyre— The Feast is over, and the lamps expire. — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
What shall a man say when a friend has vanished behind the doors of Death? A mere tangle of barren words, only… — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
Break the skin of civilization and you find the ape, roaring and red-handed. — Robert E. Howard Apes Copy Share Image
What is death but a traversing of eternities and a crossing of cosmic oceans? — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
Civilization is a natural and inevitable consequence - whether good or evil I am not prepared to state. — Robert E. Howard Civilization Copy Share Image
Civilization is a network and a maze of precedences and custom. — Robert E. Howard Civilization Copy Share Image
It is better to go in the dark when the road must pass a lion and there is no other road. — Robert E. Howard Dark Copy Share Image
“Conan stood paralyzed in the disruption of the faculties which demoralizes anyone who is confronted by an impossible negation of sanity.” — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
For man's only weapon is courage that flinches not from the gates of Hell itself, and against such not even the legions… — Robert E. Howard Courage Copy Share Image
I know this: if life is illusion, then I am no less an illusion, and being thus, the illusion is real to… — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
“Then, since all great poets are strange in their speech and actions, he must have achieved great fame, for his actions and… — Robert E. Howard Communication Copy Share Image
Never the less, at the age of fifteen, having never seen a writer, a poet, a publisher or a magazine editor, and… — Robert E. Howard Age Copy Share Image
Youngsters of this generation seem not quite so hazardous except in the way of mechanical speed, bad liquor and venereal diseases. — Robert E. Howard Disease Copy Share Image
But whatever my failure, I have this thing to remember - that I was a pioneer in my profession, just as my… — Robert E. Howard Career Copy Share Image
“Nay, alone I am a weak creature, having no strength or might in me; yet in times past hath God made me… — Robert E. Howard Strength Copy Share Image
Wings in the Night”) that has regrettably achieved some popularity on neo-Nazi websites runs: “The ancient empires fall, the dark-skinned peoples fade… — Robert E. Howard Ancient Copy Share Image
One objection I have heard voiced to works of this kinddealing with Texasis the amount of gore spilled across the pages. It… — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
There comes, even to kings, the time of great weariness. Then the gold of the throne is brass, the silk of the… — Robert E. Howard Bells Copy Share Image
The poem you sent me was as fiery and virile as anything you've ever written - or anybody else, for that matter.… — Robert E. Howard Brain Copy Share Image
“It takes oppression and hardship to stiffen men's guts and put the fire of hell into their thews.” — Robert E. Howard Suffering Copy Share Image
I reckon if I ever marry, she will have to be a strong woman in a circus or something. — Robert E. Howard Circus Copy Share Image
“A wolf was no less a wolf because a whim of chance caused him to run with the watch-dogs.” — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
But not all men seek rest and peace; some are born with the spirit of the storm in their blood. — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
“Damned be the dark ends of the earth where old horrors live again.” — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
I have accomplished little enough, but such as it is, it is the result of my own efforts. — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
“In his ears rang her passionate cry: "Were I still in death and you fighting for life I would come back from… — Robert E. Howard Death Copy Share Image
While we may open the books of the past, we may but grant flying glances of the future, through the mist that… — Robert E. Howard Book Copy Share Image
The more I see of what you call civilization, the more highly I think of what you call savagery! — Robert E. Howard Civilization Copy Share Image
It seems to me that many writers, by virtue of environments of culture, art and education, slip into writing because of their… — Robert E. Howard Art Copy Share Image
Man can be that which he wishes to be; form and substance, they are but shadows. The mind, the ego, the essence… — Robert E. Howard Dream Copy Share Image
“Under the caverned pyramids great Set coils asleep; Among the shadows of the tombs his dusky people creep. I speak the Word… — Robert E. Howard Shadows Copy Share Image
“Barbarism is the natural state of mankind," the borderer said, still staring somberly at the Cimmerian. "Civilization is unnatural. It is a… — Robert E. Howard Barbarism Copy Share Image
But the idea of a man making his living by writing seemed, in that hardy environment, so fantastic that even today I… — Robert E. Howard Environment Copy Share Image
Barbarianism is the natural state of mankind. Civilization is unnatural. It is the whim of circumstance. And barbarianism must ultimately triumph — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
“There was no explaining this thing, but it was so. he was on Xapur, and that fantastic heap of towering masonry was… — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
“But folk who have tasted of death are only partly alive. In the dark corners of their souls and minds, death still… — Robert E. Howard Death Copy Share Image
“When you allow the elevation of a man, one can be sure that you'll profit by his advancement. I've earned everything I've… — Robert E. Howard Advancement Copy Share Image
Man is better without knowledge of things to come, for what is to be will be, and man can neither avert nor… — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
We're making tin gods out of those poor buffoons in Hollywood; I dote on movies and appreciate the scanty art therein but… — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
