Gleaming shell of an outworn lie; fable of Right divine – You gained your crowns by heritage, but Blood was the price of mine. The throne that I won by blood and sweat, by Crom, I will not sell For promise of valleys filled with gold, or threat of the Halls of Hell!

— Robert E. Howard

Robert E. Howard Quotes

My characters are more like men than these real men are, see. They’re rough and rude, they got hands and they got bellies. They hate and they lust; break the skin of civilization and you find the ape, roaring and red-handed.

— 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

When I cannot stand alone, it will be time to die.

— Robert E. Howard

Civilization is a network and a maze of precedences and custom.

— Robert E. Howard

Animals are neither gods nor fiends, but men in their way without the lust and greed of man.

— Robert E. Howard

The people among which I lived – and yet live, mainly – made their living from cotton, wheat, cattle, oil, with the usual percentage of business men and professional men.

— 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

In this world men struggle and suffer vainly, finding pleasure only in the bright madness of battle; dying, their souls enter a gray misty realm of clouds and icy winds, to wander cheerlessly throughout eternity.

— Robert E. Howard

I know this: if life is illusion, then I am no less an illusion, and being thus, the illusion is real to me. I live, I burn with life, I love, I slay, and am content.

— Robert E. Howard

Time and times are but cogwheels, unmatched, grinding on oblivious to one another. Occasionally – oh, very rarely! – the cogs fit; the pieces of the plot snap together momentarily and give men faint glimpses beyond the veil of this everyday blindness we call reality.

— Robert E. Howard

Some mechanism in my sub-consciousness took the dominant characteristics of various prize-fighters, gunmen, bootleggers, oil field bullies, gamblers, and honest workmen I had come in contact with, and combining them all, produced the amalgamation I call Conan the Cimmerian.

— Robert E. Howard

What always was must always be.

— Robert E. Howard

One man’s bane is another’s bliss.

— Robert E. Howard

No man can be convinced when he will not.

— Robert E. Howard

I have put off the past like a worn-out cloak.

— 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

Men are but men, and the greatest men are they who soonest learn the simpler things.

— Robert E. Howard

In the hill country, civilization steals in last, and the people retain much of the crude but vigorous mode of expression of the colonial days and earlier.

— Robert E. Howard

I have known many gods. He who denies them is blind as he who trusts them too deeply.

— 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
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