Robert E. Howard Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.”
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“What is death but a traversing of eternities and a crossing of cosmic oceans?”
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“The more I see of what you call civilization, the more highly I think of what you call savagery!”
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“Man is still an ape in that he forgets what is not ever before his eyes.”
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“Over the souls of men spread the condor wings of colossal monsters and all manner of evil things prey upon the heart and soul and body of Man. Yet it may be in some far day the shadows shall fade and the Prince of Darkness be chained forever in his hell. And till then mankind can but stand up stoutly to the monsters in his own heart and without, and with the aid of God he may yet triumph.”
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“I have known many gods. He who denies them is as blind as he who trusts them too deeply. I see not beyond death. ... Let me live while I live; let me know the rich juices of red meat and stinging wine on my palate, the hot embrace of white arms, the mad exultation of battle when the blue blades flame and crimson, and I am content. ... I know this: if life is an illusion, then I am no less than an illusion, and being thus, the illusion is real to me. I live, I burn with life, I love, I slay, and am content.”
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“Hither came Conan, the Cimmerian, black-haired, sullen-eyed, sword in hand, a thief, a reaver, a slayer, with gigantic melancholies and gigantic mirth, to tread the jeweled thrones of the Earth under his sandaled feet.”
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“I think the real reason so many youngsters are clamoring for freedom of some vague sort, is because of unrest and dissatisfaction with present conditions; I don't believe this machine age gives full satisfaction in a spiritual way, if the term may be allowed.”
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“Barbarianism is the natural state of mankind. Civilization is unnatural. It is the whim of circumstance. And barbarianism must ultimately triumph”
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“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.”
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“The sea-road is good for wanderers and landless men. There is quenching of thirst on the grey paths of the winds, and the flying clouds to still the sting of lost dreams.”
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“I live, I burn with life, I love, I slay, & am content.”
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“Let me live deep while I live; let me know the rich juices of red meat & stinging wine on my palate, the hot embrace of white arms, the mad exultation of battle when the blue blades flame crimson, and I am content"......Conan the Cimmerian.”
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“When a nation forgets her skill in war, when her religion becomes a mockery, when the whole nation becomes a nation of money-grabbers, then the wild tribes, the barbarians drive in... Who will our invaders be? From whence will they come?”
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“Know, oh prince, that between the years when the oceans drank Atlantis and the gleaming cities, and the years of the rise of the Sons of Aryas, there was an Age undreamed of, when shining kingdoms lay spread across the world like blue mantles beneath the stars.”
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“All fled—all done, so lift me on the pyre— The Feast is over, and the lamps expire.”
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“It was no ape, neither was it a man. It was some shambling horror spawned in the mysterious, nameless jungles of the south, where strange life teemed in the reeking rot without the dominance of man, and drums thundered in temples that had never known the tread of a human foot.”
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“How can I wear the harness of toil And sweat at the daily round, While in my soul forever The drums of Pictdom sound?”
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“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 sky. The subtle tongue, the sophist guile, they fail when the broadswords sing; Rush in and die, dogs—I was a man before I was a king.”
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“A woman in such an emotional tempest is as perilous as a blind cobra to any about her.”
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“I have put off the past like a worn-out cloak.”
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“My body seems a mere encumbrance to me; an imbecillic wagon, hitched to the horse of desire, which is the soul.”
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“There comes, even to kings, the time of great weariness. Then the gold of the throne is brass, the silk of the palace becomes drab. The gems in the diadem and upon the fingers of the women sparkle drearily like the ice of white seas; the speech of men is as the empty rattle of a jester's bell and the feel comes of things unreal; even the sun is copper in the sky and the breath of the green ocean is no longer fresh.”
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“I have gone into yesterday and tomorrow and both were as real as today -- which is like the dreams of ghosts!”
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“No man can be convinced when he will not.”
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“Men are but men, and the greatest men are they who soonest learn the simpler things.”
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“What always was must always be.”
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“I have known many gods. He who denies them is blind as he who trusts them too deeply.”
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“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.”
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