Robert E. Howard Quotes

I reckon if I ever marry, she will have to be a strong woman in a circus or something.

No man can be convinced when he will not.

Every twinge of sensation, even of agony, was a negation of death.

I have not been a success, and probably never will be.

It is not pleasant to come upon Death in a lonely place at midnight.

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

I am unable to rouse much interest in any highly civilized race, country or epoch, including this one.

The printed page was like wine to me.

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.

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

My body seems a mere encumbrance to me; an imbecillic wagon, hitched to the horse of desire, which is the soul.

Life is but a web spun of ghosts and dreams and illusions.

How can I wear the harness of toilAnd sweat at the daily round, While in my soul foreverThe drums of Pictdom sound?

All fled—all done, so lift me on the pyre—The Feast is over, and the lamps expire.

It is only the promise of death that makes life worth living.