Robert E. Howard
Robert E. Howard
Robert Ervin Howardwas an American author who wrote pulp fiction in a diverse range of genres. He is well known for his character Conan the Barbarian and is regarded as the father of the sword and sorcery subgenre...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth22 January 1906
CountryUnited States of America
real thinking people
Don't you think that as a people, Americans have less poetry, real poetry, in their souls than any other nations?
suicide done lamps
All fled—all done, so lift me on the pyre— The Feast is over, and the lamps expire.
real life-is illusion
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.
natural barbarism states
Barbarism is the natural state of mankind,
men blood storm
But not all men seek rest and peace; some are born with the spirit of the storm in their blood.
future dark men
Man is better without knowledge of things to come, for what is to be will be, and man can neither avert nor hasten. It is better to go in the dark when the road must pass a lion and there is no other road.
enemy safe headless
The only safe enemy was a headless enemy.
death lonely midnight
It is not pleasant to come upon Death in a lonely place at midnight.
death stand-alone dies
When I cannot stand alone, it will be time to die.
civilization mazes customs
Civilization is a network and a maze of precedences and custom.
men animal greed
Animals are neither gods nor fiends, but men in their way without the lust and greed of man.
wind justice soul
He was . . . a strange blending of Puritan and Cavalier, with a touch of the ancient philosopher, and more than a touch of the pagan. . . . A hunger in his soul drove him on and on, an urge to right all wrongs, protect all weaker things. . . . Wayward and restless as the wind, he was consistent in only one respect—he was true to his ideals of justice and right. Such was Solomon Kane.
men oil people
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.
dog men race
Aye, you white dog, you are like all your race; but to a black man gold can never pay for blood.