Robert E. Howard Quotes, Kings Quotes, Ocean Quotes

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 put off the past like a worn-out cloak.

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I never saw a man fight as Conan fought. He put his back to the courtyard wall, and before they overpowered him the dead men were strewn in heaps thigh-deep about him. But at last they dragged him down, a hundred against one.

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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 see in the papers where Roy Guthrie committed suicide. Why, I wonder?

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If I was wealthy I'd never do anything but poke around in ruined cities all over the world - and probably get snake-bit.

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One man's bane is another's bliss.

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Wits and swords are as straws against the wisdom of the Darkness.

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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.

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

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But whatever my failure, I have this thing to remember - that I was a pioneer in my profession, just as my grandfathers were in theirs, in that I was the first man in this section to earn his living as a writer.

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Aye, you white dog, you are like all your race; but to a black man gold can never pay for blood.

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I live, I burn with life, I love, I slay, & am content.

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Musings The little poets sing of little things: Hope, cheer, and faith, small queens and puppet kings; Lovers who kissed and then were made as one, And modest flowers waving in the sun. The mighty poets write in blood and tears And agony that, flame-like, bites and sears. They reach their mad blind hands into the night, To plumb abysses dead to human sight; To drag from gulfs where lunacy lies curled, Mad, monstrous nightmare shapes to blast the world. [click on the thumbnail by Jack "King" Kirby]

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Before the invader sound was born, the Universe was silent and shall be again.

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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.

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

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We're making tin gods out of those poor buffoons in Hollywood; I dote on movies and appreciate the scanty art therein but I consider the profession about the most debased and debasing I know.

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

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