Quotes from Robert E. Howard

Man is still an ape in that he forgets what is not ever before his eyes.

One man's bane is another's bliss.

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.

A woman in such an emotional tempest is as perilous as a blind cobra to any about her.

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

Never the less, it is no light thing to enter into a profession absolutely foreign and alien to the people among which one's lot is cast; a profession which seems as dim and faraway and unreal as the shores of Europe.

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.

What is death but a traversing of eternities and a crossing of cosmic oceans?

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

While we may open the books of the past, we may but grant flying glances of the future, through the mist that veils it.