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

- Robert E. Howard

What always was must always be.

- Robert E. Howard

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…

- Robert E. Howard

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

- Robert E. Howard

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 …

- Robert E. Howard

Break the skin of civilization and you find the ape, roaring and red-handed.

- Robert E. Howard

Barbarianism is the natural state of mankind. Civilization is unnatural. It is the whim of circumstance. And barbarianism must ultimately triumph

- Robert E. Howard

For man's only weapon is courage that flinches not from the gates of Hell itself, and against such not even the legions of Hell can stand.

- Robert E. Howard

The more I see of what you call civilization, the more highly I think of what you call savagery!

- Robert E. Howard