Conan Quotes

“There's only one truth”
― aoyama gosho

“Know, oh prince, that between the years when the oceans drank Atlantis and the gleaming cities, and the years of the rise of the Sons of Aryas, there was an Age undreamed of, when shining kingdoms lay spread across the world like blue mantles beneath the stars.”
― Robert E. Howard, The Complete Chronicles of Conan

“A wolf was no less a wolf because a whim of chance caused him to run with the watch-dogs.”
― Robert E. Howard, Beyond the Black River

“But not all men seek rest and peace; some are born with the spirit of the storm in their blood, restless harbingers of violence and bloodshed, knowing no other path....”
― Robert E. Howard

“It was no ape, neither was it a man. It was some shambling horror spawned in the mysterious, nameless jungles of the south, where strange life teemed in the reeking rot without the dominance of man, and drums thundered in temples that had never known the tread of a human foot.”
― Robert E. Howard

“Murder was so trivial in the stories Harold loved. Dead bodies were plot points, puzzles to be reasoned out. They weren't brothers. Plot points didn't leave behind grieving sisters who couldn't find their shoes.”
― Graham Moore, The Sherlockian

“And when I was younger,
I knew a boy and a boy.
Best friends with each other...
But always wished they were more.
'Cause they loved one another
But never discovered
'Cause they were too afraid of what they'd say.
Moved to different states...”
― Conan Gray

“When I was a fighting-man, the kettle-drums they beat;
The people scattered gold-dust before my horse's feet;
But now I am a great king, the people hound my track
With poison in my wine-cup, and daggers at my back.
—The Road of Kings”
― Robert E Howard

“He's my messy handwriting written by a messy me in my messy house, that I saved for my messy journal, he convinced me to have, and I can't help but love him because he gave me a messy friend I love more than myself.”
― Anagha Karanam

“We clung onto each other like our lives depended on it, and honestly, that's what it felt like. I dug my fingers into his skin, and he dug his into mine. It hurt, but it was memorable, and that's all we needed it to be.”
― Anagha Karanam

“Yukiko Kudo: "Quando una ragazza guarda fisso un ragazzo, è perché è sporco in faccia, oppure... perché si è innamorata di lui... Ne sono certa!"
[Salto temporale]
[Ai guarda fisso Conan]
Conan: "... sono sporco in faccia?”
― Gosho Aoyama, Case Closed (Issues)

“Between the time when the oceans drank Atlantis, and the rise of the sons of Aryas, there was an age undreamed of. And onto this, Conan, destined to wear the jeweled crown of Aquilonia upon a troubled brow. It is I, his chronicler, who alone can tell thee of his saga. Let me tell you of the days of high adventure!”
― Wizard, Conan 1982

“When my fictional characters can’t slash and slog and litter the pages with one another’s carcasses, I’m an utter flop as a tale-spinner.”
― Robert Howard

“When my fictional characters can’t slash and slog and litter the pages with one another’s carcasses, I’m an utter flop as a tale-spinner.”
― Robert E. Howard

“Conan O'Brien doesn’t have it,' the NBC lawyers assured Jeff Gaspin, Entertainment Chairman (at NBC Universal). 'Conan was guaranteed The Tonight Show. He was not guaranteed that it would start at 11:35 p.m'.”
― Sean Kenin, The War for Late Night: When Leno Went Early and Television Went Crazy