The Collected Fiction of Robert E. Howard Quotes

“The gods of yesterday become the devils of tomorrow.”
― Robert E. Howard, The Collected Fiction of Robert E. Howard: Conan, Solomon Kane, Kull of Atlantis, Bran Mak Morn, El Borak, Breckinridge Elkins, Sailor Steve Costigan, Black Vulmea, and Other Stories

“Conan listened unperturbed. War was his trade. Life was a continual battle, or series of battles, since his birth. Death had been a constant companion. It stalked horrifically at his side; stood at his shoulder beside the gaming-tables; its bony fingers rattled the wine-cups. It loomed above him, a hooded and monstrous shadow, when he lay down to sleep. He minded its presence no more than a king minds the presence of his cupbearer. Some day its bony grasp would close; that was all. It was enough that he lived through the present.”
― Robert E. Howard, The Collected Fiction of Robert E. Howard: Conan, Solomon Kane, Kull of Atlantis, Bran Mak Morn, El Borak, Breckinridge Elkins, Sailor Steve Costigan, Black Vulmea, and Other Stories