The spookiest time of the year is quickly
approaching: Halloween is right around the corner. If you're looking to get
into the Halloween spirit the best, easiest way of upping your fright
night-factor is with these quotes, ranging from sweet to downright scary. In
honor of the upcoming holiday, take a look at our favorite words on Halloween.
“A person should always choose a costume which is in direct contrast
to her own personality.”
— Lucy Van Pelt, It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown
“It's all just a bunch of hocus pocus!”
— Max, Hocus Pocus
“When witches go riding, and black cats are seen, the moon laughs and
whispers, ‘tis near Halloween.”
— Unknown
“Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn and cauldron bubble.”
—William Shakespeare, Macbeth
“Some people are born for Halloween, and some are just counting the
days until Christmas.”
— Stephen Graham Jones
“There is magic in the night when pumpkins glow by moonlight.”
— Unknown
“I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.”
— L.M. Montgomery
“I love Halloween, and I love that feeling: the cold air, the spooky
dangers lurking around the corner.”
— Evan Peters
“Clothes make a statement. Costumes tell a story.”
— Mason Cooley
“Nothing on Earth so beautiful as the final haul on Halloween night.”
— Steve Almond
“Magic is really very simple, all you've got to do is want something
and then let yourself have it.”
— Aggie Cromwell, Halloweentown
“It's Halloween; everyone's entitled to one good scare.”
— Brackett, Halloween
“When black cats prowl and pumpkins gleam, may luck be yours on
Halloween.”
— Unknown
“If human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes
every day of the year, not just on Halloween.”
— Douglas Coupland
"Have you come to sing pumpkin
carols?"
— Linus, It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown
“There is a
child in every one of us who is still a trick-or-treater looking for a
brightly-lit front porch.”
— Robert Brault
“Shadows
mutter, mist replies; darkness purrs as midnight sighs.”
— Rusty Fischer
"Studio 54 made Halloween in Hollywood
look like a PTA meeting."
— Lorna Luft
"On Halloween you get to become
anything that you want to be.”
— Ava Dellaira
"Halloween is not only about putting
on a costume, but it's about finding the imagination and costume within ourselves."
— Elvis Duran
"Hell is empty and all the devils are
here."
— William Shakespeare, The Tempest
"On Halloween, witches come true; wild
ghosts escape from dreams. Each monster dances in the park."
— Nick Gordon
"The farther we've gotten from the
magic and mystery of our past, the more we've come to need Halloween."
— Paula Curan
"Acting is like a Halloween mask that
you put on."
— River Phoenix
"Shadows of a thousand years rise
again unseen, voices whisper in the trees, 'Tonight is Halloween!'"
— Dexter Kozen
"Every day is Halloween isn't it? For
some of us."
— Tim Burton
"Ghosts and goblins come to play on
October’s final day!"
— Rusty Fischer
"Where there is no imagination, there
is no horror."
— Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
"There is something haunting in the
light of the moon."
— Joseph Conrad
"I put a spell on you because you’re
mine."
— Jay Hawkins
"My darling girl, when are you going
to realize that being normal is not necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a
lack of courage."
— Aunt Frances, Practical Magic
"I'm the ghost with the most,
babe."
— Betelgeuse, Beetlejuice
"Anyone could see that the wind was a
special wind this night, and the darkness took on a special feel because it was
All Hallows' Eve."
– Ray Bradbury
"There are nights when the wolves are
silent and only the moon howls."
– George Carlin
"We make up horrors to help us cope
with the real ones."
– Stephen King
"Believe nothing you hear, and only
one half that you see."
– Edgar Allan Poe
"By the pricking of my thumbs, something
wicked this way comes."
– William Shakespeare, Macbeth
