These Halloween Quotes Will Rattle Your Bones If You Dare to Read 'Em
If you're reading this in the last days before October 31, then we wish you a 'Happy Halloween!' There's a whole weekend of fall festivities in store for you ahead: dressing up in your best Halloween costume, painting and carving pumpkins, and knocking on your neighbor's door for Halloween treats. And with such a spooky history behind it, Halloween is a a time of eerie enchantment that's inspired a multitude of memorable quotes.
These Halloween quotes all capture the spirit of this bewitching holiday. We have some iconic quotes from classic Halloween movies, like this one from Halloweentown: "Magic is really very simple, all you've got to do is want something and then let yourself have it." There are others on this list from our favorite Halloween songs, too! Take this set of lyrics from music legend, Stevie Wonder: "Very superstitious, writing's on the wall. Very superstitious, ladders 'bout to fall." These quotes remind us of the enchanting and mischievous nature of Halloween, making it a time when imagination and the supernatural take center stage. Plus, this list would not be made complete without some fall quotes and Halloween captions for sharing on Instagram—so you can expect those in there, too. Read on for the best Halloween quotes, and try not to be spooked.
Aggie Cromwell, Halloweentown
"Magic is really very simple. All you've got to do is want something and then let yourself have it."
Brackett, 'Halloween'
"It's Halloween; everyone's entitled to one good scare."
Veronica Quaife, 'The Fly'
"Be afraid... be very afraid."
Betelgeuse, 'Beetlejuice'
"I'm the ghost with the most, babe."
Oscar Wilde
"A mask tells us more than a face."
William Shakespeare, 'Macbeth'
"By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes."
Rusty Fischer
"Ghosts and goblins come to play on October's final day!"
Jack Skellington, 'The Nightmare Before Christmas'
"I'm a master of fright, and a demon of light, and I'll scare you right out of your pants."
Dani, 'Hocus Pocus'
"It's a full moon tonight. That's when all the weirdos are out."
Michael Scott, 'The Office'
"I'm not superstitious, but I am a little stitious."
Ray Bradbury, 'The Halloween Tree'
"The wind outside nested in each tree, prowled the sidewalks in invisible treads like unseen cats."
Mason Cooley
"Clothes make a statement. Costumes tell a story."
Robert Brault
“There is a child in every one of us who is still a trick-or-treater looking for a brightly lit front porch.”
Max, 'Hocus Pocus'
“It's just a bunch of hocus pocus!”
Jay Hawkins, "I Put a Spell on You"
“I put a spell on you because you're mine.”
Jack Skellington, 'The Nightmare Before Christmas'
"Just because I cannot see it, doesn't mean I can't believe it!"
Steve Almond
"Nothing on earth is so beautiful as the final haul on Halloween night."
Lucy, 'It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown'
"A person should always choose a costume which is in direct contrast to her own personality."
Nicholas Gordon
“Halloween wraps fear in innocence, as though it were a slightly sour sweet. Let terror, then, be turned into a treat…”
L.M. Montgomery
“I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.”
Elphaba, 'Wicked'
“No good deed will I do again.”
Katrina Van Tassel, Sleepy Hollow
“Good-bye, Ichabod Crane. I curse the day you came to Sleepy Hollow.”
Winifred Sanderson, Hocus Pocus
“Goodbye cruel world.”
Edgar Allan Poe, "The Tell-Tale Heart"
"It is impossible to say how first the idea entered my brain; but once conceived, it haunted me day and night."
Jeff Lindsay, 'Darkly Dreaming Dexter'
"He had arranged the arms and legs in letters, and the letters spelled out a single small word: BOO."
Karen Russell, 'Vampires in the Lemon Grove'
"I dropped the candies into the children's bags, thinking: You small mortals don't realize the power of your stories."
Eleanor Estes, 'The Witch Family'
"Halloween shadows played upon the walls of the houses."
Clive Barker, 'The Thief of Always'
"There were masks of clowns and foxes, masks like skulls decorated with real teeth, and one with carved flames instead of hair."
Jenny Colgan
"Halloween is an ancient druidic holiday, one the Celtic peoples have celebrated for millennia."
Charles M. Schulz, 'It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown'
"Each year, the Great Pumpkin rises out of the pumpkin patch that he thinks is the most sincere."
Mary Shelley, 'Frankenstein'
"For a witch, you certainly don't know much about how hauntings work."
Elizabeth, 'Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives'
"I've seen enough horror movies to know that any weirdo wearing a mask is never friendly."
Linda Williams
"When the witches went waltzing."
Stephen King
"We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones."
Midgard Morningstar
"The moon has awoken with the sleep of the sun, the light has been broken; the spell has begun."
Arthur Conan Doyle
"Where there is no imagination, there is no horror."
Dexter Kozen
"Shadows of a thousand years rise again unseen. Voices whisper in the trees, 'Tonight is Halloween!'"
Bram Stoker
"Listen to them— the children of the night. What music they make!"
Shannon A. Thompson, November Snow
"She used to tell me that a full moon was when mysterious things happen and wishes come true."
Rusty Fischer
"Shadows mutter, mist replies; darkness purrs as midnight sighs."
Elvis Duran
"Halloween is not only about putting on a costume, but it's about finding the imagination and costume within ourselves."
Douglas Copeland
“If human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween.”
Humbert Wolfe
“We have had our summer evenings, now for October eves!”
Judy Gold
“Halloween is opportunity to be really creative.”
Aggie Cromwell, ''Halloweentown''
“Being normal is vastly overrated.”
Emily Dickinson
“I must go in. The fog is rising.”
Rusty Fischer
“Sticky fingers, tired feet; one last house, trick or treat!”
Ava Dellaria
“On Halloween you get to become anything that you want to be.”
Ray Bradbury
"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."
Stevie Wonder, 'Superstition'
"Very superstitious
Writing's on the wall.
Very superstitious
Ladders bout' to fall..."
Linus, 'It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown'
"There are three things I’ve learned never to discuss with people: religion, politics, and the Great Pumpkin."
Evan Peters
"I love Halloween, and I love that feeling: the cold air, the spooky dangers lurking around the corner."
J.K. Rowling
"Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can’t see where it keeps its brain."
Paula Guran
"The farther we’ve gotten from the magic and mystery of our past, the more we’ve come to need Halloween."
Mary Shelley, 'Frankenstein'
"There is something at work in my soul, which I do not understand."
Ella Fitzgerald, 'Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered'
"I'm wild again, beguiled again
A simpering, whimpering child again
Bewitched, bothered, and bewildered am I..."
Ichabod Crane, 'Sleepy Hollow'
"Villainy wears many masks, none so dangerous as the mask of virtue."
Richelle E. Goodrich
"Werewolves howl. Phantoms prowl. Halloween’s upon us now."
Karen Fortunati
"The world turned upside down—in a good way—for one black velvet night."
Tim Burton
"Every day is Halloween, isn't it? For some of us."
Eden Phillpotts
"The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper."
Michael Jackson, 'Thriller'
"It's close to midnight
Something evil's lurkin' in the dark
Under the moonlight
You see a sight that almost stops your heart
You try to scream
But terror takes the sound before you make it..."
Joseph Conrad
"There is something haunting in the light of the moon."
George Carlin
"There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls."
Nicholas Gordon
"On Halloween, witches come true; wild ghosts escape from dreams. Each monster dances in the park."
Rodney Lynn Temperton
"Darkness falls across the land,
The Midnight Hour is close at hand."
W.B. Yeats
"The trees are in their autumn beauty,
The woodland paths are dry,
Under the October twilight the water
Mirrors a still sky."
Stephen Graham Jones
"Some people are born for Halloween, and some are just counting the days until Christmas."
Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House
“Fear,' the doctor said, 'is the relinquishment of logic, the willing relinquishing of reasonable patterns. We yield to it or we fight it, but we cannot meet it halfway.'”
Unknown
"When black cats prowl and pumpkins gleam, may luck be yours on Halloween."
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