151 Scary Halloween Quotes

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Famous Scary Halloween Quotes

I'm going to scare a lot of kids Thursday night. — Jon Gruden

In masks and gown we haunt the street And knock on doors for trick or treat Tonight we are the king and queen, For oh tonight it's Halloween! — Jack Prelutsky

Shadows of a thousand years rise again unseen, Voices whisper in the trees, "Tonight is Halloween!" — Dexter Kozen

Halloween is a liberal holiday because we're teaching our children to beg for something for free. … We're teaching kids to knock on other people's doors and ask for a handout. — Sean Hannity

People are what are scary...people. — Blackbeard

It's as much fun to scare as to be scared. - Vincent Price

It's as much fun to scare as to be scared. — Vincent Price

The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls. — Edgar Allan Poe

A good scare is worth more than good advice. — Horace

I look spooky but I’m really nice. — Sharon Needles

For me, writing something in the spirit of Halloween is like Mother Teresa writing on charity and sacrifice. It's just second nature to me. — Danny Elfman

May your dreams be sweet and your nightmares be spooky-monster-scary and not grandma-died-scary. — Donald Glover

Special effects movies have taken over the universe. That and scary movies. - Jami Gertz

Special effects movies have taken over the universe. That and scary movies. — Jami Gertz

Any horror element is as much psychological as special effects. - Christopher Eccleston

Any horror element is as much psychological as special effects. — Christopher Eccleston

I'm mad, true. But only about one thing. Horror movies. I love spooks. They are a friendly fearsome lot. Very nice people, actually, if you get to know them. Not like these industry chaps out here — Kishore Kumar

Every scarecrow has a secret ambition to terrorize. - Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Every scarecrow has a secret ambition to terrorize. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Short Scary Halloween Quotes

  • This one time I stayed up way past my bedtime... man that was scary. — Johnny Christ
  • Dude you scare me sometimes! You're all vampire superwoman — Melissa de la Cruz
  • Acting is like a Halloween mask that you put on. — River Phoenix
  • Dare to wear the foolish clown face. — Frank Sinatra
  • There is something haunting in the light of the moon. — Joseph Conrad
  • Horror films don't create fear. They release it. — Wes Craven
  • Searchers after horror haunt strange, far places. — H. P. Lovecraft
  • To make Michael Myers frightening, I had him walk like a man, not a monster. — John Carpenter
  • Welcome to my nightmare, I think your going to like it. — Alice Cooper
  • There's nothing scarier than a reckless prosecutor. — Tucker Carlson

Scary Halloween Image Quotes

Scary halloween quote The scariest thing about distance is that you don't know whether they'll miss you or forget you.
The scariest thing about distance is that you don't know whether they'll miss you or forget you.

Spooky Halloween Quotes

I must go in, the fog is rising. - Emily Dickinson

I must go in, the fog is rising. — Emily Dickinson

Double, double, toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble! - William Shakespeare

Double, double, toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble! — William Shakespeare

One need not be a chamber to be haunted; One need not be a house; The brain has corridors surpassing Material place. — Emily Dickinson

Scary halloween quote The scariest moment is always just before you start.
The scariest moment is always just before you start.

Clothes make a statement. Costumes tell a story. — Mason Cooley

May Jack-o-lanterns burning bright, Of soft and golden hue, Pierce through the future's veil and show, What fate now holds for you? — Jerry Smith

Make the world better. — Lucy Stone

Scary halloween quote Hold dear to your parents for it is a scary and confusing world without them.
Hold dear to your parents for it is a scary and confusing world without them.

A candy coloured clown they call the sandman Tiptoes into my room every night Just to sprinkle stardust and whisper; "Go to sleep, everything is alright" — Roy Orbison

Being in a band you can wear whatever you want - it’s like an excuse for Halloween everyday. — Gwen Stefani

I put a spell on you and now you're mine. You can't stop the things I do. I ain't lying. — Screamin' Jay Hawkins

As spirits roam the neighborhoods at night, Let loose upon the Earth till it be light. — Nick Gordon

Halloween Quotes

I dressed up as a veterinarian for a Halloween costume party. I had the lab coat. I got a couple of stuffed animals for patients and put bandages on them. — Tracy Chapman

To die, to sleep - To sleep, perchance to dream - ay, there's the rub, For in this sleep of death what dreams may come. — William Shakespeare

I was handing out $10,000 on Halloween and one kid tried to trade the $10k for candy. — MrBeast

Scary halloween quote Making a big life change is pretty scary. But, know what's even scarier? Regret.
Making a big life change is pretty scary. But, know what's even scarier? Regret.

The thing under my bed waiting to grab my ankle isn't real. I know that, and I also know that if I'm careful to keep my foot under the covers, it will never be able to grab my ankle. — Stephen King

There are three things I have learned never to discuss with people...religion, politics and the Great Pumpkin! — Charles M. Schulz

And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor, Shall be lifted -- Nevermore! — Edgar Allan Poe

Scary halloween quote Don't be scared to walk alone. Don't be scared to like it
Don't be scared to walk alone. Don't be scared to like it

As a kid, there are some things you looked forward to. You looked forward to Charlie Brown during Halloween and you looked forward to Monday Night Football. — Nick Ferguson

At the end of the first Halloween, when I shot 6 bullets into Michael Myers, John Carpenter said, Let's get a shot of you looking out of the window and seeing no one lying there. — Donald Pleasence

I've seen lots of Halloween people dressed up like me and they'll send me pictures. And I found that very rewarding to know that I've reached anyone. — Bray Wyatt

Oh Lestat, you deserved everything that's ever happened to you. You better not die. You might actually go to hell. — Sayings

Happy Halloween Quotes

Alone. Yes, that's the key word, the most awful word in the English tongue. Murder doesn't hold a candle to it and hell is only a poor synonym. — Stephen King

After eating chocolate you feel godlike, as though you can conquer enemies, lead armies, entice lovers. — Emily Luchetti

Halloween was confusing. All my life my parents said, "Never take candy from strangers." And then they dressed me up and said, "Go beg for it." I didn't know what to do. I'd knock on people's doors and go, "Trick or treat." — Rita Rudner

The safest genre is the horror film. But the most unsafe - the most dangerous - is comedy. Because even if your horror film isn't very good, you'll get a few screams and you're okay. With a comedy, if they don't laugh, you're dead. — Roger Corman

Even the air feels different on Halloween, autumn-crisp and bright. — Erin Morgenstern

Pixie, kobold, elf, and sprite, All are on their rounds tonight; In the wan moon's silver ray, Thrives their helter-skelter play. — Joel Benton

I saw thousands of pumpkins last night come floating in on the tide, bumping up against the rocks and rolling up on the beaches; it must be Halloween in the sea — Richard Brautigan

Fear is nature's warning signal to get busy. — Henry C. Link

I don't know that there are real ghosts and goblins, But there are always more trick-or-treaters than neighborhood kids. — Robert Breault

'Tis the night - the night Of the grave's delight. — Arthur Cleveland Coxe

Halloween Night Quotes

When there's no more room in Hell, the dead will walk the Earth. — George A. Romero

Nothing beats a haunted moonlit night on All Hallows Eve.... And on this fatal night, at this witching time, the starless sky laments black and unmoving. The somber hues of an ominous, dark forest are suddenly illuminated under the emerging face of the full moon. — Elizabeth Kim

I can see lights in the distance trembling in the dark cloak of night Candles and lanterns are dancing, dancing a waltz on All Souls Night. — Loreena McKennitt

Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make! — Bram Stoker

Nothing on Earth is so beautiful as the final haul on Halloween night. — Steve Almond

One sees more devils than vast hell can hold — Sayings

I heard one cry in the night, and I heard one laugh afterwards. If I cannot forget that, I shall not be able to sleep again. — M. R. James

Tis now the very witching time of night, when churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out Contagion to this world. — William Shakespeare

She comes by night, in fearsome flight, in garments black as pitch, the queen of doom upon her broom, the wild and wicked witch. — Jack Prelutsky

Are you sure/That we are awake? It seems to me/That yet we sleep, we dream — William Shakespeare

Halloween Love Quotes

If I wasn't even famous or had any success, I would still wake up and put tons of make-up on, and put on a cool outfit. That's always been who I've been my whole life, so that's never gonna change. I love fashion. I love getting dressed up. I love Halloween, too. — Gwen Stefani

I loved New Jersey. I thought it was the greatest place in the world because on Halloween kids could start trick or treating right after school. Isn't that great? — Joel McHale

There is a child in every one of us who is still a trick-or-treater looking for a brightly-lit front porch. — Robert Breault

A gypsy fire is on the hearth, Sign of the carnival of mirth; Through the dun fields and from the glade Flash merry folk in masquerade, For this is Hallowe'en! — Jerry Smith

I'll bet living in a nudist colony takes all the fun out of Halloween. — Charles S. Swartz

If human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween. — Douglas Coupland

Halloween is huge in my house and we really get into the "spirits" of things. — Dee Snider

If ever there was a holiday that deserves to be commercialized, it's Halloween. We haven't taken it away from kids. We've just expanded it so that the kid in adults can enjoy it, too. — Cassandra Peterson

Halloween wraps fear in innocence, as though it were a lightly sour sweet. Let terror, then, be turned into a treat. — Nick Gordon

I love scary movies. I like blood and gore, and I love Halloween movies. — Carrie Underwood

Halloween Wishes Quotes

I wish everyday could be Halloween. We could all wear masks all the time. Then we could walk around and get to know each other before we got to see what we looked like under the masks. — R. J. Palacio

Never take candy from strangers. — Rita Rudner

I'm Joan of Arc. I figured we had a lot in common, seeing as how I was almost burned at the stake. And plus she had that close relationship with God. — Joss Whedon

October proved a riot a riot to the senses and climaxed those giddy last weeks before Halloween. — Keith Donohue

Halloween is the day I wish I had boobs the most — Michael Clifford

Halloween Party Quotes

I want to continue to try and break the barrier between male and female. — Twiggy

I went to a party at the Playboy Mansion once. For a Halloween Party. And everyone wasn't in costume, or if they were they were little bunnies or something, and I went as Michael Jackson. — January Jones

You wouldn't believe On All Hallow Eve What lots of fun we can make, With apples to bob, And nuts on the hob, And a ring-and-thimble cake. — Carolyn Wells

On Halloween, witches come true; Wild ghosts escape from dreams. Each monster dances in the park. — Nick Gordon

Being born on Halloween, there's always a party. It's a convenient birthday because you don't really have to organize a party. — Eddie Kaye Thomas

Bring forth the raisins and the nuts- Tonight All-Hallows' Spectre struts Along the moonlit way. — John Kendrick Bangs

Tis the night - the night Of the grave's delight, And the warlocks are at their play; Ye think that without The wild winds shout, But no, it is they - it is they. — Arthur Cleveland Coxe

I had Halloween parties every year, as it was my birthday five days before. My parents would actually put prosthetic noses on, and my dad would wear a top-hat and tails, put on a fake curly moustache, and hold a pipe. — Bat for Lashes

Want to continue to try and break the barrier between male and female. If you want to do that, that's fine. At our shows, it's like a Halloween party, which isn't a bad thing. I'd like to see more of it actually. — Twiggy

Coming over from England, I was awe-struck by what Americans do at Halloween. I find it magnificent. In England, you get the occasional fancy dress party. — Neil Gaiman

Christian Halloween Quotes

Mock the devil, and he will flee from thee. — Edward De Bono

People value Halloween, like Valentine's Day, because they can tell themselves that it's not merely secularized but actually secular, which is to say, not Christian, Jewish, Hindu or Muslim. — Amity Shlaes

Ghosts were created when the first man awoke in the night. — James M. Barrie

Of calling shapes, and beck'ning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names. — John Milton

Backward, turn backward, O Time, in your flight, Make me a child again just for to-night! — Elizabeth Chase Allen

Scary Quotes

beginnings are usually scary, and endings are usually sad, but its everything in between that makes it all worth living. — Bob Marley

Devout Christians are destined to be regarded as fools in modern society. We are fools for Christ's sake. We must pray for courage to endure the scorn of the sophisticated world. — Antonin Scalia

Women should not be enlightened or educated in any way. They should, in fact, be segregated as they are the cause of hideous and involuntary erections in holy men. — Unknown Author

I am actually as good as everybody else pretends to be. It's scary. — Dean Ambrose

Love is a really scary thing, and you never know what's going to happen. It's one of the most beautiful things in life, but it's one of the most terrifying. It's worth the fear because you have more knowledge, experience, you learn from people, and you have memories. — Ariana Grande

I think the basic culture of this country is European and Christian and I think that if we lose that, we lost America...I don't think we should suppress other races, but I think if we lose that White - what's the word for it - that White dominance in America, with it we lose America. — David Duke

I think Bigfoot is blurry, that's the problem. It's not the photographer's fault. Bigfoot is blurry, and that's extra scary to me. There's a large, out-of-focus monster roaming the countryside. Run, he's fuzzy, get out of here. — Mitch Hedberg

One can be sophisticated and believe in God. Reason and intellect are not to be laid aside where matters of religion are concerned. — Antonin Scalia

Woman is the gate of the devil, the road to iniquity, the sting of the scorpion, in a word, a dangerous species. — St. Jerome

The present map of Palestine was drawn by the British mandate. The Jewish people have another map which our youth and adults should strive to fulfill: from the Nile to the Euphrates. — David Ben-Gurion

Spooky Quotes

There is probably a smell of roasted chestnuts and other good comfortable things all the time, for we are telling Winter Stories - Ghost Stories, or more shame for us - round the Christmas fire; and we have never stirred, except to draw a little nearer to it. — Charles Dickens

I discovered that what most people call creepy, scary, and spooky, I call comfy, cozy, and home. — Zak Bagans

You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of underdone potato. There's more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are! — Charles Dickens

O God! I screamed, and "O God! Again and again; for there before my eyes - pale and shaken, and half fainting, and groping before him with his hands, like a man restored from death - there stood Henry Jekyll." — Robert Louis Stevenson

How will I ever get out of this labyrinth! — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Die, my dear? Why that's the last thing I'll do! — Groucho Marx

It is a silent, shady place, with a paved courtyard so full of echoes, that sometimes I am tempted to believe that faint responses to the noises of old times linger there yet, and that these ghosts of sound haunt my footsteps as I pace it up and down. — Charles Dickens

I'm really not afraid of spooky things. When I have to look really frightened, I concentrate on scary things like losing my kittens or something like that. — Heather O'Rourke

It is positively spooky how the physicist finds the mathematician has been there before him or her. — Steven Weinberg

He knew. I could see it in his face. Look, if someone gets infected you've got between ten and twenty seconds to kill them. It might be your brother or your sister or your oldest friend. It makes no difference. And just so you know where you stand - if it happens to you, I'll do it in a heartbeat. — Selena

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More Scary Halloween Quotes

My candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

When I was a kid my family was really poor and I remember one Halloween I wanted to dress up really scary and my parents came home with a duck costume. I wore that costume for years! I hated it. — R. L. Stine

Rudy has always been a scary character, so there's a place for him on Halloween. — Ron Kuby

Hobgoblins know the proper way to dance: Arms akimbo, loopy legs askew, Leaping into darkness with delight, Lusting for the ecstasy of fright, Open to the charm of horrors new. — Nick Gordon

Because we build the worlds we wouldn't mind living in. They contain scary things, problems, but also a sense of rightness that makes them alive and makes us want to live there. — Anne Mccaffrey

Everyone is different. Sometimes it's very exciting; sometimes very scary. — Emanuel Ax

... we in the light sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things children in the dark hold in terror and imagine will come true. — Lucretius

My favorite scary movie was always 'Halloween.' I love that there's hidden emotion underneath Michael Myers' psychotic behavior. Plus, he has the best mask, hands-down. — Chris Zylka

When I was just five years old, I loved the scary layer and the symbolical power of the red cloak. I made my mom make me that red cloak, and I had to wear it on Halloween, two years in a row. — Catherine Hardwicke

Halloween Costume I Hate: kids dressed as their parent's poltical beliefs. Oooh! Aren't you a scary health care reform bill! — Dana Gould

If I'm really honest, I'm not a huge fan of scary films. I remember being a teenager, and people getting out like Halloween [1978] or Saw [2004], and watching them, and I'd kind of just stare at the television logo and blur my eyes and pretend I was watching but I wasn't because I just found that I would take the movie home with me. I can scare myself like a pro. — Imogen Poots

Even as a child, I just leaned towards the scary. I remember seeing Halloween, for the first time. I snuck into the theater and was sitting there with a group of friends in the front row, and I turned back to look at the audience. They were screaming and interacting with the screen and were interacting with Jamie Lee Curtis as she walked through that horrible night. I just thought, "I want to do that." — Kevin D. Williamson

The horror of it is, every goddamn thing you look at seems pretty scary to me. — Kary Mullis

Now, I have a Halloween mask I think you might get a kick out of. That's scary. — Jay Leno

I turned down Halloween parties every year, where people wanted zombies raised at the stroke of midnight or some such nonsense. The scarier my reputation got, the more people wanted me to come be scary for them. I'd told Bert I could always go and threaten to shoot all the partygoers, that'd be scary. Bert had not been amused. But he had stopped asking me to do parties. — Laurell K. Hamilton

Conservatives understand Halloween, liberals only understand Christmas. If you want to control a population, don't give it social services, give it a scary adversary. — Tom Robbins

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