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
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
I'm going to scare a lot of kids Thursday night. — Jon Gruden
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
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
May your dreams be sweet and your nightmares be spooky-monster-scary and not grandma-died-scary. — Donald Glover
There is something haunting in the light of the moon. — Joseph Conrad
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
I discovered that what most people call creepy, scary, and spooky, I call comfy, cozy, and home. — Zak Bagans
The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls. — Edgar Allan Poe
Double, double, toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble! — William Shakespeare
It's as much fun to scare as to be scared. — Vincent Price
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
Short Spooky Halloween Quotes
Any horror element is as much psychological as special effects. — Christopher Eccleston
A good scare is worth more than good advice. — Horace
Searchers after horror haunt strange, far places. — H. P. Lovecraft
I am the shadow on the moon at night/Filling your dreams to the brim with fright. — Tim Burton
Acting is like a Halloween mask that you put on. — River Phoenix
Special effects movies have taken over the universe. That and scary movies. — Jami Gertz
This one time I stayed up way past my bedtime... man that was scary. — Johnny Christ
People are what are scary...people. — Blackbeard
You'll see everything from gold teeth to hood ornaments. It's almost like Halloween during August. — David Carson
Welcome to my nightmare, I think your going to like it. — Alice Cooper
Spooky Halloween Image Quotes
Scary Halloween Quotes
Clothes make a statement. Costumes tell a story. — Mason Cooley
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
When there's no more room in Hell, the dead will walk the Earth. — George A. Romero
After eating chocolate you feel godlike, as though you can conquer enemies, lead armies, entice lovers. — Emily Luchetti
Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make! — Bram Stoker
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
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
As spirits roam the neighborhoods at night, Let loose upon the Earth till it be light. — Nick Gordon
I don't know that there are real ghosts and goblins, But there are always more trick-or-treaters than neighborhood kids. — Robert Breault
Nothing on Earth is so beautiful as the final haul on Halloween night. — Steve Almond
One need not be a chamber to be haunted; One need not be a house; The brain has corridors surpassing Material place. — Emily Dickinson
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Die, my dear? Why that's the last thing I'll do! — Groucho Marx
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
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
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 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
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
No matter what time of year it's always funny when a person walks by me dressed in religious garb and I say Happy Halloween! — Gary Gulman
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
Halloween Night Quotes
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
One sees more devils than vast hell can hold — Sayings
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
I was working in the lab late one night When my eyes beheld an eerie sight For my monster from his slab began to rise And suddenly to my surprise... He did the mash He did the monster mash The monster mash It was a graveyard smash. — Bobby Pickett
If human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween. — Douglas Coupland
A house is never still in darkness to those who listen intently; there is a whispering in distant chambers, an unearthly hand presses the snib of the window, the latch rises. Ghosts were created when the first man awoke in the night. — James M. Barrie
Ghosts were created when the first man awoke in the night. — James M. Barrie
Bring forth the raisins and the nuts-
Tonight All-Hallows' Spectre struts
Along the moonlit way. — John Kendrick Bangs
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
I'll bet living in a nudist colony takes all the fun out of Halloween. — Charles S. Swartz
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
When it comes to romance, I'm really simple. I am really a 'dinner and a movie' type of person, and I love food, so surprise me and order something different or adventurous when it comes to food, and I'm like a kid at Halloween. — Sasha Grey
I was kind of a dark kid. I loved Halloween, and I loved vampires and the black and white old monster movies. — Joe Manganiello
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
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
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
There's going to be a Halloween costume [of lavash from Sausage Party]. The whole thing is just so ridiculous. It's nice. It's silly, and it's surreal. — David Krumholtz
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
This is Halloween, everybody make a scene Trick or treat till the neighbors gonna die of fright It's our town, everybody scream In this town of Halloween. — Danny Elfman
He shook-a me up, he took me by surprise. He had a pickup truck, and the devil's eyes. He stared at me and I felt a change. Time meant nothing, never would again. — Richard O'Brien
Be wary then; best safety lies in fear. — William Shakespeare
Backward, turn backward, O Time, in your flight, Make me a child again just for to-night! — Elizabeth Chase Allen
The quivering, ardent sunlight showed him the lines of cruelty round the mouth as clearly as if he had been looking into a mirror after he had done some dreadful thing. — Oscar Wilde
But I love Halloween, and I love that feeling: the cold air, the spooky dangers lurking around the corner. — Evan Peters
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