217+ Halloween Quotes to Get You in the Spooky Spirit

Halloween is just around the corner, and that means it’s time to get in the spooky spirit! What better way to do that than by reading some Halloween quotes? In this blog post, we have compiled over 217 of the best Halloween quotes for you to enjoy. Whether you’re looking for something funny, spooky, or inspiring, we’ve got you covered. So put on your favorite costume and get ready to be inspired by some of the best Halloween quotes out there!

Halloween Quotes

1. “For Halloween, I’m going as a narcissist.” — Conan O’Brien
2. “Halloween is just finals week for parents.” — Jim Gaffigan
3. “How many more months of Halloween this year?” — Jim Gaffigan
4. “Every day is Halloween, isn’t it? For some of us.” — Tim Burton
5. “I didn’t know if you have kids you need five different costumes.” — Mindy Kaling
6. “Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker.” ― Ogden Nash, “Reflections on Ice Breaking”
7. “Kinda spooky that Halloween has never fallen on Friday the 13th.” — Stephen Colbert
8. “It’s pronounced ‘Fronkensteen.’” — Dr. Frederick Frankenstein, “Young Frankenstein”
9. “On Halloween, the parents sent their kids out looking like me.” — Rodney Dangerfield
10. “You don’t know me, but I used to live in your dead mother.” — Maggot, “Corpse Bride”
11. “Mom, tell the Zombie to stop saying stuff about me!” — Courtney Babcock, “ParaNorman”
12. “How ‘bout a bumper sandwich, Boogerlips?” — Ernest P. Worrell, “Earnest Scared Stupid”
13. “Oh, look. Another glorious morning. Makes me sick!” — Winifred Sanderson, “Hocus Pocus”

Short Halloween Quotes

1. Hocus pocus. Time to focus. Unknown
2. Not every witch lives in Salem. Unknown
3. Be afraid, be very afraid. Ronnie, The Fly
4. No good deed will I do again. Elphaba, Wicked
5. Witch parking. All others will be toad. Unknown
6. I’m wicked through and through. Elphaba, Wicked
7. “It reeks of children!” Mary Sanderson, Hocus Pocus
8. “Goodbye cruel world.” Winifred Sanderson, Hocus Pocus
9. I’m a witch every day. Not just for Halloween. Unknown
10. Each monster dances in the park.” Nicholas Gordon, Poet
11. “It’s all just a bunch of hocus pocus.” Max, Hocus Pocus
12. A mask tells us more than a face. Oscar Wilde, Irish Poet
13. “We’re all mad here.” – Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
14. “I put a spell on you because you’re mine.” — Jay Hawkins
15. “I’m the ghost with the most, babe.” — Betelgeuse, Beetlejuice
16. We gladly feast on those who would subdue us. The Addams Family
17. I must go in. The fog is rising. Emily Dickinson, American Poet
18. “Every day is Halloween isn’t it? For some of us.” — Tim Burton
19. There is magic in the night when pumpkins glow by moonlight. Unknown
20. The only thing we have to fear is fear itself… and spiders. Unknown
21. Witch and ghost make merry on this last of dear October days. Unknown
22. “There is something haunting in the light of the moon.”— Joseph Conrad
23. “There is magic in the night when pumpkins glow by moonlight.” — Unknown
24. “Ghosts and goblins come to play on October’s final day!”— Rusty Fischer
25. To live without you, only that would be torture. Gomez, The Addams Family
26. Trick or treat, bag of sweets, ghosts are walking down the street. Unknown
27. Hell is empty and all the devils are here. William Shakespeare, The Tempest
28. “I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.” — L.M. Montgomery
29. “Studio 54 made Halloween in Hollywood look like a PTA meeting.”— Lorna Luft
30. “On Halloween you get to become anything that you want to be.” — Ava Dellaira
31. “Hell is empty and all the devils are here.”— William Shakespeare, The Tempest
32. Halloween is an opportunity to be really creative. Judy Gold, American Comedian
33. Clothes make a statement. Costumes tell a story. Mason Cooley, American Aphorist
34. Every day is Halloween, isn’t it? For some of us. Tim Burton, American Filmmaker
35. “Shadows mutter, mist replies; darkness purrs as midnight sighs.”— Rusty Fischer

Funny Halloween Quotes

1. “Once again, my Halloween costume this year will be Sexy Weird Al.” — “Weird Al” Yankovic
2. “Calm down! You make me wanna throw up in some tin foil and eat it! — Skull, “Monster House”
3. “Anyway, you can’t scare her. She’s sleeping with Prince Valium tonight.” Lydia, “Beetlejuice”
4. “I’ll stop wearing black when they make a darker color.” —Wednesday Addams, “The Addams Family”
5. “Every October I’m kidnapped and forced to scare birds at a local pumpkin patch.” — Conan O’Brien
6. “The suspense is terrible. I hope it’ll last.” — Willy Wonka, “Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory”
7. “Wench! Trollop! You buck-toothed, mop-riding firefly from hell!” — Billy Butcherson, “Hocus Pocus”
8. “Pardon me, boy, is this the Transylvania station?” — Dr. Frederick Frankenstein, “Young Frankenstein”
9. “If I’d known you were coming, I could’ve made up the dungeon.” — Morticia Addams, “The Addams Family”
10. “This Halloween I’m going as a human disaster that way I don’t have [to] get dressed up.” — Jim Gaffigan
11. “I would die for her. I would kill for her. Either way, what bliss.” — Gomez Addams, “The Addams Family”
12. “I ate John. I wept the entire meal. Even though he tasted delicious.” — Nandor, “What We Do in the Shadows”
13. “Do you know how much work it is to decapitate an entire barbershop quartet?” — Grandma, “The Addams Family 2”
14. “One thing about living in Santa Carla I never could stomach: all the damn vampires.” — Grandpa, “The Lost Boys”
15. “Candy doesn’t have to have a point. That’s why it’s candy.” — Charlie Bucket, “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”
16. “You know, I’ve always wanted a child. And now I think I’ll have one on toast!” — Winifred Sanderson, “Hocus Pocus”
17. Some people have swimming pools, others have private cemeteries. It can happen.” — Sara Evers, “The Haunted Mansion”
18. “Halloween: the night that fathers get their hearts broken when they see their daughters’ costume.” — Whitney Cummings
19. “The undead surround me. Have you ever talked to a corpse? It’s boring.” — Jack Goodman, “American Werewolf in London”
20. “It’s not easy having a good time! Even smiling makes my face ache.” — Dr. Frank-n-Furter, “Rocky Horror Picture Show”
21. “Isn’t the view beautiful? It takes my breath away. Well, it would if I had any.” — The Corpse Bride, “The Corpse Bride”
22. “This is my costume. I’m a homicidal maniac, they look just like everyone else.” — Wednesday Addams, “The Addams Family”
23. “It obviously doesn’t do any good to pull your heads off in front of people if they can’t see you!” — Juno, “Beetlejuice”
24. “Just put on my Halloween costume! This year I’m going as ‘Guy Who Thinks Halloween Is On October 18th.’” — Stephen Colbert
25. “Halloween is right around the corner. You can tell because all the stores are decked out for Christmas.” — Stephen Colbert
26. “If you were the only suspect in a senseless bloodbath — would you be standing in the horror section?” — Randy Meeks, “Scream”
27. “That’s twice this month you’ve slipped nightshade into my tea and run off.” — Dr. Finkelstein, “The Nightmare Before Christmas.”
28. “I can’t believe I’m in a graveyard with a strange man hunting for vampires on a school night.” — Buffy, “Buffy the Vampire Slayer.”
29. “Was deciding if I should dress as Batman or Spiderman for Halloween when I realized I’m a grown man. So, Batman.” — Stephen Colbert
30. “Normally I don’t spend time with guys like you, but a house just tried to eat me, so … you’ve got one hour.” — Jenny, “Monster House”
31. “Now Halloween’s over, it’s time to start thinking about the next time you’re gonna annoy your neighbors — caroling.” — Ellen DeGeneres
32. “It’s that special time of year where we voluntarily imbibe pumpkin-spiced lattes: the coffee that tastes like a candle.” — John Oliver
33. “We’ve made it to Sunday. Halloween is still 4 days away. We have to stay strong together. It will all be over soon.” — Jesse Tyler Ferguson
34. “That’s nothing compared to the fury of a woman who has been cheated out of trick-or-treats. — Linus, “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown
35. “Little tip, when you show up to a Halloween party not dressed up, it’s the same as showing up to a normal party in a costume.” — Josh Groban
36. “I don’t understand it. I went trick-or-treating and all I got was a bag full of rocks.” — Charlie Brown, “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown”
37. “How many girls are telling themselves right now: “Dammit Becky learn your lesson; even on Halloween, glitter is NEVER worth it.” — Anne Kendrick
38. “For Halloween, I’m going as that feeling you get at a store when you try to refold a sweater property and put it back on the shelf.” — Rob Delaney
39. “Maybe you could help me get out of here, you know because I got to tell you, this dead thing… it’s just too creepy.” — Beetlejuice, “Beetlejuice”
40. “Has it ever occurred to you that it might be unsettling to see you arise from the grave to visit me?” — David Kessler, “American Werewolf in London”
41. “Cross your heart … hope to die … stick a needle in your eye … shake your bottom if you got ‘em.” — Lynn Farmer, “Double, Double, Toil and Trouble”
42. “If the ghost of a murdered girl really existed I think she’d have something better to do than haunt people who don’t forward chain emails.” — Rhys James
43. “Trick or treats come only once a year, and I missed it by sitting in a pumpkin patch with a blockhead.” — Sally, “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown”
44. “Some of our clothes are from victims. You might bite someone and then, you think, ‘Oooh, those are some nice pants!’” — Viago, “What We Do in the Shadows”
45. “There are three things that I’ve learned never to discuss with people: religion, politics and the Great Pumpkin.” — Linus, “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown”
46. “Never say, ‘who’s there?’ Don’t you watch scary movies? It’s a death wish. You might as well come out to investigate a strange noise or something.” — Ghostface, “Scream”
47. “There are children throwing snowballs, instead of throwing heads, they’re busy building toys, and absolutely no one’s dead!” — Jack Skellington, “The Nightmare Before Christmas”
48. “Well, now, let me put it this way. If all the corpses buried around here were to stand up all at once, we’d have one hell of a population problem.” — Grandpa, “The Lost Boys”
49. “As a kid, Halloween was amazing. You dress like a superhero, you bang on your neighbor’s door, and they give you candy. I do that today, and my neighbor wants me arrested.” — Jim Gaffigan
50. “Sir, what you had there is what we refer to as a focused, non-terminal, repeating phantasm or a class-five full-roaming vapor. A real nasty one, too.” — Dr. Raymond Stantz, “Ghostbusters”
51. “I attended Juilliard, I’m a graduate of the Harvard business school. I travel quite extensively. I lived through the Black Plague and had a pretty good time during that.” — Beetlejuice, “Beetlejuice”
52. “How many times do I have to tell you? There is no such thing as ghouls, ghosts, goblins or monsters! Listen up, there is absolutely, absolutely no such thing as … MONSTER!” — Fred, “Scooby-Doo: The Movie”
53. “I am reminded of a line from Erich Segal’s ‘Love Story’: ‘Love means never having to say you’re sorry.’ However, it is with sincere regret that I must now kill all of you.” — Barnabas Collins, “Dark Shadows”
54. “Everything in this room is eatable. Even I’m eatable! But that is called ‘cannibalism,’ my dear children, and is in fact, frowned upon in most societies.” — Charlie Bucket, “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”
55. “And for our sins, a hideous creature has been sent to punish us all! Repent! Repent! Les you, too, taste the wrath of … the Were-Rabbit!” — Reverend Clement Hedges, “Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit”
56. “I’m just like any modern woman trying to have it all. Loving husband, a family. It’s just, I wish I had more time to seek out the dark forces and join their hellish crusade.” — Morticia Addams, “Addams Family Values”
57. “I’m just like any modern woman trying to have it all. Loving husband, a family. It’s just, I wish I had more time to seek out the dark forces and join their hellish crusade.” — Morticia Addams, “Addams Family Values”
58. “Candy was my whole life when I was a kid. The first ten years of my life, I think the only clear thought I had was ‘get candy.’ Family, friends, school; they’re just obstacles in the way of the candy.” — Jerry Seinfeld
59. “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…no, thank you.’” — Rita Rudner
60. “I think I should warn you all when a vampire bites it, it’s never a pretty sight. No two bloodsuckers go the same way. Some yell and scream, some go quietly, some explode, some implode, but all will try to take you with them.” — Edgar Frog, “The Lost Boys”
61. “The first time you hear the concept of Halloween when you’re a kid, your brain can’t even process the information. You’re like, ‘What is this? What did you say about giving out candy? Who is giving out candy?’ Everyone that we know is just giving out candy?’” — Jerry Seinfeld
62. “This is what happens when you’re a vampire. You have to watch everyone die. Your mother and father. All your friends. Sometimes brutal, like slipping and falling onto a giant spike. Or falling asleep in an autumn pile of leaves and having some of them block your windpipe.” — Deacon, “What We Do in the Shadows”

Cute Halloween Quotes

1. I put a spell on you because you’re mine. Jay Hawkins, American Singer-Songwriter
2. “It’s a full moon tonight. That’s why all the weirdos are out.” Dani, Hocus Pocus
3. Have you come to sing pumpkin carols? Linus, It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown
4. Where there is no imagination there is no horror. Arthur Conan Doyle, British Writer
5. We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones. Stephen King, American Author
6. “Nothing on Earth so beautiful as the final haul on Halloween night.” — Steve Almond
7. “When black cats prowl and pumpkins gleam, may luck be yours on Halloween.” — Unknown
8. “There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.” – George Carlin
9. Listen to them—the children of the night. What music they make! Bram Stoker, Irish Author
10. “The world turned upside down–in a good way–for one black velvet night.”– Karen Fortunati
11. Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see. Edgar Allan Poe, American Writer
12. Sticky fingers, tired feet; one last house, trick or treat! Rusty Fischer, American Author
13. On Halloween you get to become anything that you want to be. Ava Dellaria, American Author
14. This wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. Either it goes or I do. Oscar Wilde
15. I’ll stop wearing black when they make a darker color. Wednesday Addams, The Addams Family
16. There is something haunting in the light of the moon. Joseph Conrad, Polish-British Writer
17. During the day, I don’t believe in ghosts. At night, I’m a little more open-minded. Unknown
18. I would die for her. I would kill for her. Either way, what bliss. Gomez, The Addams Family
19. There is something at work in my soul, which I do not understand. Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
20. Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble. William Shakespeare, Macbeth
21. “By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes.” William Shakespeare, Macbeth
22. I’m a homicidal maniac. They look just like everyone else. Wednesday Addams, The Addams Family
23. Werewolves howl. Phantoms prowl. Halloween’s upon us now. Richelle E. Goodrich, American Author
24. “Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn and cauldron bubble.” —William Shakespeare, Macbeth
25. “By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes.” – William Shakespeare, Macbeth
26. Villainy wears many masks, none so dangerous as the mask of virtue. Ichabod Crane, Sleepy Hollow
27. Things are never quite as scary when you’ve got a best friend. Bill Waterson, American Cartoonist
28. Maybe now you’ll never slime a guy with a positron collider, huh? Dr. Peter Venkman, Ghostbusters
29. The dead rise again, bats fly, terror strikes and screams echo, for tonight it’s Halloween. Unknown
30. There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls. George Carlin, American Comedian
31. The world turned upside down—in a good way—for one black velvet night. Karen Fortunati, American Author
32. “Clothes make a statement. Costumes tell a story.” — Mason CooleyMore: Easy Last Minute Costumes for Men
33. “The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.” – Eden Phillpots

Happy Halloween Quotes

1. Nothing on Earth so beautiful as the final haul on Halloween night. Steve Almond, American Short Story Writer
2. When the witches go riding, and black cats are seen, the moon laughs and whispers ’tis near Halloween. Unknown
3. “It’s all just a bunch of hocus pocus!” — Max, Hocus PocusMore: Classic Halloween Movies to Watch This Holiday
4. Shadows of a thousand years rise again unseen. Voices whisper in the trees, ‘Tonight is Halloween!’ Dexter Kozen
5. “On Halloween, witches come true; wild ghosts escape from dreams. Each monster dances in the park.”— Nick Gordon
6. “Some people are born for Halloween, and some are just counting the days until Christmas.” — Stephen Graham Jones
7. The moon has awoken with the sleep of the sun, the light has been broken; the spell has begun. Midgard Morningstar
8. “Just because I cannot see it, doesn’t mean I can’t believe it!”– Jack Skellington, The Nightmare Before Christmas
9. I’ve seen enough horror movies to know that any weirdo wearing a mask is never friendly. Elizabeth, Friday the 13th
10. “She used to tell me that a full moon was when mysterious things happen and wishes come true.” – Shannon A. Thompson
11. “Shadows of a thousand years rise again unseen, voices whisper in the trees, ‘Tonight is Halloween!'” — Dexter Kozen
12. Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can’t see where it keeps its brain. J.K. Rowling, English Author
13. “I love Halloween, and I love that feeling: the cold air, the spooky dangers lurking around the corner.” — Evan Peters
14. “It’s Halloween; everyone’s entitled to one good scare.” — Brackett, HalloweenMore: The Best Horror Movies of All Time
15. “The farther we’ve gotten from the magic and mystery of our past, the more we’ve come to need Halloween.” — Paula Curan
16. “Where there is no imagination, there is no horror.” — Sir Arthur Conan Doyle More: The Best Scary Movies on Amazon Prime
17. “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
18. Magic is really very simple, all you’ve got to do is want something and then let yourself have it. Aggie Cromwell, Halloweentown
19. She used to tell me that a full moon was when mysterious things happen and wishes come true. Shannon A. Thompson, American Author
20. “If human beings had genuine courage, they’d wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween.”— Douglas Coupland
21. I love Halloween, and I love that feeling: the cold air, the spooky dangers lurking around the corner. Evan Peters, American Actor
22. They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart
23. The farther we’ve gotten from the magic and mystery of our past, the more we’ve come to need Halloween. Paula Guran, American Author
24. “Magic is really very simple, all you’ve got to do is want something and then let yourself have it.” — Aggie Cromwell, Halloweentown
25. “Halloween wraps fear in innocence, as though it were a slightly sour sweet. Let terror, then, be turned into a treat.”– Nicholas Gordon
26. I am all in a sea of wonders; I doubt; I fear; I think strange things, which I dare not confess to my own soul. Bram Stoker, Irish Author
27. 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, American Author
28. Halloween wraps fear in innocence, as though it were a slightly sour sweet. Let terror, then, be turned into a treat… Nicholas Gordon, Poet
29. If human beings had genuine courage, they’d wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween. Douglas Copeland, Canadian Author
30. 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
31. “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
32. “She’d always loved Halloween. A magic night. A night when anything could happen. Monsters could be real. Magic could whisper in the air.”– Cynthia Eden
33. Halloween is not only about putting on a costume, but it’s about finding the imagination and costume within ourselves. Elvis Duran, Radio Show Personality
34. “Halloween was the best holiday, in my opinion, because it was all about friends, monsters, and candy, rather than family and responsibility.”– Margee Kerr
35. “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.'”– Rita Rudner
36. “Halloween is a celebration of the inversion of reality and a necessary Gothic hat-tip to the darker aspects of life, death, and ourselves.”– Stewart Stafford
37. I dropped the candies into the children’s bags, thinking: You small mortals don’t realize the power of your stories. Karen Russell, Vampires in the Lemon Grove
38. 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, American Author
39. Well, fancy! We desire children.” Winifred Sanderson, Hocus Pocus
40. Men say that in this midnight hour, the disembodied have power.” William Motherwell, Scottish Poet
41. “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
42. That’s the problem. He was dead to begin with.” Ichabod Crane, Sleepy Hollow
43. Shadows mutter, mist replies; darkness purrs as midnight sighs.” Rusty Fischer, American Author
44. “Halloween is not only about putting on a costume, but it’s about finding the imagination and costume within ourselves.” — Elvis Duran More: Simple Halloween Costumes for Women
45. Am I walking toward something I should be running away from?” Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House
46. We have had our summer evenings, now for October eves!” Humbert Wolfe, British Poet
47. Tis the night—the night of the graves 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, American Writer
48. The rain pattered dismally against the panes, and 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 Shelley, Frankenstein
49. “Halloween shadows played upon the walls of the houses. In the sky, the Halloween moon raced in and out of the clouds… It was a lovely and exciting night, exactly the kind of night Halloween should be.”– Eleanor Estes
50. It is impossible to say how first the idea entered my brain; but once conceived, it haunted me day and night.” Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart
51. You must believe me, it was a horseman, a dead one! Headless!” Ichabod Crane, Sleepy Hollow
52. “Wench! Trollop! You bucktoothed, mop-riding firefly from hell!” Billy Butcherson, Hocus Pocus
53. Deep into the darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing/Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.” Edgar Allen Poe, The Raven
54. 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 woke in the night. J.M. Barrie, Scottish Author
55. Everything seemed cut from soft black velvet or gold or orange velvet. Smoke panted up out of a thousand chimneys like the plumes of funeral parades. From kitchen windows drifted two pumpkin smells: gourds being cut, pies being baked. Ray Bradbury, American Author
56. He had arranged the arms and legs in letters, and the letters spelled out a single small word: BOO. The three torsos were carefully arranged below the BOO in a quarter-circle, making a cute little Halloween smile. What a scamp. Jeff Lindsay, Darkly Dreaming Dexter
57. Now this is the point. You fancy me a mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me. You should have seen how wisely I proceeded…” Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart
58. I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.” L.M. Montgomery, Canadian Author

Spooky Halloween Quotes

1. “We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.”– Stephen KingMore: The Best Scary Movies on Hulu
2. Do you believe in destiny? That even the powers of time can be altered for a single purpose? That the luckiest man who walks on this earth is the one who finds… true love?” Dracula
3. I would like, if I may, to take you on a strange journey.” The Criminologist, Rocky Horror Picture Show
4. Good-bye, Ichabod Crane. I curse the day you came to Sleepy Hollow.” Katrina Van Tassel, Sleepy Hollow
5. I was born on the night of Samhain, when the barrier between the worlds is whisper-thin and when magic, old magic, sings its heady and sweet song to anyone who cares to hear it.” Carolyn MacCullough, Once a Witch
6. 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.’” Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House
7. I heard all things in the heaven and in the earth. I heard many things in hell.” Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart
8. No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality.” Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House
9. We danced the Mamushka while Nero fiddled, we danced the Mamushka at Waterloo. We danced the Mamushka for Jack the Ripper, and now, Fester Addams, this Mamushka is for you.” Gomez, The Addams Family
10. Halloween shadows played upon the walls of the houses. In the sky the Halloween moon raced in and out of the clouds. The Halloween wind was blowing, not a blasting of wind but a right-sized swelling, falling, and gushing of wind. It was a lovely and exciting night, exactly the kind of night Halloween should be. Eleanor Estes, The Witch Family
11. Halloween is an ancient druidic holiday, one the Celtic peoples have celebrated for millennia. It is the crack between the last golden rays of summer and the dark of winter; the delicately balanced tweak of the year before it is given over entirely to the dark; a time for the souls of the departed to squint, to peek and perhaps to travel through the gap. Jenny Colgan, Welcome To Rosie Hopkins’ Sweetshop Of Dreams
12. Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within; it had stood so for eighty years and might stand for eighty more. Within, walls continued upright, bricks met neatly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone.” Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House
13. It’s Halloween; everyone’s entitled to one good scare.” Brackett, Halloween
14. When the spooks have a midnight jamboree/They break it up with fiendish glee/The ghosts are bad but the one that’s cursed/Is the headless horseman; he’s the worst/That’s right, he’s a fright on Halloween night! When he goes a joggin’ ‘cross the land/Holding his noggin in his hand/Demons take one look and groan/And they hit the road to parts unknown/Beware, take care he rides alone! The Headless Horseman, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
15. There is nothing that gives more assurance than a mask.” Collette, French Author
16. There is a town, two days journey to the north in the Hudson Highlands. It is a place called Sleepy Hollow. Have you heard of it?… An isolated farming community, mainly Dutch. Three persons have been murdered there, all within a fortnight. Each one found with the head lopped off… Clean as dandelion heads, apparently. You will take these experimentations of yours to Sleepy Hollow, and there you will detect the murderer. Bring him here to face our good justice. Will you do this? The Burgomaster, Sleepy Hollow
17. Harvey wasn’t interested in the clothes, it was the masks that mesmerized him. They were like snowflakes: no two alike. Some were made of wood and of plastic; some of straw and cloth and papier-mâché. Some were as bright as parrots, others as pale as parchment. Some were so grotesque he was certain they’d been carved by crazy people; others so perfect they looked like the death masks of angels. There were masks of clowns and foxes, masks like skulls decorated with real teeth, and one with carved flames instead of hair. Clive Barker, The Thief of Always

Wrapping Up

We hope you enjoyed our collection of Halloween quotes. Whether you’re looking for the perfect Instagram caption or just need a little spooky inspiration, these quotes will definitely do the trick. Happy Halloween!