Quotes About Halloween

Celebrating the day of tricks and treats

Halloween is one of my favorite holidays of the year, thanks to the tricks, the tricks, the scary movies, the candy, and the overall sense of fun and playfulness the holiday can bring. These quotes are about the thrills and chills of Halloween.

1. “Oh, how the candles will be lit and the wood of worm burn in a fiery dust. For on All Hallows’ Eve will the spirits come to play, and only the fruit of thy womb will satisfy their endless roaming.” -Solange Nicole

2. “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

3. “Werewolves howl. Phantoms prowl. Halloween’s upon us now.” -Richelle E. Goodrich

4. “The farther we’ve gotten from the magic and mystery of our past, the more we’ve come to need Halloween.” -Paula Curan

5. “Halloween is not only about putting on a costume, but it’s about finding the imagination and costume within ourselves.” -Elvis Duran 6. “October was always the least dependable of months…full of ghosts and shadows.” -Joy Fielding

7. “If human beings had genuine courage, they’d wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween.” -Douglas Coupland 8. “On Halloween you get to become anything that you want to be.” -Ava Dellaria

9. “Most people will tell you growing up means you stop believing in Halloween things — I’m telling you the reverse. You start to grow up when you understand that the stuff that scares you is part of the air you breathe.” -Peter Straub

10. “The worst thing about Halloween is, of course, candy corn. It’s unbelievable to me. Candy corn is the only candy in the history of America that’s never been advertised. And there’s a reason. All of the candy corn that was ever made was made in 1911. And so, since nobody eats that stuff, every year there’s a ton of it left over.” -Lewis Black 11. “Halloween is one of my favorite holidays. Christmas and the others can end up making you sad, because you know you should be happy. But on Halloween, you get to become anything that you want to be.” -Ava Dellaira

12. “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

13. “On Halloween, witches come true; wild ghosts escape from dreams. Each monster dances in the park.” -Nick Gordon 14. “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

15. “Halloween is an opportunity to be really creative.” -Judy Gold 16. “But I love Halloween, and I love that feeling: the cold air, the spooky dangers lurking around the corner.” -Evan Peters 17. “Nothing on Earth so beautiful as the final haul on Halloween night.” -Steve Almond

18. “The murmurings and mutterings grew even more freakish and grotesque as Halloween slithered ever closer.” -Kevin Purdy

19. “Halloween wraps fear in innocence, as though it were a slightly sour sweet. Let terror, then, be turned into a treat….” -Nicholas Gordon

20. “Treats of hot cocoa, pumpkin pie, and candy corn. Yummy Halloween.” -Richelle E. Goodrich

21. “Some people are born for Halloween, and some are just counting the days until Christmas.” -Stephen Graham Jones

22. “There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.” -Jean Baudrillard 23. “When black cats prowl and pumpkins gleam, may luck be yours on Halloween.” -Unknown

24. “Every day is Halloween, isn’t it? For some of us.” -Tim Burton 25. “Halloween trickster. Spiders on string. Children in costume. Startle and scream.

Halloween treater. Apples on sticks. Caramel. Chocolate. Come, take your pick.” -Richelle E. Goodrich

26. “It’s said that All Hallows’ Eve is one of the nights when the veil between the worlds is thin — and whether you believe in such things or not, those roaming spirits probably believe in you, or at least acknowledge your existence, considering that it used to be their own. Even the air feels different on Halloween, autumn-crisp and bright.” -Erin Morgenstern 27. “When the witches go riding, and black cats are seen, the moon laughs and whispers ’tis near Halloween.” -Unknown

28. “Frights and chills Spooky thrills Candy and nuts Seedy pumpkin guts

Tricking for treats Treasure bag of sweets A floating apparition Imaginative night vision

Zombie, werewolf, vampire Witches’ cauldrons lit afire Creepy ghost and spectre Hooded Reaper — soul collector” -Terri Guillemets

29. “Have a ghost of a time. Have a happy Halloween!” -Anthony T. Hincks

30. “A grandmother pretends she doesn’t know who you are on Halloween.” -Erma Bombeck

31. “Ghosts and goblins come to play on October’s final day!” -Rusty Fischer 32. “On Halloween, the parents sent their kids out looking like me.” -Rodney Dangerfield 33. “Don’t have a cup of coffee this Halloween. Have a cauldron of coffee instead.” -Anthony T. Hincks

34. “On ol’ Halloween Night These monsters join the living If they had it their way They’d stay until Thanksgiving.” -Casey Browning 35. “Trick or treat, bag of sweets, ghosts are walking down the street.” -Unknown 36. “The whole spirit of Hallowe’en is, of course, one of ‘spooky’ gayety and light-hearted ghastliness. Witches and ghosts run riot; corpses dance and black cats howl. ‘More work for the undertaker’ should be the leitmotif of the evening’s fun.” -Donald Ogden Stewart

37. “We used to go around tipping outhouses over, or turning over corn shocks on Halloween. Anything to be mean.” -Loretta Lynn

38. “Shadows of a thousand years rise again unseen. Voices whisper in the trees, ‘Tonight is Halloween!’” -Dexter Kozen

39. “The dead rise again, bats fly, terror strikes and screams echo, for tonight it’s Halloween.” -Unknown 40. “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

41. “Studio 54 made Halloween in Hollywood look like a PTA meeting.” -Lorna Luft 42. “As a kid, 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

43. “I’ve always loved Halloween: the one day of the year when you can blatantly dress as your number-one obsession and people will smile instead of snicker.” -J.C. Lillis

44. “I don’t know that there are real ghosts and goblins, but there are always more trick-or-treaters than neighborhood kids.” -Robert Brault

45. “Halloween is a day in which some people choose to wear a mask…while others finally feel safe to take theirs off.” -Steve Maraboli

46. “Sticky fingers, tired feet; one last house, trick or treat!” -Rusty Fischer

47. “I had a dream about you last week. It was October 31, 2002 and we met at a Halloween party. You came dressed as yourself; I knew you’ve been hiding your true self all this time.” -Rodney Jenkins

48. “Halloween was the best holiday, in my opinion, because it was all about friends, monsters, and candy, rather than family and responsibility.” -Margee Kerr

49. “My Halloween costume is Godot. I’m not showing up at the party, just texting the host every 10 minutes that I’m on my way.” -Wynne McLaughlin

50. “Nudist Colony Halloween parties are especially scary. They give the word ‘moon’ a new cruel meaning.” -Ray Palla

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