Halloween And Friends Quotes:

One need not be a chamber to be haunted.

- Emily Dickinson

topic: Inspirational, Life, Needs, Inspirational Halloween, Spooky Halloween

... 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

source: Titus Lucretius Carus, William Henry Denham Rouse, Martin Ferguson Smith (1975). “De rerum natura”, Harvard University Press ; London : Heinemann

topic: Children, Halloween, Dark, Funny Halloween, Scary Halloween

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

- Dexter Kozen

topic: Halloween, Years, Voice, Thousand Years, Inspirational Halloween

I see my face in the mirror and go, 'I'm a Halloween costume? That's what they think of me?'

- Drew Carey

topic: Halloween, Thinking, Mirrors, Christian Halloween, Funny Halloween

I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.

- Henry David Thoreau

topic: Lonely, Halloween, Fall, Circulation, Malaria

Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.

- Mark Twain

topic: Funny, Fake People, Halloween, Inner Darkness, Dark Side

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

- John Kendrick Bangs

topic: Halloween, Nuts, Tonight, Inspirational Halloween, Spooky Halloween

Eye of newt, and toe of frog, Wool of bat, and tongue of dog, Adder's fork, and blind-worm's sting, Lizard's leg, and owlet's wing, For a charm of powerful trouble, Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.

- William Shakespeare

topic: Dog, Powerful, Halloween, Inspirational Halloween, Spooky Halloween

There is something haunting in the light of the moon; it has all the dispassionateness of a disembodied soul, and something of its inconceivable mystery.

- Joseph Conrad

topic: Halloween, Moon, Night, Inspirational Halloween, Spooky Halloween

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

- Dee Snider

topic: Halloween, House, Spirit, Sound Effects, Inspirational Halloween

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

topic: Halloween, Believe, Autumn, Halloween And Friends, Halloween Love

Fear is nature's warning signal to get busy.

- Henry C. Link

topic: Halloween, Warning, Busy, Funny Halloween, Funny Happy Halloween

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

topic: Sarcastic, Night, Men, Inspirational Halloween, Spooky Halloween

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.

- Francis Bacon

source: Essays "Of Death" (1625)

topic: Death, Fear, Children, Someone Dying, Someone Who Is Dying

Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

- Miguel de Cervantes

topic: Fear, Halloween, Eye, Inspirational Halloween, Scary Halloween

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

topic: Couple, Halloween, Party, Dressed Up, Veterinarian

There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling.

- Victor Hugo

source: Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.6986, Delphi Classics

topic: Halloween, Greatness, Mountain, Halloween And Friends

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

source: "Magic Moments in Life" by Erin Morgenstern, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 19, 2012.

topic: Halloween And Friends

When I was a kid, Halloween was strictly a starchy-vegetable-only holiday, with pumpkins and Indian corn on the front stoop; there was nothing electric, nothing inflatable, nothing with latex membranes or strobes.

- Susan Orlean

source: "Haunted" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. October 27, 2010.

topic: Halloween, Holiday, Kids, Latex, Funny Happy Halloween

Ghosts, like ladies, never speak till spoke to.

- Richard Harris Barham

topic: Funny, Halloween, Ghost, Inspirational Halloween, Christian Halloween

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

- Robert Breault

topic: Halloween, Real, Kids, Inspirational Halloween, Spooky

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

- Douglas Coupland

topic: Halloween, Years, Costumes, Inspirational Halloween, Spooky Halloween

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

- Nick Gordon

topic: Halloween, Night, Light, Spooky, Christian Halloween

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

- Nick Gordon

topic: Sweet, Halloween, Innocence, Inspirational Halloween, Spooky Halloween

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

- Charles S. Swartz

topic: Fun, Halloween, Nudists, Inspirational Halloween, Colony

There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.

- George Carlin

topic: Funny, Halloween, Moon, Inspirational Halloween, Spooky Halloween

There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.

- Jean Baudrillard

topic: Funny, Sarcastic, Revenge, Spooky Halloween, Spooky

Acting is like a Halloween mask that you put on.

- River Phoenix

topic: Halloween, Acting, Mask, Inspirational Halloween, Christian Halloween

A grandmother pretends she doesn't know who you are on Halloween.

- Erma Bombeck

topic: Relationship, Fun, Halloween, Inspirational Halloween, Mother And Grandmother

This Halloween, the most popular mask is the Arnold Schwarzenegger mask. And the best part? With a mouth full of candy you will sound just like him.

- Conan O'Brien

topic: Funny, Halloween, Sound, Inspirational Halloween, Spooky Halloween

Clothes make a statement. Costumes tell a story.

- Mason Cooley

topic: Autumn, Clothes, Costumes, Inspirational Halloween, Spooky Halloween

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

source: Joel Benton, “Halloween”

topic: Halloween, Moon, Play, Christian Halloween, Pixies

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

- Steve Almond

source: Steve Almond (2004). “Candyfreak: A Journey through the Chocolate Underbelly of America”, p.32, Algonquin Books

topic: Beautiful, Halloween, Night, Inspirational Halloween, Chocolate Bars

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

- William Shakespeare

source: 'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 2, l. [413]

topic: Halloween, Night, Denmark In Hamlet, Contagion, Inspirational Halloween

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

- William Shakespeare

source: 'Macbeth' (1606) act 4, sc. 1, l. 4

topic: Halloween, Memorable, Play, Inspirational Halloween, Spooky Halloween

Where there is no imagination there is no horror.

- Arthur Conan Doyle

topic: Halloween, Imagination, Scary, Inspirational Halloween, Spooky Halloween

Charlie Brown is the one person I identify with. C.B. is such a loser. He wasn't even the star of his own Halloween special.

- Chris Rock

topic: Funny, Stars, Halloween, Inspirational Halloween, Spooky Halloween

I would love if gay men responded to me. All I want is for many gay men to dress up as me for Halloween.

- Mindy Kaling

topic: Women, Halloween, Gay, Halloween And Friends