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Clothes make a statement. Costumes tell a story.

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

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The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown

source: H. P. Lovecraft (2014). “Complete Collection Of H. P. Lovecraft - 150 eBooks With 100+ Audiobooks (Complete Collection Of Lovecraft's Fiction, Juvenilia, Poems, Essays And Collaborations)”, p.11, Ageless Reads

topic: Fear, Halloween, Emotion, Fear Of The Unknown, Inspirational Halloween

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A census taker tried to quantify me once. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a big Amarone. Go back to school, little Starling.

- Thomas Harris

source: The Silence of the Lambs ch. 3 (1991)

topic: School, Littles, Beans, Best Film, 80s And 90s

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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

Being in a band you can wear whatever you want - it's like an excuse for Halloween every day.

- Gwen Stefani

topic: Halloween, Band, Want, Inspirational Halloween, Spooky Halloween

Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.

- Edgar Allan Poe

topic: Love, Dream, Art, Spiritual Darkness, Spooky

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 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 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

source: "Jokes over easy: 1,386 delicious jokes from the best comedians" by Judy Brown, Barnes & Noble, (p. 112), 2006.

topic: Halloween, Doors, People, Candy Corn, Cute 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

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

topic: Halloween, Fate, Veils, Spooky Halloween, Jack O Lanterns

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

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

- Nick Gordon

topic: Dream, Halloween, Parks, Inspirational Halloween, Spooky Halloween

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

topic: Real, Halloween, Feet, Cute Halloween, Scary Halloween

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

On Halloween, don't you know back when you were little, your mom tells you don't eat any candy until she checks it? I used to be so tempted to eat my candy on the way to other people's houses. That used to be such a tease.

- Derrick Rose

topic: Funny Halloween, Scary Halloween, Trick Or Treat, Halloween Candy

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

topic: Halloween, Darkness, Lust, Spooky Halloween, Funny Halloween

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

source: Jack Prelutsky (1977). “It's Halloween”, Scholastic Paperbacks

topic: Kings, Queens, Halloween, Kings And Queens, Scary Halloween

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

source: M. R. James (2011). “Collected Ghost Stories”, p.70, OUP Oxford

topic: Halloween, Sleep, Night, Scary Halloween, Halloween Night

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

topic: Halloween, Eye, Yellow, Frankenstein Novel, Burnt Out

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

topic: Halloween, Kids, Home, Funny Halloween, Happy Halloween

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

- Emily Luchetti

topic: Halloween, Army, Chocolate, Godlike, Sweets And Desserts

... 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

I love the spirit of Halloween and the energy that comes with it.

- Katharine McPhee

topic: Halloween, Energy, Spirit, Inspirational Halloween, Funny 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

Look, there's no metaphysics on earth like chocolates.

- Fernando Pessoa

topic: Love, Halloween, Food, Yummy, Inspirational Halloween

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

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

But I love Halloween, and I love that feeling: the cold air, the spooky dangers lurking around the corner.

- Evan Peters

source: "'American Horror Story' Season 2: Evan Peters Says It’s Really, Really Scary". Interview with Chris Jancelewicz, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 16, 2012.