25 Haunting Halloween Quotes to Get You Psyched for Spooky Season
Hadley Mendelsohn
There’s something about autumn that puts us in the mood to curl upside and get cozy. Maybe it’s the cooling of the air and the changing of the leaves. Or maybe it’s the anticipation of Halloween, the supposed one night a year where the portal between the living and dead opens up and we dress up to then gorge on candy. Whatever it is, spooky season is fun. So to get you amped for the sleepless nights ahead—whether it’s from too much sugar or one too many horror films—we rounded up 25 spellbinding Halloween quotes. Keep reading to get in the spirit.
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1) ‘Hocus Pocus’
“It’s a full moon tonight. That’s when all the weirdos are out.”
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2) Carmen Maria Machado
“Anything could move out there in the darkness, I think. A hook-handed man. A ghostly hitchhiker forever repeating the same journey. An old woman summoned from the repose of her mirror by the chants of children. Everyone knows these stories—that is, everyone tells them, even if they don’t know them—but no one ever believes them.””
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3) Shirley Jackson
“’Fear,’ the doctor said, ‘is the relinquishing of reasonable patterns. We yield to it or we fight it, but we cannot meet it halfway.’”
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4) John Ajvide Lindqvist
“What he was scared of was not that maybe she was a creature who survived by drinking other people’s blood. No, it was that she might push him away.”
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5) T.S. Elliot
“We ask only to be reassured
About the noises in the cellar
And the windows that should not have been open.”
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6) Ray Bradbury
“They sift the human storm for souls, eat flesh of reason, fill tombs with sinners. They frenzy both. In gusts they beetle-scurry, creepy, thread, filter, motion, make all moons sullen, and surely cloud all clear-run water. The spiderweb hears them, trembles—breaks. Such are the autumn people. Beware of them.”
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7) Henry James
“The summer had turned, the summer had gone; the autumn had dropped upon Bly and had blown out half our lights. The place, with its gray sky and withered garlands, its bared spaces and scattered dead leaves.”
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8) Emily Dickinson
“One need not be a chamber to be haunted. One need not be a house. The brain has corridors surpassing material place.”
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9) Tim Burton
“Every day is Halloween, isn’t it? For some of us.”
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10) William Shakespeare
“Hell is empty and all the devils are here.”
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11) Joseph Conrad
“There is something haunting in the light of the moon.”
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12) ‘The Haunting of Hill House’
“A ghost can be a lot of things. A memory, a daydream, a secret. Grief, anger, guilt. But, in my experience, most times they’re just what we want to see.”
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13) Nicholas Gordon
“On Halloween, witches come true; wild ghosts escape from dreams. Each monster dances in the park.”
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14) ‘Halloweentown ‘
“Magic is really very simple, all you’ve got to do is want something and then let yourself have it.”
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15) Oscar Wilde
“A mask tells us more than a face.”
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16) Steve Almond
“Nothing so beautiful on earth as the final haul on Halloween night.”
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17) Drew Carey
“I see my face in the mirror and go, ‘I’m a Halloween costume? That’s what they think of me?’”
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18) Chris Rock
“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.”
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19) ‘The Office’
“I’m guessing Angela’s the one in the neighborhood who gives the trick-or-treaters some toothbrushes. Pennies. Walnuts.”
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20) ‘Hocus Pocus’
“Everyone here knows that Halloween was invented by the candy companies. It’s a conspiracy.”
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21) ‘The Witch’
“Wouldst thou like to live deliciously?”
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22) William Shakespeare
“Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn and caldron bubble. Cool it with a baboon’s blood, Then the charm is firm and good.”
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23) ‘Double, Double, Toil and Trouble’
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24) ‘Practical Magic’
“My darling girl, when are you going to realize that being normal is not necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage.”
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25) ‘The Fly’
“Be afraid… Be very afraid.”
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