Get ready for the witching hour with Halloween quotes for any occasion
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Best Halloween quotes
- “Where there is no imagination, there is no horror.” —Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- “Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn and cauldron bubble.” —William Shakespeare
- “But I can think of nothing on Earth so beautiful as the final haul on Halloween night.” —Steve Almond
- “A mask tells us more than a face.” —Oscar Wilde
- “Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.” —Edgar Allen Poe
- “I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.” —Henry David Thoreau
- “Halloween is more for me a state of mind. I don’t necessarily do anything. It’s more of a private, year-round celebration.” —Tim Burton
- “Halloween is a day in which some people choose to wear a mask … while others finally feel safe to take theirs off.” —Steve Maraboli
- “Listen to them—the children of the night. What music they make!” —Count Dracula in Bram Stoker’s Dracula
- “I love Halloween, and I love that feeling: the cold air, the spooky dangers lurking around the corner.” —Evan Peters
- “If human beings had genuine courage, they’d wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween.” —Douglas Coupland
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Halloween movie quotes
- “I’ve seen enough horror movies to know that any weirdo wearing a mask is never friendly.” —Nancy McLoughlin as Lizbeth in Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives
- “Whatever you do, don’t fall asleep.” —Heather Langenkamp as Nancy Thompson in A Nightmare on Elm Street
- “It’s Halloween; everyone’s entitled to one good scare.” —Charles Cyphers as Brackett in Halloween
- “It’s all just a bunch of hocus pocus!” —Omri Katz as Max Dennison in Hocus Pocus
- “Be afraid, be very afraid.” —Geena Davis as Veronica “Ronnie” Quaife in The Fly
- “Just because I cannot see it, doesn’t mean I can’t believe it.” —Jack Skellington in The Nightmare Before Christmas
- “I see dead people.” —Haley Joel Osment as Cole Sear in The Sixth Sense
- “There’s a little witch in all of us.” —Dianne Wiest as Bridget “Jet” Owens in Practical Magic
- “Villainy wears many masks, none so dangerous as the mask of virtue.” —Johnny Depp as Ichabod Crane in Sleepy Hollow
- “Everyone here knows that Halloween was invented by the candy companies. It’s a conspiracy.” —Omri Katz as Max Dennison in Hocus Pocus
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Funny Halloween quotes
- “A person should always choose a costume which is in direct contrast to her own personality.” —Lucy Van Pelt in It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown
- “Have you come to sing pumpkin carols?” —Linus Van Pelt in It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown
- “Being normal is vastly overrated.” —Debbie Reynolds as Aggie Cromwell in Halloweentown
- “There are three things I have learned never to discuss with people … religion, politics and the Great Pumpkin!” —Linus Van Pelt in It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown
- “For a witch, you certainly don’t know much about how hauntings work.” —Colleen Houck
- “We’re all mad here.” —The Cheshire Cat in Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
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Spooky Halloween quotes
- “Men say that in this midnight hour, the disembodied have power.” —William Motherwell
- “By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes.” —William Shakespeare
- “We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.” —Stephen King
- “Darkness falls across the land, The midnight hour is close at hand.” —Rod Temperton
- “Werewolves howl. Phantoms prowl. Halloween’s upon us now.” —Richelle E. Goodrich
- “Halloween wraps fear in innocence, as though it were a slightly sour sweet. Let terror, then, be turned into a treat …” —Nicholas Gordon
- “The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.” —H.P. Lovecraft
- “‘Tis the night—the night of the grave’s 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
- “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
- “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
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Halloween quotes for kids
- “Witches wail and werewolves howl, ghosts say ‘boo!‘ and monsters scowl, Jack-o-lanterns grin all night as children shiver with delight.” —Nicholas Gordon
- “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
- “Magic is really very simple, all you’ve got to do is want something and then let yourself have it.” —Debbie Reynolds as Aggie Cromwell in Halloweentown
- “I love the spirit of Halloween and the energy that comes with it.” —Katharine McPhee
- “I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.” —L.M. Montgomery
- “On Halloween you get to become anything that you want to be.” —Ava Dellaira
- “We have had our summer evenings, now for October eves!” —Humbert Wolfe
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Magical Halloween quotes
- “She used to tell me that a full moon is when mysterious things happen and wishes come true.” —Shannon A. Thompson
- “I put a spell on you because you’re mine.” —Screamin’ Jay Hawkins
- “There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.” —George Carlin
- “I saw thousands of pumpkins last night come floating in on the tide, bumping up against the rocks and rolling up on the beaches; it must be Halloween in the sea.” —Richard Brautigan
- “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
- “The farther we’ve gotten from the magic and mystery of our past, the more we’ve come to need Halloween.” —Paula Guran
- “Everyone is a moon and has a dark side, which he never shows to anybody.” —Mark Twain
- “October was always the least dependable of months … full of ghosts and shadows.” —Joy Fielding
Additional reporting by Kelly Kuehn.
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