73 Halloween Quotes to Share This Spooky Season
Everyone knows that October 31st is the spookiest night of the year. It’s also an excuse to gorge yourself on candy, binge scary movies and play dress-up. This All Hallows’ Eve, impress your followers with a snap of your awesome costume teamed with the perfect caption. Here, 73 Halloween quotes that will help you get the most likes this fright night.
1. “Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.” – William Shakespeare
2. “Magic is really very simple. All you’ve got to do is want something and then let yourself have it.” – Aggie Cromwell from Halloweentown
3. “Just because I cannot see it, doesn’t mean I can’t believe it!” – Jack Skellington from The Nightmare Before Christmas
4. “It’s just a bunch of hocus pocus!” – Max from Hocus Pocus
5. “A person should always choose a costume which is in direct contrast to her own personality.” – Lucy Van Pelt from It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown
6. “It’s Halloween; everyone’s entitled to one good scare.” – Brackett from Halloween
7. “I love Halloween, and I love that feeling: the cold air, the spooky dangers lurking around the corner.” – Evan Peters
8. “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
9. “Where there is no imagination, there is no horror.” – Arthur Conan Doyle
10. “I put a spell on you because you’re mine.” – Jay Hawkins
11. “Be afraid... be very afraid.” – The Fly
12. “Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can’t see where it keeps its brain.” – J.K. Rowling
13. “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
14. “It's as much fun to scare as to be scared.” – Vincent Price
15. “Believe nothing you hear and only one half that you see.” – Edgar Allen Poe
16. “For a witch, you certainly don't know much about how hauntings work.” – Colleen Houck
17. “We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.” – Stephen King
18. “I can think of nothing on Earth so beautiful as the final haul on Halloween night.” – Steve Almond
19. “Werewolves howl. Phantoms prowl. Halloween's upon us now.” – Richelle E. Goodrich
20. “Every day is Halloween, isn't it? For some of us.” – Tim Burton
21. “Clothes make a statement. Costumes tell a story.” – Mason Cooley
22. “Sticky fingers, tired feet; one last house, trick or treat!” – Rusty Fischer
23. “No, please don’t kill me, Mr. Ghostface. I wanna be in the sequel!” — Tatum Riley from Scream
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24. “The farther we've gotten from the magic and mystery of our past, the more we've come to need Halloween.” – Paula Guran
25. “Some people are born for Halloween, and some are just counting the days until Christmas.” – Stephen Graham Jones
26. “I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.” – L.M. Montgomery
27. “On Halloween you get to become anything that you want to be.” – Ava Dellaira
28. “Halloween is not only about putting on a costume, but it's about finding the imagination and costume within ourselves.” – Elvis Duran
29. “There is something haunting in the light of the moon.” – Joseph Conrad
30. “I’m the ghost with the most, babe.” – Betelgeuse from Beetlejuice
31. “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
32. “There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.” – George Carlin
33. “A mask tells us more than a face.” – Oscar Wilde
34. “Halloween wraps fear in innocence, as though it were a slightly sour sweet. Let terror, then, be turned into a treat.” – Nicholas Gordon
35. “By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes.” – William Shakespeare
36. “We have had our summer evenings, now for October eves!” – Humbert Wolfe
37. “Ghosts and goblins come to play on October's final day!” — Rusty Fischer
38. “I’ve seen enough horror movies to know that any weirdo wearing a mask is never friendly.” – Elizabeth from Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives
39. “I’m a homicidal maniac; they look just like everyone else.” – Wednesday from The Addams Family
40. “Villains wear many masks, none so dangerous as the mask of virtue.” – Ichabod Crane from Sleepy Hollow
41. “Whatever you do, don't fall asleep.” – A Nightmare on Elm Street
42. “I’m a master of fright, and a demon of light, and I’ll scare you right out of your pants.” Jack Skellington from The Nightmare Before Christmas
43. “If human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween.”– Douglas Coupland
44. “Hell is empty and all the devils are here.” – Ariel from William Shakespeare’s The Tempest
45. “Everyone is a moon and has a dark side, which he never shows to anybody.” – Mark Twain
46. “You can't kill the Boogey man.” – Tommy from Halloween
47. “It’s a full moon tonight. That’s when all the weirdos are out.“ – Dani from Hocus Pocus
48. “All you have to do is walk up to the house, ring the doorbell and say ‘tricks or treats’” – Lucy Van Pelt from It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown
49. “You should never say ‘who’s there?’ Don’t you watch scary movies?” — Ghostface from Scream
50. “One need not be a chamber to be haunted. One need not be a house. The brain has corridors surpassing material place.” – Emily Dickinson
51. “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.” – Steven Crain from The Haunting of Hill House
52. “I’m guessing Angela's the one in the neighborhood who gives the trick-or-treaters some toothbrushes. Pennies. Walnuts.” – Pam Beasley from The Office
53. “I'm not superstitious, but I am a little stitious.” — Michael Scott from The Office
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54. “My Halloween costume is Godot. I'm not showing up at the party, just texting the host every ten minutes that I'm on my way.” ― Wynne McLaughlin
55. “The great thing about candy is that it can't be spoiled by the adult world. Candy is innocent.“ — Rosecrans Baldwin
56. “I would like, if I may, to take you on a strange journey.” — The Criminologist from The Rocky Horror Picture Show
57. “Halloween is the only time people can become what they want to be without getting fired.” ― Sylvester Stallone
58. “Shadows of a thousand years rise again unseen. Voices whisper in the trees, ‘Tonight is Halloween!’” — Dexter Kozen
59. “Listen to them—the children of the night. What music they make!” — Bram Stoker
60. “It's easier to dismiss ghosts in the daylight.” ― Patricia Briggs from Dragon Bones
61. “Every Halloween, I bring a spare costume, in case I strike out with the hottest girl at the party. That way, I have a second chance to make a first impression.” — Barney Stinson from How I Met Your Mother
62. “I don't know that there are real ghosts and goblins, but there are always more trick-or-treaters than neighborhood kids.” — Robert Brault
63. “I'll stop wearing black when they make a darker color.” — Wednesday Addams from The Addams Family
64. “Halloween should be a day in which we honor monsters and not be mad at each other.” — Michael Scott from The Office
65. “Halloween is an opportunity to be really creative.” — Judy Gold
66. “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 from The Witch Family
67. “Halloween is a day in which some people choose to wear a mask, while others finally feel safe to take theirs off.” ― Steve Maraboli
68. “Shadows mutter, mist replies; darkness purrs as midnight sighs.” — Rusty Fischer
69. “Just because I cannot see it, doesn't mean I can't believe it!” — Jack Skellington from Nightmare Before Christmas
70. “Men say that in this midnight hour, the disembodied have power.” — William Motherwell
71. “I’m wicked through and through.” — Elphaba from Wicked