HALLOWEEN QUOTES II

quotations about Halloween

Halloween quote

Halloween is like saying 'nya-nya' to death and the devil. It's aversion therapy for death. We're facing our worst fears by becoming them: death, monsters, the unknown.

P. D. CACEK

attributed, Halloween Nation: Behind the Scenes of America's Fright Night


I miss the days when Halloween was a simple holiday about making ritual sacrifices to evil spirits to ensure a plentiful harvest.

JIMMY KIMMEL

Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Oct. 27, 2011


Halloween's eve is also known as mischief night. Kids are supposed go around playing pranks tonight. That's great, just what teenagers need -- another excuse to be jerks.

CRAIG FERGUSON

The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, Oct. 30, The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, Oct. 30, 2013


When witches go riding, & black cats are seen, the moon laughs & whispers, 'tis near Halloween.

ANONYMOUS

19th-century Halloween postcard


One year when I was pretty young, maybe seven or eight, I insisted on going [trick-or-treating] as Humpty Dumpty, which was this very elaborate, really unwieldy costume that I designed.... Thousands of pillows. And my father, he was an upholsterer, he made the cover for this, which covered like ... I was a sofa. I was a small sofa. Except without nails or tacks. I remember that Halloween the most because it was the worst. Even as a child, I remember the worst things, as opposed to the best things. Every single house I went to, out of a thousand houses, the mother of the house had to completely reconstruct my ... restuff me. All the pillows were falling out, it was raining, and because I was a very -- I don't know how to put this -- kind of a dictator as a child, it meant that every time I stopped in the street to restuff myself, one thousand children that were following me also had to stop, even though they were wearing much more sensible costumes. That is my most memorable Halloween memory. That was the last time I was a fashion victim.

FRAN LEBOWITZ

interview, Index Magazine, 1997


My favorite Halloween candy is the candy corn. It comes in four colors: white, yellow, orange, brown. Those are also the stages of your teeth rotting after you eat it.

JAY LENO

The Tonight Show, Oct. 31, The Tonight Show, Oct. 31, 2012


In receiving something in their hands, they establish, on a symbolic level that they do not understand, a brotherly exchange between the visible and the invisible worlds. That is why the Halloween masquerades ... are in fact sacred ceremonies.

JEAN MARKALE

Halloween: histoire et traditions


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. Everything seemed cut from soft black velvet or gold or orange velvet. Smoke panted up out of a thousand chimneys like the plumes of funeral parades.

RAY BRADBURY

The Halloween Tree

Tags: Ray Bradbury


What is Halloween? I will tell you. A celebration of evil magic. Do you not remember the plagues of Egypt and how doors were stained with blood to appease evil spirits from taking firstborns? Okay. So now the ritual is to dress up as spirits of all kinds to go ask for tricks or treats as tributes to evil. Cut yourself to drip blood as a contract for your soul or offer your firstborn to appease a demon. Most people then offered their firstborns. That's the true story. They threw their children in the fire to the big wooden Idol.

SUZY KASSEM

Rise Up and Salute the Sun


This Halloween you come one week.
You masquerade
as a vermilion sleek,
fat, crosseyed fox in a parade
or, where grim jackolanterns leer,
go with your bag from door to door
foraging for treats.

W. D. SNODGRASS

Heart's Needle


Now it is the time of night
That the graves, all gaping wide,
Every one lets forth his sprite,
In the church-way paths to glide.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Tags: William Shakespeare


I was born on the night of Samhain, when the barrier between the worlds is whisper-thin and when magic, old magic, sings its heady and sweet song to anyone who cares to hear it.

CAROLYN MACCULLOUGH

Once a Witch


I've always loved Halloween: the one day of the year when you can blatantly dress as your number-one obsession and people will smile instead of snicker.

J. C. LILLIS

A&B


From Ghoulies and ghosties and long-leggety beasties
And things that go bump in the night,
Good lord, deliver us.

CORNISH PRAYER


Halloween is the beginning of the holiday shopping season. That's for women. The beginning of the holiday shopping season for men is Christmas Eve.

DAVID LETTERMAN

Late Show with David Letterman, Oct. 31, 2011


Halloween is and always will be a day of celebration, because it was intended to be that way. No matter what a person believes in, Halloween will appeal to them, just like other pre-Christian holidays. Why is this? The answer is simple ... mankind needs the imagery.

DRACONIS BLACKTHORNE

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No one came to my house to trick-or-treat. I think the moat might be scaring people away.

JIMMY KIMMEL

Jimmy Kimmel Live, Nov. 1, 2010


At the very glimpse of a Jack-o'-lantern
I've got one foot on the bus to Scranton.
When Halloween next delivers the goods,
You may duck for apples--I'll duck for the woods.

OGDEN NASH

"Trick or Trek"

Tags: Ogden Nash


Double double toil and trouble,
Fire burn and cauldron bubble.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Macbeth

Tags: William Shakespeare


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

DEXTER KOZEN

attributed, Ghosts of Ventura County's Heritage Valley