HALLOWEEN QUOTES II
quotations about Halloween
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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
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Halloween: histoire et traditions
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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
Halloween is a day in which some people choose to wear a mask ... while others finally feel safe to take theirs off.
STEVE MARABOLI
attributed, goodreads
The jack-o-lantern follows me with tapered, glowing eyes.
His yellow teeth grin evily. His cackle I despise.
But I shall have the final laugh when Halloween is through.
This pumpkin king I'll split in half to make a pie for two.
RICHELLE E. GOODRICH
Slaying Dragons
Did everybody have a good Halloween? I'm just not into the Halloween spirit. What I did was I went to bed early after I turned on the electric fence.
DAVID LETTERMAN
The Late Show with David Letterman, Nov. 1, The Late Show with David Letterman, Nov. 1, 2013
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
Opvs Daemonvm
On Hallows Eve, we witches meet
to broil and bubble tasty treats
like goblin thumbs with venom dip,
crisp bat wings, and fried fingertips
RICHELLE E. GOODRICH
attributed, goodreads
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 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
There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.
JEAN BAUDRILLARD
"Astral America", America
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
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
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
Halloween is an ancient druidic holiday, one the Celtic peoples have celebrated for millennia. It is the crack between the last golden rays of summer and the dark of winter; the delicately balanced tweak of the year before it is given over entirely to the dark; a time for the souls of the departed to squint, to peek and perhaps to travel through the gap. What could be more thrilling and worthy of celebration than that?
JENNY COLGAN
Welcome to Rosie Hopkins' Sweetshop of Dreams
The farther we've gotten from the magic and mystery of our past, the more we've come to need Halloween.
PAULA GURAN
October Dreams
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
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
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
The Hag is astride,
This night for to ride;
The Devil and she together:
Through thick and through thin,
Now out, and then in,
Though ne'r so foul be the weather.
ROBERT HERRICK
"The Hag"