100 Best Halloween Quotes To Celebrate The Spooky Season

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Halloween isn’t just about carved pumpkins or ghost stories—it’s a celebration of mystery, creativity, and the beauty of the unknown. For centuries, poets and writers have drawn inspiration from the chill of autumn nights and the shadows that dance under the moon.

This collection brings together 100 real Halloween quotes from renowned authors and thinkers. Each line reflects the wonder, eeriness, and depth of the season—perfect for adding a touch of wisdom, spookiness, or reflection to your celebrations.

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100 Best Halloween Quotes and Saying by Famous Authers & Thinkers

1. “Nothing on Earth so beautiful as the final haul on Halloween night.” — Steve Almond

2. “Where there is no imagination there is no horror.” — Arthur Conan Doyle

3. “I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.” — Henry David Thoreau

4. “Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!” — Bram Stoker

5. “By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes.” — William Shakespeare

6. “We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.” — Stephen King

7. “Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn and cauldron bubble.” — William Shakespeare

8 .“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

9. “Ghosts are real, this much I know.” — Shirley Jackson

10. “There is something haunting in the light of the moon.” — Joseph Conrad

11. “Hell is empty and all the devils are here.” — William Shakespeare

12. “Fear is the mother of morality.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

13. “I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.” — Sarah Williams

14. “Shadows of a thousand years rise again unseen, voices whisper in the trees, ‘Tonight is Halloween!’” — Dexter Kozen

15. “Every man’s life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.” — Ernest Hemingway

16. “Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.” — Stephen King

17. “Fear cuts deeper than swords.” — George R. R. Martin

18. “The night is dark and full of terrors.” — George R. R. Martin

19. “The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.” — Edgar Allan Poe

20. “Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.” — Edgar Allan Poe

21. “Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.” — Edgar Allan Poe

22. “Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.” — Edgar Allan Poe

23. “There is something at work in my soul which I do not understand.” — Mary Shelley

24. “Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.” — Mary Shelley

25. “Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.” — Victor Hugo

26. “I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.” — Mark Twain

27. “The dead have highways.” — Clive Barker

28. “The moon has a face like the clock in the hall.” — Robert Louis Stevenson

29. “Be afraid of the dark? Why? The dark is simply the absence of light.” — Terry Pratchett

30. “Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that.” — Martin Luther King Jr.

31. “A house is never still in darkness to those who listen intently.” — J. M. Barrie

32. “The blood jet is poetry, there is no stopping it.” — Sylvia Plath

33. “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” — William Faulkner

34. “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt

35. “Some people are born for Halloween, and some are just counting the days until Christmas.” — Stephen Graham Jones

36. “Tis now the very witching time of night.” — William Shakespeare

37. “Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark.” — Francis Bacon

38. “Horror and moral terror are your friends.” — Joseph Conrad

39. “The oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.” — H. P. Lovecraft

40. “A man’s character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.” — Mark Twain

41. “The night walked down the sky with the moon in her hand.” — Frederick L. Knowles

42. “Fear is a disease; hope is its only cure.” — William Sloane

43. “Happiness is a mask that cannot long be maintained.” — Edgar Allan Poe

44. “There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.” — George Carlin

45. “A mask tells us more than a face.” — Oscar Wilde

46. “I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.” — Maya Angelou

47. “Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first.” — Terry Pratchett

48. “Fear is only as deep as the mind allows.” — Japanese Proverb

49. “He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.” — Michel de Montaigne

50. “If you are broken, you do not have to stay broken.” — Selena Gomez

51. “Even monsters need a little love sometimes.” — Richelle E. Goodrich

52. “The darker the night, the brighter the stars.” — Fyodor Dostoevsky

53. “All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.” — Edgar Allan Poe

54. “Those who fear the darkness have no idea what the light can do.” — Björk

55. “Sometimes, the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.” — Vincent van Gogh

56. “Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear—not absence of fear.” — Mark Twain

57. “Do one thing every day that scares you.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

58. “We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine.” — Eduardo Galeano

59. “There is magic in the night when pumpkins glow by moonlight.” — Unknown

60. “The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.” — W. B. Yeats

61. “For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.” — Martin Luther

62. “I never met a pumpkin I didn’t like.” — Unknown

63. “A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.” — Roald Dahl

64. “Shadows are our constant companions.” — John Gay

65. “The dark is generous, and it is patient.” — Matthew Stover

66. “I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me.” — Sylvia Plath

67. “Fear is a tyrant and a despot, more terrible than the rack, more potent than the snake.” — Edgar Wallace

68. “It’s as much fun to scare as to be scared.” — Vincent Price

69. “Our fears are more numerous than our dangers, and we suffer more in our imagination than in reality.” — Seneca

70. “The graveyard is the richest place on earth.” — Les Brown

71. “The witch knows nothing in this world is supernatural. It is all natural.” — Laurie Cabot

72. “There is no beauty without some strangeness.” — Edgar Allan Poe

73. “Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.” — J. K. Rowling

74. “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

75. “Ghost stories are a way of speaking about death.” — Susan Hill

76. “When black cats prowl and pumpkins gleam, may luck be yours on Halloween.” — Unknown

77. “Fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth.” — Pema Chödrön

78. “The moon has awoken with the sleep of the sun, the light has been broken; the spell has begun.” — Midgard Morningstar

79. “We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.” — Oscar Wilde

80. “The imagination is man’s power over nature.” — Wallace Stevens

81. “The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.” — G. K. Chesterton

82. “There is something in the autumn that is native to my blood.” — Bliss Carman

83. “October is a symphony of permanence and change.” — Bonaro W. Overstreet

84. “Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald

85. “Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.” — Albert Camus

86. “The wind outside nested in each tree, prowled the sidewalks in invisible treads like unseen cats.” — Ray Bradbury

87. “Everything you can imagine is real.” — Pablo Picasso

88. “We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep.” — William Shakespeare

89. “The night hides a world, but reveals a universe.” — Terry Guillemets

90. “Magic is believing in yourself. If you can do that, you can make anything happen.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

91. “The farther we’ve gotten from the magic and mystery of our past, the more we’ve come to need Halloween.” — Paula Curan

92. “Be afraid, be very afraid.” — Unknown

93. “I am glad I was up so late, for that’s the reason I was up so early.” — Benjamin Franklin

94. “The darkness declares the glory of light.” — T. S. Eliot

95. “You don’t have to believe in ghosts to be haunted.” — Unknown

96. “There is no exquisite beauty without some strangeness in the proportion.” — Edgar Allan Poe

97. “Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly.” — Charles Addams

98. “Every shadow is cast by some light.” — Austin O’Malley

99. “The veil between the worlds is thin tonight.” — Unknown

100. “May your Halloween be filled with strange and wonderful things.” — Unknown

Conclusion

These words remind us that Halloween is more than fright and fantasy—it’s about reflection, creativity, and the mysterious beauty of the night. Whether you find comfort in the dark or light in the eerie glow of a pumpkin, let these quotes guide your imagination this season.

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