51 Spooky Halloween Quotes to Get in the Spirit
Celebrate the magic of Halloween with chilling and fun quotes that capture the spooky season.
Perfect for party invites, Instagram captions, or just setting a festive mood, these sayings remind us why October 31st is all about fun, mystery, and imagination.
Short Halloween Quotes
“Shadows of a thousand years rise again unseen, voices whisper in the trees, ‘Tonight is Halloween!'” – Dexter Kozen
“On Halloween you get to become anything that you want to be.” – Ava Dellaira
“It’s as much fun to scare as to be scared.” – Vincent Price
“There is something haunting in the light of the moon.” – Joseph Conrad
“‘Tis the night — the night of the grave’s delight, and the warlocks are at their play.” – Arthur Cleveland Coxe
“Hell is empty and all the devils are here.” – William Shakespeare
“I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than be crowded on a velvet cushion.” – Henry David Thoreau
“There is magic in the night when pumpkins glow by moonlight.” – Unknown
“Nothing on Earth so beautiful as the final haul on Halloween night.” – Steve Almond
“The farther we’ve gotten from the magic and mystery of our past, the more we’ve come to need Halloween.” – Paula Curan
“The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.” – Eden Phillpotts
“I’ll stop wearing black when they make a darker color.” – Wednesday Addams
“Listen to them—the children of the night. What music they make!” – Bram Stoker
“I put a spell on you because you’re mine.” – Jay Hawkins
“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself… and spiders.” – Unknown
“Where there is no imagination, there is no horror.” – Arthur Conan Doyle
“Ghosts and goblins come to play on October’s final day.” – Unknown
“I would like, if I may, to take you on a strange journey.” – The Rocky Horror Picture Show
“Do not go gentle into that good night.” – Dylan Thomas
“One need not be a chamber to be haunted; One need not be a house; The brain has corridors surpassing material place.” – Emily Dickinson
“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
“When witches go riding, and black cats are seen, the moon laughs and whispers, ‘tis near Halloween.” – Unknown
“He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby become a monster.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
“Magic is really very simple, all you’ve got to do is want something and then let yourself have it.” – Aggie Cromwell
“Men say that in this midnight hour, the disembodied have power.” – William Motherwell
“October was always the least dependable of months … full of ghosts and shadows.” – Joy Fielding
“Eat, drink, and be scary.” – Rosie O’Donnell
“Each year, the Great Pumpkin rises out of the pumpkin patch that he thinks is the most sincere.” – Charles M. Schulz
“It’s Halloween. Everyone’s entitled to one good scare.” – Sheriff Leigh Brackett
“Clothes make a statement. Costumes tell a story.” – Mason Cooley
“Oh, how the candles will be lit and the wood of worm burn in a fiery dust. For on all Hallows Eve will the spirits come to play.” – Solange Nicole
“We all go a little mad sometimes.” – Norman Bates
“No tears please, it’s a waste of good suffering.” – Pinhead
“Death has come to your little town, Sheriff.” – Loomis
“Hope not ever to see Heaven. I have come to lead you to the other shore; into eternal darkness; into fire and into ice.” – Dante Alighieri
“Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly.” – Charles Addams
“It is a mistake to fancy that horror is associated inextricably with darkness, silence, and solitude.” – H.P. Lovecraft
“There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.” – George Carlin
“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
“Sticky fingers, tired feet; one last house, trick or treat!” – Rusty Fischer
“The world turned upside down—in a good way—for one black velvet night.” – Karen Fortunati
“Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can’t see where it keeps its brain.” – J.K. Rowling
“Some people are born for Halloween, and some are just counting the days until Christmas.” – Stephen Graham Jones
“I am all in a sea of wonders; I doubt; I fear; I think strange things, which I dare not confess to my own soul.” – Bram Stoker
“Just because I cannot see it, doesn’t mean I can’t believe it!” – Jack Skellington
“Smells of dirt and wet and long-gone vegetables would merge… the smell of the monster.” – Stephen King
“Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.” – Edgar Allan Poe
“Am I walking away from something I should be running away from?” – Shirley Jackson
“The basis of all human fears, he thought. A closed door, slightly ajar.” – Stephen King
“Mystery is my mistress. I must heed her sweet call.” – Velma (Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed)
“Halloween wraps fear in innocence, as though it were a slightly sour sweet. Let terror, then, be turned into a treat.” – Nicholas Gordon
