Halloween Quotes and Sayings

Quotes and Sayings on Halloween

On Hallowe'en the thing
you must do
Is pretend that nothing
can frighten you
An' if somethin' scares you
and you want to run
Jus' let on like
it's Hallowe'en fun.
~~ from an Early Nineteenth Century Halloween Postcard

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One need not be a chamber to be haunted;
One need not be a house;
The brain has corridors surpassing
Material place.
~~ Emily Dickinson

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'Tis the night - the night
Of the grave's delight,
And the warlocks are at their play;
Ye think that without
The wild winds shout,
But no, it is they - it is they.
~~ Arthur Cleveland Coxe

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If a man harbors any sort of fear, it makes him landlord to a ghost.
~~ Lloyd Douglas

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

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Fear is nature's warning signal to get busy.
~~ Henry C. Link

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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

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Be wary then; best safety lies in fear. 
~~ Shakespeare "Hamlet"

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Double, double toil and trouble; fire burn and cauldron bubble.
~~ Shakespeare "Macbeth"

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Hark! Hark to the wind! 'Tis the night, they say,
When all souls come back from the far away- 
The dead, forgotten this many a day! 
~~ Virna Sheard

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From ghoulies and ghosties and long leggety beasties and things that go bump in the night, Good Lord, deliver us! 
~~ Scottish saying 

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Men say that in this midnight hour, 
The disembodièd have power 
To wander as it liketh them, 
By wizard oak and fairy stream. 
~~ William Motherwell

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At first cock-crow the ghosts must go
Back to their quiet graves below.
~~ Theodosia Garrison

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