Spooky Halloween Quotes

Here are some spooky scary Halloween quotes, use them whichever way you feel you should!

"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

"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

"For as children tremble and fear everything in the blind darkness, so we in the light
sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things children in the dark hold in
terror and imagine will come true."
- Titus Lucretius Carus [99-55 B.C.], De Rerum Natura, bk.III, l. 87

"You wouldn't believe
On All Hallow Eve
What lots of fun we can make,
With apples to bob,
And nuts on the hob,
And a ring-and-thimble cake."
- Carolyn Wells

"There is something haunting in the light of the moon; it has all the dis-passionateness of a disembodied soul, and something of its inconceivable mystery."
- Joseph Conrad

"There is a sacred HORROR about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills;
but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a
masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling."
 - Victor Hugo

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

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

"Those seemingly interminable dark walks between houses, long before street-lit safety became an issue, were more adrenalizing than the mountains of candy filling the sack. Sadly Halloween, with our good-natured attempts to protect the little ones, from the increasingly dangerous traffic and increasingly sick adults, has become an utter bore."
- Lauren Springer

"When witches go riding,
and black cats are seen,
the moon laughs and whispers,
‘tis near Halloween."
- Anonymous

"Tis now the very witching time of night,
When churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out
Contagion to this world."
- William Shakespeare

"Bring forth the raisins and the nuts-
Tonight All-Hallows' Spectre struts
Along the moonlit way."
- John Kendrick Bangs

"Pixie, kobold, elf, and sprite,
All are on their rounds tonight;
In the wan moon's silver ray,
Thrives their helter-skelter play."
- Joel Benton

The witches fly Across the sky, The owls go, "Who" Who" Who"" The black cats yowl And green ghosts howl, "Scary Halloween to you!"
- Anonymous