Halloween And Friends Quotes

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

  Emily Dickinson

  Halloween, House, Brain

  c.1863 Complete Poems, no.670 (first published 1891).

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• ... 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.

  Lucretius

  Children, Halloween, Dark

  Titus Lucretius Carus, William Henry Denham Rouse, Martin Ferguson Smith (1975). “De rerum natura”, Harvard University Press ; London : Heinemann

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

  Dexter Kozen

  Halloween, Years, Voice

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• I see my face in the mirror and go, 'I'm a Halloween costume? That's what they think of me?'

  Drew Carey

  Halloween, Thinking, Mirrors

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• I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Lonely, Halloween, Fall

  Henry David Thoreau, Laura Ross (2009). “Walden, Or, Life in the Woods: Bold-faced Ideas for Living a Truly Transcendent Life”, p.50, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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• Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Fake People, Halloween

  Following the Equator ch. 66, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar" (1897)

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• Eye of newt, and toe of frog, Wool of bat, and tongue of dog, Adder's fork, and blind-worm's sting, Lizard's leg, and owlet's wing, For a charm of powerful trouble, Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.

  William Shakespeare

  Dog, Powerful, Halloween

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 4, sc. 1, l. 14

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• Bring forth the raisins and the nuts-
  Tonight All-Hallows' Spectre struts
  Along the moonlit way.

  John Kendrick Bangs

  Halloween, Nuts, Way

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• Halloween is huge in my house and we really get into the "spirits" of things.

  Dee Snider

  Halloween, Scary, House

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• There is something haunting in the light of the moon.

  Joseph Conrad

  Halloween, Moon, Light

  Joseph Conrad (1905). “Lord Jim”, p.230, McClure, Phillips & Company

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• Fear is nature's warning signal to get busy.

  Henry C. Link

  Fear, Halloween, Warning

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• Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.

  Francis Bacon

  Death, Fear, Children

  Essays "Of Death" (1625)

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• When I was a kid, Halloween was strictly a starchy-vegetable-only holiday, with pumpkins and Indian corn on the front stoop; there was nothing electric, nothing inflatable, nothing with latex membranes or strobes.

  Susan Orlean

  Halloween, Holiday, Kids

  "Haunted" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. October 27, 2010.

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• A house is never still in darkness to those who listen intently; there is a whispering in distant chambers, an unearthly hand presses the snib of the window, the latch rises. Ghosts were created when the first man awoke in the night.

  James M. Barrie

  Sarcastic, Halloween, Night

  James M. Barrie (2013). “The Little Minister (Illustrated Edition)”, p.201, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Even the air feels different on Halloween, autumn-crisp and bright.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Halloween, Autumn, Air

  "Magic Moments in Life" by Erin Morgenstern, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 19, 2012.

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• Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Fear, Halloween, Eye

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (2006). “Don Quixote”, p.152, Collector's Library

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• I dressed up as a veterinarian for a Halloween costume party. I had the lab coat. I got a couple of stuffed animals for patients and put bandages on them.

  Tracy Chapman

  Couple, Halloween, Party

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• 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

  Halloween, Greatness, Mountain

  Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.6986, Delphi Classics

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• It’s said that All Hallows’ Eve is one of the nights when the veil between the worlds is thin - and whether you believe in such things or not, those roaming spirits probably believe in you, or at least acknowledge your existence, considering that it used to be their own. Even the air feels different on Halloween, autumn-crisp and bright.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Halloween, Believe, Autumn

  "Magic Moments in Life" by Erin Morgenstern, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 19, 2012.

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• Ghosts were created when the first man awoke in the night.

  James M. Barrie

  Halloween, Night, Men

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• One need not be a chamber to be haunted.

  Emily Dickinson

  Inspirational, Life, Halloween

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Poems by Emily Dickinson”, p.145, Library of Alexandria

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• Ghosts, like ladies, never speak till spoke to.

  Richard Harris Barham

  Funny, Halloween, Ghost

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• 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

  Halloween, Moon, Play

  Joel Benton, “Halloween”

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• Charlie Brown is the one person I identify with. C.B. is such a loser. He wasn't even the star of his own Halloween special.

  Chris Rock

  Funny, Stars, Halloween

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• Acting is like a Halloween mask that you put on.

  River Phoenix

  Halloween, Acting, Haunting

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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