Halloween Quotes - Page 2

• A grandmother pretends she doesn't know who you are on Halloween.

  Erma Bombeck

  Relationship, Fun, Grandma

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• I have a night off on Halloween. It's Halloween for me every night. Let everybody else be Ozzy for the night. People go out dressed as me.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Night, People, Every Night

  Source: www.nola.com

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• And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor, Shall be lifted -- Nevermore!

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Lying, Ravens, Soul

  "The Raven" l. 107 (1845)

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• The spirit-world around this world of sense
  Floats like an atmosphere, and everywhere
  Wafts through these earthly mists and vapours dense
  A vital breath of more ethereal air.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Kids, Air, Atmosphere

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1859). “The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: A New Complete Edition, Including Miles Standish and Other Poems”, p.628

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• Clothes make a statement. Costumes tell a story.

  Mason Cooley

  Inspirational, Autumn, Clothes

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• I like Halloween. It gives you a chance to dress up like something you're not, you know? Like when the Miami Dolphins put on football uniforms.

  David Letterman

  Football, Miami Dolphins, Giving

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• On Halloween, witches come true; Wild ghosts escape from dreams. Each monster dances in the park.

  Nick Gordon

  Happy, Dream, Parks

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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

  House, Brain, Mind

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

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• Halloween was confusing. All my life my parents said, "Never take candy from strangers." And then they dressed me up and said, "Go beg for it." I didn't know what to do. I'd knock on people's doors and go, "Trick or treat."

  Rita Rudner

  Doors, People, Parent

  "Jokes over easy: 1,386 delicious jokes from the best comedians" by Judy Brown, Barnes & Noble, (p. 112), 2006.

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• I'll bet living in a nudist colony takes all the fun out of Halloween.

  Charles S. Swartz

  Fun, Scary, Nudists

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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, Fall, Autumn

  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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• An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.

  Charles Dickens

  Creativity, Ideas, Littles

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• Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires.

  William Shakespeare

  Stars, Dark, Fire

  William Shakespeare, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1817). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Dr. Johnson, G. Steevens, and Others”, p.279

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• The werewolf is neither man nor wolf, but a satanic creature with the worst qualities of both.

  Warner Oland

  Men, Quality, Satanic

  "Fictional character: Dr. Yogami". "Werewolf of London", www.imdb.com. 1935.

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• All the candy corn that was ever made was made in 1911.

  Lewis Black

  Funny, Corn On The Cob, Candy Corn

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• Remember when we used to worry about some weirdo having a razor blade inside an apple on Halloween? Not anymore. Like a kid today would eat an apple.

  Jay Leno

  Kids, Apples, Worry

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• I can see lights in the distance trembling in the dark cloak of night Candles and lanterns are dancing, dancing a waltz on All Souls Night.

  Loreena McKennitt

  Distance, Dark, Night

  Song: All Souls Night

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• I saw thousands of pumpkins last night come floating in on the tide, bumping up against the rocks and rolling up on the beaches; it must be Halloween in the sea

  Richard Brautigan

  Beach, Night, Rocks

  Richard Brautigan (1989). “Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America ; The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster ; And, In Watermelon Sugar”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Fear, Eye, Funny Halloween

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

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• As spirits roam the neighborhoods at night, Let loose upon the Earth till it be light.

  Nick Gordon

  Night, Light, Creepy

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• There is something haunting in the light of the moon; it has all the dispassionateness of a disembodied soul, and something of its inconceivable mystery.

  Joseph Conrad

  Moon, Night, Light

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

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• One need not be a chamber to be haunted.

  Emily Dickinson

  Inspirational, Life, Eerie

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

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• Sit by my side, and let the world slip: we shall ne'er be younger.

  William Shakespeare

  World, Sides, Taming Of The Shrew

  William Shakespeare (2012). “Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.3289, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Nothing beats a haunted moonlit night on All Hallows Eve.... And on this fatal night, at this witching time, the starless sky laments black and unmoving. The somber hues of an ominous, dark forest are suddenly illuminated under the emerging face of the full moon.

  Elizabeth Kim

  Dark, Moon, Night

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

  Dee Snider

  Scary, House, Spirit

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