„There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.”
– Jean Baudrillard
„Shadows of a thousand years rise again unseen, Voices whisper in the trees, Tonight is Halloween!”
– Dexter Kozen
„Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us.”
– Marianne Williamson
„Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth– more than ruin, more even than death.”
– Bertrand Russell
„This Halloween the most popular mask is the Arnold Schwarzenegger mask. And the best part? With a mouth full of candy you will sound just like him.”
– Conan O’Brien
„When I was a kid my family was really poor and I remember one Halloween I wanted to dress up really scary and my parents came home with a duck costume. I wore that costume for years! I hated it.”
– R.L. Stine
„Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other.”
– Sir Francis Bacon
„Proof of our society’s decline is that Halloween has become a broad daylight event for many.”
– Robert Kirby
„Nothing on Earth so beautiful as the final haul on Halloween night.”
– Steve Almond
„I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than be crowded on a velvet cushion.”
– Henry David Thoreau
„Witch and ghost make merry on this last of dear October’s days.”
– Anonymous
„There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.”
– George Carlin
„A grandmother pretends she doesn’t know who you are on Halloween.”
– Erma Bombeck
„Once in a young lifetime one should be allowed to have as much sweetness as one can possibly want and hold.”
– Judith Olney
„On Halloween, witches come true; Wild ghosts escape from dreams. Each monster dances in the park….”
– Nicholas Gordon
„Being born on Halloween, there’s always a party. It’s a convenient birthday because you don’t really have to organize a party.”
– Eddie Kaye Thomas
„If a man harbors any sort of fear, it makes him landlord to a ghost.”
– Lloyd Douglas
„Ghosts, like ladies, never speak till spoke to.”
– Richard Harris Barham
„Everyone is a moon and has a dark side, which he never shows to anybody.”
– Mark Twain
„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
„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
„Halloween wraps fear in innocence, As though it were a slightly sour sweet. Let terror, then, be turned into a treat…”
– Nicholas Gordon