17 Spooky Halloween Quotes to Haunt Your Soul

Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can’t see where it keeps its brain. — J. K. Rowling

If ever there was a holiday that deserves to be commercialized, it’s Halloween. We haven’t taken it away from kids. We’ve just expanded it so that the kid in adults can enjoy it, too. — Cassandra Peterson

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily. — Napoleon Bonaparte

All the candy corn that was ever made was made in 1911. — Lewis Black

Since I was 15 years old I’ve never been able to spend Christmas, Halloween or Thanksgiving (with friends and family). This was the first time I was able to enjoy a Super Bowl. — Brendan Shanahan

One of the things that’s clear to me from interviews that I’ve read is that the more popular successful jazz musicians had audiences above and beyond the music community. — Branford Marsalis

People give you a hard time about being a kid at twelve. They didn’t want to give you Halloween candy anymore. They said things like, “If this were the Middle Ages, you’d be married and you’d own a farm with about a million chickens on it.” They were trying to kick you out of childhood. Once you were gone, there was no going back, so you had to hold on as long as you could. — Heather O’Neill

I was kind of a dark kid. I loved Halloween, and I loved vampires and the black and white old monster movies. — Joe Manganiello

I also have always liked the monster within idea. I like the zombies being us. Zombies are the blue-collar monsters. — George A. Romero

Double, double, toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble! — William Shakespeare

At the end of the first Halloween, when I shot 6 bullets into Michael Myers, John Carpenter said, Let’s get a shot of you looking out of the window and seeing no one lying there. — Donald Pleasence

There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls. — George Carlin

Look, there’s no metaphysics on earth but chocolates. — Fernando Pessoa

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

I couldn’t get away with Halloween pranks ’cause my parents owned the health food store. So, it was so easy to bust me. I was the only kid on the block egging houses with those big ‘ole brown eggs. Like, you didn’t have to be a detective to figure it out. ‘Oh, I wonder who Tofuttied my mailbox. Is it the same evil genius who filled my bird bath with Rice Dream? — Arj Barker

The Jawbreaker writer-director Darren Stein was a huge fan of Carrie and Halloween. He was like a kid. He was 26, so he was such a fan. He wanted William Katt and I, from Carrie, to be in the movie as the parents. We had a little bit more that ended up on the cutting-room floor, but that was kind of fun. Everybody that worked on that movie was really cool, including the girls, especially the new girl, the blonde, Judy Greer. — P. J. Soles

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

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