75 Halloween Quotes For Frights and Delights This Spooky Season

Every year, people look forward to Halloween, one of the most celebrated holidays in the United States. The process of preparing to decorate with festive decor and dress up in creative costumes is enough to put anyone in the spirit. If you're lucky enough to attend a Halloween party, you're in for an even bigger treat. You might end up dancing with a werewolf, a vampire and a mummy all in one night! Halloween is typically one of the most fun days of the year, and it can be even more memorable at night when the spooky stuff really begins. Since it's such an iconic holiday, it's no wonder there are so many memorable Halloween quotes that perfectly sum up why people love Oct. 31.

We're typically introduced to Halloween as children, and though some grow out of the habit of dressing up in costume, others continue to participate rather than spectate, so make sure you've got a solid Halloween Instagram caption to commemorate the occasion. Even the simple act of handing out candy at your front door can bring a simple joy that makes joining in for this annual event a no-brainer. It's the time of year when anything goes, so get ready to make your friends howl (with laughter) with some hilarious ghost jokes or groan with some outrageously clever Halloween puns. The best part about Halloween is it's a season for all ages, regardless of how you choose to celebrate.

Those who enjoy Halloween often have charming quotes to share about the holiday. Whether they're musing on the creepy atmosphere, the delicious candies or the experience of trick-or-treating, we can all relate when it comes to this beloved holiday. These quotes remind us to cherish our fond memories of Halloween. And if that's not enough for you, we've also got some funny Halloween quotes that embrace the sillier side of spooky season.

Halloween Quotes

• "Every day is Halloween isn't it? For some of us." - Tim Burton

• "When we're together, darling; every night is Halloween." - The Addams Family

• "If human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween." -Douglas Coupland

• "We have had our summer evenings, now for October eves!" - Humbert Wolfe

• "Halloween is not only about putting on a costume, but it's about finding the imagination and costume within ourselves." - Elvis Duran

• "October is a brisk wind in the treetops, a whisper among crisp leaves, a breath of apple cider, a gleam from a jack-o-lantern, and the echo of laughter under a full moon." - Hal Borland

• "The farther we've gotten from the magic and mystery of our past, the more we've come to need Halloween." - Paula Guran

• "Halloween is a day in which some people choose to wear a mask... while others finally feel safe to take theirs off." - Steve Maraboli

• "Halloween is an overturning of the natural order, with a lineage in old traditions of reversing the roles, letting the poor become rulers, and bringing the rich low." - Katherine May
  

• "There's a little witch in all of us." - Alice Hoffman

• "Halloween is bigger than Christmas in America." - Rhys Darby

• What's the good of being a ghost if you can't frighten people away?" — Barbara, Beetlejuice

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

• "Being in a band, you can wear whatever you want — it's like an excuse for Halloween everyday." - Gwen Stefani

• "The scarier the merrier." - Patricia Morais
  
• "There's only 365 days left until next Halloween!" — Mayor, The Nightmare Before Christmas

• "I love Halloween, and I love that feeling: the cold air, the spooky dangers lurking around the corner." -Evan Peters

• "Yes, Halloween's arrived; there's no place to hide when ghosts and demons come alive." - John P. Read
  

• "You know, it's Halloween. I guess everyone's entitled to one good scare." - Brackett, Halloween (1978)

• "Tis now the very witching time of night, when churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out contagion to this world." — William Shakespeare, "Hamlet"

• "Clothes make a statement. Costumes tell a story." - Mason Cooley

• "Searchers after horror haunt strange, far places." - H.P. Lovecraft

• "Magic is really very simple, all you've got to do is want something and then let yourself have it." -Aggie Cromwell, Halloweentown

• "Werewolves howl. Phantoms prowl. Halloween's upon us now." - Richelle E. Goodrich

• "Life is scary. So why wouldn't we enjoy and make fun of that fear?" - Patricia Morais

• "Candle, spoon and carving knife: nearing the vigil of the dead, let's impose a little life upon a ripening, faceless head." - Robert B. Shaw

• "There is nothing that gives more assurance than a mask." - Colette
  

• "Ghosts and goblins come to play on October's final day!" - Rusty Fischer

• Halloween is the best holiday ever. Costumes? Sugar? The sick orange-and-black color scheme? What's not to like?" - Stephanie Kate Strohm

• "My only career goal is to be a Halloween icon." - Nuno Roque

• "Halloween is one of my favorite holidays. Christmas and the others can end up making you sad, because you know you should be happy. But on Halloween you get to become anything that you want to be." - Ava Dellaira

• "If you've got it, haunt it." - Rose Pressey

• "Halloween wraps fear in innocence, as though it were a slightly sour sweet. Let terror, then, be turned into a treat." - Nicholas Gordon

• "For some, Halloween isn't just a holiday; it's a lifestyle, a season." - E. Reyes

• "Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!" -Count Dracula, Dracula

• "Halloween is the only time people can become what they want to be without getting fired." - Sylvester Stallone

• "A person should always choose a costume which is in direct contrast to her own personality." - Lucy, It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown

• "The great thing about candy is that it can't be spoiled by the adult world. Candy is innocent. And all Halloween candy pales next to candy corn, if only because candy corn used to appear, like the Great Pumpkin, solely on Halloween." - Rosecrans Baldwin

• "I'm a really big fan of all things macabre in general; Halloween happens to be my favorite holiday." - Dove Cameron

• "Even the air feels different on Halloween, autumn-crisp and bright. You can wander out after dark, brushing shoulders with the walking dead of the zombie variety, but there are carved pumpkin lanterns to guide every lost soul home, just in case." - Erin Morgenstern

• "There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls." - George Carlin

• "When black cats prowl and pumpkins gleam, may luck be yours on Halloween." -Unknown

• "When witches go riding, and black cats are seen. / The moon laughs and whispers, 'tis near Halloween." - Unknown

• "The world turned upside down—in a good way—for one black velvet night." -Karen Fortunati

• "It was a lovely and exciting night, exactly the kind of night Halloween should be." - Eleanor Estes
  

• "There is a child in every one of us who is still a trick-or-treater looking for a brightly-lit front porch." - Robert Brault

• "I'd rather stay home than go out in an uninspired Halloween costume." - Heidi Klum

• "Halloween is the only day of the year when it's ok to ask 'what are you?'" - Mike Birbiglia

• "Halloween is one of my favorite days of the year. I have a strict rule: I don't work on Halloween and I won't travel on Halloween. Not for any reason." - Simon Sinek

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

• "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
• "Catching and holding the attention of an eight-year-old on Halloween is like trying to catch a hummingbird with a piece of dental floss. It's theoretically possible, but not very likely." - Abbi Waxman

• "I'm dressed up as what happens when young people vote." - Barack Obama

• "My favorite memories were never about candy or anything like that. When I got to be a teenager, my friends and I used to get together and do all kinds of crazy stuff on Halloween night. We had a ball starting trouble." - Tony Harrison

• "I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers." - L.M. Montgomery

• "You start to grow up when you understand that the stuff that scares you is part of the air you breathe." - Peter Straub

• "Halloween starts earlier and earlier, just like Christmas." - Robert Englund

• "I wasn't allowed to have sugar as a kid. We didn't have candy or soda or anything, so Easter and Halloween were my favorite times 'cause I could eat as much candy as I wanted." - Kaley Cuoco

• "In Germany, we do not have Halloween, which is a shame." - Bill Kaulitz

• "Nothing on earth is so beautiful as the final haul on Halloween night." -Steve Almond

• "'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." -Cleveland Coxe

• "It's all just a bunch of hocus pocus!" -Max, Hocus Pocus

• "Backward, turn backward, O Time, in your flight, Make me a child again just for to-night!" - Elizabeth Akers Allen

• "On Halloween, witches come true; wild ghosts escape from dreams. Each monster dances in the park." - Nick Gordon

• "There were masks of clowns and foxes, masks like skulls decorated with real teeth, and one with carved flames instead of hair." - Clive Barker

• "I think it's impossible for any actor not to love Halloween. It's the only real holiday where you get to dress up and change yourself, which is what actors love to do." - Nicholas Cage

• "The wind outside nested in each tree, prowled the sidewalks in invisible treads like unseen cats." - Ray Bradbury, "The Halloween Tree"
  

• "I put a spell on you because you're mine." - Jay Hawkins, "I Put a Spell on You"

   
• "No good deed will I do again." - Elphaba, "Wicked"

• "Goodbye, Ichabod Crane. I curse the day you came to Sleepy Hollow." - Katrina Von Tassel, Sleepy Hollow

• "It is impossible to say how first the idea entered my brain; but once conceived, it haunted me day and night." - Edgar Allan Poe, "The Tell-Tale Heart"

• "I dropped the candies into the children's bags, thinking: You small mortals don't realize the power of your stories." - Karen Russell

• "Halloween is an ancient druidic holiday, one the Celtic peoples have celebrated for millennia." - Jenny Colgan

• "Fear,' the doctor said, 'is the relinquishment of logic, the willing relinquishing of reasonable patterns. We yield to it or we fight it, but we cannot meet it halfway.'" - Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House
  

• "I don't know that there are haunted houses. I know that there are dark staircases and haunted people." - Robert Brault
  

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