Halloween Quotes

Hark! Hark to the wind! ‘Tis the night, they say,
When all souls come back from the far away-
The dead, forgotten this many a day!

– Virna Sheard

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

– Erma Bombeck

I can think of nothing on earth so beautiful as the final haul on Halloween night.

– Steve Almond

Acting is like a Halloween mask that you put on.

– River Phoenix

There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.

– Jean Baudrillard

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.

– Kim Elizabeth

Men say that in this midnight hour,
The disembodied have power
To wander as it liketh them,
By wizard oak and fairy stream.

– William Motherwell

You wouldn’t believe
On All Hallow Eve
What lots of fun we can make,
With apples to bob,
And nuts on the hob,
And a ring-and-thimble cake.

– Carolyn Wells

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