Halloween Quotes, Sayings

Enjoy some Halloween quotes and sayings this Halloween 2009!

On Hallowe’en the thing you must do
Is pretend that nothing can frighten you
An’ if somethin’ scares you and you want to run
Jus’ let on like it’s Hallowe’en fun.
– – – from an Early Nineteenth Century Halloween Postcard

One need not be a chamber to be haunted;
One need not be a house;
The brain has corridors surpassing
Material place.
– – – Emily Dickinson

‘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.
– – – Arthur Cleveland Coxe

If a man harbors any sort of fear, it makes him landlord to a ghost.
– – – Lloyd Douglas

Shadows of a thousand years rise again unseen,
Voices whisper in the trees, “Tonight is Halloween!”
– – – Dexter Kozen

Fear is nature’s warning signal to get busy.
– – – Henry C. Link

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

Be wary then; best safety lies in fear.
– – – Shakespeare “Hamlet”

Double, double toil and trouble; fire burn and cauldron bubble.
– – – Shakespeare “Macbeth”

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

From ghoulies and ghosties and long leggety beasties and things that go bump in the night, Good Lord, deliver us!
– – – Scottish saying

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

At first cock-crow the ghosts must go
Back to their quiet graves below.
– – -Theodosia Garrison