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Famous Quotes and Sayings About Halloween

Halloween only rolls around once each year. As soon as the month October arrives, it’s time to break out the pumpkin spice everything and lean into spooky, Halloween movies, funny, Halloween costumes,Halloween-ready movies and books.

What is Halloween? The meaning and history behind 31st October

Halloween is a special festival celebrated in Western countries. Its hangover has started climbing many countries. Celebrated on 31 October every year, the people of this festival are preparing for the world. In many countries including America, Britain, Japan, Mexico, people become ‘ghosts’ with a variety of make-up and dress.

Halloween Day is celebrated for the peace of the ancestors’ souls. This festival is especially celebrated in America, England and European countries. Now slowly it is being celebrated in India too. This is a day for the kids to pick up neighbors and chocolates! Halloween Day is also called All Hallows Evening, All Halloween, All Holos Eve and All Saints Eve. This day is the last day of the Celtic calendar. Hence it is celebrated among the Celtic people as the beginning of the new year.

Actually Halloween began long ago. During the harvest season, farmers believed that evil spirits could harm their crops by coming to the earth. So they used to take frightful form to scare them away. But in the modern era, it has become a fun and a good way to have a holiday. Gradually, its popularity is also increasing significantly.

On this day people wear scary clothes and go to people’s homes and take candy. Whom trick or treat. According to Irish folklore, it is customary to make Jack o-Lantern on Halloween. People place candles inside the hollow pumpkin by making eyes, nose and mouth. It is then deposited and buried. In many places people party on Halloween Day and play a variety of games. The most played game on this day is dunking or apple bobbing which is called dunking in Scotland. In it, apples float in a tub or large basin of water and then participants have to remove it from their teeth.

It may be you have Halloween quotes or Halloween sayings memorized, but you also might be struggling for a spooky greeting or searching for a cute Halloween quote to use as a caption on your seasonal social media post.

Halloween Quotes

“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, Halloween: A Romaunt

“I was born on the night of Samhain, when the barrier between the worlds is whisper-thin and when magic, old magic, sings its heady and sweet song to anyone who cares to hear it.”
― Carolyn MacCullough, Once a Witch

“It’s Halloween, everyone’s entitled to one good scare.” – Brackett, Halloween (1978)

“Oh look, another glorious morning. Makes me sick!” – Winifred Sanderson, Hocus Pocus (1993)

“I would like, if I may, to take you on a strange journey.” – The Criminologist, The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)

“I’ve seen enough horror movies to know that any weirdo wearing a mask is never friendly.” – Elizabeth, Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives (1986)

“I’m a homicidal maniac, they look just like everyone else.” – Wednesday, The Addams Family (1991)

“We came, we saw, we kicked its ass.” – Dr. Peter Venkman, Ghostbusters (1984)

“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.
Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn, and caldron bubble.”
― William Shakespeare

“October proved a riot a riot to the senses and climaxed those giddy last weeks before Halloween.”
― Keith Donohue

“Real life… Witches: Wiccan practitioners. Werewolves: rare strain of rabies. Zombies: Prions/Plague. Vampires: Hemophilia/Porphyria”
― Solange nicole

“Do you believe in destiny? That even the powers of time can be altered for a single purpose? That the luckiest man who walks on this earth is the one who finds … true love?”
– Dracula (1992)

“It isn’t always true that a critical end justifies desperate means.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, The Tarishe Curse

“But I love Halloween, and I love that feeling: the cold air, the spooky dangers lurking around the corner”. – Evan Peters

“Alone. Yes, that’s the key word, the most awful word in the English tongue. Murder doesn’t hold a candle to it and hell is only a poor synonym.” ― Stephen King

“Halloween was confusing. All my life my parents said, “Never take candy from strangers.” And then they dressed me up and said, “Go beg for it.” I didn’t know what to do! I’d knock on people’s doors and go, “Trick or treat.” “No thank you.” – Rita Rudner

“Halloween is huge in my house and we really get into the “spirits” of things.” – Dee Snider

“Halloween was the best holiday, in my opinion, because it was all about friends, monsters, and candy, rather than family and responsibility.” – Margee Kerr

“The farther we’ve gotten from the magic and mystery of our past, the more we’ve come to need Halloween.” – Paula Curan

“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

“A grandmother pretends she doesn’t know who you are on Halloween.” – Erma Bombeck

“My neighborhood turned into a ghost town on Halloween.” – K. Charich

“Ghosts, like ladies, never speak till spoke to.” – Richard Harris Barham

“Probably the scariest thing about cemeteries is that music they play in your head when you drive by one.” – Demetri Martin

“If human beings had genuine courage, they’d wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween.” – Douglas Coupland

Halloween Messages

“Wishing you a very Happy Halloween to remember forever and ever…. Just beware of people around you as they can be very witchy today.”

“Put in all your heart and soul into dress for the most fun day of the year and to scare the hell out of everyone…. Happy Halloween to you.”

“Be safe and lots of fun because this is one day for which we all wait all year long…. Wishing you a fun and Happy Halloween.”

“Wishing you a very Happy Halloween…. I really wish that your days don’t suck like the vampires suck the blood…. May you have a Halloween to remember!!!”

“The most perfect way to have a Halloween is by scaring everyone around you so that they never forget you…. Warm wishes on Halloween to you my dear.”

“It is just fine whether you want to be a devil or an angel…. It is just okay whether you want to trick or treat because it is the fun time of the year… Happy Halloween.”

“I was told by someone that on this Halloween you are going to dress in a witch costume but you can fool everyone and not me as I know that you are already wearing one…. Just joking… Please don’t cast your spell on me…. Wishing you a very Happy Halloween my dear.”

“No matter how old you get but you are never enough old to dress up for Halloween…. Your magic to scare us all is never going to fade but is going to get better and spookier…. Please pardon me for my bad joke. Happy Halloween to you!!!!”

Happy Halloween, enjoy our Halloween quotes and saying. Don’t forget to comment your favorite quotes on Halloween in the comment bellow.

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