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31 Halloween Quotes That Aren’t Too Spooky

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With Halloween right around the corner, we wanted to get in a spooktacular mood. There are many ways to go about it! You can carve pumpkins with your family, decorate your home and garden with creep decorations, watch horror movies, and for us, it’s to revisit some of our favorite scary books. Deep in a story, we can get lost in the horror and mystery, and uneasiness of it all. We pulled some of our favorite Halloween quotes from literature that are a bit chilling but not so much so that they would make your children fearful. Just enough spooky to get the job done!

From Mary Shelley to Ray Bradbury to William Shakespeare and more, we have found some thrilling Halloween quotes from some of the world’s most beloved and respected voices. Not all of them are from books, we even have one from George Carlin. So, if you’re looking for some quotes to share with your kids or to even caption a social media post with, you’ve come to the right place! Discover some very fun Halloween quotes below!

Ray Bradbury

31 Halloween Quotes That Aren't Too Spooky | Revel in all of the wonderfulness that is Halloween with these charming quotes.

“Anyone could see that the wind was a special wind this night, and the darkness took on a special feel because it was All Hallows’ Eve.”

William Shakespeare

“Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.”

Shirley Jackson

 “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.’” 

Edgar Allan Poe

“Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.” 

Arthur Conan Doyle

“Where there is no imagination there is no horror.” 

Karen Fortunati

“The world turned upside down—in a good way—for one black velvet night.”

Mason Cooley

“Clothes make a statement. Costumes tell a story.” 

Stephen King

“We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.”

Ray Bradbury

 “Everything seemed cut from soft black velvet or gold or orange velvet. Smoke panted up out of a thousand chimneys like the plumes of funeral parades. From kitchen windows drifted two pumpkin smells: gourds being cut, pies being baked.” 

Judy Gold

“Halloween is an opportunity to be really creative.”

Carolyn MacCullough

“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.” 

Bram Stoker

“Listen to them—the children of the night. What music they make!”

Rusty Fischer

“Sticky fingers, tired feet; one last house, trick or treat!” 

Unknown

“When the witches go riding, and black cats are seen, the moon laughs and whispers ’tis near Halloween.” 

Ava Dellaria

“On Halloween, you get to become anything that you want to be.” 

 L.M. Montgomery

“I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.”

Rusty Fischer

“Shadows mutter, mist replies; darkness purrs as midnight sighs.”

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George Carlin

“There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.”

Robert Brault

“There is a child in every one of us who is still a trick-or-treater looking for a brightly-lit front porch.” 

Dexter Kozen

“Shadows of a thousand years rise again unseen. Voices whisper in the trees, ‘Tonight is Halloween!'” 

Edgar Allen Poe

 “Deep into the darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing/Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.” 

Steve Almond

“Nothing on Earth so beautiful as the final haul on Halloween night.”

Paula Guran

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

Oscar Wilde

“A mask tells us more than a face.” 

Richelle E. Goodrich

“Werewolves howl. Phantoms prowl. Halloween’s upon us now.”

Nicholas Gordon

“Halloween wraps fear in innocence, as though it were a slightly sour sweet. Let terror, then, be turned into a treat… ”

Midgard Morningstar

“The moon has awoken with the sleep of the sun, the light has been broken; the spell has begun.” 

Douglas Copeland

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

Unknown

“There is magic in the night when pumpkins glow by moonlight.”

Elvis Duran

“Halloween is not only about putting on a costume, but it’s about finding the imagination and costume within ourselves.”

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William Shakespeare

“By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes.” 

Wow! Aren’t these Halloween quotes just stunning? We hope you enjoyed them and that you will share them with your friends and family. Halloween is such a remarkable time of the year and if you’re still in the mood for a little spookiness, keep reading. We’ve got some really fun Halloween jokes for kids to share with you!

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Now, you know a ton of great Halloween jokes for kids! Share the joy and tell these jokes to as many kids as you can find. Halloween is such a fun holiday that often finds more laughs than screams! If you liked these Halloween jokes for kids, keep reading. We’ve got some fall jokes to share with you as well!

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