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There are three things I have learned never to discuss with people...religion, politics and the Great Pumpkin!
Sep 30, 2025
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.
Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.
I don't know that there are real ghosts and goblins, But there are always more trick-or-treaters than neighborhood kids.
When I was a kid, Halloween was strictly a starchy-vegetable-only holiday, with pumpkins and Indian corn on the front stoop; there was nothing electric, nothing inflatable, nothing with latex membranes or strobes.
On Halloween, witches come true; Wild ghosts escape from dreams. Each monster dances in the park.
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.
There is something haunting in the light of the moon; it has all the dispassionateness of a disembodied soul, and something of its inconceivable mystery.
Ghosts, like ladies, never speak till spoke to.
There is something haunting in the light of the moon.
Halloween is huge in my house and we really get into the "spirits" of things.
Halloween wraps fear in innocence, as though it were a lightly sour sweet. Let terror, then, be turned into a treat.
Bring forth the raisins and the nuts- Tonight All-Hallows' Spectre struts Along the moonlit way.
Pixie, kobold, elf, and sprite, All are on their rounds tonight; In the wan moon's silver ray, Thrives their helter-skelter play.
'Tis the night - the night Of the grave's delight.
Tis now the very witching time of night, when churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out Contagion to this world.
Shadows of a thousand years rise again unseen, Voices whisper in the trees, "Tonight is Halloween!"
I'll bet living in a nudist colony takes all the fun out of Halloween.
As spirits roam the neighborhoods at night, Let loose upon the Earth till it be light.
Where there is no imagination there is no horror.
Nothing on Earth is so beautiful as the final haul on Halloween night.
Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.
Charlie Brown is the one person I identify with. C.B. is such a loser. He wasn't even the star of his own Halloween special.
Never take candy from strangers.
This Halloween, the most popular mask is the Arnold Schwarzenegger mask. And the best part? With a mouth full of candy you will sound just like him.
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."
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.
Fear is nature's warning signal to get busy.
Look, there's no metaphysics on earth but chocolates.
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.
There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.
The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear.
A grandmother pretends she doesn't know who you are on Halloween.
I saw thousands of pumpkins last night come floating in on the tide, bumping up against the rocks and rolling up on the beaches; it must be Halloween in the sea
The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown
Being in a band you can wear whatever you want - it’s like an excuse for Halloween everyday.
Clothes make a statement. Costumes tell a story.
But I love Halloween, and I love that feeling: the cold air, the spooky dangers lurking around the corner.
Double, double, toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble!
I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.
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.
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