Halloween Quotes
Halloween has almost nothing of its own on Wikiquote, so the page is built from fear and death. The one entry filed against the holiday is from Jeffrey Ford’s The Empire of Ice Cream (2006): the narrator says Halloween was close and was the favourite holiday because it lacked the holiness of Christmas.
What you get otherwise is Shakespeare on fear and Bertrand Russell on what it does to people, with comedians in between. It will not be seasonal in tone. If you want scary, search for it. If you want something that works as a caption, start here and check the flags.
Teach him how to live,
And, oh still harder lesson! how to die.
Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings.
One night is awaiting us all, and the way of death must be trodden once.
This I ask, is it not madness to kill thyself in order to escape death?
Man should ever look to his last day, and no one should be called happy before his funeral.
It is an extreme evil to depart from the company of the living before you die.
It is uncertain in what place death may await thee; therefore expect it in any place.
Sometimes death is a punishment; often a gift; it has been a favor to many.