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.
I dread to think of a society devoid of love, compassion and humanity.
He thought it happier to be dead,
To die for Beauty, than live for bread.
It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable.
Be a hero. Always say, “I have no fear.” Tell this to everyone—“Have no fear.”
Perhaps the early grave
Which men weep over may be meant to save.
Death is the universal salt of states;
Blood is the base of all things — law and war.