But, oh! fell death's untimely frost,
That nipt my flower sae early.
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.
O fairest flower! no sooner blown but blasted,
Soft silken primrose fading timelessly.
Who now travels that dark path from whose bourne they say no one returns.
That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.
Death is the way to immortality. Love will begin when the world ends.
The gods conceal from those destined to live how sweet it is to die, that they may continue living.
The long sleep of death closes our scars, and the short sleep of life our wounds.