This day, which thou fearest as thy last, is the birthday of eternity.
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 am frightened at seeing all the footprints directed towards thy den, and none returning.
Apprehensions are greater in proportion as things are unknown.
The wounded limb shrinks from the slightest touch; and a slight shadow alarms the nervous.
All that tread,
The globe are but a handful to the tribes
That slumber in its bosom.
Hushed in the alabaster arms of Death
Our young Marcellus sleeps.
If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath.