Some men sleep
with loose hands that by day are fists
holding fear
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.
The grave's a fine and private place,
But none, I think, do there embrace.
The grave unites; where e'en the great find rest,
And blended lie th' oppressor and th' oppressed!
They bore him barefac'd on the bier;
* * * * *
And in his grave rain'd many a tear.
Lay her i' the earth;
And from her fair and unpolluted flesh
May violets spring!
Our father's dust is left alone
And silent under other snows.
When I lived, I provided for every thing but death; now I must die, and am unprepared.
Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
Death rides on every passing breeze,
He lurks in every flower.
But thousands die without or this or that,
Die, and endow a college or a cat.
Soon the shroud shall lap thee fast,
And the sleep be on thee cast
That shall ne'er know waking.