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.
As soon as man, expert from time, has found
The key of life, it opes the gates of death.
As the heaven is high above the earth, so great is his mercy toward them that fear him.
Fear, ladies and gentlemen, is the only true comedian in town.
Thou tremblest; and the whiteness in thy cheek
Is apter than thy tongue to tell thy errand.
I have a faint cold fear thrills through my veins,
That almost freezes up the heat of life.
No man can have a peaceful life who thinks too much about lengthening it.
When the truth cannot be clearly made out, what is false is increased through fear.
GRAVE, n. A place in which the dead are laid to await the coming of the medical student.