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.
Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
The fear of some divine and supreme powers keeps men in obedience.
The greatest weakness of all weaknesses is to fear too much to appear weak.
But he lay like a warrior taking his rest,
With his martial cloak around him.
I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.
Death takes the mean man with the proud;
The fatal urn has room for all.
Fear is sharp-sighted, and can see things underground, and much more in the skies.
If being a kid is about learning how to live, then being a grown-up is about learning how to die.