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, sir! the good die first,
And they whose hearts are dry as summer dust
Burn to the socket.
Now he'll outstare the lightning. To be furious
Is to be frightened out of fear.
I know that oft we tremble at an empty terror, but the false phantasm brings a real misery.
I have often thought upon death, and I find it the least of all evils.
Trust to a plank, draw precarious breath,
At most seven inches from the jaws of death.
For death betimes is comfort, not dismay,
And who can rightly die needs no delay.