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.
Men drop so fast, ere life's mid stage we tread,
Few know so many friends alive, as dead.
His flight was madness: when our actions do not,
Our fears do make us traitors.
Down to the dust! — and, as thou rott'st away,
Even worms shall perish on thy poisonous clay.
When fear has seized upon the mind, man fears that only which he first began to fear.
O heart, and mind, and thoughts! what thing do you
Hope to inherit in the grave below?
What then remains but that we still should cry
Not to be born, or, being born, to die?
Early, bright, transient, chaste as morning dew,
She sparkled, was exhal'd and went to heaven.