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.
Desponding Fear, of feeble fancies full,
Weak and unmanly, loosens every power.
[Words he used to refuse heart surgery the day before he passed away.]
The sepulchre,
Wherein we saw thee quietly inurn'd,
Hath op'd his ponderous and marble jaws.
Graves they say are warm'd by glory;
Foolish words and empty story.
This is the field and Acre of our God,
This is the place where human harvests grow!
Kings have no such couch as thine,
As the green that folds thy grave.
When Life knocks at the door no one can wait,
When Death makes his arrest we have to go.