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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.

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Most quoted on halloween:

Softly his fainting head he lay
Upon his Maker's breast;
His Maker kiss'd his soul away,
And laid his flesh to rest.

Isaac Watts

I saw the white of fear in America’s eyes. We don’t fear the way we should fear. Our sense of danger should be at the height of our abuse.

Giannina Braschi United States of Banana (2001)

Let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself—nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

This course can therefore be summed up very simply in this way: Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the peace of God.

Helen Schucman

To fear the worst oft cures the worse.

William Shakespeare Troilus and Cressida (1609)

True nobility is exempt from fear.

William Shakespeare Henry VI (1594)

Extreme fear can neither fight nor fly.

William Shakespeare The Rape of Lucrece (1594)

Fair seedtime had my soul, and I grew up
Fostered alike by beauty and by fear.

William Wordsworth

An aching tooth is better out than in,
To lose a rotten member is a gain.

Richard Baxter

Fear is an ague, that forsakes
And haunts, by fits, those whom it takes;
And they'll opine they feel the pain
And blows they felt, to-day, again.

Samuel Butler

Imagination frames events unknown,
In wild, fantastic shapes of hideous ruin,
And what it fears creates.

Hannah More

They are slaves who fear to speak
For the fallen and the weak;
They are slaves who will not choose
Hatred, scoffing, and abuse,
Rather than in silence shrink
From the truth they needs must think;
They are slaves who dare not be
In the right with two or three.

James Russell Lowell Stanzas on Freedom (1843)

You must bear your karma cheerfully, whatever it may be, taking it as an honor that Suffering comes to you, because it shows that the Lords of Karma think you worth helping. However hard it is, be thankful that it is no worse.

Jiddu Krishnamurti At the Feet of the Master (1911)

Good Hamlet, cast thy nighted color off,
And let thine eye look like a friend on Denmark.
Do not be forever with thy vailed lids
Seek for thy noble father in the dust:
Thou know'st tis common; all that lives must die,
Passing through nature to eternity.

William Shakespeare

Sunset and evening star,
And one clear call for me!
And may there be no moaning of the bar,
When I put out to sea.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson Crossing the Bar (1889)

Can storied urn, or animated bust
Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath?
Can Honour's voice provoke the silent dust,
Or Flatt'ry soothe the dull cold ear of Death?

Thomas Gray Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard (1750)

I fear freedom. I, above all, fear the freedom that is above all feardom.

Giannina Braschi United States of Banana (2011)

I am afraid to die sometimes, but God is the one to decide when a person dies. I want to live to the fullest until then.

Ahmad Shah Massoud

Let the dead bury the dead? But, the dead can bury no one.

Alan Charles Kors Socialism's Legacy (2011)

What argufies pride and ambition?
Soon or late death will take us in tow:
Each bullet has got its commission,
And when our time's come we must go.

Charles Dibdin

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