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.
Fond fool! six feet shall serve for all thy store,
And he that cares for most shall find no more.
Fear Death? – to feel the fog in my throat,
The mist in my face.
Round, round the cypress bier
Where she lies sleeping,
On every turf a tear,
Let us go weeping!
Wail!
O Death, all eloquent! you only prove
What dust we dote on, when 'tis man we love.
But O! for the touch of a vanish'd hand,
And the sound of a voice that is still!
Nigh to a grave that was newly made,
Leaned a sexton old on his earth-worn spade.