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.
Death is not the worst evil, but rather when we wish to die and cannot.
I know death hath ten thousand several doors
For men to take their exits.
I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life.
While there's life there’s hope, and only the dead have none.
They say in the grave there is peace, and peace and the grave are one and the same.
Yes, death, — the hourly possibility of it, — death is the sublimity of life.
Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.
Everyone dies—the rearrangement of when is a matter of only statistical interest.