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.
Preventive war is like committing suicide for fear of death.
The fears of one class of men are not the measure of the rights of another.
There’s nothing like a stupid, accidental death to remind you of the supreme futility of everything.
Wheresoever ye be, death will overtake you, although ye be in lofty towers.
A brave man is one who admits his fear. Only a fool believes himself invincible.
Fear and superstition always follow the unseen, the unknown, the whispered of.
Anxiety grew, the fear that always comes when an established pattern falters.
You know death must overtake you but you make no preparation for it.
To witness titanic events is always dangerous, usually painful, and often fatal.
When life is so burdensome death has become a sought after refuge.
Death is the looking-glass of life wherein
Each man may scan the aspect of his deeds.
It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying which is terrible.