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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.

Random quote on Halloween

Most quoted on halloween:

I leave this rule for others when I'm dead
Be always sure you're right — THEN GO AHEAD!

Davy Crockett A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett (1834)

You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now.

Joan Baez Daybreak (1968)

I'm going to get that bloody bastard if I die in the attempt.

James Clavell King Rat (1962)

Thunder-spasms the waking be
Into Life from Apathy:
Life, not Death, is in the gale, —
Let the coming Doom prevail!

Bayard Taylor The Poet's Journal (1863)

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.

James Neil Hollingworth

Death is hard on your trail in this wilderness–
the end of you and all that you amass.
Suffering at the beginning, regret at the end,
and in the end your attachment trample you.

Sarmad Kashani Sarmad, Martyr to Love Divine, 1st Edition (2005)

Fear is inevitable, I have to accept that, but I cannot allow it to paralyze me.

Isabel Allende The Sum of Our Days: A Memoir (2007)

One time is much like another to death. She comes when she will. So why give over your mind to worry?

Raymond E. Feist Magician: Apprentice (1982)

The dead walk among us. Zombies, ghouls — no matter what their label — these somnambulists are the greatest threat to humanity, other than humanity itself.

Max Brooks The Zombie Survival Guide (2003)

I distrust all dead and mechanical formulas for expressing anything connected with human affairs and human personalities. Putting human affairs in exact formulas shows in itself a lack of the sense of humor and therefore a lack of wisdom.

Lin Yutang The Importance of Living (1937)

In every age a few individuals do find The Great Way. They do conquer death by regenerating and restoring their bodies to the Realm of Permanence.

Harold W. Percival Thinking and Destiny (1946)

Everybody dies. So much of growing up consists of coming to grips with this fact.

Michael Swanwick Bones of the Earth (2002)

Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we shall die.

Isaiah The Book of Isaiah (-500)

Love, Fear, and Esteem, — Write these on three stones.

Leonardo da Vinci The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883)

The temple of fame stands upon the grave: the flame that burns upon its altars is kindled from the ashes of dead men.

William Hazlitt Lectures on the English Poets (1818)

Death is better than a vegetating ignorant life; it is better to die on the battle-field than to live a life of defeat.

Swami Vivekananda

Fear not the tyrant; fear the tyrant's wake.

Tom Heehler The Well-Spoken Thesaurus (2011)

The love where Death has set his seal,
Nor age can chill, nor rival steal,
Nor falsehood disavow.

Lord Byron And Thou Art Dead as Young and Fair (1812)

When new technologies impose themselves on societies long habituated to older technologies, anxieties of all kinds result.

Marshall McLuhan

Creatures inveterately wrong in their inductions have a pathetic but praiseworthy tendency to die before reproducing their kind.

Willard van Orman Quine

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