No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
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 must be an evil — and the gods agree;
for why else would they live for ever?
The person you are the most afraid to contradict is yourself.
It is only the fear of God that can deliver us from the fear of man.
Depend on me; never fear your enemies. I'll warrant we make more noise than they.
From the very jaws of death I have escaped to this condition.
He whom the gods love dies young, whilst he is full of health, perception, and judgment.