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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.

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Most quoted on halloween:

None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

Ferdinand Foch Misattributed association with Foch in Encarta Book of Quotations (2000)

Death is a friend of ours; and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home.

Francis Bacon Disputed

You are uneasy; you never sailed with me before, I see.

Andrew Jackson Attributed

The tall, the wise, the reverend head
Must lie as low as ours.

Isaac Watts Attributed Hymns and Spiritual Songs (1773)

There is a courageous wisdom; there is also a false, reptile prudence, the result not of caution but of fear.

Edmund Burke Attributed as unverified in Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations (1989)

Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God!

Patrick Henry Disputed

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Michel de Montaigne Attributed

When I can read my title clear
To mansions in the skies,
I'll bid farewell to every fear,
And wipe my weeping eyes.

Isaac Watts Attributed Hymns and Spiritual Songs (1773)

I am going to seek a great perhaps; draw the curtain, the farce is played.

François Rabelais Attributed

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death I shall fear no evil, because I am the meanest son-of-a-bitch in the valley.

George S. Patton Misattributed

Worry is interest paid on trouble before it falls due.

William Ralph Inge Misattributed to Inge in The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations (1993)

Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.

Thomas Hobbes Attributed

Hark! from the tombs a doleful sound.

Isaac Watts Attributed Hymns and Spiritual Songs (1773)

Soon, for me, the light of day
Shall for ever, pass away;
Then, from sin and sorrow, free,
Take me, Lord, to dwell with Thee.

William Croswell Doane Misattributed

When you have overcome one temptation, you must be ready to enter the lists with another. As distrust, in some sense, is the mother of safety, so security is the gate of danger. A man had need to fear this most of all, that he fears not at all.

Thomas Brooks Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)

Of no distemper, of no blast he died,
But fell like autumn fruit that mellow’d long;
Even wonder’d at, because he dropt no sooner.
Fate seem’d to wind him up for fourscore years;
Yet freshly ran he on ten winters more:
Till like a clock worn out with eating time,
The wheels of weary life at last stood still.

John Dryden Disputed Poetical Quotations from Chaucer to Tennyson (1880)

Almost all men are over-anxious. No sooner do they enter the world than they lose that taste for natural and simple pleasures so remarkable in early life. Every hour do they ask themselves what progress they have made in the pursuit of wealth or honor; and on they go as their fathers went before them, till, weary and sick at heart, they look back with a sigh of regret to the golden time of their childhood.

Samuel Rogers Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)

Build me a shrine, and I could kneel
To rural Gods, or prostrate fall;
Did I not see, did I not feel,
That one Great Spirit governs all.
O heaven, permit that I may lie
Where o’er my corse green branches wave;
And those who from life’s tumults fly
With kindred feelings press my grave.

Robert Bloomfield Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)

If you're not ready to die for it, take the word "freedom" out of your vocabulary.

Malcolm X Attributed

When poets speak of death, they call it the place "without breasts."

Ramón Gómez de la Serna Attributed

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