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.
I've grown certain that the root of all fear is that we've been forced to deny who we are.
In the real world, people die, and no self-promoting asshole in a fucking leotard can stop it.
Death is not the opposite of life; it exists as a part of them.
There are few things more liberating in this life than having your worst fear realized.
Oh, God! it is a fearful thing
To see the human soul take wing
In any shape, in any mood.
For dying is not to be feared—it is the final comfort. As we all learn, eventually.
So he passed over, and all the trumpets sounded for him on the other side.
The love of justice is simply in the majority of men the fear of suffering injustice.
What new thing then is it for a man to die, whose whole life is nothing else but a journey to death?
Any one may take life from man, but no one death; a thousand gates stand open to it.
The man who fears nothing is not less powerful than he who is feared by every one.