If you wish to fear nothing, consider that everything is to be feared.
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.
We must expect everything and fear everything from time and from men.
Death slue not him, but he made death his ladder to the skies.
You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
And though mine arm should conquer twenty worlds,
There ’s a lean fellow beats all conquerors.
A heap of dust remains of thee;
'Tis all thou art, and all the proud shall be!
Death takes the mean man with the proud;
The fatal urn has room for all.
Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep,
And yet a third of life is pass'd in sleep.
Our souls are prisoners of the terror of death, and the day is beautiful.