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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:

Wherever you look there is nothing but the image of death.

Ovid

It is folly to die of the fear of death.

Seneca the Younger

To die without fear of death is to be desired.

Seneca the Younger

An honorable death is better than a dishonorable life.

Tacitus

O friend, never strike sail to a fear! Come into port greatly, or sail with God the seas.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every one wishes that the man whom he fears would perish.

Ovid

The man who is roused neither by glory nor by danger it is in vain to exhort; terror closes the ears of the mind.

Sallust

The knell, the shroud, the mattock, and the grave,
The deep damp vault, the darkness and the worm.

Edward Young Night-Thoughts (1742)

Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it: He that fears otherwise, gives advantage to the danger.

Francis Quarles Enchiridion (1640)

Like the dew on the mountain,
Like the foam on the river,
Like the bubble on the fountain,
Thou art gone, and forever!

Walter Scott The Lady of the Lake (1810)

Scared out of his seven senses.

Walter Scott Rob Roy (1817)

Fear is the opposite of faith.

Boyd K. Packer

And feels a thousand deaths in fearing one.

Edward Young Night-Thoughts (1742)

Is Death important? No. Everything that happens before Death is what counts.

Ray Bradbury Something Wicked This Way Comes (1962)

As life runs on, the road grows strange
With faces new, and near the end
The milestones into headstones change,
'Neath every one a friend.

James Russell Lowell Heartsease and Rue (1888)

Death cannot come
To him untimely who is fit to die;
The less of this cold world, the more of heaven;
The briefer life, the earlier immortality.

Henry Hart Milman

He that always waits upon God is ready whenever He calls. Neglect not to set your accounts even; he is a happy man who to lives as that death at all times may find him at leisure to die.

Owen Feltham Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

The grave is a very small hillock, but we can see farther from it, when standing on it, than from the highest mountain in all the world.

Friedrich Tholuck

Life and death merge in greatness.

Dejan Stojanovic The Shape (2000)

Halloween was close, our favorite holiday because it carried none of the pain-in-the-ass holiness of Christmas and still there was free candy.

Jeffrey Ford The Empire of Ice Cream (2006)

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