Halloween comes only once a year but is celebrated for an entire month. It's time to break out the pumpkin spice and begin to binge watch the spooky movies, buy candies, decorate your front yard, dress in Halloween costumes, and listen to the monster music and terrific sound effects. From myths to modern ghost tales, from books to movies, there are countless ways to celebrate the scariest most fun time of year. We've rounded up some of the best quotes and saying to get you ready for a trick-or-treat night.
Halloween comes only once a year but is celebrated for an entire month. It's time to break out the pumpkin spice and begin to binge watch the spooky movies, buy candies, decorate your front yard, dress in Halloween costumes, and listen to the monster music and terrific sound effects. From myths to modern ghost tales, from books to movies, there are countless ways to celebrate the scariest most fun time of year. We've rounded up some of the best quotes and saying to get you ready for a trick-or-treat night.
"I don't suppose you have to believe in ghosts to know that we are all haunted, all of us, by things we can see and feel and guess at, and many more things that we can't." - Beth Gutcheon.
"Maybe ever'body in the whole damn world is scared of each other." - John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men
"Men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire."– Dan Brown
"Is it useful to feel fear, because it prepares you for nasty events, or is it useless because nasty events will occur whether you are frightened or not?" – Lemony Snicket
"Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide." - Ben Okri
"Oh, monsters are scared," said Lettie. "That's why they're monsters." - Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane
"Scary with you is better than scary without you." - Tamora Pierce, Emperor Mage
"It's okay to be crazy and scared and brave at the same time!" - Kelly Epperson
"Many times, the thought of fear itself is greater than what it is we fear." – Idowu Koyenikan
"Ignorance is the parent of fear." — Herman Melville
"Fear: False Evidence Appearing Real." — Unknown
"I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today." — William Allen White
"Magic is not a practice. It is a living, breathing web of energy that, with our permission, can encase our every action." - Dorothy Morrison
"Where no hope is left, is left no fear." — Milton
"Laughter is poison to fear." — George R.R. Martin
"Fear is only as deep as the mind allows." — Japanese Proverb
"Now I know what a ghost is. Unfinished business, that's what." - Salman Rushdie
"The ghosts of things that never happened are worse than the ghosts of things that did." - L.M. Montgomery, Emily's Quest
"God permits men of all degrees of wickedness, and of every kind of absurdity, to exist, and to harass and disturb the earth, whilst they expose themselves to its obloquy or its ridicule." - Catherine Crowe, The Night Side of Nature
"Nature is a haunted house - but Art is a house that tries to be haunted." - Emily Dickinson
"To live is to be haunted." - Philip K. Dick
"If the living are haunted by the dead, then the dead are haunted by their own mistakes." - Chuck Palahniuk
"Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality." - Edgar Allan Poe
"Where there is no imagination, there is no horror." - Arthur Conan Doyle
"Horror is the future. And you cannot be afraid. You must push everything to the absolute limit, or else life will be boring. People will be boring. Horror is like a serpent: always shedding its skin, always changing. And it will always come back. It can't be hidden away like the guilty secrets we try to keep in our subconscious." - Dario Argento
"I love horror. I love "The Shining", "Friday the 13th", "Halloween", all those kinds of things. I love zombies, especially "28 Days Later" and "28 Weeks Later", where the zombies are going faster than the George Romero ones. I love being scared; there's something that's awesome about your heart rate going up like that." - Ricky Schroder
