25 Halloween Quotes to Spook You Out!

This Halloween themed quotation's page has a very spooky, but family friendly, selection of sayings and sentiments that are just perfect for all your handmade cards, crafts, posters and also DIY party decor items too.

These spooky quotes are great to create just the right kind of ambiance for any party or event you're having for October 31st - stick these as text on your walls, ice them on cakes and cupcakes, hang them on homemade banners and bunting and place in your crafty cards and even scrapbooks after the event too when you want to remember it.

Have fun this season and don't forget to bookmark this page or even share it with your friends via a social media site or pinterest so you can come back and revisit this as often as you need to.

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25 Halloween Quotes to Spook You Out!

"When black cats prowl and pumpkins gleam,
May luck be yours on Halloween."
~ Author Unknown

"The clock is striking midnight
The witch her spell has cast
All fairies, ghosts and goblins
Will be conjured from the past"
~ Author Unknown 

"Pixie, kobold, elf, and sprite,
All are on their rounds tonight;
In the wan moon's silver ray,
Thrives their helter-skelter play."
~ Joel Benton

"Where there is no imagination there is no horror."
~ Arthur Conan Doyle, Sr.

All Hallow's Night Poster

"Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn and cauldron bubble."
~ William Shakespeare

"Nothing beats a haunted moonlit night on All Hallows Eve.... And on this fatal night, at this witching time, the starless sky laments black and unmoving. The somber hues of an ominous, dark forest are suddenly illuminated under the emerging face of the full moon."
~ Kim Elizabeth

"Men say that in this midnight hour,
The disembodied have power
To wander as it liketh them,
By wizard oak and fairy stream."
~ William Motherwell

"At first cock-crow the ghosts must go
Back to their quiet graves below."
~ Theodosia Garrison

"Eat, drink and be scary."
~ Author Unknown

"When witches go riding,
and black cats are seen,
the moon laughs and whispers,
'tis near Halloween."
~ Author Unknown

"The witches fly
Across the sky,
The owls go, "Who? Who? Who?"
The black cats yowl
And green ghosts howl,
Scary Halloween to you!"
~ Nina Willis Walter

Something Wicked this Way Comes Postcard

"'Tis now the very witching time of night,
When churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out
Contagion to this world."
~ William Shakespeare

"Witch and ghost make merry on this last of dear October's days."
~ Author Unknown 

"One need not be a chamber to be haunted;
One need not be a house;
The brain has corridors surpassing
Material place."
~ Emily Dickinson

"You say witch like its a bad thing!"
~ Author Unknown

"On Hallowe'en the thing you must do
Is pretend that nothing can frighten you
And if somethin' scares you and you want to run
Just let on like it's Hallowe'en fun."
~ Author Unknown

"Hark! Hark to the wind! 'Tis the night, they say,
When all souls come back from the far away-
The dead, forgotten this many a day!"
~ Virna Sheard

"'Tis the night - the night
Of the grave's delight,
And the warlocks are at their play;
Ye think that without
The wild winds shout,
But no, it is they - it is they."
~ Arthur Cleveland Coxe

Get Your Spooky on Postcard

"For as children tremble and fear everything in the blind darkness, so we in the light sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things children in the dark hold in terror and imagine will come true."
~ Titus Lucretius Carus

"A house is never still in darkness to those who listen intently; there is a whispering in distant chambers, an unearthly hand presses the snib of the window, the latch rises. Ghosts were created when the first man awoke in the night."
~ J.M. Barrie

"Eye of newt, and toe of frog,
Wool of bat, and tongue of dog,
Adder's fork, and blind-worm's sting,
Lizard's leg, and owlet's wing,
For a charm of powerful trouble,
Like a hell-broth boil and bubble."
~ William Shakespeare

"Deep into the darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing,
Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before."
~ Edgar Allan Poe

"Bring forth the raisins and the nuts-
Tonight All-Hallows' Spectre struts
Along the moonlit way."
~ John Kendrick Bangs

Have a Spellbinding Halloween Postcard

"My candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open ..."
~ Mary Shelley

"Shadows of a thousand years
Rise again unseen,
Voices whisper in the trees
'Tonight is Halloween!'"
~ Dexter Kozen

Which one did you like the best? Let me know your favorite saying in the comments below. I hope you've enjoyed reading my justhalloweencrafts page today, thanks for your visit. Have fun using these creepy quotes.

Image is in the Public Domain from Pixabay, here, and has been altered by the author. 


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Page Last Updated: September 07th, 2018