50+ Inspirational Halloween Quotes to Ignite Your Spooky Spirit

"Just because I cannot see it, doesn't mean I can't believe it!"

- Jack Skellington, “The Nightmare Before Christmas”

"Magic is really very simple, all you've got to do is want something and then let yourself have it."

- Aggie Cromwell

"Halloween is opportunity to be really creative."

- Judy Gold

"Magic is really very simple. All you've got to do is want something and then let yourself have it."

- Aggie Cromwell, Halloweentown

"On Halloween you get to become anything that you want to be."

- Ava Dellaira

"I am the pumpkin king."

- Jack Skellington, “The Nightmare Before Christmas”

"It's Halloween; everyone's entitled to one good scare."

- Brackett, Halloween

"I love Halloween, and I love that feeling: the cold air, the spooky dangers lurking around the corner."

- Evan Peters

"Anyone could see that the wind was a special wind this night, and the darkness took on a special feel because it was All Hallows' Eve."

- Ray Bradbury

"We shall see that at which dogs howl in the dark, and that at which cats prick up their ears after midnight."

- H.P. Lovecraft

"Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and caldron bubble."

- William Shakespeare, “Macbeth”

"It’s Halloween. Everyone’s entitled to one good scare."

- Sheriff Leigh Brackett, “Halloween”

"It's as much fun to scare as to be scared."

- Vincent Price

"Halloween is not only about putting on a costume, but it's about finding the imagination and costume within ourselves."

- Elvis Duran

"I think if human beings had genuine courage, they’d wear their costumes every day of the year, not just Halloween. Wouldn’t life be more interesting that way? And now that I think about it, why the heck don’t they?"

- Douglas Coupland

"Being normal is vastly overrated."

- Aggie Cromwell, Halloweentown

"We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones."

- Stephen King

"Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see."

- Edgar Allan Poe

"Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win."

- Stephen King

"The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper."

- Eden Phillpotts

"Halloween wraps fear in innocence, as though it were a slightly sour sweet. Let terror, then, be turned into a treat..."

- Nicholas Gordon

"Darkness falls across the land, The Midnight Hour is close at hand."

- Rodney Lynn Temperton

"Every day is Halloween, isn't it? For some of us."

- Tim Burton

"Each year, the Great Pumpkin rises out of the pumpkin patch that he thinks is the most sincere."

- Charles M. Schulz, "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown"

"I'm a homicidal maniac, they look just like everyone else."

- Wednesday

"October, tuck tiny candy bars in my pockets and carve my smile into a thousand pumpkins.... Merry October!"

- Rainbow Rowell

"Halloween wraps fear in innocence, As though it were a slightly sour sweet. Let terror, then, be turned into a treat..."

- Nicholas Gordon

"This is thriller, thriller night, 'Cause I can thrill you more than any ghoul would ever dare try. Thriller, thriller night, So let me hold you tight and share a killer, thriller, chiller, thriller here tonight."

- Michael Jackson

"Find the thing that must be read, lest your heart be filled with dread."

- Madame Leota, "The Haunted Mansion"

"Life's no fun without a good scare."

- Lock, Shock and Barrel

"Listen to them—the children of the night. What music they make!"

- Bram Stroker

"Clothes make a statement. Costumes tell a story."

- Mason Cooley

"October was always the least dependable of months … full of ghosts and shadows."

- Joy Fielding

"Oh, how the candles will be lit and the wood of worm burn in a fiery dust. For on all Hallows Eve will the spirits come to play, and only the fruit of thy womb will satisfy their endless roaming."

- Solange Nicole

"There’s a little witch in all of us."

- Aunt Jet Owens

"I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers."

- L.M. Montgomery

"On Halloween, the parents sent their kids out looking like me."

- Rodney Dangerfield

"Halloween is an ancient druidic holiday, one the Celtic peoples have celebrated for millennia. It is the crack between the last golden rays of summer and the dark winter; the delicately balanced tweak of the year before it is given over entirely to the dark; a time for the souls of the departed to squint, to peek and perhaps to travel through the gap."

- Jenny Colgan

"Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn and caldron bubble."

- William Shakespeare, Macbeth

"By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes."

- William Shakespeare, Macbeth

"The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown."

- H.P. Lovecraft

"Eat, drink, and be scary."

- Rosie O'Donnell

"Men say that in this midnight hour, the disembodied have power."

- William Motherwell

"For a witch, you certainly don't know much about how hauntings work."

- Colleen Houck

"Some people are born for Halloween, and some are just counting the days until Christmas."

- Stephen Graham Jones

"Acting is like a Halloween mask that you put on."

- River Phoenix

"We all go a little mad sometimes."

- Norman Bates, Psycho

"I see dead people."

- The Sixth Sense (1999)

"Villainy wears many masks, none so dangerous as the mask of virtue."

- Ichabod Crane

"So how come Halloween is such a big yawner? I mean, do the demons just hate how commercial it's become?"

- Buffy Summers

"My heart is like a haunted house. There's things in there that scream and shout. They make their music in the night. Wish I could find a way to let them out."

- Florence and the Machine

"I was just thinking about the life of a pumpkin. Grow up in the sun, happily entwined with others, and then someone comes along, cuts you open, and rips your guts out."

- Buffy Summers

"You’re missing the point of Halloween…it’s come as you aren’t night."

- Buffy Summers

"As spirits roam the neighborhoods at night, Let loose upon the Earth till it be light..."

- Nicholas Gordon

"'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

"Shadows of a thousand years rise again unseen, Voices whisper in the trees, 'Tonight is Halloween!'"

- Dexter Kozen

"Nothing on Earth so beautiful as the final haul on Halloween night."

- Steve Almond

"Halloween was confusing. All my life my parents said, 'Never take candy from strangers.' And then they dressed me up and said, 'Go beg for it.' I didn't know what to do! I'd knock on people's doors and go, 'Trick or treat.' 'No thank you.'"

- Rita Rudner

"I don't know that there are real ghosts and goblins, but there are always more trick-or-treaters than neighborhood kids."

- Robert Brault

"There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls."

- George Carlin

"Once in a young lifetime one should be allowed to have as much sweetness as one can possibly want and hold."

- Judith Olney

"I was working in the lab late one night/When my eyes beheld an eerie sight/For my monster from his slab began to rise/And suddenly to my surprise.He did the mash/He did the monster mash/The monster mash/It was a graveyard smash. He did the mash/It caught on in a flash/He did the mash/He did the monster mash."

- Bobby "Boris" Pickett

"I don't know that there are real ghosts and goblins, but there are always more trick-or-treater than neighborhood kids."

- Robert Brault

"Here, here! It is the beating of his hideous heart!"

- Edgar Allan Poe

"I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti."

- Hannibal Lechter

"She's a black magic woman. She's trying to make a devil outta me."

- Santana

"I'm wild again, beguiled again, a simpering, whimpering child again. Bewitched, bothered, and bewildered am I..."

- Ella Fitzgerald

"Very superstitious, writing's on the wall. Very superstitious, ladders bout' to fall..."

- Stevie Wonder

"A gypsy fire is on the hearth, Sign of the carnival of mirth; Through the dun fields and from the glade Flash merry folk in masquerade, For this is Halloween!"

"When black cats prowl and pumpkins gleam, may luck be yours on Halloween."

"It’s all just a bunch of hocus pocus!"

"A person should always choose a costume which is in direct contrast to her own personality."

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

"From ghoulies and ghosties And long-leggedy beasties And things that go bump in the night, Good Lord, deliver us!"

"Eat, drink and dress up in costumes. There are so many reasons to dress up - Mardi Gras, Halloween, Southern Decadence."

"Do you believe in destiny? That even the powers of time can be altered for a single purpose? That the luckiest man who walks on this earth is the one who finds ... true love?"