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For me, writing something in the spirit of Halloween is like Mother Teresa writing on charity and sacrifice. It's just second nature to me.
Sep 30, 2025
October proved a riot a riot to the senses and climaxed those giddy last weeks before Halloween.
There are three things I have learned never to discuss with people...religion, politics and the Great Pumpkin!
I love the spirit of Halloween and the energy that comes with it.
If ever there was a holiday that deserves to be commercialized, it's Halloween. We haven't taken it away from kids. We've just expanded it so that the kid in adults can enjoy it, too.
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.
I don't know that there are real ghosts and goblins, But there are always more trick-or-treaters than neighborhood kids.
If human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween.
On Halloween, witches come true; Wild ghosts escape from dreams. Each monster dances in the park.
On Halloween, the parents sent their kids out looking like me.
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.
There is something haunting in the light of the moon; it has all the dispassionateness of a disembodied soul, and something of its inconceivable mystery.
Backward, turn backward, O Time, in your flight, Make me a child again just for to-night!
Ghosts, like ladies, never speak till spoke to.
There is something haunting in the light of the moon.
Halloween is huge in my house and we really get into the "spirits" of things.
Halloween wraps fear in innocence, as though it were a lightly sour sweet. Let terror, then, be turned into a treat.
Bring forth the raisins and the nuts- Tonight All-Hallows' Spectre struts Along the moonlit way.
Pixie, kobold, elf, and sprite, All are on their rounds tonight; In the wan moon's silver ray, Thrives their helter-skelter play.
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.
'Tis the night - the night Of the grave's delight.
Tis now the very witching time of night, when churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out Contagion to this world.
Shadows of a thousand years rise again unseen, Voices whisper in the trees, "Tonight is Halloween!"
I'll bet living in a nudist colony takes all the fun out of Halloween.
As spirits roam the neighborhoods at night, Let loose upon the Earth till it be light.
Where there is no imagination there is no horror.
After eating chocolate you feel godlike, as though you can conquer enemies, lead armies, entice lovers.
Nothing on Earth is so beautiful as the final haul on Halloween night.
Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.
Hobgoblins know the proper way to dance: Arms akimbo, loopy legs askew, Leaping into darkness with delight, Lusting for the ecstasy of fright, Open to the charm of horrors new.
Charlie Brown is the one person I identify with. C.B. is such a loser. He wasn't even the star of his own Halloween special.
One need not be a chamber to be haunted.
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 Hallowe'en!
Never take candy from strangers.
This Halloween, the most popular mask is the Arnold Schwarzenegger mask. And the best part? With a mouth full of candy you will sound just like him.
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."
Alone. Yes, that's the key word, the most awful word in the English tongue. Murder doesn't hold a candle to it and hell is only a poor synonym.
May Jack-o-lanterns burning bright, Of soft and golden hue, Pierce through the future's veil and show, What fate now holds for you?
Look, there's no metaphysics on earth but chocolates.
You wouldn't believe On All Hallow Eve What lots of fun we can make, With apples to bob, And nuts on the hob, And a ring-and-thimble cake.
There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.
A grandmother pretends she doesn't know who you are on Halloween.
Being in a band you can wear whatever you want - it’s like an excuse for Halloween everyday.
Clothes make a statement. Costumes tell a story.
There is a child in every one of us who is still a trick-or-treater looking for a brightly-lit front porch.
But I love Halloween, and I love that feeling: the cold air, the spooky dangers lurking around the corner.
Double, double, toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble!
True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.
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.