68 Spooky Halloween Quotes That’ll Send a Chill Down Your Spine
Some of these phrases and words can double as short Instagram captions.
Bags of candy are set out for trick-or-treaters. Your family is dressed up in an epic group costume. Michael Jackson’s "Thriller" is blaring through your speakers. You’ve queued up the ultimate horror movie marathon. In the words of Jack Skellington, “This is Halloween!”
Now that we’ve set the scene for the spookiest night of the year, it is only right that you round out your holiday celebration with a ghost story or two, and some good Halloween quotes. We’ve created a list of the best and creepiest phrases, including fall quotes that summarize the beauty of autumn, pumpkin puns, enchanting witch sayings, famous lines from horror films and even a few classic Halloween wishes to really put you in a spooky mood.
When the night starts to come to an end, after you’ve filled up on sweet treats and taken all of the selfies your heart desires, of course, you may even want to use some of these scary sentiments as inspiration for your festive Instagram captions.
Jack Skellington, “The Nightmare Before Christmas”
Just because I cannot see it, doesn't mean I can't believe it!
Alice Hoffman, “Practical Magic”
“There’s a little witch in all of us.”
Jack Skellington, “The Nightmare Before Christmas”
I am the pumpkin king.
Charles M. Schulz, "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown"
Each year, the Great Pumpkin rises out of the pumpkin patch that he thinks is the most sincere.
Sheriff Leigh Brackett, “Halloween”
It’s Halloween. Everyone’s entitled to one good scare.
Madame Leota, "The Haunted Mansion"
Find the thing that must be read, lest your heart be filled with dread.
Mason Cooley
Clothes make a statement. Costumes tell a story.
William Motherwell
Men say that in this midnight hour, the disembodied have power.
Joy Fielding
October was always the least dependable of months … full of ghosts and shadows.
William Shakespeare
Hell is empty and all the devils are here.
Eden Phillpots
The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for out wits to grow sharper.
Solange Nicole
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.
Vincent Price
It's as much fun to scare as to be scared.
Rodney Lynn Temperton
Darkness falls across the land, The Midnight Hour is close at hand.
Edgar Allan Poe
Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.
Colleen Houck
For a witch, you certainly don't know much about how hauntings work.
Ray Bradbury
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.
Ichabod Crane, "Sleepy Hollow"
Villainy wears many masks, none so dangerous as the mask of virtue.
Karen Fortunati
The world turned upside down — in a good way — for one black velvet night.
Mary Shelley, "Frankenstein"
There is something at work in my soul, which I do not understand.
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