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Halloween for the year 2024 is celebrated/observed on Thursday, October 31st and remember that the most really scaring thing about Halloween is certainly running out of candy.
What the dead had no speech for, when living, They can tell you, being dead: the communication Of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.
T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets
Be silent in that solitude, Which is not loneliness – for then The spirits of the dead, who stood In life before thee, are again In death around thee, and their will Shall overshadow thee; be still.
Edgar Allan Poe
My mother gave me life and when she died she also took it away, so spirits and memories are the only things left.
Carl William Brown
Halloween is bigger than Christmas in America. I’ve experienced it in New York, Los Angeles and Washington D.C., and if you’re in the right neighbourhood, every house is decorated with spooky ghosts, spider webs, and jack-o-lanterns.
Rhys Darby
If human beings had genuine courage, they’d wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween.
Doug Coupland
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
Be wary then; best safety lies in fear.
William Shakespeare
Treats and tricks. Witch broomsticks. Jack-o-lanterns Lick their lips. Crows and cats. Vampire bats. Capes and fangs And pointed hats. Werewolves howl. Phantoms prowl. Halloween’s Upon us now.
Richelle E. Goodrich
It’s Halloween, The night we all play, Trick or treat, We won’t go away. Be we ghoul or goblin, ghost, We’ll knock on your door, To see who scares you the most.
Anthony T.Hincks
Halloween shadows played upon the walls of the houses. In the sky the Halloween moon raced in and out of the clouds. The Halloween wind was blowing, not a blasting of wind but a right-sized swelling, falling, and gushing of wind. It was a lovely and exciting night, exactly the kind of night Halloween should be.”
Eleanor Estes
The jack-o-lantern follows me with tapered, glowing eyes. His yellow teeth grin evily. His cackle I despise. But I shall have the final laugh when Halloween is through. This pumpkin king I’ll split in half to make a pie for two.”
Richelle E. Goodrich
There is magic in the night when pumpkins glow by moonlight.
Anonymous
On ol’ Halloween Night These monsters join the living If they had it their way They’d stay until Thanksgiving.
Casey Browning
Halloween wraps fear in innocence, As though it were a slightly sour sweet. Let terror, then, be turned into a treat…
Nicholas Gordon
True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about but few have seen.
Author Unknown
They that are born on Halloween shall see more than other folk.
Saying of unknown origin
The only thing that really scares me about Halloween is running out of candy.
Melanie White
There’s a little witch in all of us.
Alice Hoffman
Witch and ghost make merry on this last of dear October’s days.
Author Unknown
Shadows of a thousand years rise again unseen. Voices whisper in the trees, “Tonight is Halloween!”
Dexter Kozen
On Hallows Eve, we witches meet to broil and bubble tasty treats like goblin thumbs with venom dip, crisp bat wings, and fried fingertips.
Richelle E. Goodrich
Halloween wraps fear in innocence, as though it were a slightly sour sweet let terror then be turned into a treat.
Nicholas Gordon
Halloween is one of my favorite holidays. Christmas and the others can end up making you sad, because you know you should be happy. But on Halloween you get to become anything that you want to be”
Ava Dellaira
Halloween is fun, but it wasn’t always my favorite holiday. I think Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday.
Tobin Bell
Tis now the very witching time of night, When churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out Contagion to this world.
William Shakespeare
When witches go riding, and black cats are seen, the moon laughs and whispers, ‘tis near Halloween.
Author Unknown
We are born from the star dust, and there we have to come back, under some nice carpets, to enjoy some cheerful Halloween parties!
Carl William Brown
Clothes make a statement. Costumes tell a story.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.
Miguel de Cervantes
There is nothing that gives more assurance than a mask.
Colette
Halloween isn’t the only time for ghosts and ghost stories. In Victorian Britain, spooky winter’s tales were part of the Christmas season, often told after dinner, over port or coffee.
Michael Dirda
Every Halloween for six years, I was a Ninja Turtle, and Mikey was my favorite. The turtles really made me who I am today. They got me into martial arts, meditation, surfing, skateboarding; big time influence on who I am today.
Greg Cipes
I don’t know that there are real ghosts and goblins, but there are always more trick-or-treater than neighborhood kids.
Robert Brault
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.
Cassandra Peterson
Where there is no imagination there is no horror.
Arthur Conan Doyle
People value Halloween, like Valentine’s Day, because they can tell themselves that it’s not merely secularized but actually secular, which is to say, not Christian, Jewish, Hindu or Muslim.
Amity Shlaes
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.
Conan O’Brien
On Halloween, kids get to assume, for one night the outward forms of their innermost dread, and they’re also allowed to take candy from strangers – the scariest thing of all.
Kate Christensen
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.
Chris Rock
Once in a young lifetime one should be allowed to have as much sweetness as one can possibly want and hold.
Judith Olney
Proof of our society’s decline is that Halloween has become a broad daylight event for many.
Robert Kirby
Proof of our society’s decline is that Halloween has become a broad daylight event for many.
Robert KirbyWhen black cats prowl and pumpkins gleam, May luck be yours on Halloween.
Author Unknown
When black cats prowl and pumpkins gleam, May luck be yours on Halloween.
Author Unknown
It’s said that All Hallows’ Eve is one of the nights when the veil between the worlds is thin – and whether you believe in such things or not, those roaming spirits probably believe in you, or at least acknowledge your existence, considering that it used to be their own. Even the air feels different on Halloween, autumn-crisp and bright.
Erin Morgenstern
Halloween starts earlier and earlier, just like Christmas.
Robert Englund
I see my face in the mirror and go, ‘I’m a Halloween costume? That’s what they think of me?’
Drew Carey
There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.
Jean Baudrillard
In Britain, the major public holiday used to be Guy Fawkes Day… that was celebrated on November 5th with things like bonfires and fireworks… I think that made Halloween seem preferable. The idea of having pumpkins and costumes and parties seemed much more appealing than burning down your neighborhood.
Lisa Morton
In our town, Halloween was terrifying and thrilling, and there was a whiff of homicide. We’d travel by foot in the dark for miles, collecting candy, watching out for adults who seemed too eager to give us treats.
Rosecrans Baldwin
On Halloween, don’t you know back when you were little, your mom tells you don’t eat any candy until she checks it? I used to be so tempted to eat my candy on the way to other people’s houses. That used to be such a tease.
Derrick Rose
I’m not a real Halloween kind of guy, because Halloween is every day.
Al Jourgensen
For about 30 years, Halloween was taken over by pranksters. By the ’30s, pranks were causing cities millions of dollars of damage. They considered banning Halloween in many cities, but instead, parents got together and came up with party ideas for kids, and a lot of them involved dressing up and costuming.
Lisa Morton
There haven’t been organized protests, but I have heard of protests where people have wanted to celebrate Halloween.
Lisa Morton
You look at Cheney, Rumsfeld, Karl Rove, and Bush – if you saw them on Halloween, they wouldn’t need a costume. You’d give them a treat and compliment them on what great-looking demons they were. They are demons. There’s no doubt about it.
Tommy Chong
I live in New Orleans part of the year, and it’s a really fun eating town. I bought two homes there, one to live in and one as an investment. They love to eat, drink and dress up in costumes. There are so many reasons to dress up – Mardi Gras, Halloween, Southern Decadence.
Jennifer Coolidge
I hear from many a man around Halloween that’s dressed up as Mama for Halloween. It’s a great costume.
Vicki Lawrence
I’m a really big fan of all things macabre in general; Halloween happens to be my favorite holiday.
Dove Cameron
I love Halloween, trick or treating and decorating the house. And I love Thanksgiving, because of the football and the fall weather. And of course, I love Christmas – that’s my favorite of all!
Joe Nichols
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
Men say that in this midnight hour, the disembodied have power.
William Motherwell
I hate Halloween. I hate dressing up. I hate – I wear wigs, makeup, costumes every day. Halloween is like, my least favorite holiday.
Amy Poehler
My favorite scary movie was always ‘Halloween.’ I love that there’s hidden emotion underneath Michael Myers’ psychotic behavior. Plus, he has the best mask, hands-down.
Chris Zylka
I’ve never seen ‘Texas Chainsaw Massacre’, I’ve never seen ‘Halloween’, I’ve never seen any of the ‘Friday the 13ths.’
Lin Shaye
I learned to glitter the pumpkins for Halloween not because I went into it thinking, ‘I’m going to glitter some pumpkins!’ No. I bought all of these big, cold, slimy, disgusting pumpkins and tried to carve them, and it was gross, so I had to find something else to do with them. Glitter was life-changing.
Jen Lancaster
It’s as much fun to scare as to be scared.
Vincent Price
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
The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
Eden Phillpots
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