Halloween Quotes

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

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.

The thing under my bed waiting to grab my ankle isn't real. I know that, and I also know that if I'm careful to keep my foot under the covers, it will never be able to grab my ankle.

Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.

Double, double, toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble!

Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.

Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.

There are three things I have learned never to discuss with people... Religion, Politics, and The Great Pumpkin.

The devil's voice is sweet to hear.

I should never have switched from Scotch to Martinis.

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

I also have always liked the monster within idea. I like the zombies being us. Zombies are the blue-collar monsters.

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.

Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.

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.

You'll see everything from gold teeth to hood ornaments. It's almost like Halloween during August.

Make the world better.

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

Evil hiding among us is an ancient theme.

I made a decision back in 1978 that, in a trade off for money when I directed Halloween, I would have my name above the title in order to basically brand these movies my own.

There were days when no kid came out of his house without looking around. The week after Halloween had a quality both hungover and ominous, the light pitched, the sky smashed against the rooftops.

There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.

Bring forth the raisins and the nuts- Tonight All-Hallows' Spectre struts Along the moonlit way.

Style is something that's extremely important, but it must grow naturally out of who and what you are and what the material calls for. It cannot be superimposed.

Because we build the worlds we wouldn't mind living in. They contain scary things, problems, but also a sense of rightness that makes them alive and makes us want to live there.

I see my face in the mirror and go, 'I'm a Halloween costume? That's what they think of me?'

I like to write in a shroud of secrecy because I have to keep finding ways to scare myself.

For four years, we didn't do any 'Halloweens,' ... But I believed in it. It's not a genius creation or anything. But whenever Halloween season comes around audiences want something like this.

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.

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

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

Being in a band you can wear whatever you want - it's like an excuse for Halloween every day.