Get in the spooky season spirit with these 39 Halloween quotes! Some of them make great October journal prompts. Others are short enough to use on a cute trick-or-treat sign or other crafts. The rest are just plain fun. Enjoy!

39 Spooktacular Halloween quotes

As always, I’ll include the text for Halloween quotes with images (it’ll be the first one in the group beneath it), that way you can copy/paste it into your own projects. If you’re curious, I used Canva to make the images (but mostly with fonts I purchased elsewhere). Also, last note, this post may include some affiliate links. If you buy anything through them, I get a small kickback at no extra cost to you, blah blah blah. On with the show!

• “If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear!” — Mary Shelley, “Frankenstein”
• “Every day is Halloween, isn’t it? For some of us.” — Tim Burton
• “[Horror fiction] shows us that the control we believe we have is purely illusory, and that every moment we teeter on chaos and oblivion.” ― Clive Barker

• “This is my costume. I’m a homicidal maniac, they look just like everyone else.” — Wednesday Addams, “The Addams Family” (Streaming on Paramount+)
• “Some people are born for Halloween, and some are just counting the days until Christmas.” —Stephen Graham Jones
• “A mask tells us more than a face.” —Oscar Wilde

• “There’s a little witch in all of us.” — Alice Hoffman, “Practical Magic”
• “I love Halloween, and I love that feeling: the cold air, the spooky dangers lurking around the corner.” —Evan Peters
• “Clothes make a statement. Costumes tell a story.”—Mason Cooley

• “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 Halloween Tree”
• “Catching and holding the attention of an eight-year-old on Halloween is like trying to catch a hummingbird with a piece of dental floss. It’s theoretically possible, but not very likely.” — Abbi Waxman, “Adult Assembly Required”
• “On Halloween, you get to become anything that you want to be.” —Ava Dellaria

• “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, “Supernatural Horror in Literature”
• “Eddie discovered one of his childhood’s great truths. Grownups are the real monsters, he thought.” ― Stephen King, It
• “I think perhaps all of us go a little crazy at times.”― Robert Bloch, Psycho

• “We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.” — Stephen King
• “Everybody is a book of blood; wherever we’re opened, we’re red.” ― Clive Barker, Books of Blood: Volumes One to Three
• “No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within; it had stood so for eighty years and might stand for eighty more. Within, walls continued upright, bricks met neatly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone.” ― Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House

•  “The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.” — Eden Phillpotts, “A Shadow Passes”
• “Where there is no imagination, there is no horror.” —Arthur Conan Doyle
• “Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can’t see where it keeps its brain.” —J.K. Rowling

• “She’d always loved Halloween. A magic night. A night when anything could happen. Monsters could be real. Magic could whisper in the air.” — Cynthia Eden
• “Quiet people have the loudest minds.” ― Stephen King 
• “Demons are like obedient dogs; they come when they are called.” ― Remy de Gourmont

• “Such are the autumn people. Beware of them.” — Ray Bradbury, “Something Wicked This Way Comes”
• “Tonight the Great Pumpkin will rise out of the pumpkin patch. He flies through the air and brings toys to all the children of the world.” — Linus, “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown”
• “I love Halloween, and I love that feeling: the cold air, the spooky dangers lurking around the corner.” —Evan Peters

• “When black cats prowl and pumpkins gleam, may luck be yours on Halloween.” —Unknown 
• “By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes.” — William Shakespeare, “Macbeth”
• “The strength of the vampire is that people will not believe in him.” — Garrett Fort

• It’s October! You know what that means? The cobwebs in my house just became decorations!
• “Most people will tell you growing up means you stop believing in Halloween things — I’m telling you the reverse. You start to grow up when you understand that the stuff that scares you is part of the air you breathe.” — Peter Straub, “Magic Terror: 7 Tales”
• “Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living.” — Thomas Browne, “Garden of Cyrus”

• “I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.” —L. M. Montgomery
• “During the day, I don’t believe in ghosts. At night, I’m a little more open-minded.” —Unknown
• “Magic is really very simple, all you’ve got to do is want something and then let yourself have it.” –Aggie Cromwell, Halloweentown

• “Sisters, All Hallows’ Eve has become a night of frolic, where children wear costumes and run amok!” — Winifred Sanderson, “Hocus Pocus”
• “The farther we’ve gotten from the magic and mystery of our past, the more we’ve come to need Halloween.” —Paula Guran
• “The 3 types of terror: The Gross-out: the sight of a severed head tumbling down a flight of stairs, it’s when the lights go out and something green and slimy splatters against your arm. The Horror: the unnatural, spiders the size of bears, the dead waking up and walking around, it’s when the lights go out and something with claws grabs you by the arm. And the last and worse one: Terror, when you come home and notice everything you own had been taken away and replaced by an exact substitute. It’s when the lights go out and you feel something behind you, you hear it, you feel its breath against your ear, but when you turn around, there’s nothing there…” ― Stephen King

I hope you enjoyed these Halloween quotes! What are your favorites?