100 Spooky Halloween Quotes

Quotables is gearing up for a spooky, slimy, spine-tinglingly scary Halloween.

We’ve gone absolutely mad for movies, crazy for candy corn and positively potty for petrifiying poetry.

Check out our Top 100 Scary Quotes for a wickedly wonderful Halloween. Seeeee you sooooon….

Murderous Movies

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1. I met this six year old child with this blank, pale, emotionless face, and the blackest eyes, the devil’s eyes. I spent eight years trying to reach him and then another seven trying to keep him locked up because I realized that what was living behind that boy’s eyes was purely and simply evil.
— Dr Samuel Loomis

2. You know, I’ve always wanted a child. And now I think I’ll have one… on toast!
— Winifred Sanderson

3. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
— Jack Torrance

4. When there is no more room in Hell, the dead will walk the Earth!
— George Romero

5. They’re coming to get you Barbra!
— Johnny

6. Hi, I’m Chucky, wanna play?
— Chucky

7. I’m telling you that that thing upstairs isn’t my daughter. Now I want you to tell me that you know for a fact that there’s nothing wrong with my daughter except in her mind. YOU TELL ME YOU KNOW FOR A FACT THAT AN EXORCISM WOULDN’T DO ANY GOOD! YOU TELL ME THAT!
— Chris MacNeil

8.
1 – 2 – Freddy’s coming for you, 
3 – 4 – Better lock your door, 
5 – 6 – Grab your crucifix, 
7 – 8 – Better stay up late, 
9 – 10 – Never sleep again…
— Children

9. They’re here!
— Carol Anne Freeling

10. Hello, Danny. Come and play with us. Come and play with us, Danny. Forever … and ever… and ever.
— Grady Twins

Terrorising Television

1. Hold on, man. We don’t go anywhere with “scary,” “spooky,” “haunted,” or “forbidden” in the title.
— Shaggy

2. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of man’s fears and the summit of his knowledge. This is the dimension of imagination. It is an area which we call the Twilight Zone.
— Narrator 

3. If the apocalypse comes, beep me.
— Buffy Summers

4. At last darkness has come. Goodbye, Maggie Evans. I might have loved you, I might have spared you, but now you must die.
— Barnabas Collins 

5. I’ve often felt that dreams are answers to questions we haven’t yet figured out how to ask.
— Fox Mulder

6. Bump-dee-bump! My life for you!
— Trashcan Man

7. The librarian is a palm scanning human book absorbtionist. OK, that’s not the latin name for it, but she’s turning people into books.
— Merton Dingle

8. You rang?
— Lurch

9. Eddie! You better start dawdling, or you’re going to be on time for school!
— Lily Munster

10. No creaking gates, no gothic towers, no shuttered windows. Yet for the past ten months this house has been the focus of an astonishing barrage of supernatural activity.
— Michael Parkinson

Terrifying Tomes

1. My candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open.
— Mary Shelley

2. …it was a huge creature, luminous, ghastly, and spectral. I have cross-examined these men, one of them a hard-headed countryman, one a farrier, and one a moorland farmer, who all tell the same story of this dreadful apparition, exactly corresponding to the hell-hound of the legend. I assure you that there is a reign of terror in the district, and that it is a hardy man who will cross the moor at night.
— Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

3. Listen to them – the children of the night. What music they make.
— Bram Stoker 

4. O God! I screamed, and “O God! Again and again; for there before my eyes – pale and shaken, and half fainting, and groping before him with his hands, like a man restored from death – there stood Henry Jekyll.
— Robert Louis Stevenson 

5. The quivering, ardent sunlight showed him the lines of cruelty round the mouth as clearly as if he had been looking into a mirror after he had done some dreadful thing.
— Oscar Wilde

6. I heard one cry in the night, and I heard one laugh afterwards. If I cannot forget that, I shall not be able to sleep again.
— M.R. James

7. But he was unmoved, and cried: “If I am mad, it is mercy! May the gods pity the man who in his callousness can remain sane to the hideous end!
— H.P. Lovecraft 

8. 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.
— Stephen King 

9. 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. 
— Kim Elizabeth

10. 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.
— Joseph Conrad

Petrifying Poetry

1. At first cock-crow the ghosts must go 
Back to their quiet graves below.
— Theodosia Garrison

2. Yesterday, upon the stair 
I met a man who wasn’t there 
He wasn’t there again today 
I wish, I wish he’d go away.
- Hughes Mearns

3. Deep into the darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, 
Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.
— Edgar Allan Poe

4. Men say that in this midnight hour, 
The disembodied have power 
To wander as it liketh them, 
By wizard oak and fairy stream.
— William Motherwell

5. Pixie, kobold, elf, and sprite, 
All are on their rounds tonight; 
In the wan moon’s silver ray, 
Thrives their helter-skelter play.
— Joel Benton

6. Men say that in this midnight hour, 
The disembodied have power 
To wander as it liketh them, 
By wizard oak and fairy stream.
— William Motherwell

7. Bring forth the raisins and the nuts- 
Tonight All-Hallows’ Spectre struts 
Along the moonlit way
— John Kendrick Bangs

8. 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.
— Arthur Cleveland Coxe

9. Hark! Hark to the wind! ’Tis the night, they say, 
When all souls come back from the far away- 
The dead, forgotten this many a day!
— Virna Sheard

10. Stir the fire till it lowe 
How like a queen comes forth the lonely Moon 
From the slow opening curtains of the clouds 
Walking in beauty to her midnight throne!
— George Croly

Quotes to Chill You to the Bone

1. 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.
— William Shakespeare

2. ’Tis now the very witching time of night, 
When churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out 
Contagion to this world.
— William Shakespeare 

3. Where there is no imagination there is no horror.
— Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

4. They that are born on Halloween shall see more than other folk.
— Anonymous

5. A house is never still in darkness to those who listen intently; there is a whispering in distant chambers, an unearthly hand presses the snib of the window, the latch rises. Ghosts were created when the first man awoke in the night.
— J. M. Barrie

6. If a man harbors any sort of fear, it makes him landlord to a ghost.
— Lloyd Douglas

7. There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.
— George Carlin

8. 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.
— Danny Elfman

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

10. Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.
— Miguel de Cervantes

Halloween Hysteria

1. 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

2. Halloween is the one night a year when girls can dress like a total slut and no other girls can say anything about it.
— Cady Heron

3. Nothing on Earth so beautiful as the final haul on Halloween night.
— Steve Almond

4. J.D: I hate that stereotype that black people all yell at movie screens, y’know? Like you go to see a horror flick and you’d be yelling like, “Don’t go in there, girl! He behind the do’!” It’s offensive. 
Turk: You wish you were allowed to yell at the screen, don’t you? 
J.D: Why does she go in there?! I mean, he’s behind the do’!
— Dr John “JD” Dorian

5. I said goodbye to you. I was locked out of the flat. I climbed the wall and came in through the bathroom window. I started to read and then I was naked at the zoo! I guess I am out of my f*cking mind.
— David Kessler

6. He has been chosen to be the vessel of the spirit of Vigo, and you, Dana, will be the mother of the ruler of the world. Doesn’t that sound nice?
— Dr. Janosz Poha

7. I’ll bet living in a nudist colony takes all the fun out of Halloween.
— Charles Swartz

8. I see my face in the mirror and go, ’I’m a Halloween costume? That’s what they think of me?
— Drew Carey

9. 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.” “No thank you.”
— Rita Rudner

10. Halloween is huge in my house and we really get into the “spirits” of things.
— Dee Snider

Satanic Verses

1. I put a spell on you 
and now you’re mine. 
You can’t stop the things I do. 
I ain’t lying.
— Screamin’ Jay Hawkins

2. I was working in the lab late one night 
When my eyes beheld an eerie sight 
For my monster from his slab began to rise 
And suddenly to my surprise… 
He did the mash 
He did the monster mash 
The monster mash 
It was a graveyard smash…
— Bobby “Boris” Pickett

3. Bela Lugosi’s dead 
The bat’s have left the bell tower 
The victim’s have been bled 
Red velvet lines the black box
— Bauhaus

4. A candy coloured clown they call the sandman 
Tiptoes into my room every night 
Just to sprinkle stardust and whisper; 
“Go to sleep, everything is alright”
— Roy Orbison

5. This is Halloween, everybody make a scene 
Trick or treat till the neighbors gonna die of fright 
It’s our town, everybody scream 
In this town of Halloween.
— Danny Elfman

6. If you hear him howling around your kitchen door 
Better not let him in 
Little old lady got mutilated late last night 
Werewolves of London again 
Werewolves of London
— LeRoy Marinell, Waddy Wachtel, and Warren Zevon

7. I see the bad moon arising. 
I see trouble on the way. 
I see earthquakes and lightening. 
I see bad times today.
Don’t go around tonight, 
Well, it’s bound to take your life, 
There’s a bad moon on the rise.
— Creedence Cleerwater Revival

8. All our time have come 
Here, but now, they’re gone 
Seasons don’t fear the reaper 
Nor do the wind, the summer the rain
— Blue Oyster Cult

9. She’s just a devil woman 
With evil on her mind 
Beware the devil woman 
She’s gonna get you 
She’s just a devil woman 
With evil on her mind
— Cliff Richard 

10. He shook-a me up, he took me by surprise. 
He had a pickup truck, and the 
devil’s eyes. 
He stared at me and I felt a change. 
Time meant nothing, never would again.
— Richard O’Brien

Zombies

1. There are several ways to kill a zombie, but the most satisfying one is to stab it in the brain with a wooden stick.
— Dwight Schrute

2. Use your head; cut off theirs.
— Max Brooks

3. In extreme circumstances, the assailants can be stopped by removing the head or destroying the brain. I will repeat that: by removing the head or destroying the brain.
— Jeremy Thompson 

4. Brains!
— Zombie

5. We ARE the walking dead!
— Rick Grimes

6. Who died and made you f*cking king of the zombies?
— Ed 

7. He knew. I could see it in his face. Look, if someone gets infected you’ve got between ten and twenty seconds to kill them. It might be your brother or your sister or your oldest friend. It makes no difference. And just so you know where you stand — if it happens to you, I’ll do it in a heartbeat.
— Selena

8. Zombies almost had my ass for dinner!
— Gang Leader 

9. This is just what I wanted my son to see. Take him to work, get attacked by zombies. Your mother’s gonna kill me.
— Warden Mahler

10. Zombies don’t read. They ain’t hooked on phonics. So give it a rest.
— Griffin 

Famous Last Words

1. Die, my dear? Why that’s the last thing I’ll do! 
— Groucho Marx 

2. Go on, get out—last words are for fools who haven’t said enough.
— Karl Marx 

3. Born in a hotel room—and God damn it—died in a hotel room.
— Eugene O’Neill

4. Make the world better.
— Lucy Stone

5. It is very beautiful over there!
— Thomas Edison

6. On the contrary! 
— Henrik Ibsen

7. I should never have switched from Scotch to Martinis.
— Humphrey Bogart

8. Bugger Bognor.
— King George V

9. How will I ever get out of this labyrinth?
— Simon Bolivar

10. I must go in. The fog is rising.
— Emily Dickinson

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