26 Short Halloween Quotes for a Happy, Fun and Spooky Season


As we enter the spooky season, it's time to embrace all things Halloween. From crafting costumes to carving pumpkins, and taking your kids trick or treating, there's plenty of fun to be had. To add to the excitement, here are 26 short Halloween quotes to make these dark fall nights even more memorable.



Short Halloween Quotes for a Joyful and Spooky Night


A porch decorated with ghosts and pumpkins for Halloween.

“Nothing on Earth so beautiful as the final haul on Halloween night.”
– Steve Almond


“We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.”
– Stephen King


“Everyone is a moon and has a dark side, which he never shows to anybody.”
– Mark Twain


“On Halloween, you get to become anything that you want to be.”
– Ava Dellaira


“Being normal is vastly overrated.”
– Aggie Cromwell (from the movie Halloweentown)


“Halloween is an opportunity to be really creative.”
– Judy Gold


“Clothes make a statement. Costumes tell a story.”
– Mason Cooley


“I’m your number one fan.”
– Annie Wilkes (from the movie Misery)


“Halloween is just finals week for parents.”
– Jim Gaffigan


“Villains wear many masks, none so dangerous as the mask of virtue.”
– Ichabod Crane


“A mask tells us more than a face.”
– Oscar Wilde


Funny Halloween Quotes


“I’ll stop wearing black when they make a darker color.”
– Wednesday Addams (from The Addams Family)


“It’s just a bunch of hocus pocus!”
– Hocus Pocus


“It’s as much fun to scare as to be scared.”
– Vincent Price


“Everyone here knows that Halloween was invented by the candy companies. It’s a conspiracy.”
– Max (from the movie Hocus Pocus)


“All the candy corn that was ever made, was made in 1911.”
– Lewis Black


“I would die for her. I would kill for her. Either way, what bliss.”
– Gomez Addams (from the movie The Addams Family)


“This Halloween I’m going as a human disaster that way I don’t have to get dressed up.”
– Jim Gaffigan


“Was deciding if I should dress as Batman or Spiderman for Halloween, when I realized I’m a grown man. So, Batman.”
– Stephen Colbert


“Don’t have a cup of coffee this Halloween. Have a cauldron of coffee instead.”
– Anthony T. Hincks


“I’m a ghost with the most, babe!”
– Beetlejuice


“This is my costume. I’m a homicidal maniac. They look just like everyone else.”
– Wednesday Addams (from the movie The Addams Family)


“I am Halloween’s spirit!”
– The Nightmare Before Christmas


“It’s that special time of year where we voluntarily imbibe pumpkin-spiced lattes: the coffee that tastes like a candle.”
– John Oliver


“I see my face in the mirror and go, ‘I’m a Halloween costume? That’s what they think of me?'”
– Drew Carey


“Every day is Halloween, isn’t it? For some of us.”
– Tim Burton


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