HALLOWEEN QUOTES II
quotations about Halloween
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Halloween is like saying 'nya-nya' to death and the devil. It's aversion therapy for death. We're facing our worst fears by becoming them: death, monsters, the unknown.
P. D. CACEK
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attributed, Halloween Nation: Behind the Scenes of America's Fright Night
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In receiving something in their hands, they establish, on a symbolic level that they do not understand, a brotherly exchange between the visible and the invisible worlds. That is why the Halloween masquerades ... are in fact sacred ceremonies.
JEAN MARKALE
Halloween: histoire et traditions
Halloween is a day in which some people choose to wear a mask ... while others finally feel safe to take theirs off.
STEVE MARABOLI
attributed, goodreads
There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.
JEAN BAUDRILLARD
"Astral America", America
I've always loved Halloween: the one day of the year when you can blatantly dress as your number-one obsession and people will smile instead of snicker.
J. C. LILLIS
A&B
Did everybody have a good Halloween? I'm just not into the Halloween spirit. What I did was I went to bed early after I turned on the electric fence.
DAVID LETTERMAN
The Late Show with David Letterman, Nov. 1, The Late Show with David Letterman, Nov. 1, 2013
I miss the days when Halloween was a simple holiday about making ritual sacrifices to evil spirits to ensure a plentiful harvest.
JIMMY KIMMEL
Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Oct. 27, 2011
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
Slaying Dragons
This Halloween you come one week.
You masquerade
as a vermilion sleek,
fat, crosseyed fox in a parade
or, where grim jackolanterns leer,
go with your bag from door to door
foraging for treats.
W. D. SNODGRASS
Heart's Needle
'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
Halloween: A Romaunt
Double double toil and trouble,
Fire burn and cauldron bubble.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Macbeth
Halloween is the beginning of the holiday shopping season. That's for women. The beginning of the holiday shopping season for men is Christmas Eve.
DAVID LETTERMAN
Late Show with David Letterman, Oct. 31, 2011
Halloween's eve is also known as mischief night. Kids are supposed go around playing pranks tonight. That's great, just what teenagers need -- another excuse to be jerks.
CRAIG FERGUSON
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, Oct. 30, The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, Oct. 30, 2013
I was born on the night of Samhain, when the barrier between the worlds is whisper-thin and when magic, old magic, sings its heady and sweet song to anyone who cares to hear it.
CAROLYN MACCULLOUGH
Once a Witch
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. Everything seemed cut from soft black velvet or gold or orange velvet. Smoke panted up out of a thousand chimneys like the plumes of funeral parades.
RAY BRADBURY
The Halloween Tree
Halloween is an ancient druidic holiday, one the Celtic peoples have celebrated for millennia. It is the crack between the last golden rays of summer and the dark of winter; the delicately balanced tweak of the year before it is given over entirely to the dark; a time for the souls of the departed to squint, to peek and perhaps to travel through the gap. What could be more thrilling and worthy of celebration than that?
JENNY COLGAN
Welcome to Rosie Hopkins' Sweetshop of Dreams
Halloween is and always will be a day of celebration, because it was intended to be that way. No matter what a person believes in, Halloween will appeal to them, just like other pre-Christian holidays. Why is this? The answer is simple ... mankind needs the imagery.
DRACONIS BLACKTHORNE
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Midnight has come, and the great Christ Church Bell
And many a lesser bell sound through the room;
And it is All Soul's Night,
And two long glasses brimmed with muscatel
Bubble upon the table. A ghost may come;
For it is a ghost's right,
His element is so fine
Being sharpened by his death,
To drink from the wine-breath
While our gross palates drink from the whole wine.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
"All Soul's Night"
My favorite Halloween candy is the candy corn. It comes in four colors: white, yellow, orange, brown. Those are also the stages of your teeth rotting after you eat it.
JAY LENO
The Tonight Show, Oct. 31, The Tonight Show, Oct. 31, 2012
No one came to my house to trick-or-treat. I think the moat might be scaring people away.
JIMMY KIMMEL
Jimmy Kimmel Live, Nov. 1, 2010