From Denny: Everyone have a fun Halloween night! Attended our local symphony this week (awesome performance of complex Russian music) and didn't you know there was a middle-aged woman with the fun Halloween spirit. (The kids in attendance sure enjoyed it.) She did her makeup like a zombie and quickly woke up the old guys snoring in the back row. There is nothing more enjoyable than the unexpected just when you thought something would be oh, too predictable. :)
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Quotes
I'll bet living in a nudist colony takes all the fun out of Halloween. - Anonymous
Eat, drink and be scary. - Anonymous
A grandmother pretends she doesn't know who you are on Halloween. - comic Erma Bombeck
There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls. - comic George Carlin
Witch and ghost make merry on this last of dear October’s days. - Anonymous
Nothing on Earth so beautiful as the final haul on Halloween night. - Steve Almond
Halloween is huge in my house and we really get into the "spirits" of things. - Dee Snider
Hold on, man. We don't go anywhere with "scary," "spooky," "haunted," or "forbidden" in the title. - From Scooby-Doo, cartoon dog
I don't know that there are real ghosts and goblins, but there are always more trick-or-treaters than neighborhood kids. - Robert Brault
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. - comic Conan O'Brien
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There is a child in every one of us who is still a trick-or-treater looking for a brightly-lit front porch. - Robert Brault
True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about but few have seen. - Anonymous
As everyone celebrates Halloween, I wonder if it’s much fun for the ghosts to see fake ghosts all around. - Tewin Sham
They that are born on Halloween shall see more than other folk. - Saying of unknown origin
Being in a band you can wear whatever you want - it's like an excuse for Halloween everyday. - singer Gwen Stefani
Proof of our society’s decline is that Halloween has become a broad daylight event for many. - Robert Kirby
Those seemingly interminable dark walks between houses, long before street-lit safety became an issue, were more adrenalizing than the mountains of candy filling the sack. Sadly Halloween, with our good-natured attempts to protect the little ones, from the increasingly dangerous traffic and increasingly sick adults, has become an utter bore. - Lauren Springer
There is a sacred HORROR about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills;
but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a
masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling. - Victor Hugo
Where there is no imagination there is no horror. - Arthur Conan Doyle, Sr
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
If a man harbors any sort of fear, it makes him landlord to a ghost. - Lloyd Douglas
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
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
I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than be crowded on a velvet cushion. - Henry David Thoreau
On Halloween, witches come true, wild ghosts escape from dreams and each monster dances in the park - Nicholas Gordon
Enjoy a campy Halloween all year round: "Satan's calling: don't answer..."
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Tonight is the last night of October when witches, vampires and ghosts shall make merry - Kurt Avish
Halloween wraps fear in innocence, as though it were a slightly sour sweet. Let terror, then, be turned into a treat. - Nicholas Gordon
There is something haunting in the light of the moon; it has all the dis-passionateness of a disembodied soul, and something of its inconceivable mystery. - Joseph Conrad
What fearful shapes and shadows beset his path, amidst the dim and ghastly glare of a snowy
night! With what wistful look did he eye every trembling ray of light streaming across the
waste fields from some distant window! How often was he appalled by some shrub covered with
snow, which, like a sheeted specter, beset his very path! How often did he shrink with
curdling awe at the sound of his own steps on the frosty crust beneath his feet; and dread
to look over his shoulder, lest he should behold some uncouth being tramping close behind
him! and how often was he thrown into complete dismay by some rushing blast, howling among
the trees, in the idea that it was the Galloping Hessian on one of his nightly scouring!
- - - Washington Irving (a quote from "The Legend of Sleep Hollow")
Poems
Halloween wraps fear in innocence,
As though it were a slightly sour sweet.
Let terror, then, be turned into a treat...
- Nicholas Gordon, poemsforfree.com
As spirits roam the neighborhoods at night,
Let loose upon the Earth till it be light...
- Nicholas Gordon
At first cock-crow the ghosts must go
Back to their quiet graves below.
- Theodosia Garrison
Just like a ghost, you've been a-hauntin' my dreams,
So I'll propose on Halloween.
Love is kinda crazy with a spooky little girl like you.
- Classics IV, music group
Shadows of a thousand years rise again unseen,
Voices whisper in the trees, "Tonight is Halloween!"
- Dexter Kozen
When black cats prowl and pumpkins gleam,
May luck be yours on Halloween. - Anonymous
One need not be a chamber to be haunted;
One need not be a house;
The brain has corridors surpassing
Material place.
- Emily Dickinson
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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
Halloween wraps fear in innocence,
As though it were a slightly sour sweet.
Let terror, then, be turned into a treat...
- Nicholas Gordon
Hobgoblins know the proper way to dance:
Arms akimbo, loopy legs askew,
Leaping into darkness with delight,
Lusting for the ecstasy of fright,
Open to the charm of horrors new....
- Nicholas Gordon
'Tis now the very witching time of night,
When churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out
Contagion to this world.
- William Shakespeare
From ghoulies and ghosties
And long-leggedy beasties
And things that go bump in the night,
Good Lord, deliver us!
- Scottish Saying
May Jack-o-lanterns burning bright
Of soft and golden hue
Pierce through the future’s veil and show
What fate now holds for you.
- Anonymous
A gypsy fire is on the hearth,
Sign of the carnival of mirth,
Through the dun fields and from the glade,
Flash merry folk in masquerade,
For this is Hallowe’en! - Anonymous
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On Hallowe'en the thing
you must do
Is pretend that nothing
can frighten you
An' if somethin' scares you
and you want to run
Jus' let on like
it's Hallowe'en fun.
- from an Early Nineteenth Century Halloween Postcard
Men say that in this midnight hour,
The disembodièd have power
To wander as it liketh them,
By wizard oak and fairy stream.
- William Motherwell
For as children tremble and fear everything in the blind darkness, so we in the light
sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things children in the dark hold in
terror and imagine will come true.
- Titus Lucretius Carus [99-55 B.C.], De Rerum Natura, bk. III, l. 87
Quotes
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
| Ghosts, like ladies, never speak till spoke to. - Richard Harris Barham Charlie Brown is the one person I identify with. C.B. is such a loser. He wasn't even the star of his own Halloween special. - comic Chris Rock Once in a young lifetime one should be allowed to have as much sweetness as one can possibly want and hold. - Judith Olney Acting is like a Halloween mask that you put on. - River Phoenix Clothes make a statement. Costumes tell a story. - Mason Cooley Look, there's no metaphysics on earth like chocolates. - Fernando Pessoa Forget love - I'd rather fall in chocolate! - Attributed to Sandra J. Dykes After eating chocolate you feel godlike, as though you can conquer enemies, lead armies, entice lovers. - Emily Luchetti There is nothing that gives more assurance than a mask. - Colette
Fear is nature's warning signal to get busy.
- Henry C. Link
Charlie Brown is the one person I identify with. C.B. is such a loser. He wasn't even the star of his own Halloween special.
- Chris Rock
To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.
- Sir Francis Bacon
Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is
increased with tales, so is the other.
- Sir Francis Bacon
Proof of our society's decline is that Halloween has become a broad daylight event for many.
- Robert Kirby
The dream reveals the reality which conception lags behind. That is the horror of life—the
terror of art. - Franz Kafka
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Poems
When witches go riding,
and black cats are seen,
the moon laughs and whispers,
‘tis near Halloween.
- Anonymous
Bring forth the raisins and the nuts
Tonight All-Hallows' Specter struts
Along the moonlitway.
- John Kendrick Bangs
'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
Backward, turn backward,
O Time, in your flight
make me a child again
just for to-night!
- Elizabeth Akers Allen
Auld Daddy Darkness creeps frae his hole,
Black as a blackamoor, blin' as a mole...
- James Ferguson
Of calling shapes, and beck'ning shadows dire,
And airy tongues that syllable men's names.
- John Milton
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
On Halloween, witches come true;
Wild ghosts escape from dreams.
Each monster dances in the park....
- Nicholas Gordon
On Hallowe'en the thing you must do
Is pretend that nothing can frighten you
And if somethin' scares you and you want to run
Just let on like it's Hallowe'en fun.
- Anonymous
The witches fly
Across the sky,
The owls go, "Who? Who? Who?"
The black cats yowl
And green ghosts howl,
"Scary Halloween to you!"
- Nina Willis Walter
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| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882). Complete Poetical Works. 1893. |
| Birds of Passage |
| Flight the First. Haunted Houses |
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