140 Halloween Quotes and Sayings for Instagram
Halloween is one of the most fun times of the year. The air is cool, the leaves are changing colors, and it’s time to carve pumpkins, decorate, find the perfect costume, and enjoy.
We’ve collected a list of the best, funniest, cutest, and spookiest Halloween quotes and sayings.
Whether you want a funny quote to make you laugh, a caption for your Halloween photos, or some humor for your decorations, you’ll find what you need here.
Halloween Quotes and Sayings
“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
“During the day, I don’t believe in ghosts. At night, I’m a little more open-minded.” — Unknown
“Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.” — William Shakespeare
“Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.” — Edgar Allan Poe
“Where there is no imagination there is no horror.” — Arthur Conan Doyle
“Villainy wears many masks, none so dangerous as the mask of virtue.” — Ichabod Crane
“No good deed will I do again.” — Elphaba
“Witch parking. All others will be toad.” — Unknown
“Goodbye cruel world.” — Winifred Sanderson
“The world turned upside down—in a good way—for one black velvet night.” — Karen Fortunati
“I was born on the night of Samhain, when the barrier between the worlds is whisper-thin…” — Carolyn MacCullough
“Listen to them—the children of the night. What music they make!” — Bram Stoker
“It is impossible to say how first the idea entered my brain; but once conceived, it haunted me day and night.” — Edgar Allan Poe
“You must believe me, it was a horseman, a dead one! Headless!” — Ichabod Crane
“When the witches go riding, and black cats are seen, the moon laughs and whispers ’tis near Halloween.” — Unknown
“Am I walking toward something I should be running away from?” — Shirley Jackson
“We have had our summer evenings, now for October eves!” — Humbert Wolfe
“On Halloween you get to become anything that you want to be.” — Ava Dellaria
“Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can’t see where it keeps its brain.” — J.K. Rowling
“I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.” — L.M. Montgomery
“Hell is empty and all the devils are here.” — William Shakespeare
“Werewolves howl. Phantoms prowl. Halloween’s upon us now.” — Richelle E. Goodrich
“There is magic in the night when pumpkins glow by moonlight.” — Unknown
“The moon has awoken with the sleep of the sun, the light has been broken; the spell has begun.” — Midgard Morningstar
“If human beings had genuine courage, they’d wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween.” — Douglas Copeland
“A house is never still in darkness to those who listen intently; there is a whispering in distant chambers.” — J.M. Barrie
“Thriller: Darkness falls across the land. The midnight hour is close at hand.” — Michael Jackson
“My Halloween costume was so bad that people opened their doors and took candy from me.” — Glen Nesbitt
“A mask tells us more than a face.” — Oscar Wilde
“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.'” — Rita Rudner
“Eat, drink, and be scary!” — Rosie O’Donnell
“Suddenly the day was gone, night came out from under each tree and spread.” — Ray Bradbury
“It’s just a bunch of Hocus Pocus.” — Max Dennison
“I am the pumpkin king.” — Jack Skellington
“Trick or treat, bag of sweets, ghosts are walking down the street.” — Unknown
“Some people are born for Halloween, and some are just counting the days until Christmas.” — Stephen Graham Jones
“Mystery is my mistress. I must heed her sweet call.” — Velma (Scooby Doo 2)
“I put a spell on you because you’re mine.” — Jay Hawkins
“Halloween shadows played upon the walls of the houses. In the sky the Halloween moon raced in and out of the clouds.” — Eleanor Estes
“There is something haunting in the light of the moon.” — Joseph Conrad
“On Halloween, the parents sent their kids out looking like me.” – Rodney Dangerfield
“Dear Great Pumpkin, Halloween is now only a few days away. Children all over the world await you coming. When you rise out of the pumpkin patch that night, please remember I am your most loyal follower. Have a nice trip. Don’t forget to take out flight insurance.” – Linus
“Wench! Trollop! You bucktoothed, mop-riding firefly from hell!” – Billy Butcherson, Hocus Pocus
“I dropped the candies into the children’s bags, thinking: You small mortals don’t realize the power of your stories.” – Karen Russell, Vampires in the Lemon Grove
“He had arranged the arms and legs in letters, and the letters spelled out a single small word: BOO. The three torsos were carefully arranged below the BOO in a quarter-circle, making a cute little Halloween smile. What a scamp.” – Jeff Lindsay, Darkly Dreaming Dexter
“I love Halloween, and I love that feeling: the cold air, the spooky dangers lurking around the corner.” – Evan Peters
“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
“From ghoulies and ghosties and long-leggedy beasties and things that go bump in the night, Good Lord, deliver us!”
“I might play with my cat and then go trick people to death.” — Scott Holstad
“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
“Halloween is huge in my house and we really get into the ‘spirits’ of things.” – Dee Snider
“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
“Must be the season of the witch.” — Donovan
“Relax, it’s only magic.” — Sarah Bailey
“In the sky the Halloween moon raced in and out of the clouds. The Halloween wind was blowing, not a blasting of wind but a right-sized swelling, falling, and gushing of wind. It was a lovely and exciting night, exactly the kind of night Halloween should be.” – Eleanor Estes
“Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.” – Stephen King
“Shadows of a thousand years rise again unseen. Voices whisper in the trees, ‘Tonight is Halloween!’” – Dexter Kozen
“I’ll bet living in a nudist colony takes all the fun out of Halloween.”
“Not every witch lives in Salem.”
“The dead rise again, bats fly, terror strikes and screams echo, for tonight it’s Halloween.”
“I’m a witch every day. Not just for Halloween.”
“Hocus pocus. Time to focus.”
“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself… and spiders.”
“Witch and ghost make merry on this last of dear October days.”
“Beneath this stone my wife doth lie. Now she’s at rest and so am I.”
“Here lies the body of Lester Moore. Three slugs from a forty-four. No Les, no more.”
“Here Lies Mozart. Decomposing.”
“Here Lies Our Beloved Randy. Kicked the Bucket From Too Much Candy.”
“Shot in the head by a golfer’s gun. He sure put a hole in Juan!”
“Too much candy made Billy burst. They boxed up the pieces in the hearse.”
“William Gunder, Made one little blunder, Now he’s six feet under.”
“Ghouls just wanna have fun!”
“This witch can be bribed with chocolate.”
“Swish swish, witch.”
“What’s up, witches?”
“Ghostest with the mostest.”
“No tricks, just treats!”
“Keep calm and scare on.”
“Don’t make me get the flying monkeys.”
“Had a bloody good Halloween.”
“Something wicked this way comes.”
“We had a fang-tastic time!”
“Have a spooktacular night.”
“Too cute to spook.”
“Boo from the crew.”
“Everything’s better with a little magic.”
“Creature feature.”
“Trick or treat yo’ self.”
“Here for the boos.”
“I have no body to dance with.”
“Came for the party, stayed for the boos.”
“Brrr… it’s cold in here. There must be some spirits in the atmosphere!”
“You can’t scare me I’m a ghost!”
“Had a spooktacular night!”
“Keep calm and carry a wand.”
“Can’t trick this treat.”
“Of course, we witches love the BOOs.”
“This is my resting witch face.”
“Nothing much. Just a basic witch.”
“Full moon with funny vampire captions for Halloween.”
“I would like to give fangs to all my friends.”
“Sorry, you just seem like my blood type.”
“I’ve got a bat idea.”
Funny Halloween Quotes
“I see my face in the mirror and go, ‘I’m a Halloween costume? That’s what they think of me?’ ” – Drew Carey
“Bing, bong. ‘C’mon lady, let’s go. Halloween, doorbells, candy. Let’s pick it up.'” — Jerry Seinfeld
“Happy Halloween to all. And to all a good fright.” — Hubie Dubois, Hubie Halloween
“Being normal is vastly overrated.” — Aggie Cromwell, Halloweentown
“I go for a look which I call ‘Dead but Delicious.'” — Vladislav, What We Do in the Shadows
“Some people are born for Halloween, and some are just counting the days until Christmas.” — Stephen Graham Jones
“Halloween shadows played upon the walls of the houses.” – Eleanor Estes
“A person should always choose a costume which is in direct contrast to her own personality.” – Lucy Van Pelt, It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown
“Let’s turn on the juice and see what shakes loose.” — Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice
“We’re not hosting an intergalactic kegger down here.” — Zed, Men in Black
“Ah, the old express bus to Hell. No lines, no waiting!” — Cyrus, The Frighteners
“Magic is really very simple, all you’ve got to do is want something and then let yourself have it.” – Aggie Cromwell, Halloweentown
“I’ve seen enough horror movies to know that any weirdo wearing a mask is never friendly.” – Elizabeth, Friday the 13th
“Halloween wraps fear in innocence, as though it were a slightly sour sweet. Let terror, then, be turned into a treat…” – Nicholas Gordon
“Halloween is not only about putting on a costume, but it’s about finding the imagination and costume within ourselves.” – Elvis Duran
“I am a witch. A real house-haunting, broom-riding, cauldron-stirring witch.” — Samantha
“By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes.” – William Shakespeare, Macbeth
“It’s showtime!” — Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice
“I don’t see how a pumpkin patch can be more sincere than this one.” — Linus, It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown
“Keep calm and carry a wand.” — A.W. Jantha, Hocus Pocus & The All New Sequel
“Mystery is my mistress. I must heed her sweet call.” — Velma, Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed
“Dobby never meant to kill. He only meant to maim, or seriously injure.” — Dobby, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
“‘Tis the night—the night of the graves 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
“On Halloween, witches come true; wild ghosts escape from dreams. Each monster dances in the park.” –Nicholas Gordon
“I like to say I believe in ghosts so I don’t get haunted by one.” – Ella Henderson
“Witches don’t look like anything. Witches are. Witches do.” – Franny Billingsley
“I put a spell on you. Because you’re mine.” — Annie Lennox
“I want you to know that if I can’t be close to you, I’ll settle for the ghost of you.” — Justin Bieber, Ghost
“Run for it? Running’s not a plan! Running’s what you do once a plan fails!” — Earl Bassett, Tremors
“Isn’t the view beautiful? It takes my breath away. Well, it would if I had any.” — The Corpse Bride, The Corpse Bride
“And I would have gotten away with it too, if it weren’t for you meddling kids!” — Villain, Scooby-Doo
“Pardon me, boy, is this the Transylvania station?” — Dr. Frederick Frankenstein, Young Frankenstein
“I don’t understand it. I went trick-or-treating and all I got was a bag full of rocks.” — Charlie Brown, It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown
“The suspense is terrible. I hope it’ll last.” — Willy Wonka, Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
“If human beings had genuine courage, they’d wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween.” – Douglas Copeland
“When the witches went waltzing.” – Linda Williams
Short Halloween Quotes for Instagram
“Sticky fingers, tired feet; one last house, trick or treat!” – Rusty Fischer
“Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.” – Edgar Allan Poe
“Where there is no imagination there is no horror.” – Arthur Conan Doyle
“Never trust the living.” – Beetlejuice
“I ate John. I wept the entire meal. Even though he tasted delicious.” — Nandor, What We Do in the Shadows
“I didn’t know if you have kids you need five different costumes.” — Mindy Kaling
“How many more months of Halloween this year?” — Jim Gaffigan
“Every day is Halloween, isn’t it? For some of us.” — Tim Burton
“For Halloween I’m going as a narcissist.” — Conan O’Brien
“On Halloween, the parents sent their kids out looking like me.” — Rodney Dangerfield
“Halloween is just finals week for parents.” — Jim Gaffigan
“Halloween: the night that fathers get their hearts broken when they see their daughters costume.” — Whitney Cummings
“Once again, my Halloween costume this year will be Sexy Weird Al.” — “Weird Al” Yankovic
“If you’ve got it, haunt it.” – Rose Pressey
“Clothes make a statement. Costumes tell a story.” – Mason Cooley
“I would die for her. I would kill for her. Either way, what bliss.” – Gomez, The Addams Family
“I see dead people.” – The Sixth Sense
“There’s a little witch in all of us.” — Aunt Jet Owens
“Halloween is an opportunity to be really creative.” – Judy Gold
“Listen to them—the children of the night. What music they make!” – Bram Stoker
“I put a spell on you because you’re mine.”- Jay Hawkins
“Things are never quite as scary when you’ve got a best friend.” – Bill Waterson
“I’m wicked through and through.” – Elphaba, Wicked
“It’s all just a bunch of hocus pocus.” – Max, Hocus Pocus
“There’s only 365 days left until next Halloween!” – The Nightmare Before Christmas
“Where my ghouls at?” – Monster High
“They’re creepy and they’re kooky, mysterious, and spooky.” – Andrew Gold
“Whatever you do, don’t fall asleep.”— A Nightmare on Elm Street
Halloween Quotes for Kids
“Trick or treat, smell my feet, give me something good to eat!” — Traditional Halloween chant
“Boo to you! Have a spooktacular Halloween!”
“I’m not scary, I’m just practicing my monster face!”
“I only have eyes for candy!”
“Witch way to the candy?”
“Boo-tiful Halloween to you!”
“I’m here for the boos and the candy!”
“I’m just here for the boos and the booze… I mean the candy!”
“Witch way to the Halloween party?”
“This witch loves Halloween!”
