Halloween is here (or just around the corner depending on when you read this).
And if you’re planning a party or decorating your home and are looking for a great message for your Instagram, letter board or invitations then you’re in the right place.
In today’s post I want to share 75 of the best, scariest and funniest short Halloween quotes.
Use one or a couple of them to find the magic and mischief of this spooky season and spread that to friends and family for a happy and fun celebration.
Short Halloween Quotes for Your Letter Board
“Nothing on Earth so beautiful as the final haul on Halloween night.”
– Steve Almond
“Halloween is not only about putting on a costume, but it’s about finding the imagination and costume within ourselves.”
– Elvis Duran
“There is something haunting in the light of the moon.”
– Joseph Conrad
“I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.”
– L.M. Montgomery
“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
“Where there is no imagination there is no horror.”
– Arthur Conan Doyle
“A mask tells us more than a face.”
– Oscar Wilde
“Every day is Halloween, isn’t it? For some of us.”
– Tim Burton
“Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.”
– Edgar Allan Poe
“There is nothing that gives more assurance than a mask.”
– Colette
“We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.”
– Stephen King
“Hell is empty and all the devils are here.”
– William Shakespeare
“I love Halloween, and I love that feeling: the cold air, the spooky dangers lurking around the corner.”
– Evan Peters
“Clothes make a statement. Costumes tell a story.”
– Mason Cooley
“Halloween is an opportunity to be really creative.”
– Judy Gold
“On Halloween you get to become anything that you want to be.”
– Ava Dellaria
“If human beings had genuine courage, they’d wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween.”
– Douglas Copeland
“The farther we’ve gotten from the magic and mystery of our past, the more we’ve come to need Halloween.”
– Paula Guran
“We have had our summer evenings, now for October eves!”
– Humbert Wolfe
“I must go in. The fog is rising.”
– Emily Dickinson
Funny and Short Halloween Quotes and Sayings for Kids (and Adults)
“Kinda spooky that Halloween has never fallen on Friday the 13th.”
– Stephen Colbert
“Sticky fingers, tired feet; one last house, trick or treat!”
– Rusty Fischer
“I’m a homicidal maniac. They look just like everyone else.”
– Wednesday Addams
“I don’t know that there are real ghosts and goblins, but there are always more trick-or-treaters than neighborhood kids.”
– Robert Brault
“My Halloween costume was so bad that people opened their doors and took candy from me.”
– Glen Nesbit
“Every October I’m kidnapped and forced to scare birds at a local pumpkin patch.”
– Conan O’Brien
“Things are never quite as scary when you’ve got a best friend.”
– Bill Waterson
“A grandmother pretends she doesn’t know who you are on Halloween.”
– Erma Bombeck
“It’s all just a bunch of hocus pocus.”
– Max, Hocus Pocus
“I’m wicked through and through.”
– Elphaba, Wicked
“On Halloween, the parents sent their kids out looking like me.”
– Rodney Dangerfield
“Being in a band you can wear whatever you want – it’s like an excuse for Halloween every day.”
– Gwen Stefani
“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
“Have you come to sing pumpkin carols?”
– Linus, It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown
“It reeks of children!”
– Mary Sanderson, Hocus Pocus
“A person should always choose a costume which is in direct contrast to her own personality.”
– Lucy Van Pelt
“It’s a full moon tonight. That’s why all the weirdos are out.”
– Dani, Hocus Pocus
“As a kid, Halloween was amazing. You dress like a superhero, you bang on your neighbor’s door and they give you candy. I do that today and my neighbor wants me arrested.”
– Jim Gaffigan
“Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can’t see where it keeps its brain.”
– J.K. Rowling
“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself… and spiders.”
– Unknown
Spooky Short Halloween Quotes and Wishes for Friends and Family
“Listen to them – the children of the night. What music they make!”
– Bram Stoker
“Men say that in this midnight hour, the disembodied have power.”
– William Motherwell
“Werewolves howl. Phantoms prowl. Halloween’s upon us now.”
– Richelle E. Goodrich
“The moon has awoken with the sleep of the sun, the light has been broken; the spell has begun.”
– Midgard Morningstar
“There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.”
– George Carlin
“There is magic in the night when pumpkins glow by moonlight.”
– Unknown
“Shadows of a thousand years rise again unseen. Voices whisper in the trees, ‘Tonight is Halloween!’”
– Dexter Kozen
“By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes.”
– William Shakespeare
“I heard all things in the heaven and in the earth. I heard many things in hell.”
– Edgar Allan Poe
“There is something at work in my soul, which I do not understand.”
– Mary Shelley
“When the witches go riding, and black cats are seen, the moon laughs and whispers ’tis near Halloween.”
– Unknown
“Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.”
– William Shakespeare
“Deep into the darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.”
– Edgar Allan Poe
“I put a spell on you because you’re mine.”
– Jay Hawkins
“The dead rise again, bats fly, terror strikes and screams echo, for tonight it’s Halloween.”
– Unknown
“Shadows mutter, mist replies; darkness purrs as midnight sighs.”
– Rusty Fischer
“We gladly feast on those who would subdue us.”
– The Addams Family
“This wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. Either it goes or I do.”
– Oscar Wilde
“On Halloween, witches come true; wild ghosts escape from dreams. Each monster dances in the park.”
– Nicholas Gordon
“‘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
Cute and Short Halloween Quotes from TV-shows and Movies
“It’s Halloween; everyone’s entitled to one good scare.”
– Brackett, Halloween
“Well, fancy! We desire children.”
– Winifred Sanderson, Hocus Pocus
“I’ll stop wearing black when they make a darker color.”
– Wednesday Addams
“That’s the problem. He was dead to begin with.”
– Ichabod Crane, Sleepy Hollow
“Magic is really very simple, all you’ve got to do is want something and then let yourself have it.”
– Aggie Cromwell, Halloweentown
“To live without you, only that would be torture.”
– Gomez, The Addams Family
“Villainy wears many masks, none so dangerous as the mask of virtue.”
– Ichabod Crane, Sleepy Hollow
“Wench! Trollop! You bucktoothed, mop-riding firefly from hell!”
– Billy Butcherson, Hocus Pocus
“Good-bye, Ichabod Crane. I curse the day you came to Sleepy Hollow.”
– Katrina Van Tassel, Sleepy Hollow
“Maybe now you’ll never slime a guy with a positron collider, huh?”
– Dr. Peter Venkman, Ghostbusters
“I’ve seen enough horror movies to know that any weirdo wearing a mask is never friendly.”
– Elizabeth, Friday the 13th
“I would die for her. I would kill for her. Either way, what bliss.”
– Gomez, The Addams Family
“Goodbye cruel world.”
– Winifred Sanderson, Hocus Pocus
“You must believe me, it was a horseman, a dead one! Headless!”
– Ichabod Crane, Sleepy Hollow
“Be afraid, be very afraid.”
– Ronnie, The Fly
Want more inspiration for your Halloween? Then have a look at these funny Halloween quotes, the top 25 Halloween quotes here and you may also like these short fall quotes.