100+ Short Halloween Quotes to Bewitch Friends & Followers

Seeking short Halloween quotes?

Want to thrill and chill your friends and followers this haunting season?

Everything you need is right here!

I’ve curated a collection of spooky Halloween quotes that are just the right length for making quote graphics.

Plus easy how-to’s.

Let’s hop to the haunting!

Short Halloween Quotes and Sayings for Memes

I’ve shortened some quotes for you so they work perfectly for making quote graphics. You’ll see ellipses (…) where words were removed.

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Funny Halloween Quotes

Check the other sections too, especially Cute, for more funny quotes.

“I’m so happy that Halloween falls on a weekday this year!” said no teacher ever.
~ Author Unknown

I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
~ Henry David Thoreau

I’ll bet living in a nudist colony takes all the fun out of Halloween.
~ Charles S. Swartz

Surround yourself with candy, not negativity.
~ Dani

Every time I avoid eating Halloween candy, I reward myself by eating Halloween candy.
~ Unknown

A grandmother pretends she doesn’t know who you are on Halloween.
~ Erma Bombeck

A candy a day keeps the monsters away.
~ Unknown

Nothing on Earth is so beautiful as the final haul on Halloween night.
~ Steve Almond

I don’t know that there are real ghosts and goblins,
But there are always more trick-or-treaters than neighborhood kids.
~ Robert Breault

If you think you’re too cool to dress up for Halloween, just go as a hipster.
~ Unknown

I’m just here for the candy.
~ Unknown

Hope all that Halloween candy doesn’t go to WAIST.
~ Unknown

On Halloween, the parents sent their kids out looking like me.
~ Rodney Dangerfield

Trick or treat, bags of sweets,
Ghosts are walking down the street.
~ Unknown

All the candy corn that was ever made was made in 1911.
~ Lewis Black

One Hour Broom Parking: Violators Will Be Toad.
~ Unknown

Halloween is the only time I can easily convince others that my children are monsters.
~ Unknown

Hobgoblins know the proper way to dance:
Arms akimbo, loopy legs askew…
Open to the charm of horrors new….
~ Nicholas Gordon

If one more person asks about my Halloween plans, I’m going to be the scariest thing they see all week.
~ Unknown

Free flying lessons, BYOB. Bring your own broom.
~ Unknown

In the interest of fighting the childhood obesity epidemic, I’ve decided to eat all the Halloween candy I bought.
~ Unknown

The cobwebs in my house just became my decorations!
~ Unknown

Halloween Quotes from Movies

See more movie quotes in the next section of Disney Halloween quotes.

Be afraid … Be very afraid.
~ Ronnie, The Fly

I’ve seen enough horror movies to know that any weirdo wearing a mask is never friendly.
~ Elizabeth, Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives

We came, we saw, we kicked its ass.
~ Dr. Peter Venkman, Ghostbusters

It’s Halloween, I guess everyone’s entitled to one good scare.
~ Sheriff Leigh Brackett, Halloween

Here’s a clip from the movie.with my doppleganger, Jamie Lee Curtis.

The Rocky Horror Picture Show quotes

I am a wild and untamed thing.
~ Frank N. Furter

There’s a light, over at the Frankenstein place.
~ Janet Weiss

So, come up to the lab and see what’s on the slab!
~ Frank N. Furter

And crawling, on the planet’s face,
Some insects, called the human race.
Lost in time, and lost in space…
and meaning.
~ The Criminologist

Don’t dream it, be it.
~ Frank N. Furter

I’ve tasted blood and I want more!
~ Janet Weiss

I would like, if I may, to take you on a strange journey.
~ The Criminologist

It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown quotes

A perennial favorite from my childhood! Hope you enjoy it too.

Have you come to sing pumpkin carols?
~ Linus

A person should always choose a costume which is in direct contrast to her own personality.
~ Lucy Van Pelt

There are three things I have learned never to discuss with people: religion, politics and the Great Pumpkin.
~ Linus

I got a rock.
~ Charlie Brown

Everyone tells me you are a fake, but I believe in you.
P.S.: if you really are a fake, don’t tell me. I don’t want to know.
~ Linus

Each year, the Great Pumpkin rises out of the pumpkin patch that he thinks is the most sincere. He’s gotta pick this one.
~ Linus

Disney Halloween Quotes

I got friends on the other side.
~ Dr. Facilier, The Princess and the Frog

The Nightmare Before Christmas quotes

This is Halloween, everybody make a scene.
Trick or treat till the neighbors gonna die of fright.
It’s our town, everybody scream,
In this town of Halloween.
~ Jack Skellington

Just because I cannot see it, doesn’t mean I can’t believe it!
~ Jack Skellington

I am the shadow on the moon at night,
Filling your dreams to the brim with fright.
~ Oogie Boogie

Come with us and you will see,
This our town of Halloween.
~ Jack Skellington

I’m a master of fright and a demon of light, and I’ll scare you right out of your pants.
~ Jack Skellington

Hocus Pocus Halloween quotes

Oh, look. Another glorious morning.
It makes me sick!
~ Winifred Sanderson

Sisters, All Hallow’s Eve has become a night of frolic, where children wear costumes and run amok!
~ Winifred Sanderson

Halloweentown quotes

Halloween is cool.
~ Marnie

You can’t tell what’s in a monster’s heart just by looking at ’em. I mean, sometimes, some of the slimiest, raunchiest, ugliest little monsters turn out to be the nicest.
~ Aggie Cromwell

Magic is really very simple, all you’ve got to do is want something and then let yourself have it.
~ Aggie Cromwell

The Haunted Mansion quotes

When hinges creak in doorless chambers,
And strange and frightening sounds echo through the halls.
Whenever candlelights flicker where the air is deathly still.
That is the time when ghosts are present,
Practicing their terror with ghoulish delight!
~ The Haunted Mansion

Grim grinning ghosts come out to socialize.
~ The Haunted Mansion

Serpents and spiders, tail of a rat.
Call in the spirits wherever they’re at.
~ Madame Leota

We have 999 happy haunts here — but there’s always room for one more!
~ The Haunted Mansion

Welcome, foolish mortals.
~ The Haunted Mansion

Check out this fantastic video for lots more quote ideas! (and some great talent).

Cute Halloween Quotes

Trick or Treat,
Smell my feet,
Give me something good to eat!
~ Unknown

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

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.
~ Author Unknown

There is a child in every one of us who is still a trick-or-treater looking for a brightly-lit front porch.
~ Robert Breault

Backward, turn backward,
O Time, in your flight
make me a child again
just for to-night!
~ Elizabeth Akers Allen

Backward, turn backward,
O Time, in your flight,
Make me a child again
Just for to-night!
~ Elizabeth Chase Allen

Ghosts, like ladies, never speak till spoke to.
~ Richard Harris Barham

We haven’t taken [Halloween] away from kids. We’ve just expanded it so that the kid in adults can enjoy it, too.
~ Cassandra Peterson

You’re never too old to beg for free candy.
~ Unknown

Sticky fingers, tired feet.
One last house, “Trick or Treat!”
~ Rusty Fischer

On Halloween, witches come true;
Wild ghosts escape from dreams.
Each monster dances in the park.
~ Nick Gordon

Scary Halloween quotes

Be sure to also check out Witches and Black Cats below, for more scary quotes.

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

At first cock-crow the ghosts must go
Back to their quiet graves below.
~ Theodosia Garrison

If a man harbors any sort of fear, it makes him landlord to a ghost.
~ Lloyd Douglas

To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.
~ Sir Francis Bacon

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

Halloween wraps fear in innocence,
As though it were a lightly sour sweet.
Let terror, then, be turned into a treat.
~ Nick Gordon

Ghosts and goblins and jack-o-lanterns at night;
I sure hope your Halloween is the best type of fright!
~ Unknown

There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.
~ George Carlin

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

Eat, drink, and be scary.
~ Unknown

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.
~ Francis Bacon

Don’t keep calm. I’m under your bed!
~ Unknown

Shadows of a thousand years rise again unseen,
Voices whisper in the trees, “Tonight is Halloween!”
~ Dexter Kozen

There is something haunting in the light of the moon.
~ Joseph Conrad

Be wary then; best safety lies in fear.
~ William Shakespeare

One need not be a chamber to be haunted.
~ Emily Dickinson

Tis now the very witching time of night, when churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out Contagion to this world.
~ William Shakespeare

As spirits roam the neighborhoods at night,
Let loose upon the Earth till it be light…
~ Nicholas Gordon

Where there is no imagination there is no horror.
~ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes.
~ William Shakespeare

Don’t make me get the flying monkeys!
~ Unknown

From ghoulies and ghosties and long leggety beasties and things that go bump in the night, Good Lord, deliver us!
~ Scottish Saying

‘Tis the night of the grave’s delight.
~ Arthur Cleveland Coxe

Nothing beats a haunted moonlit night on All Hallows Eve.
~ Kim Elizabeth

The somber hues of an ominous, dark forest are suddenly illuminated under the emerging face of the full moon.
~ Kim Elizabeth

Inspirational Halloween quotes

Here are some not-too-weird Halloween quotes that even conservative businesses can use! Just place them on a black background and add your logo. Happy Halloween!

And you can find more marketing inspiration for the month at this page of October marketing ideas.

Do one thing every day that scares you.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt

Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.
~ Omar N. Bradley

Just because I cannot see it, doesn’t mean I can’t believe it!
~ Jack Skellington

Do it scared!
~ Unknown

Use your imagination not to scare yourself to death but to inspire yourself to life.
~ Adele Brookman

Those who do not believe in magic will never find it.
~ Roald Dahl

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself… and spiders!
~ Unknown

Don’t let past ghosts scare away present gifts.
~ Jane Lee Logan

On Halloween you get to become anything that you want to be.
~Ava Dellaira

Happiness is being confidently weird.
~ Unknown

Witch Halloween Quotes

You say witch like it’s a bad thing.
~ Unknown

Back to witches and wizards and magical beasts,
To goblins and ghosts and to magical feasts.
~ Harry Potter

Get your witchy on.
~ Unknown

On Halloween, witches come true…
~ Nicholas Gordon

Life is a witch and then you fly.
~ Unknown

When witches go riding,
and black cats are seen,
the moon laughs and whispers,
‘tis near Halloween.
~ Author Unknown

Today I can be a little witch and get away with it!
~ Unknown

Please drop in for a spell.
~ Unknown

Old witch Mary, quite contrary, how does your garden grow?
With moss and slime and poisonous vine, and toadstools all in a row.
~ Unknown

Drink up, witches!
~ Unknown

I heard you’re going to wear a witch costume this Halloween. You could have fooled me because I thought you were already wearing one.
~ Unknown

Free flying lessons, BYOB. Bring your own broom.
~ Unknown

Witch and ghost make merry on this last of dear October’s days.
~ Unknown

Not every witch lives in Salem.
~ Unknown

Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn and cauldron bubble.
~ Shakespeare

Pumpkin Halloween quotes

I never met a pumpkin I didn’t like.
~ Unknown

October, tuck tiny candy bars in my pockets and carve my smile into a thousand pumpkins… Merry October!
~ Rainbow Rowell

There is magic in the night when pumpkins glow by moonlight.
~ Unknown

May your jack-o-lantern burn bright all through the night!
~ Unknown

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.
~ Author Unknown

A smile is an inexpensive way to change your looks.
~ Charles Gordy

Romantic Halloween quotes

When we’re together, darling, every night is Halloween.
~ Morticia Addams

You rock, ghoulfriend!
~ Unknown

Just like ghosts, you’ve been hauntin’ my dreams,
So I’ll propose on Halloween.
Love is kinda crazy
With a spooky little girl like you.
~ Classics IV

Your Halloween costume makes me want to take off your Halloween costume.
~ Unknown

Hey, Boo-tiful!
~ Unknown

True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I put a spell on you because you’re mine.
~ Jay Hawkins

I love you so much it’s scary.
~ Unknown

I need to get a you-sized Halloween bag because you are 100% eye candy.
~ Unknown

I can’t stop falling in love with boooooo.
~ Unknown

Trick or treat, I think you’re sweet, on Halloween and always.
~ Unknown

For it is plain, as anyone can see. We’re simply meant to be.
~ Jack Skellington & Sally

Let’s take this relationship to the next level, where I force you into a humiliating couples costume.
~ Unknown

Black Cat Halloween Quotes

When witches go riding,
and black cats are seen,
the moon laughs and whispers,
‘tis near Halloween.
~ Author Unknown

If a black cat crosses your path, it means… that cat is going somewhere!
~ Unknown

Whenever the cat of the house is black, the lasses of lovers will have no lack.
~ Folk Saying

When black cats prowl and pumpkins gleam,
May luck be yours on Halloween.
~ Author Unknown

Christian Halloween Quotes

Enjoy these Christian Halloween sayings from unknown authors.

The only ghost that lives here is the Holy Ghost.

The devil’s trick is no treat.

Let your faith be bigger than your fear.

Halloween is for sissies. We have the Holy Ghost!

Got Jesus? It’s hell without Him.

Heaven is no trick and Hell is no treat.

Are you “folloween” Jesus?

Halloween Quotes about Costumes

If human beings had genuine courage, they’d wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween.
~ Douglas Coupland

There is nothing that gives more assurance than a mask.
~ Colette

Clothes make a statement. Costumes tell a story.
~ Mason Cooley

Being in a band you can wear whatever you want – it’s like an excuse for Halloween everyday.
~ Gwen Stefani

I’d dress up as Siri for Halloween if my life didn’t already entail being asked stupid questions all the time.
~ Unknown

Acting is like a Halloween mask that you put on.
~ River Phoenix

I love that in celebrating Halloween, we can get lost in the magic of make-believe and fantasy no matter what age we are!
~ Natalya Neidhart

Halloween is not only about putting on a costume, but it’s about finding the imagination and costume within ourselves.
~ Elvis Duran

I’ve put more thought into my Halloween costume than into my career.
~ Unknown

How to Make Halloween Quote Graphics

Making shareable social media images can be as easy as pasting a short quote onto a photo in your graphics program.

Choose photos that offer plenty of space to overlay text. Nothing too busy or contrasty.

Here’s where you can get free photos.

Check out the best apps to add text to photos.

How to Use Halloween Fonts

There are a lot of kooky, crazy fonts that are fun for Halloween.

Beware! Using a decorative font for more than a couple words may make your meme hard to read. And with the amount of content people are scrolling by in their newsfeeds, they just may pass yours up if it’s unreadable.

That said – Here’s a site where you can download creepy free Halloween fonts!

You can check out my quote graphic samples for type inspiration. See them all on the infographic at the end of the post – be sure to Pin it!

How to Make Your Fonts Stand Out

• I recommend white type as the most readable.
• If your design app offers the option, add a shadow for more “pop.”
• You can use a light-colored font where the background is dark enough.
• Black type only on light backgrounds. “Outer Glow” will help it pop.
• Use a different and/or smaller font for the quote author’s name.
• Don’t forget to add your URL! This should be the most subtle element.

Check out the image below for many of these tips in action!

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