Spooky Quotes

• I must go in, the fog is rising.

  Emily Dickinson

  Halloween, Fog, Rising

  Emily Dickinson, Martha Dickinson Bianchi (1971). “The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.100, Biblo & Tannen Publishers

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• Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Love, Dream, Art

  "The Raven" l. 25 (1845)

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  Where there is no imagination there is no horror.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Halloween, Imagination, Scary

  Study in Scarlet (1888) ch. 5

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• Clothes make a statement. Costumes tell a story.

  Mason Cooley

  Inspirational, Halloween, Autumn

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• There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.

  George Carlin

  Funny, Halloween, Night

  George Carlin (2015). “3 x Carlin: An Orgy of George including Brain Droppings, Napalm and Silly Putty, and When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?”, p.86, Hachette UK

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• 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

  Funny, Halloween, Sound

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• They enter, locking themselves in, descend the rugged steps, and are down in the Crypt. The lantern is not wanted, for the moonlight strikes in at the groined windows, bare of glass, the broken frames for which cast patterns on the ground. The heavy pillars which support the roof engender masses of black shade, but between them there are lanes of light.

  Charles Dickens

  Light, Glasses, Broken

  Charles Dickens (1870). “The Mystery of Edwin Drood”, p.91, Castrovilli Giuseppe

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• I'm not usually where I think I am. It's kind of spooky.

  Laurie Anderson

  Thinking, Scary, Kind

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• Eye of newt, and toe of frog, Wool of bat, and tongue of dog, Adder's fork, and blind-worm's sting, Lizard's leg, and owlet's wing, For a charm of powerful trouble, Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.

  William Shakespeare

  Dog, Powerful, Halloween

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 4, sc. 1, l. 14

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• Nothing spooky or terrible happened on set, but we were told to say it had. We were giving a press conference and the writers were going on about these terrible things that supposedly happened while we were filming.

  Margot Kidder

  Giving, Scary, Terrible

  Interview with Andrew Williams, metro.co.uk. October 27, 2009.

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• You kind of invite a little spooky, creepy vibe into your whole experience of making a movie.

  Bruce Greenwood

  Scary, Creepy, Littles

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• I cannot seriously believe in it [quantum theory] because the theory cannot be reconciled with the idea that physics should represent a reality in time and space, free from spooky actions at a distance [spukhafte Fernwirkungen].

  Albert Einstein

  Distance, Believe, Science

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• I just like the idea of this creature or a being on the roof, you know? It's kind of spooky.

  William Alfred Sergeant

  Ideas, Scary, Kind

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• Being in a band you can wear whatever you want - it’s like an excuse for Halloween everyday.

  Gwen Stefani

  Halloween, Band, Want

  "Gwen Stefani Rocked The Sheer Trend Back In The ‘90s" by Amanda McGowan, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 20, 2012.

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• I've made up stuff that's turned out to be real, that's the spooky part.

  Tom Clancy

  Real, Memorable, Stuff

  The New York Times, July 27, 1986.

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• 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

  Funny, Stars, Halloween

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  True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love, Life, Sex

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• There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Funny, Sarcastic, Revenge

  Jean Baudrillard (1989). “America”, p.48, Verso

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• Physics should represent a reality in time and space, free from spooky action at a distance.

  Walter Isaacson

  Distance, Reality, Space

  Walter Isaacson (2008). “Einstein: His Life and Universe”, p.533, Simon and Schuster

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• It was a long and gloomy night that gathered on me, haunted by the ghosts of many hopes, of many dear remembrances, many errors, many unavailing sorrows and regrets.

  Charles Dickens

  Regret, Night, Errors

  Charles Dickens (1850). “The Personal History of David Copperfield”, p.577

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• There is something haunting in the light of the moon.

  Joseph Conrad

  Halloween, Moon, Light

  Joseph Conrad (1905). “Lord Jim”, p.230, McClure, Phillips & Company

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• The wind is rushing after us, and the clouds are flying after us, and the moon is plunging after us, and the whole wild night is in pursuit of us; but, so far we are pursued by nothing else.

  Charles Dickens

  Moon, Night, Clouds

  Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.7065, Delphi Classics

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• 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

  Halloween, Moon, Night

  Joseph Conrad (1905). “Lord Jim”, p.230, McClure, Phillips & Company

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  Double, double, toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble!

  William Shakespeare

  Halloween, Memorable, Play

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 4, sc. 1, l. 4

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• But I love Halloween, and I love that feeling: the cold air, the spooky dangers lurking around the corner.

  Evan Peters

  Halloween, Air, Feelings

  "'American Horror Story' Season 2: Evan Peters Says It’s Really, Really Scary". Interview with Chris Jancelewicz, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 16, 2012.

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