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.

Halloween is here.

With the spooky stillness of the night, decorations up everywhere and everyone ready to embrace their silly and creative side.

It’s a time for fun together with family and friends. A time for scaring and getting scared in a fun kind of way.

It’s a time to keep fears and darkness away with laughter and joy.

And to help you with that I’d like to share 101 of the most spooky, cute, scary and funny Halloween quotes.

Use one or a couple of them for party invitations, your letter board, social media posts or just texts or group chats to make this a great and fun holiday.

Funny and Short Halloween Quotes for Your Letter Board

“It’s showtime!”
– Beetlejuice

“I’m a homicidal maniac. They look just like everyone else.”
– Wednesday Addams, The Addams Family

“The first time you hear the concept of Halloween when you’re a kid, your brain can’t even process the information.”
– Jerry Seinfeld

“Well, fancy! We desire children.”
– Winifred Sanderson, Hocus Pocus

“Hell is empty and all the devils are here.”
– William Shakespeare, The Tempest

“Not every witch lives in Salem.”
– Unknown

“Where there is no imagination there is no horror.”
– Arthur Conan Doyle

“Be afraid, be very afraid.”
– Ronnie, The Fly

“Never trust the living.”
– Beetlejuice

“I put a spell on you because you’re mine.”
– Jay Hawkins

“It’s alive!”
– Frankenstein

“You rang?”
– Lurch, The Addams Family

“Where my ghouls at?”
– Monster High

“Clothes make a statement. Costumes tell a story.”
– Mason Cooley

“A mask tells us more than a face.”
– Oscar Wilde

“Sticky fingers, tired feet; one last house, trick or treat!”
– Rusty Fischer

“I’m wicked through and through.”
– Elphaba, Wicked

“It reeks of children!”
– Mary Sanderson, Hocus Pocus

“That’s the problem. He was dead to begin with.”
– Ichabod Crane, Sleepy Hollow

“If you’ve got it, haunt it.”
– Rose Pressey

“Werewolves howl. Phantoms prowl. Halloween’s upon us now.”
– Richelle E. Goodrich

Cute and Funny Halloween Quotes for Kids and Adults

“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

“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

“Nothing on Earth so beautiful as the final haul on Halloween night.”
– Steve Almond

“Things are never quite as scary when you’ve got a best friend.”
– Bill Waterson

“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

“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

“Being normal is vastly overrated.”
– Aggie Cromwell, Halloweentown

“I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.”
– L.M. Montgomery

“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

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

“On Halloween you get to become anything that you want to be.”
– Ava Dellaria

“I could have had candy apples and gum and cookies and money and all sorts of things. But, no, I had to listen to you, you blockhead.”
– Sally, It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown

“Every October I’m kidnapped and forced to scare birds at a local pumpkin patch.”
– Conan O’Brien

“Keep calm and carry a wand.”
– A.W. Jantha

“The suspense is terrible. I hope it’ll last.”
– Willy Wonka, Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory

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

“My poor little sister should be out trick-or-treating. But look at her. You’ve kept her from a normal childhood, and it’s turned her into a wall ornament!”
– Marnie Piper, Halloweentown

“There’s children throwing snowballs, instead of throwing heads, they’re busy building toys and absolutely no one’s dead!”
– Jack Skellington, The Nightmare Before Christmas

“Have you come to sing pumpkin carols?”
– Linus, It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown

Spooky, Scary and Funny Halloween Quotes and Sayings

“During the day, I don’t believe in ghosts. At night, I’m a little more open-minded.”
– Unknown

“We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.”
– Stephen King

“Am I walking toward something I should be running away from?”
– Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House

“There is something at work in my soul, which I do not understand.”
– Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“I heard all things in the heaven and in the earth. I heard many things in hell.”
– Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart

“There is something haunting in the light of the moon.”
– Joseph Conrad

“Listen to them – the children of the night. What music they make!”
– Bram Stoker

“I’ve seen enough horror movies to know that any weirdo wearing a mask is never friendly.”
– Elizabeth, Friday the 13th

“Deep into the darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing/Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.”
– Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven

“There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.”
– George Carlin

“Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.”
– William Shakespeare, Macbeth

“Fear is the relinquishment of logic, the willing relinquishing of reasonable patterns.”
– Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House

“The rain pattered dismally against the panes, and my candle was nearly burnt out, when I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open.”
– Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“I am all in a sea of wonders; I doubt; I fear; I think strange things, which I dare not confess to my own soul.”
– Bram Stoker

“The moon has awoken with the sleep of the sun, the light has been broken; the spell has begun.”
– Midgard Morningstar

“‘Tis the night – the night of the grave’s delight and the warlocks are at their play.”
– Arthur Cleveland Coxe

“Halloween shadows played upon the walls of the houses. In the sky the Halloween moon raced in and out of the clouds.”
– Eleanor Estes, The Witch Family

“Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within.”
– Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House

“Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can’t see where it keeps its brain.”
– J.K. Rowling

“By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes.”
– William Shakespeare, Macbeth

“Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.”
– Edgar Allan Poe

Funny Halloween Quotes from Movies and TV-shows

“It’s all just a bunch of hocus pocus.”
– Max, Hocus Pocus

“I make it a rule never to get involved with possessed people.”
– Dr. Peter Venkman, Ghostbusters

“Let’s turn on the juice and see what shakes loose.”
– Beetlejuice

“We gladly feast on those who would subdue us.”
– The Addams Family

“It’s Halloween; everyone’s entitled to one good scare.”
– Brackett, Halloween

“Wench! Trollop! You bucktoothed, mop-riding firefly from hell!”
– Billy Butcherson, Hocus Pocus

“Why spiders? Why couldn’t it be ‘follow the butterflies?’”
– Ron Weasley, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

“You must believe me, it was a horseman, a dead one! Headless!”
– Ichabod Crane, Sleepy Hollow

“I’ll stop wearing black when they make a darker color.”
– Wednesday Addams, The Addams Family

“I would die for her. I would kill for her. Either way, what bliss.”
– Gomez, The Addams Family

“I’m just like any modern woman trying to have it all. Loving husband, a family. It’s just, I wish I had more time to seek out the dark forces and join their hellish crusade.”
– Morticia Addams, Addams Family Values

“Villainy wears many masks, none so dangerous as the mask of virtue.”
– Ichabod Crane, Sleepy Hollow

“Maybe now you’ll never slime a guy with a positron collider, huh?”
– Dr. Peter Venkman, Ghostbusters

“To live without you, only that would be torture.”
– Gomez, The Addams Family

“Goodbye cruel world.”
– Winifred Sanderson, Hocus Pocus

“Good-bye, Ichabod Crane. I curse the day you came to Sleepy Hollow.”
– Katrina Van Tassel, Sleepy Hollow

“I would like, if I may, to take you on a strange journey.”
– The Criminologist, Rocky Horror Picture Show

“It’s a full moon tonight. That’s why all the weirdos are out.”
– Dani, Hocus Pocus

“Dobby never meant to kill. He only meant to maim, or seriously injure.”
– Dobby, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

“We danced the Mamushka while Nero fiddled, we danced the Mamushka at Waterloo.”
– Gomez, The Addams Family

Funny Happy Halloween Quotes with Humor and Inspiration

“I love Halloween, and I love that feeling: the cold air, the spooky dangers lurking around the corner.”
– Evan Peters

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

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

“Everything seemed cut from soft black velvet or gold or orange velvet. Smoke panted up out of a thousand chimneys like the plumes of funeral parades.”
– Ray Bradbury

“The world turned upside down – in a good way – for one black velvet night.”
– Karen Fortunati

“Halloween is an opportunity to be really creative.”
– Judy Gold

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

“We have had our summer evenings, now for October eves!”
– Humbert Wolfe

“I was born on the night of Samhain, when the barrier between the worlds is whisper-thin and when magic, old magic, sings its heady and sweet song to anyone who cares to hear it.”
– Carolyn MacCullough, Once a Witch

“Halloween is an ancient druidic holiday, one the Celtic peoples have celebrated for millennia.”
– Jenny Colgan, Welcome To Rosie Hopkins’ Sweetshop Of Dreams

“Halloween wraps fear in innocence, as though it were a slightly sour sweet. Let terror, then, be turned into a treat.”
– Nicholas Gordon

“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

“They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”
– Edgar Allan Poe

“There is a town, two days journey to the north in the Hudson Highlands. It is a place called Sleepy Hollow.”
– The Burgomaster, Sleepy Hollow

“Harvey wasn’t interested in the clothes, it was the masks that mesmerized him.”
– Clive Barker, The Thief of Always

“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

“Halloween is huge in my house and we really get into the ‘spirits’ of things.”
– Dee Snider

“Men say that in this midnight hour, the disembodied have power.”
– William Motherwell

“This wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. Either it goes or I do.”
– Oscar Wilde

“The farther we’ve gotten from the magic and mystery of our past, the more we’ve come to need Halloween.”
– Paula Guran

Want more inspiration for your Halloween and fall? Then check out the top 25 Halloween quotes here, the inspirational fall quotes in this post and also this one with funny fall quotes.