If you love a good scare, you’re in the right place. From classic lines that echo through horror history to original eerie one-liners, this collection captures the chills, whispers, and goosebumps of the season.
No Matter if you’re decorating your home for Halloween, looking for captions, or just want to enjoy a spine-tingling read, these words are sure to keep the lights on at night.
Spooky Quotes
- “I am afraid of things that go bump in the night.” — Unknown
- “Shadows grow longer where the light dares not linger.” — Unknown
- “By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes.” — William Shakespeare
- “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
- “Ghosts are everywhere, hiding in plain sight.” — Unknown
- “Beware the moonlit path, for not all footsteps are your own.” — Unknown
- “Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.” — Stephen King
- “Every shadow tells a story you may not want to hear.” — Unknown
- “Darkness does not scare me, but what hides within it does.” — Unknown
- “There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.” — George Carlin
- “When the wind whispers, it carries the voices of the forgotten.” — Unknown
- “Fear lives in the cracks of silence.” — Unknown
- “The graveyard is the quietest place, yet the loudest in secrets.” — Unknown
- “Hell is empty and all the devils are here.” — William Shakespeare
- “Behind every closed door is something waiting.” — Unknown
- “Some houses remember their past lives… and they don’t forgive easily.” — Unknown
- “Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.” — Mary Shelley
- “The eyes you feel in the dark are not always your imagination.” — Unknown
- “Horror is the removal of masks.” — Robert Bloch
- “A chill in the spine keeps the heart alive.” — Unknown
- “We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.” — Stephen King
- “Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.” — Edgar Allan Poe
- “Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!” — Bram Stoker
- “The night is dark and full of terrors.” — George R. R. Martin
- “The dead travel fast.” — Bram Stoker
- “Where there is no imagination there is no horror.” — Arthur Conan Doyle
- “Sometimes dead is better.” — Stephen King
- “Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn and caldron bubble.” — William Shakespeare
- “That is not dead which can eternal lie, and with strange aeons even death may die.” — H. P. Lovecraft
- “The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock at the door.” — Fredric Brown
- “We all go a little mad sometimes.” — Norman Bates
- “It’s as much fun to scare as to be scared.” — Vincent Price
- “Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Shadow knows!” — The Shadow
- “There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.” — William Shakespeare
- “I have seen the dark universe yawning.” — H. P. Lovecraft
- “He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster.” — Friedrich Nietzsche
- “Be afraid. Be very afraid.” — The Fly
- “They’re here.” — Poltergeist
- “I see dead people.” — The Sixth Sense
- “In space no one can hear you scream.” — Alien
- “The blood is the life.” — Bram Stoker
- “The call is coming from inside the house.” — Urban legend
- “I do not fear the dark. I fear what may be watching in it.” — Unknown
- “Be careful which spirit you summon; some don’t leave.” — Unknown
- “Sometimes the scariest room is the one with a mirror.” — Unknown
- “No one ever really leaves the haunted house; we just learn to live with it.” — Unknown
- “The night has teeth.” — Unknown
- “Beware the smiling ones; they hide the longest fangs.” — Unknown
- “Some doors open only once; step through and the house remembers.” — Unknown
- “What terrifies me most is the ordinary made strange.” — Unknown
- “I don’t believe in ghosts, but they believe in me.” — Unknown
- “Sleep is a fragile bridge; the dead cross it often.” — Unknown
- “The staircase creaked my name.” — Unknown
- “There are no jump scares in real life—just the moment you realize the door is already open.” — Unknown
- “Even mirrors get tired of telling the truth.” — Unknown
- “Every town has a house the kids dare each other to touch.” — Unknown
- “If you hear knocking from inside the closet, knock back—then run.” — Unknown
- “Midnight is the hour when promises expire.” — Unknown
- “I lit a candle for comfort and watched it point to the thing behind me.” — Unknown
- “I left the light on for you; something else found it first.” — Unknown
- “You are never truly alone with your headphones in—something else is listening too.” — Unknown
- “The forest keeps a ledger of our footsteps.” — Unknown
- “The ocean returns what it cannot eat.” — Unknown
- “Old photographs ask the wrong questions.” — Unknown
- “We bury the body but not the story.” — Unknown
- “I heard my name from the basement and every syllable had teeth.” — Unknown
- “Whistling past the graveyard teaches the graveyard your tune.” — Unknown
- “Some lullabies are written to keep things asleep.” — Unknown
- “If you wake at 3:33, go back to sleep before it finishes counting.” — Unknown
- “The scarecrow doesn’t watch the field; it watches the road.” — Unknown
- “Cemeteries are libraries without librarians.” — Unknown
- “Dust is just skin that remembered.” — Unknown
- “The bones in the walls are load‑bearing secrets.” — Unknown
- “The portrait blinked. I didn’t.” — Unknown
- “If you smell roses where none grow, don’t follow.” — Unknown
- “Children see what adults negotiate with.” — Unknown
- “Don’t count the steps going up; count the ones that stop.” — Unknown
- “The doll faced the wall when I left it.” — Unknown
- “A locked door is just a dare.” — Unknown
- “Never answer a familiar voice when the phone says ‘Unknown Number’.” — Unknown
- “The moon is a borrowed eye.” — Unknown
- “I slept with the windows open and woke up in someone else’s dream.” — Unknown
- “If the mirror fog writes back, move.” — Unknown
- “Graves are gardens for names.” — Unknown
- “Not all prayers go up.” — Unknown
- “There are scratches on the inside of the coffin lid.” — Unknown
- “The chapel bell rang thirteen.” — Unknown
- “Something knocked from the other side of the lake.” — Unknown
- “Ashes remember the flame.” — Unknown
- “Don’t blow out your birthday candles before you check who’s behind you.” — Unknown
- “The attic learned my footsteps.” — Unknown
- “Footprints led to the water and did not return.” — Unknown
- “If the shadow moves when you don’t, leave it behind.” — Unknown
- “Every lock is a confession.” — Unknown
- “The window showed a night that wasn’t ours.” — Unknown
- “It wasn’t the house that was haunted; it was the hour.” — Unknown
- “The lull in the storm is when the dead do their paperwork.” — Unknown
- “I met myself in a hallway that shouldn’t exist.” — Unknown
- “The forest swallowed the path as I walked it.” — Unknown
- “Something learned my name and said it like a prayer.” — Unknown
- “In the end, the scariest ghosts are the ones we carry within ourselves.” — Unknown
Now that you’ve read them all, may these spooky quotes linger in the shadows of your mind long after the page is closed.