Halloween only rolls around once each year, but it can be celebrated for an entire month through store-bought or last-minute Halloween costumes, must-watch Halloween movies on Netflix, Halloween quotes or sayings, and more. As soon as October arrives, it’s time to break out the pumpkin spice and lean into spooky, funny, Halloween-ready movies and books. (You may even toss some Halloween puns around.)

You may have a few Halloween quotes or Halloween sayings memorized, but you also might be struggling for a spooky greeting or searching for a cute Halloween quote to use as a caption on your seasonal Instagram post. If you’re in the latter category, we’ve got you covered with this roundup of some of the best Halloween quotes, sayings, and phrases around, culled from classic literature, spooky movies and TV shows, and other Halloween-perfect sources.

60 Famous Halloween Quotes and Sayings to Get You in the Holiday Spirit

Let the good (and scary) times roll with these funny and spooky quotes from famous Halloween-themed movies, songs, and books.

• “What’s your favorite scary movie?” —Ghostface, Scream
• “Halloween is right around the corner. You can tell because all the stores are decked out for Christmas.” —Stephen Colbert
• “I see dead people.” —Cole Sear, The Sixth Sense
• “We all go a little mad sometimes.” — Norman Bates, Psycho
• “That old black magic has me in its spell. That old black magic that you weave so well. Those icy fingers up and down my spine, The same old witchcraft when your eyes meet mine.” —Frank Sinatra, “That Old Black Magic”
• “I’m a master of fright, and a demon of light, and I’ll scare you right out of your pants.” —Jack Skellington, The Nightmare Before Christmas
• “They’re coming to get you, Barbara.” —Johnny, Night of the Living Dead
• “There are three things I’ve learned never to discuss with people: religion, politics, and the Great Pumpkin.” —Linus, It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown
• “Hell is empty and all the devils are here.” —William Shakespeare, The Tempest
• “In girl world, Halloween is the one day a year when a girl can dress up like a total slut and no other girls can say anything else about it.” —Cady Heron, Mean Girls
• “I’m scared to close my eyes, I’m scared to open them. We’re going to die out here!” –Heather, The Blair Witch Project
• “We came, we saw, we kicked its ass.” – Dr. Peter Venkman, Ghostbusters (1984)
• “By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes. —William Shakespeare, Macbeth
• “When the sun goes down and the moon comes up, I turn into a teenage goo goo muck. Yeah, I cruise through the city and I roam the streets, looking for something that is nice to eat.” —The Cramps, “Goo Goo Muck”
• “A person should always choose a costume which is in direct contrast to her own personality.” —Lucy, It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown
• “Sometimes dead is better.” —Jud, Pet Sematary
• “It’s Halloween, everyone’s entitled to one good scare.” – Brackett, Halloween (1978)
• “We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.” —Stephen King
• “Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn and caldron bubble.” – From Shakespeare’s Macbeth
• “I would like, if I may, to take you on a strange journey.” – The Criminologist, The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
• “The real world is where the monsters are.” —Rick Riordan
• “Be afraid … Be very afraid.” – Ronnie, The Fly (1986)
• “Welcome to my nightmare. I think you’re gonna like it. —Alice Cooper, “Welcome to My Nightmare”
• “Oh look, another glorious morning. Makes me sick!” – Winifred Sanderson, Hocus Pocus (1993)
• “When the spooks have a midnight jamboree/They break it up with fiendish glee/The ghosts are bad but the one that’s cursed/Is the headless horseman; he’s the worst/That’s right, he’s a fright on Halloween night!When he goes a joggin’ ‘cross the land/Holding his noggin in his hand/Demons take one look and groan/And they hit the road to parts unknown/Beware, take care he rides alone!” – From “The Headless Horseman,” The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1949)
• “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 (1986)
• “Magic is really very simple, all you’ve got to do is want something and then let yourself have it.” – Aggie Cromwell, Halloweentown (1998)
• “I’m a homicidal maniac, they look just like everyone else.” – Wednesday, The Addams Family (1991)
• “Villainy wears many masks, none so dangerous as the mask of virtue.” – Ichabod Crane, Sleepy Hollow (1999)
• “I was working in the lab late one night/When my eyes beheld an eerie sight/For my monster from his slab began to rise/And suddenly to my surprise.He did the mash/He did the monster mash/The monster mash/It was a graveyard smash. He did the mash/It caught on in a flash/He did the mash/He did the monster mash.” – Bobby
• “Boris” Pickett, “Monster Mash”
• “I’m wild again, beguiled again, a simpering, whimpering child again. Bewitched, bothered, and bewildered am I…” —Ella Fitzgerald, “Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered”
• “Here, here! It is the beating of his hideous heart!” —Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart
• “Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.” ― Stephen King
• “So how come Halloween is such a big yawner? I mean, do the demons just hate how commercial it’s become?” —Buffy Summers, Buffy the Vampire Slayer
• “She’s a black magic woman. She’s trying to make a devil outta me.” —Santana, “Black Magic Woman”
• “Listen to them—the children of the night. What music they make!” —Bram Stroker, Dracula
• “Life’s no fun without a good scare.” —Lock, Shock and Barrel, The Nightmare Before Christmas
• “My heart is like a haunted house. There’s things in there that scream and shout. They make their music in the night. Wish I could find a way to let them out.” —Florence and the Machine, “Haunted House”
• “This is thriller, thriller night, ‘Cause I can thrill you more than any ghoul would ever dare try. Thriller, thriller night, So let me hold you tight and share a killer, thriller, chiller, thriller here tonight.” —Michael Jackson,
• “Thriller”
• “I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti.” —Hannibal Lechter, Silence of the Lambs
• “I was just thinking about the life of a pumpkin. Grow up in the sun, happily entwined with others, and then someone comes along, cuts you open, and rips your guts out.” —Buffy Summers, Buffy the Vampire Slayer
• “Very superstitious, writing’s on the wall. Very superstitious, ladders bout’ to fall…” —Stevie Wonder,
• “Superstition”
• “There’s a little witch in all of us.” — Aunt Jet Owens, Practical Magic
• “It’s as much fun to scare as to be scared.” — Vincent Price
• “You’re missing the point of Halloween…it’s come as you aren’t night.” —Buffy Summers, Buffy the Vampire Slayer
• “Do you believe in destiny? That even the powers of time can be altered for a single purpose? That the luckiest man who walks on this earth is the one who finds … true love?” – Dracula (1992)
• “I never drink…wine.” —Dracula
• “All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.” —Jack Torrance, The Shining
• “It’s that special time of year where we voluntarily imbibe pumpkin-spiced lattes: the coffee that tastes like a candle.” — John Oliver
• “Did you really think you could call up the devil and ask him to behave?” — Fox Mulder, The X-FIles