Here are 20 scary quotes that will keep you up at night. Whether you’re needing a little inspiration for your next horror story or you’re looking for some Halloween images to share on social media (feel free to use these), let’s jump into spooky season a little early with some awesome quotes that will put the scream in your Halloween.
1.) One need not be a chamber to be haunted. One need not be a house. The brain has corridors surpassing material place. – Emily Dickinson
2.) The charm of horror only tempts the strong. – Jean Lorrain
3.) Walls have ears.
Doors have eyes.
Trees have voices.
Beasts tell lies.
Beware the rain.
Beware the snow.
Beware the man
You think you know. – Catherine Fisher
4.) There are horrors beyond life’s edge that we do not suspect, and once in a while man’s evil prying calls them just within our range. – H.P. Lovecraft
5.) Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see. – Edgar Allan Poe
6.) No one escapes from life alive. – Michael Crichton
7.) Monsters are real, ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win. – Stephen King
8.) Maybe all the schemes of the devil were nothing compared to what man could think up. – Joe Hill
9.) Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly. – Charles Addams
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10.) Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk. – Robert Bloch
11.) Even the dead tell stories. – Marcus Sedgwick, Revolver
12.) When you think about it, most of the good ideas came along to make sin a whole lot easier. – Joe Hill, Horns
13.) There is something at work in my soul, which I do not understand. – Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
14.) When there’s no more room in hell, the dead will walk the earth. – George A. Romero, Dawn of the Dead
15.) We stopped checking for monsters under our bed when we realized they were inside us. – Charles Darwin
16.) Demons are like obedient dogs; they come when they are called. – Rémy de Gourmon
17.) Hell is empty and all the devils are here. – William Shakespeare, The Tempest
18.) Where there is no imagination there is no horror. — Arthur Conan Doyle
19.) Which is the true nightmare, the horrific dream that you have in your sleep or the dissatisfied reality that awaits you when you awake? – Justin Alcala
20.) She never really thought about God until the day the devil thought about her. – Vanessa K. Eccles, Soul Breather
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