As in America, Halloween in Ireland is dazzling with spectacular fireworks, bonfires, eerie-looking lanterns, carved pumpkins, and ghostly costumes. People pray for the soul of the departed. At night, the Irish leave food and drink out, for the spirits.
In China, Halloween is known as the Ghost Festival. Though the dates of Halloween and the Ghost festival may not coincide, the two festivals share many similarities. Family members pray for the peace of the deceased. They also make material offerings to the spirits of the dead.
Some people take beliefs related to Halloween quite seriously. For example, the Irish believe that black cats bring bad luck, and the four-leaf clover brings good luck.
How do you celebrate Halloween? Do you take the traditional approach or go off the beaten track? Create some beautiful Halloween cards with these unique quotes about Halloween.
- Judith Olney
Once in a young lifetime one should be allowed to have as much sweetness as one can possibly want and hold.
- John Carpenter
I made a decision back in 1978 that, in a trade off for money when I directed Halloween, I would have my name above the title in order to basically brand these movies my own.
- James Matthew Barrie
A house is never still in darkness to those who listen intently; there is a whispering in distant chambers, an unearthly hand presses the snib of the window, the latch rises. Ghosts were created when the first man awoke in the night.
- Carolyn Wells
You wouldn't believe
On All Hallow Eve
What lots of fun we can make,
With apples to bob,
And nuts on the hob,
And a ring-and-thimble cake.
- John Kendrick Bangs
Bring forth the raisins and the nuts- Tonight All-Hallows' Specter struts Along the moonlit way.
- Bertrand Russell
Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth-- more than ruin, more even than death.
- Donald Pleasence
At the end of the first Halloween, when I shot 6 bullets into Michael Myers, John Carpenter said, "Let's get a shot of you looking out of the window and seeing no one lying there."
- Elizabeth Akers Allen
Backward, turn backward,
O Time, in your flight
make me a child again
just for to-night!
- Nicholas Gordon
On Halloween, witches come true;
Wild ghosts escape from dreams.
Each monster dances in the park....
- J. M. Barrie
A house is never still in darkness to those who listen intently; there is a whispering in distant chambers, an unearthly hand presses the snib of the window, the latch rises. Ghosts were created when the first man awoke in the night.
- Loretta Lynn
We used to go around tipping outhouses over, or turning over corn shocks on Halloween. Anything to be mean.
- Nicholas Gordon
Halloween wraps fear in innocence,
As though it were a slightly sour sweet.
Let terror, then, be turned into a treat...
- John Milton
Of calling shapes, and beck'ning shadows dire,
And airy tongues that syllable men's names.
- Matthew Broderick
[My son] wants to be Batman and he wants the Batman costume that comes in the mail. It has fake muscles in it, which is very disconcerting on a four-year-old.
- George Croly, Diana
How like a queen comes forth the lonely Moon
From the slow opening curtains of the clouds
Walking in beauty to her midnight throne!
