52 Scary Quotes From Your Favorite Horror Movies and Thrillers

Part of the fun of Halloween is the thrill of getting a good scare. Some may opt to watch a bone-chilling movie, put up spooky decor or even visit a haunted house to get their creepy thrills. But oftentimes, the scariest things that will really stick with you, come in the form of words. You know what we mean, it's the feeling you get when you think about the last words uttered by the villian in your favorite Halloween movie or a deeply disturbing phrase pulled from the pages of a creepy novel that you just can’t seem to shake. Of all of the truly hair-raising things out there that are sure to keep you up at night, our list of the best scary quotes levels with the best of them.

You can use these short and creepy sayings to come up with a super chilling Halloween Instagram caption or just let it inspire you to find the perfect horrifying saying to scare your friends. And if after you’re done reading, you find it hard to turn out the lights and fall asleep, lighten the mood with a few of these Halloween jokes.

Which is the true nightmare, the horrific dream that you have in your sleep or the dissatisfied reality that awaits you when you awake?

Be afraid. Be very afraid.

The charm of horror only tempts the strong.

Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.

I laugh maniacally, then take a deep breath and touch my chest – expecting a heart to be thumping quickly, impatiently, but there’s nothing there, not even a beat.

One need not be a chamber to be haunted. One need not be a house. The brain has corridors surpassing material place.

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Monsters are real, ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.

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.

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This inhuman place makes human monsters.

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Stare at the dark too long and you will eventually see what isn’t there.

Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!

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.

We ask only to be reassured about the noises in the cellar and the window that should not have been open.

Everyone is a moon and has a dark side, which he never shows to anybody.

Welcome to my nightmare. I think you're gonna like it.

Just when you think you've hit rock bottom, you realize you're standing on another trapdoor.

When I was a child, I was afraid of ghosts. When I grew up, I realized people are more scary.

Maybe all the schemes of the devil were nothing compared to what man could think up.

The world outside had its own rules and those rules were not human.

We make our own monsters, then fear them for what they show us about ourselves.

The real world is where the monsters are.

That cold ain't the weather. That's death approaching.

Every day is Halloween, isn't it? For some of us.

By the picking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes.

Sometimes the things in our heads are far worse than anything they could put in books or on film.

Is evil something you are? Or is it something you do?

I know that if I wasn't scared, something's wrong, because the thrill is what's scary.

Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly.

I don’t live in darkness, darkness lives in me.

Son, the greatest trick the Devil pulled was convincing the world there was only one of him.

I have a meanness inside me, real as an organ.

Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.

It touched me to be trusted with something terrible.

Everybody is a book of blood; wherever we're opened, we're red.

People die ...

Beauty fades ...

Love changes ...

And you will always be alone.

When you think about it, most of the good ideas came along to make sin a whole lot easier.

I'm so curious about knowing the unknown; it can be scary, but I see it as a game.

The monsters that rose from the dead, they are nothing compared to the ones we carry in our hearts.

It is a mistake to fancy that horror is associated inextricably with darkness, silence and solitude.

There is something at work in my soul, which I do not understand.

When there’s no more room in hell, the dead will walk the earth.

Even the dead tell stories.

No one escapes from life alive.

If you are reading this, then you are blissfully unaware what is creeping up behind you.

We stopped checking for monsters under our bed when we realized they were inside us.

I'm every nightmare you've ever had. I am your worst dream come true. I am everything you ever were afraid of!

I fear not the dark itself, but what may lurk within it.

The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.

Hope not ever to see Heaven. I have come to lead you to the other shore; into eternal darkness; into fire and into ice.

The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door …

Death is not scary. It’s where we’ll end up that is.

Demons are like obedient dogs; they come when they are called.