Halloween is a time to unwind and have a bit of fun, even at work.
To help you add some excitement to your office celebrations, here are 75 funny, spooky, and positive Halloween quotes for work.
You can use your favorites in a card, email, group chat, or during your office festivities.
Hopefully, you’ll discover something here to bring a touch of fun and joy to Halloween for you and your colleagues.
Funny Halloween Quotes for Work
“Halloween is the only time people can become what they want to be without getting fired.”
– Sylvester Stallone
“Was deciding if I should dress as Batman or Spider-Man for Halloween, when I realized I’m a grown man. So, Batman.”
– Stephen Colbert
“Darkness doesn’t scare me, my inbox does.”
– Unknown
“So apparently no one dresses up for Halloween here. I wish I had known that before I used greasepaint for my moustache.”
– Pam Beesly (from the TV-show The Office)
“During the day, I don’t believe in ghosts. At night, I’m a little more open-minded.”
– Unknown
“My Halloween costume is Godot. I’m not showing up at the party, just texting the host every 10 minutes that I’m on my way.”
– Wynne McLaughlin
“This Halloween I’m going as a human disaster; that way I don’t have to get dressed up.”
– Jim Gaffigan
“I’m not undead, I’m just overworked and underpaid.”
– Unknown
“Little tip: when you show up to a Halloween party not dressed up, it’s the same as showing up to a normal party in a costume.”
– Josh Groban
“Halloween is right around the corner. You can tell because all the stores are decked out for Christmas.”
– Stephen Colbert
“For Halloween, I’m going as that feeling you get at a store when you try to refold a sweater properly and put it back on the shelf.”
– Rob Delaney
“My Halloween costume was so bad that people opened their doors and took candy from me.”
– Glen Nesbit
“It’s that special time of year where we voluntarily imbibe pumpkin-spiced lattes: the coffee that tastes like a candle.”
– John Oliver
“As a kid, Halloween was amazing. You dress like a superhero, you bang on your neighbor’s door, and they give you candy. I do that today, and my neighbor wants me arrested.”
– Jim Gaffigan
“I make it a rule never to get involved with possessed people.”
– Dr. Peter Venkman (from the movie Ghostbusters)
“I’m just like any modern woman trying to have it all. Loving husband, a family. It’s just, I wish I had more time to seek out the dark forces and join their hellish crusade.”
– Morticia Addams (from the movie Addams Family Values)
“If the ghost of a murdered girl really existed, I think she’d have something better to do than haunt people who don’t forward chain emails.”
– Rhys James
“The suspense is terrible. I hope it’ll last.”
– Willy Wonka (from the book Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory)
“Just put on my Halloween costume! This year I’m going as ‘Guy Who Thinks Halloween Is on October 18th.’”
– Stephen Colbert
“Some people are born for Halloween, and some are just counting the days until Christmas.”
– Stephen Graham Jones
“A person should always choose a costume which is in direct contrast to her own personality.”
– Lucy Van Pelt (from the movie It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown)
“My costume this year? A responsible adult.”
– Unknown
“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself… and spiders.”
– Unknown
Spooky Halloween Quotes and Sayings for Work
“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
“Every day is Halloween, isn’t it? For some of us.”
– Tim Burton
“Hell is empty and all the devils are here.”
– William Shakespeare, The Tempest
“Am I walking toward something I should be running away from?”
– Shirley Jackson (from the TV-show The Haunting of Hill House)
“Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.”
– Edgar Allan Poe
“Where there is no imagination, there is no horror.”
– Arthur Conan Doyle
“Villainy wears many masks, none so dangerous as the mask of virtue.”
– Ichabod Crane (from the movie Sleepy Hollow)
“We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.”
– Stephen King
“Listen to them – the children of the night. What music they make!”
– Bram Stoker
“There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.”
– George Carlin
“It’s Halloween; everyone’s entitled to one good scare.”
– Sheriff Leigh Brackett (from the movie Halloween)
“Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can’t see where it keeps its brain.”
– J.K. Rowling
“I’ve seen enough horror movies to know that any weirdo wearing a mask is never friendly.”
– Elizabeth (from the movie Friday the 13th Part VI)
“Double, double toil and trouble; fire burn, and cauldron bubble.”
– William Shakespeare, Macbeth
“It is impossible to say how first the idea entered my brain; but once conceived, it haunted me day and night.”
– Edgar Allan Poe (from the book The Tell-Tale Heart)
“I must go in. The fog is rising.”
– Emily Dickinson
“By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes.”
– William Shakespeare, Macbeth
“From ghoulies and ghosties and long-leggedy beasties and things that go bump in the night, Good Lord, deliver us!”
– Scottish Saying
Witty and Somewhat Motivational Halloween Quotes for the Workplace
“If human beings had genuine courage, they’d wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween.”
– Douglas Coupland
“Things are never quite as scary when you’ve got a best friend.”
– Bill Watterson
“Halloween is not only about putting on a costume, but it’s about finding the imagination and costume within ourselves.”
– Elvis Duran
“There is a child in every one of us who is still a trick-or-treater looking for a brightly lit front porch.”
– Robert Brault
“Magic is really very simple. All you’ve got to do is want something and then let yourself have it.”
– Aggie Cromwell (from the movie Halloweentown)
“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
“Halloween is an opportunity to be really creative.”
– Judy Gold
“It’s as much fun to scare as to be scared.”
– Vincent Price
“On Halloween, you get to become anything that you want to be.”
– Ava Dellaira
“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.”
– Marie Curie
“The farther we’ve gotten from the magic and mystery of our past, the more we’ve come to need Halloween.”
– Paula Guran
“Fear is the relinquishment of logic, the willing relinquishing of reasonable patterns. We yield to it or we fight it, but we cannot meet it halfway.”
– Shirley Jackson (from the TV-show The Haunting of Hill House)
“There is nothing that gives more assurance than a mask.”
– Colette
“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.”
– Mark Twain
“The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.”
– Nelson Mandela
“And that’s when I realized, when you’re a kid you don’t need a costume, you ARE Superman.”
– Jerry Seinfeld
Short Halloween Quotes for Work, Co-Workers and Cards
“I’ll stop wearing black when they make a darker color.”
– Wednesday Addams (from the movie The Addams Family)
“Witch parking. All others will be toad.”
– Unknown
“I go for a look which I call ‘dead but delicious.’”
– Vladislav (from the movie What We Do in the Shadows)
“It’s a full moon tonight. That’s why all the weirdos are out.”
– Dani (from the movie Hocus Pocus)
“Hocus pocus, time to focus.”
– Unknown
“I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.”
– L.M. Montgomery
“It’s showtime!”
– Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice
“You rang?”
– Lurch (from the movie The Addams Family)
“A mask tells us more than a face.”
– Oscar Wilde
“Clothes make a statement. Costumes tell a story.”
– Mason Cooley
“Never trust the living.”
– Beetlejuice
“This witch can be bribed with chocolate.”
– Unknown
“Keep calm and carry a wand.”
– A.W. Jantha
“Be afraid. Be very afraid.”
– Ronnie, The Fly
“Happy Halloween to all, and to all a good fright.”
– Hubie Dubois (from the movie Hubie Halloween)
“Have you come to sing pumpkin carols?”
– Linus (from the movie It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown)
“Being normal is vastly overrated.”
– Aggie Cromwell (from the movie Halloweentown)
“Nothing on Earth is so beautiful as the final haul on Halloween night.”
– Steve Almond
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