"I must admit that I'm exhausted."  From Dark Shadows episode 1014. 

"I told him that sundial wouldn't work at night."  From Dark Shadows episode 215.

"I just wish there was some other way, not a seance.  The air seems so troubled even now."  From Dark Shadows, episode 167.

The problem of apathy in the spirit world is too rarely discussed.  "The spirits don't care!"  From Dark Shadows episode 1215.

"If someone's real in your imagination, isn't that real enough?"  From Dark Shadows episode 181.

"How much happiness do you think I'll have if he sets himself on fire again?"  From Dark Shadows episode 177.

"Tales of the stupid and superstitious."  From Dark Shadows episode 447.

"In the glare of our scientific era, you can find no shadows, nothing that defies explanation?"  From Dark Shadows episode 177.

Can the very absence of the bogeyman be terrifying in itself?  "There was no one there with me and I was frightened."  Today's moment of existential angst is from Dark Shadows.  In parts one, two, three, and four, we saw how Dark Shadows beat Seifeld to be the first show about nothing. 

"There are all kinds of things in my mind.  Shapes and forms and ..."  From Dark Shadows episode 295.

"I know there are no such things as ghosts, but suppose there are?"  From Dark Shadows episode 52.

"I'm in the past and I'm frightened."  From Dark Shadows episode 858.

"And despair and further confusion."  From Dark Shadows episode 248.

"Other people are only shadows that we frighten each other with, hurt each other with."  From Dark Shadows episode 1228.

"Yes, that's what we must do.  Not believe it, pretend it never happened."  From Dark Shadows episode 416.

"'I think the dead stay dead.  Do you?'"  From Dark Shadows episode 177.

"Why should this worry you?  It's nothing but blank pages." From Dark Shadows episode 1108.

"There's only the strangeness of the people around me."  From Dark Shadows episode 17.

"I'm tired of coffee."  From Dark Shadows episode 40.

"Oh dear God, dear God please let the curse be over."  From Dark Shadows episode 1214.