"Yes, the occult is much more interesting."  From Dark Shadows episode 507.

These are eight great tips on how to use a wishing feather while harvesting mushrooms emerging from the rot of a hidden garden.  First, be wearing a green conical cap so as to funnel your consciousness nearer the cosmos.  Second, kneel with back straight and hands on thighs.  Third, feel the life and growth around you, mirroring the life and growth within.  Fourth, with your whiskers, feel the power of the charged air of this claustral, dank cathedral, rank with the sour odor of rot and roots.  Fifth, take ten deep, slow breaths.  Sixth, touch the wishing feather atop your cap as you say, "Spirit o' mushroom, give me yer presence an' grant me a boon."  Seventh, register the soft, silent presence of the alien spirit of the mushroom.  Eighth, bless each mushroom before removing it from the earth, leaving the poisonous ones for the turtles to relish.  From The Gnole by Alan Aldridge.

"Being stung to death by single bees."  From Bleak House by Charles Dickens.

How to let a romantic prospect know you're obsessed with The Book of the Dead.  From The Dude, 1957.

"Oh look, those lights."  From Dark Shadows episode 2.

Anywhere is nowhere.  From Bleak House by Charles Dickens

"Sedatives, advice, talk."  From Dark Shadows episode 242.

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"If only I could manage to press the button."  From Dark Shadows episode 672.

One's soul "looks like a railroad trak [sic] that never ends."  From What Does Your Soul Look Like?, edited by Gail Northe. 

"Don't you ever stop to think how disgusting this is?"  From Dark Shadows episode 476.

"Gee, I wish I had your eyesight."  From The Purple Parrot, 1937.

Dark Shadows ran for 1,225 episodes, and often the cast hinted at being fatigued by it all.  Here are moments of revolt from episodes 24, 20, 27, 33, 290, 233, and two from 25.

"Peter Puck wants to know if we break our word when we drop a remark."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1924.

"Love my enemies?  But how?"  From Lighted Pathway, 1964.

"How can we be sure of anything, the tide changes ... I'm not always sure of what you are and how you feel ... I am what I am ... Undiscovered and alone until someone says 'Hello' ..."  From West Virginia Wesleyan College's 1969 yearbook.

"You look very much like someone I knew."

"Oh, I hate to be told that.  It implies that there are so many of me."

From Dark Shadows episode 368.

"Peter Puck wants to know if the singer who brought the house down rebuilt it."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1934.

"Seance-spawned Blues" on Prof. Oddfellow's Penetralia: