"I can handle all the problems that come to me directly, but not those over which I have no control."  From Dark Shadows episode 7.

Dr. Hoffman: "I'll give you a stronger sedative next time." 

Victoria Winters: "Do you have one that can stop dreams?" 

From Dark Shadows episode 462.

Unintuitive advice from Dark Shadows: brandy gets your life in order, tea is restful, coffee calms the nerves, sedatives are called for when there's nothing wrong, and taking your medicine will get people to stop staring at you.  However, gypsy herbs aren't prescribed willy nilly.  From episodes 881, 887, 897, 339, 791, 825, and 466.

"That's the only word for it, despair."  From Dark Shadows episode 344.

"There are so many possibilities."  From Dark Shadows episode 675.

"It's a shame to spoil the beautiful darkness.  It's sad that I love the darkness so much and I never knew it.  Maybe that's why I'm feeling so much better.  Now that I know it's dark outside."  From Dark Shadows episode 232.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

"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.

Current mood -- "I'm not even sure I can be ready."  From Dark Shadows episode 490.

From Dark Shadows episode 632.

"There was so very little meaning to our lives before tonight, and now there is none."  From Dark Shadows episode 458.

I hope you're sitting down, because here's some "undulating hypnotic music," from Dark Shadows episode 683.

Horrified by one's reflection.  From Dark Shadows episode 744.

"Isn't it possible that everything that happened tonight was just a dream?"  From Dark Shadows episode 419.

"I've spent my life doing the wrong thing. ... Leave me alone."  From Dark Shadows episode 269.