"Since sleep is the twin of death, death is the twin of life. Sleep in this mirror until you are awakened."  From Dark Shadows episode 871.

"I have feelings that cannot be contradicted."  From Dark Shadows episode 407.

"I think I shall feel quite at home in the unknown."  From Dark Shadows episode 840.

"Good manners can cover up the most complex of feelings."  From Dark Shadows episode 357.

When your appointment book is blank but you're still "all booked up."  From Dark Shadows episode 1088.

"My name is Ezra.  And my father’s was, and his father before him.  You find a name like Ezra, and you don’t give it up" (Abe Vigoda on Dark Shadows).

"The shadow is only touching the moon."  From Dark Shadows episode 1075.

"If you know the stars, you know the person."  From Dark Shadows episode 1073.

This is what we say everywhere we go: "Where's your crystal ball?  I expected to see a crystal ball."  From Dark Shadows episode 1073.

It's still difficult to get anyone to bring you the candles of the seven secrets.  It's like they don't want you to exorcise the ghost.  "'I want you to go home and come back here immediately, and bring with you the candles.  The candles of the seven secrets.'  'No.'"  From Dark Shadows episode 1005.

It's great advice: never discuss or analyze dreams with people who weren't in the dream.  In this scene from Dark Shadows episode 327, young David is disinclined to brainstorm with Burke because Burke hadn't appeared in his dream.  He says that only the ghost Sarah could decode the dream because she had been in it.

The day David Selby coudn't follow the labyrinthine plots anymore.  From Dark Shadows episode 1086.

"There are only 12 different types of faces in the world, yet we're constantly amazed at people who look alike."  From Dark Shadows episode 1073.

"All these centuries, all that men have accomplished, and yet we know knowing about what's going to happen tomorrow."  From Dark Shadows episode 1073.

There's a fine line between general haunting and specific ghosts.  From Dark Shadows episode 161.

If you're ever bricked into a wall, may someone hold up a candle before the final brick is placed, "so you will always remember what the light was like."  From Dark Shadows, episode 442.

"Everything that's happening must be leading to something."  From Dark Shadows episode 1014.

"I'm getting pretty good at accumulating guilts."  "And I'm not going to feel guilty about it at all."  From Dark Shadows episodes 1007 and 563.

What to do when the lead character takes over a month off a daily TV series?  Have him chained in a coffin, unable to witness or deal with the terrors and horrors swirling around him.  That's what happens in Dark Shadows.  Our sampling of stills are from episodes 984, 989, 990, 991, 994, 995, 998.  Over twenty episodes begin by mentioning how Barnabas Collins is unaware of the frightening drama.  Yeah, we noticed!

How true those words are, even today: "Never trust scholarly magazines."  From Dark Shadows episide 475.