Morticia Addams Quotes: Inspiration From a Gothic Icon

Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly.

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.

To live without you, only that would be torture.

I wouldn’t torture you with such trivialities.

I beg your pardon, but you are dear to me.

Last night you were unhinged. You were like some desperate, howling demon. You frightened me… Do it again.

Don’t torture yourself, Gomez. That’s my job.

You are so drenched in death, there’s hardly any room for life.

Is this really as tight as you can make it?

But, my dear, our credo, ‘Sic Gorgiamus Allos Subjectatos Nunc’. We gladly feast on those who would subdue us.

Our love is like a red, red rose… And I am a little thorny.

You really are too much, my love.

Utterly delightful. Those piercing screams!

He has my father’s eyes.

Gomez, take those out of his mouth.

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.

Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly.

I’m not perky.

Don’t torture yourself, Gomez. That’s my job.

Last night you were unhinged. You were like some desperate, howling demon. You frightened me…do it again!

You severely underestimate my apathy.

So…you still desire me after all these years? The old ball and chain?

Darling, I?ve got isn?t she a pearl, isn?t she a gem! on the other line. They want an interview. ‘Homely to Haute Couture.’

I’m Morticia Addams. Station wagon, two children, eternally six and seven. I’ve been a homemaker. I’ve smiled once or twice. What challenges are left?

There’s no sense in comparing your life to anyone else?s. Each of us is born with our own unique maledictions.

Tish, speaking French! How dare you! You know it drives me wild!

As good as everybody else. Not better, just different.

Passion. It means to suffer.

It’s all so different, Pugsley. Last night it was the ceiling, tonight – the sky!

You drive a hard bargain, child. I’m forced to throw in… Uncle Knick-Knack’s summer wardrobe.

Darling, you remember what Shakespeare said: ‘Tis now the very witching time of night, when churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes contagion to this world’

Decisions are for the confident, Gomez. And I am anything but that.

Just because something isn’t good doesn’t mean it’s bad.

Being miserable and treating other people like dirt is every New Yorker?s God-given right. Remember to attribute these quotes to fictional character Morticia Addams from the Addams Family series.

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.

Don’t torture yourself, Gomez. That’s my job.

We gladly feast on those who would subdue us.

Life is not all lovely thorns and singing vultures.

I’m not perky.

But you are destroyed, my dear. Our credo is to spread devastation and chaos.

Time to rehearse that goose-stepping. The way you?re going, you?ll end up as a general in someone?s army.

You are too precious for words, why I could just… eat you alive.

Gomez, last night – you were unhinged. You were like some desperate, howling demon. You frightened me…Do it again!

A locomotive that runs on screams is more than I could have hoped for.

Think of me as a screech in the black of night.

Oh, be still my heart…I’m his forever.

You might have to buy it dinner.

I?ve been acutely aware of your absence in the past. Your agony shriek makes it all… sharp.

Normal is an illusion, darling. What’s normal for the spider is chaos for the fly.