Audrey Niffenegger Quotes

United States, Writer
June 13, 1963

Audrey Niffenegger is an American writer, artist and academic. Audrey Niffenegger was born in 1963 in South Haven, Michigan. Then she moved to Evanston, Illinois and has since spent a majority of her life in Chicago. Niffenegger is married to cartoonist Eddie Campbell. Niffenegger and Campbell collaborated on the visual novel, Bizarre Romance to celebrate the Comics Unmasked exhibit at the British Library.

Also known as Artist, Academic

We laugh and laugh, and nothing can ever be sad, no one can be lost, or dead, or far away: right now we are here, and nothing can mar our perfection, or steal the joy of this perfect moment.

Audrey Niffenegger
- Joy
- Moment
- Laugh
We are often insane with happiness. We are also very unhappy for reasons neither of us can do anything about. Like being separated.

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- Happiness
- Reasons
- Insane

It’s dark now and I am very tired. I love you, always. Time is nothing.

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- Time
- Love
- Tired
The pain has left but I know that it has not gone far, that it is sulking somewhere in a corner or under the bed and it will jump out when I least expect it.

Audrey Niffenegger
- Pain
- Jump
- Expect
Chaos is more freedom; in fact, total freedom. But no meaning.

Audrey Niffenegger
- Freedom
- Chaos
- Meaning
Listen, sometimes when you finally find out, you realize that you were much better off not knowing.

Audrey Niffenegger
- Knowing
- Realize
- Find Out
Sleep is my lover now, my forgetting, my opiate, my oblivion.

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- Sleep
- Oblivion
- Opiate
Don't you think it's better to be extremely happy for a short while, even if you lose it, than to be just okay for your whole life?

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- Life
- Happy
- Lose

When the woman you live with is an artist, every day is a surprise.

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- Day
- Woman
- Artist
What is more basic than the need to be known? It is the entirety of intimacy, the elixir of love, this knowing.

Audrey Niffenegger
- Knowing
- Intimacy
- Basic
I wanted someone to love who would stay: stay and be there, always.

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- Love
- Wanted
- Stay
Love the world and yourself in it, move through it as though it offers no resistance, as though the world is your natural element.

Audrey Niffenegger
- World
- Love
- Move