Max Frisch Quotes
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A society needs famous people; the question is whom it chooses for that role. Any criticism of its choice is by implication a criticism of that society.
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There is no art without Eros.
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A poem, a genuine one, does not need to fear the world; it stands up to it, even when a bell rings and an unexpected guest arrives to tell us, while the same coffee is still in our cups, of his fourteen years in captivity...
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Our guilt has its uses. It justifies much in the lives of others.
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Nothing is harder than to accept oneself.
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A person who does not concern himself with politics has already made the political choice he was so anxious to spare himself: he is serving the ruling party.
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Even silence becomes whether we want it or not a statement that is in fact astoundingly presumptuous
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The difference between an author and a horse is that the horse doesn't understand the horse dealer's language.
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There are moments when her voice is all he needs.
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Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.
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Uniforms ruin every character
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Why there are so many great actresses, so few great woman writers? The erotic urge that lies at the bottom of all art has a feminine and a masculine character. Feminine is the urge to be; masculine the urge to do. Interpretative art always has more of the feminine about it
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My greatest fear: repetition.
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Finished things cease to be a shelter for the spirit; but work in progress is a delight
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One can be resolved to promote good, or one can be resolved to be a good person- Two separate things that are mutually exclusive
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You can't make the incomprehensible comprehensible without losing it completely.
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The sort of misery that brings no moral reward, misery that is of no value to the mind and soul, that is the true misery, it is hopeless, bestial and nothing else.
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The horror of uncreative solitude.....
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If anyone has a conscience it's generally a guilty one.
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'Everything that is human looks like a special case'
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You merely had an affair with me, to be exact, and therefore no right to prevent me from another affair.'
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If on some occasion I happen to read something in it - because, for instance, I neet to know a date - I am always disconcerted to find that two or five years ago I came to exactly the same conclusion, only to forget it because I had not succeded in living up to it; in fact, I had tenaciously been doing the very opposite.
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The renunciation of recognition will never become possible without a certitude that our life is directed by a suprahuman authority.
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Theatrical effectiveness, I believe, lies in it's rarity its uniqueness