Max Frisch Quotes
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Our guilt has its uses. It justifies much in the lives of others.
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It's precisely the disappointing stories, which have no proper ending and therefore no proper meaning, that sound true to life.
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How can we ever judge a human being when he is and he will always be another person
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Strictly speaking, every citizen above a certain level of income is guilty of some offense.
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It is the secret that a man and a woman keep from each other that makes them a couple
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They wanted what is possible only once: the now.
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Uniforms ruin every character
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Nothing is harder than to accept oneself.
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My greatest fear: repetition.
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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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You merely had an affair with me, to be exact, and therefore no right to prevent me from another affair.'
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My reality doesn't lie in the part I play, but in the unconscious decision as to what kind of part I assign to myself.
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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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Even silence becomes whether we want it or not a statement that is in fact astoundingly presumptuous
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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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You can't make the incomprehensible comprehensible without losing it completely.
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Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.
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What we call unfaithfuless: our attempt for once to get out from behind our own face, our desperate hope of eluding the definitive.
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We nest in an accident whose precarious valance, when we happen to become conscious of it, oppresses yet at the same time inspires us
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Theatrical effectiveness, I believe, lies in it's rarity its uniqueness
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The selfknowledge that gradually or abruptly alienates a person from his previous life.
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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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The horror of uncreative solitude.....
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That a plot has no real life of it's own; it exists only in it's precipitates. It cannot be distilled but only crystallized- in which form it is then immutable, whether successful or unsuccesful: once and for all