Max Frisch Quotes
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How much self-knowledge is limited to presenting other people with a more precise and exact description of our weaknesses.
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They wanted what is possible only once: the now.
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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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Even silence becomes whether we want it or not a statement that is in fact astoundingly presumptuous
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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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Nothing is harder than to accept oneself.
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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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Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.
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There are moments when her voice is all he needs.
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My greatest fear: repetition.
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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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Uniforms ruin every character
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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 horror of uncreative solitude.....
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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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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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'Everything that is human looks like a special case'
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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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If anyone has a conscience it's generally a guilty one.
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Theatrical effectiveness, I believe, lies in it's rarity its uniqueness
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You merely had an affair with me, to be exact, and therefore no right to prevent me from another affair.'