Max Frisch Quotes
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The horror of uncreative solitude.....
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Life is boring. I have experiences now only when I am writing.
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I live, like every real man, in my work.
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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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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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'Everything that is human looks like a special case'
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I don't believe in providence and fate, as a technologist I am used to reckoning with the formulae of probability.
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When you say a friend has a sense of humor do you mean that he makes you laugh, or that he can make you laugh?
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If anyone has a conscience it's generally a guilty one.
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I have no words for my reality.
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Half a lifetime is spent with the unspoken question: Will it happen will it not?
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You can put anything into words, except your own life.
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The dead are difficult because they´ve never known the people I´m involved with today
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Jealousy is the fear of comparison.
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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
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Either marriage is a destiny, I believe, or there is no sense in it at all, it's a piece of humbug.
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Carrying on with the conversation like a woman when the bill comes...
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A man with convictions finds an answer for everything. Convictions are the best form of protection against the living truth.
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To a certain degree we are really the person others have seen in us
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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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How much frankness can we stand in a friend?
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Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.
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Dignity: the doomed man's final refuge.
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Does not everyone who describes something he has experienced believe basically that whatever happens to him has some sort of relevance.