Max Frisch Quotes
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The monstruous paradox that people come closer to one another without words
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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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Life is boring. I have experiences now only when I am writing.
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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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If anyone has a conscience it's generally a guilty one.
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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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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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I live, like every real man, in my work.
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Half a lifetime is spent with the unspoken question: Will it happen will it not?
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I have no words for my reality.
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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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Carrying on with the conversation like a woman when the bill comes...
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How much frankness can we stand in a friend?
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Jealousy is the fear of comparison.
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You can put anything into words, except your own life.
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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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The dead are difficult because they´ve never known the people I´m involved with today
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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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Dignity: the doomed man's final refuge.
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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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Does not everyone who describes something he has experienced believe basically that whatever happens to him has some sort of relevance.