Max Frisch

Either marriage is a destiny, I believe, or there is no sense in it at all, it's a piece of humbug.

— Max Frisch

Nothing is harder than to accept oneself.

— Max Frisch

The renunciation of recognition will never become possible without a certitude that our life is directed by a suprahuman authority.

— Max Frisch

The horror of uncreative solitude.....

— Max Frisch

How much self-knowledge is limited to presenting other people with a more precise and exact description of our weaknesses.

— Max Frisch

You merely had an affair with me, to be exact, and therefore no right to prevent me from another affair.'

— Max Frisch

Cause and effect are never divided between two people

— Max Frisch

You can't make the incomprehensible comprehensible without losing it completely.

— Max Frisch

It is a sign of non love that is to say a sin, to form a finished image of ones neighbors.

— Max Frisch

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.

— Max Frisch

Technology [is] the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.

— Max Frisch

Carrying on with the conversation like a woman when the bill comes...

— Max Frisch

They wanted what is possible only once: the now.

— Max Frisch

Not to know one another to a degree that went beyond all possibility of knowing one another was beautiful.

— Max Frisch

I know that I'm the happiest of lovers...

— Max Frisch

It is the secret that a man and a woman keep from each other that makes them a couple

— Max Frisch

He knows that every piece of selfknowledge which one cannot keep to oneself makes one smaller and smaller, he knows that he who cannot keep silent his wishes to be recognized in the greatness of his selfknowledge which is no selfknowledge if it cannot be kept silent, and one becomes hypersensitive one feels betrayed because one wants to be recognized by people, one becomes ridiculous ambitious in inverse ratio to ones selfknowledge

— Max Frisch

The monstruous paradox that people come closer to one another without words

— Max Frisch

We nest in an accident whose precarious valance, when we happen to become conscious of it, oppresses yet at the same time inspires us

— Max Frisch

To a certain degree we are really the person others have seen in us

— Max Frisch

Technology... the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.

— Max Frisch

Even silence becomes whether we want it or not a statement that is in fact astoundingly presumptuous

— Max Frisch

How can we ever judge a human being when he is and he will always be another person

— Max Frisch

Uniforms ruin every character

— Max Frisch

'Everything that is human looks like a special case'

— Max Frisch

Overcoming prejudice: the only possible way through love, which creates no graven images.

— Max Frisch

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.

— Max Frisch

To write is to read one's own self

— Max Frisch

You hold the pen like a needle in a seismic observatory, and in fact it is not we who write, but rather we are written. Writing means to read oneself

— Max Frisch

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...

— Max Frisch

What we call unfaithfuless: our attempt for once to get out from behind our own face, our desperate hope of eluding the definitive.

— Max Frisch

Does not everyone who describes something he has experienced believe basically that whatever happens to him has some sort of relevance.

— Max Frisch

Half a lifetime is spent with the unspoken question: Will it happen will it not?

— Max Frisch

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?

— Max Frisch

Finished things cease to be a shelter for the spirit; but work in progress is a delight

— Max Frisch

(Present) it is a culture that strictly ignores present obligations and places itself entirely at the service of eternity

— Max Frisch

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

— Max Frisch

People with the same education as my own, speaking the same words that I do, loving the same books, the same music, the same paintings, are by no means immune from the danger of turning into monsters and doing things we would not have thought possible among the people of our own day, apart from a few pathological exceptions. If they are not immune, Why should I be so confident of my own immunity?

— Max Frisch

One can be resolved to promote good, or one can be resolved to be a good person- Two separate things that are mutually exclusive

— Max Frisch

Your virtuous living is your enemy's best and cheapest weapon

— Max Frisch

What makes Shakespeare so overwhelming is the way in which the situation (who is confronting whom) is usually itself part of the composition, meaningful already as a situation

— Max Frisch

Theatrical effectiveness, I believe, lies in it's rarity its uniqueness

— Max Frisch

Plots- it seems there are thousands of them, all one's acquaintances known some, strangers make a present of them in letters, each the basis for a play or a novel...

— Max Frisch

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

— Max Frisch

Where the works gives scope for individuality, one sees a blossoming of self respect

— Max Frisch

How much frankness can we stand in a friend?

— Max Frisch

The older you get the simpler you want to make it.

— Max Frisch

I feel fairly certain that my hatred harms me more than the people whom I hate.

— Max Frisch

What hope have you know given up ?

— Max Frisch

Are you friend with yourself ?

— Max Frisch

Do you know what you need?

— Max Frisch

...for no rational reason.

— Max Frisch

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.

— Max Frisch

Our guilt has its uses. It justifies much in the lives of others.

— Max Frisch

Life is boring. I have experiences now only when I am writing.

— Max Frisch

There are moments when her voice is all he needs.

— Max Frisch

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.

— Max Frisch

You can lose a woman when you have won her.

— Max Frisch

The selfknowledge that gradually or abruptly alienates a person from his previous life.

— Max Frisch

THANATOS AND EROSCASUAL SEX.

— Max Frisch

The dead are difficult because they´ve never known the people I´m involved with today

— Max Frisch

Basically America (the USA) is not a warmongering but simply a commercial society: war as the continuation of business by other means.

— Max Frisch

Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.

— Max Frisch

Either marriage is a destiny, I believe, or there is no sense in it at all, it's a piece of humbug.

— Max Frisch

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

— Max Frisch

Jealousy is the fear of comparison.

— Max Frisch

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?

— Max Frisch

Jealousy is the fear of comparison.

— Max Frisch