Max Frisch Quotes
"Jealousy is the fear of comparison."
- Max Frisch
(Related: Fear, Jealousy)
"You can put anything into words, except your own life."
- Max Frisch
(Related: Life, Words)
"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
(Related: Humor, Friend, Sense)
"Time does not change us. It just unfolds us."
- Max Frisch
(Related: Change, Time)
"There is no art without Eros."
- Max Frisch
(Related: Art)
"There are all sorts of ways of murdering a person or at least his soul, and that's something no police in the world can spot."
- Max Frisch
(Related: Soul, Police, World)
"The difference between an author and a horse is that the horse doesn't understand the horse dealer's language."
- Max Frisch
(Related: Difference, Language)
"Technology... the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it."
- Max Frisch
(Related: Experience, Technology, World)
"Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it."
- Max Frisch
(Related: Experience, Technology, World)
"A man with convictions finds an answer for everything. Convictions are the best form of protection against the living truth."
- Max Frisch
(Related: Truth, Living, Man, Protection)
"Nothing is harder than to accept oneself."
- Max Frisch
(Related: Nothing)
"It's precisely the disappointing stories, which have no proper ending and therefore no proper meaning, that sound true to life."
- Max Frisch
(Related: Life, Ending, Meaning, Sound)
"It is only the consciousness of a nonexistence which allows us to realize for moments that we are living."
- Max Frisch
(Related: Consciousness, Living, Moments)
"If anyone has a conscience it's generally a guilty one."
- Max Frisch
(Related: Conscience)
"I live, like every real man, in my work."
- Max Frisch
(Related: Work, Man)
"I have no words for my reality."
- Max Frisch
(Related: Reality, Words)
"I don't believe in providence and fate, as a technologist I am used to reckoning with the formulae of probability."
- Max Frisch
(Related: Fate, Providence)
"Either marriage is a destiny, I believe, or there is no sense in it at all, it's a piece of humbug."
- Max Frisch
(Related: Marriage, Destiny, Sense)
"Dignity: the doomed man's final refuge."
- Max Frisch
(Related: Man)
"My greatest fear: repetition."
- Max Frisch
(Related: Repetition)