Max Frisch Quotes

A man with convictions finds an answer for everything. Convictions are the best form of protection against the living truth.

- Max Frisch

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

- Max Frisch

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

- Max Frisch

Dignity: the doomed man's final refuge.

- Max Frisch

It's precisely the disappointing stories, which have no proper ending and therefore no proper meaning, that sound true to life.

- Max Frisch

I have no words for my reality.

- Max Frisch

I live, like every real man, in my work.

- Max Frisch

Strictly speaking, every citizen above a certain level of income is guilty of some offense.

- Max Frisch

The difference between an author and a horse is that the horse doesn't understand the horse dealer's language.

- Max Frisch

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

- Max Frisch

I don't believe in providence and fate, as a technologist I am used to reckoning with the formulae of probability.

- Max Frisch

Nothing is harder than to accept oneself.

- Max Frisch

My greatest fear: repetition.

- Max Frisch

There is no art without Eros.

- Max Frisch

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

Jealousy is the fear of comparison.

- Max Frisch

It is only the consciousness of a nonexistence which allows us to realize for moments that we are living.

- 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

If anyone has a conscience it's generally a guilty one.

- 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