Max Frisch Quotes

Swiss playwright and novelist

In actual fact those who do not care for politics and sit on the fence do indeed side for a political party: The ruling party.
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If you criticize what you’re doing too early you’ll never write the first line.
– Max Frisch

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Why do dying people never shed tears?
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The older you get the simpler you want to make it.
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The dignity of man is in free choice.
– Max Frisch

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

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

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A real life, a life that leaves a deposit in the shape of something alive…. It’s difficult to say what makes a life a real life…. You could also say it depends on a person being identical with himself.
– Max Frisch

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

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I have no words for my reality.
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My greatest fear: repetition.
– Max Frisch

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The point is to show who is the cross and who the crucified.
– Max Frisch

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If the going is getting too easy, maybe you’re going downhill!
– Max Frisch

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When we travel, we are like a film at the moment of exposure; it is memory that will develop it.
– Max Frisch

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We know that every person who is loved feels transformed, unfolded, and he unfolds everything, the most intimate as well as the most familiar, to the one who loves him as well as to himself…. The person one loves is as ungraspable as the universe, as God’s infinite space, he is boundless, full of possibilities, full of secrets.
– Max Frisch

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To a certain degree we are really the person others have seen in us.
– Max Frisch

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To write is to read one’s own self.
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It is remarkable that the persons we love most are those we can least describe.
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We live in an age of reproduction. Most of what makes up our personal picture of the world we have never seen with our own eyes-or rather, we’ve seen it with our own eyes, but not on the spot: our knowledge comes to us from a distance, we are televiewers, telehearers, teleknowers.
– Max Frisch

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A joke is a good camouflage. Next best comes sentiment… But the best camouflage of all – in my opinion – is the plain and simple truth. Because nobody ever believes it.
– Max Frisch

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Technology… the knack of so arranging the world that we don’t have to experience it.
– Max Frisch

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Dignity: the doomed man’s final refuge.
– Max Frisch

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Nothing is harder than to accept oneself.
– Max Frisch

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Cause and effect are never divided between two people.
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Our guilt has its uses. It justifies much in the lives of others.
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