Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.
– Max Frisch.
Jealousy is the fear of comparison.
– Max Frisch
The older you get the simpler you want to make it.
– Max Frisch
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
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.
– Max Frisch
If the going is getting too easy, maybe you’re going downhill!
– Max Frisch
Our guilt has its uses. It justifies much in the lives of others.
– Max Frisch
Cause and effect are never divided between two people.
– Max Frisch
Dignity: the doomed man’s final refuge.
– Max Frisch
When we travel, we are like a film at the moment of exposure; it is memory that will develop it.
– Max Frisch
My greatest fear: repetition.
– Max Frisch
The dignity of man is in free choice.
– Max Frisch
Technology… the knack of so arranging the world that we don’t have to experience it.
– Max Frisch
I have no words for my reality.
– Max Frisch
Why do dying people never shed tears?
– Max Frisch
To a certain degree we are really the person others have seen in us.
– Max Frisch
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
Finished things cease to be a shelter for the spirit; but work in progress is a delight.
– Max Frisch
A man with convictions finds an answer for everything. Convictions are the best form of protection against the living truth.
– Max Frisch
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
It is remarkable that the persons we love most are those we can least describe.
– Max Frisch
To write is to read one’s own self.
– Max Frisch
It is only the consciousness of a nonexistence which allows us to realize for moments that we are living.
– Max Frisch
You can put anything into words, except your own life.
– Max Frisch
There is no such thing, as far as I’m concerned, as ownership in love.
– Max Frisch
Nothing is harder than to accept oneself.
– Max Frisch
If you criticize what you’re doing too early you’ll never write the first line.
– Max Frisch
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
The point is to show who is the cross and who the crucified.
– Max Frisch