Swiss playwright and novelist
Why do dying people never shed tears? – 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
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
It is only the consciousness of a nonexistence which allows us to realize for moments that we are living. – Max Frisch
To write is to read one’s own self. – Max Frisch
There is no such thing, as far as I’m concerned, as ownership in love. – Max Frisch
You can put anything into words, except your own life. – Max Frisch
If you criticize what you’re doing too early you’ll never write the first line. – Max Frisch
The point is to show who is the cross and who the crucified. – Max Frisch
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