Quotes from Max Frisch

Our comparative fidelity was fear of defeat at the hands of another partner.

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.

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

Dignity: the doomed man's final refuge.

Nothing is harder than to accept oneself.

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

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

There is no art without Eros.

Why do dying people never shed tears?

Either marriage is a destiny, I believe, or there is no sense in it at all, it's a piece of humbug.

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

My greatest fear: repetition.

Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.

When you love someone you leave every possibility open to them, and in spite of all the memories of the past you are ready to be surprised, again and again surprised, at how different they are, how various, not a finished image.

Every uniform corrupts one's character.

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

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

We wanted a labor force, but humans came.

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?

Jealousy is the fear of comparison.

My greatest fear: repetition.

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

Either marriage is a destiny, I believe, or there is no sense in it at all, it's a piece of humbug.