Max Frisch Quotes

1911–1991 Switzerland

Max Rudolf Frisch (15 May 1911 – 4 April 1991) was a Swiss architect, playwright and novelist, who is regarded as one of the most influential Swiss writers of the 20th century.

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

Homo Faber (1957)

The self knowledge that gradually or abruptly alienates a person from his previous life.

Montauk (1975)

How much self-knowledge is limited to presenting other people with a more precise and exact description of our weaknesses.

I'm not Stiller (1955)

The renunciation of recognition will never become possible without a certitude that our life is directed by a suprahuman authority.

I'm not Stiller (1955)

It is a sign of non love that is to say a sin, to form a finished image of ones neighbors.

I'm not Stiller (1955)

Nothing is harder than to accept oneself.

I'm not Stiller (1955)

Overcoming prejudice: the only possible way through love, which creates no graven images.

You can't make the incomprehensible comprehensible without losing it completely.

I'm not Stiller (1955)

Basically America (the USA) is not a warmongering but simply a commercial society: war as the continuation of business by other means.

Drafts for a Third Sketchbook (2013)

There are moments when her voice is all he needs.

Montauk (1975)

They wanted what is possible only once: the now.

Gantenbein (1964)

You can lose a woman when you have won her.

Montauk (1975)

Half a lifetime is spent with the unspoken question: Will it happen will it not?

The older you get the simpler you want to make it.

How much frankness can we stand in a friend?

I know that I'm the happiest of lovers...

Gantenbein (1964)

Does not everyone who describes something he has experienced believe basically that whatever happens to him has some sort of relevance.

A society needs famous people; the question is whom it chooses for that role. Any criticism of its choice is by implication a criticism of that society.

Montauk (1975)

You merely had an affair with me, to be exact, and therefore no right to prevent me from another affair.'

I'm not Stiller (1955)

I feel fairly certain that my hatred harms me more than the people whom I hate.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Max Frisch (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.