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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What we call unfaithfuless: our attempt for once to get out from behind our own face, our desperate hope of eluding the definitive.

Our guilt has its uses. It justifies much in the lives of others.

Montauk (1975)

We were calling for manpower and people came.

Not to know one another to a degree that went beyond all possibility of knowing one another was beautiful.

Gantenbein (1964)

The dead are difficult because they´ve never known the people I´m involved with today

Drafts for a Third Sketchbook (2013)

Theatrical effectiveness, I believe, lies in it's rarity its uniqueness

Cause and effect are never divided between two people

I'm not Stiller (1955)

My reality doesn't lie in the part I play, but in the unconscious decision as to what kind of part I assign to myself.

I'm not Stiller (1955)

Life is boring. I have experiences now only when I am writing.

Montauk (1975)

A person who does not concern himself with politics has already made the political choice he was so anxious to spare himself: he is serving the ruling party.

The sort of misery that brings no moral reward, misery that is of no value to the mind and soul, that is the true misery, it is hopeless, bestial and nothing else.

The technologist's mania for putting the Creation to use, because he can't tolerate it as a partner, can't do anything with it; technology as the knack of eliminating the world as resistance, for example, of diluting by speed, so that we don't have to experience it.

It is the secret that a man and a woman keep from each other that makes them a couple

Gantenbein (1964)

How can we ever judge a human being when he is and he will always be another person

The monstruous paradox that people come closer to one another without words

One can be resolved to promote good, or one can be resolved to be a good person- Two separate things that are mutually exclusive

'Everything that is human looks like a special case'

Carrying on with the conversation like a woman when the bill comes...

Gantenbein (1964)

Even silence becomes whether we want it or not a statement that is in fact astoundingly presumptuous

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

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