Max Frisch Short Quotes

25 Sourced Quotes

View all Max Frisch Quotes
We were calling for manpower and people came.

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

Max Frisch
'Everything that is human looks like a special case'

Max Frisch
Cause and effect are never divided between two people

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

Max Frisch
THANATOS AND EROS
the American for that is:
CASUAL SEX.

Max Frisch
Your virtuous living is your enemy's best and cheapest weapon

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

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

Max Frisch
To a certain degree we are really the person others have seen in us

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

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

Max Frisch
All that remains is the mad desire for present identity through a woman.

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

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

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

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

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

Max Frisch
Technology…the knack of so arranging the world that we need not experience it.

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

Max Frisch
Where the works gives scope for individuality, one sees a blossoming of self respect

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

Max Frisch
The selfknowledge that gradually or abruptly alienates a person from his previous life.

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

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

Max Frisch