Quotes by Max Frisch

• Strictly speaking, every citizen above a certain level of income is guilty of some offense.
• Jealousy is the fear of comparison.
• You can put anything into words, except your own life.
• 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?
• Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.
• There is no art without Eros.
• The difference between an author and a horse is that the horse doesn't understand the horse dealer's language.
• 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.
• A man with convictions finds an answer for everything. Convictions are the best form of protection against the living truth.
• Nothing is harder than to accept oneself.
• It's precisely the disappointing stories, which have no proper ending and therefore no proper meaning, that sound true to life.
• It is only the consciousness of a nonexistence which allows us to realize for moments that we are living.
• If anyone has a conscience it's generally a guilty one.
• I live, like every real man, in my work.
• I have no words for my reality.
• I don't believe in providence and fate, as a technologist I am used to reckoning with the formulae of probability.
• Either marriage is a destiny, I believe, or there is no sense in it at all, it's a piece of humbug.
• Dignity: the doomed man's final refuge.
• My greatest fear: repetition.