Max Frisch Quotes

How much frankness can we stand in a friend?

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

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

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

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

He knows that every piece of selfknowledge which one cannot keep to oneself makes one smaller and smaller, he knows that he who cannot keep silent his wishes to be recognized in the greatness of his selfknowledge which is no selfknowledge if it cannot be kept silent, and one becomes hypersensitive one feels betrayed because one wants to be recognized by people, one becomes ridiculous ambitious in inverse ratio to ones selfknowledge

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

We nest in an accident whose precarious balance, when we happen to become conscious of it, oppresses yet at the same time inspires us

They wanted what is possible only once: the now.

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

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

You hold the pen like a needle in a seismic observatory, and in fact it is not we who write, but rather we are written. Writing means to read oneself

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

What hope have you know given up ?

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