Top 15 Max Frisch Quotes

Swiss playwrighter and novelist (1911–1991)

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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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Translation: We were calling for manpower and people came.

Man hat Arbeitskräfte gerufen, und es kamen Menschen.

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

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

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

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

You can lose a woman when you have won her.

If on some occasion I happen to read something in it — because, for instance, I need to know a date — I am always disconcerted to find that two or five years ago I came to exactly the same conclusion, only to forget it because I had not succeeded in living up to it; in fact, I had tenaciously been doing the very opposite.

There are moments when her voice is all he needs.

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

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

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.

...for no rational reason.

Do you know what you need?

Are you friend with yourself ?