Max Frisch Quotes

What hope have you know given up ?

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

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

How much frankness can we stand in a friend?

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

That a plot has no real life of its own; it exists only in it's precipitates. It cannot be distilled but only crystallized- in which form it is then immutable, whether successful or unsuccessful: once and for all

Plots- it seems there are thousands of them, all one's acquaintances known some, strangers make a present of them in letters, each the basis for a play or a novel...

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

What makes Shakespeare so overwhelming is the way in which the situation (who is confronting whom) is usually itself part of the composition, meaningful already as a situation

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

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

People with the same education as my own, speaking the same words that I do, loving the same books, the same music, the same paintings, are by no means immune from the danger of turning into monsters and doing things we would not have thought possible among the people of our own day, apart from a few pathological exceptions. If they are not immune, Why should I be so confident of my own immunity?

Why there are so many great actresses, so few great woman writers? The erotic urge that lies at the bottom of all art has a feminine and a masculine character. Feminine is the urge to be; masculine the urge to do. Interpretative art always has more of the feminine about it

(Present) it is a culture that strictly ignores present obligations and places itself entirely at the service of eternity

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.