A man with convictions finds an answer for everything. Convictions are the best form of protection against the living truth.

About Max Frisch

Max Rudolf Frischwas a Swiss playwright and novelist. Frisch’s works focused on problems of identity, individuality, responsibility, morality, and political commitment.

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I have no words for my reality.

Max Frisch

Swiss playwrighter and novelist (1911-1991)

If anyone has a conscience it’s generally a guilty one.

Max Frisch

Swiss playwrighter and novelist (1911-1991)

Technology… the knack of so arranging the world that we don’t have to experience it.

Max Frisch

Swiss playwrighter and novelist (1911-1991)

I don’t believe in providence and fate, as a technologist I am used to reckoning with the formulae of probability.

Max Frisch

Swiss playwrighter and novelist (1911-1991)

You can put anything into words, except your own life.

Max Frisch

Swiss playwrighter and novelist (1911-1991)

There are all sorts of ways of murdering a person or at least his soul, and that’s something no police in the world can spot.

Max Frisch

Swiss playwrighter and novelist (1911-1991)

There is no art without Eros.

Max Frisch

Swiss playwrighter and novelist (1911-1991)

The difference between an author and a horse is that the horse doesn’t understand the horse dealer’s language.

Max Frisch

Swiss playwrighter and novelist (1911-1991)

It’s precisely the disappointing stories, which have no proper ending and therefore no proper meaning, that sound true to life.

Max Frisch

Swiss playwrighter and novelist (1911-1991)

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

Swiss playwrighter and novelist (1911-1991)

Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we don’t have to experience it.

Max Frisch

Swiss playwrighter and novelist (1911-1991)

Dignity: the doomed man’s final refuge.

Max Frisch

Swiss playwrighter and novelist (1911-1991)

It is only the consciousness of a nonexistence which allows us to realize for moments that we are living.

Max Frisch

Swiss playwrighter and novelist (1911-1991)

Nothing is harder than to accept oneself.

Max Frisch

Swiss playwrighter and novelist (1911-1991)

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?

Max Frisch

Swiss playwrighter and novelist (1911-1991)

A man with convictions finds an answer for everything. Convictions are the best form of protection against the living truth.

Max Frisch

Swiss playwrighter and novelist (1911-1991)

Either marriage is a destiny, I believe, or there is no sense in it at all, it’s a piece of humbug.

Max Frisch

Swiss playwrighter and novelist (1911-1991)

I live, like every real man, in my work.

Max Frisch

Swiss playwrighter and novelist (1911-1991)

Strictly speaking, every citizen above a certain level of income is guilty of some offense.

Max Frisch

Swiss playwrighter and novelist (1911-1991)

My greatest fear: repetition.

Max Frisch

Swiss playwrighter and novelist (1911-1991)

Jealousy is the fear of comparison.

Max Frisch

Swiss playwrighter and novelist (1911-1991)