Quotes By Max Frisch

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

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

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

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

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

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?

Dignity: the doomed man's final refuge.

Jealousy is the fear of comparison.

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

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.

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

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

My greatest fear: repetition.

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

I have no words for my reality.

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

There is no art without Eros.

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

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

Nothing is harder than to accept oneself.

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