Explore Quotes by Max Frisch

Nothing is harder than to accept oneself.

There is no art without Eros.

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.

My greatest fear: repetition.

We asked for workers. We got people instead.

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

Why do dying people never shed tears?

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

We live technologically, with man as the master of nature, man as the engineer, and let anyone who raises his voice against it stop using bridges not built by nature.... No electric light bulbs, no engines, no atomic energy, no calculating machines, no anaesthetics-back to the jungle.

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

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.

The demand that we love our neighbor as ourselves contains as an axiom the demand that we shall love ourselves, shall accept ourselves as we were created.

Finished things cease to be a shelter for the spirit; but work in progress is a delight.

If you criticize what you’re doing too early you’ll never write the first line.

Cause and effect are never divided between two people.

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

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

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

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

Dignity: the doomed man's final refuge.