Quotes by Max Frisch

About Max Frisch:

Max Rudolf Frisch is a significant feature of his post-war publications. Frisch was one of the founders of Gruppe Olten. He was awarded the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 1986.
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As long as God is a man, not a couple, the life of a woman, according to Hanna,is bound to remain as it is now, namely wretched, with woman as the proletarian of Creation, however smartly dressed.

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The main thing is to stand up to the light, to joy (like our child) in the knowledge that I shall be extinguished in the light over gorse, asphalt, and sea, to stand up to time, or rather to eternity in the instant. To be eternal means to have existe...

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There is no art without Eros.

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Das wirkliche Leben, meint er, sei ja so anders... Jedenfalls das seine, denkt er: da erkennt man keinen klaren Ablauf und keinen roten Faden, da zerrinnt es einfach, ohne Abschnitt und ohne Tat, die Leidenschaft zerrinnt in eine Stimmung, und auch d...

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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.

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

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

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

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

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

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I have no words for my reality.

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Nothing is harder than to accept oneself.

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Dignity: the doomed man's final refuge.

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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.

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

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

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If you criticize what you’re doing too early you’ll never write the first line.” [ , interview with Jodi Daynard, No. 113, Winter II 1989]

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A joke is a good camouflage. Next best comes sentiment... But the best camouflage of all - in my opinion - is the plain and simple truth. Because nobody ever believes it.

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Ich bin auf Erfahrungen angewiesen, die ich nicht begrifflich fassen kann, die mich hilflos machen und von daher narrativ.

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Wer sich nicht mit Politik befasst, hat die politische Parteinahme, die er sich sparen wollte, bereits vollzogen.

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Author Bio

  • NameMax Frisch
  • DescriptionSwiss playwright and novelist
  • BornMay 15, 1911
  • DiedApril 4, 1991
  • CountrySwitzerland
  • ProfessionWriter; Architect; Playwright; Novelist
  • AwardsCommandeur Des Arts Et Des Lettres?; Georg Büchner Prize; Conrad Ferdinand Meyer Prize; ; Schiller Memorial Prize; ; Peace Prize Of The German Book Trade; Neustadt International Prize For Literature; Heinrich Heine Prize