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

Dignity: the doomed man's final refuge.
Max Frisch

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

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

I have no words for my reality.
Max Frisch

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

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

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

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

Jealousy is the fear of comparison.
Max Frisch

My greatest fear: repetition.
Max Frisch

Nothing is harder than to accept oneself.
Max Frisch

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

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

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

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

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

There is no art without Eros.
Max Frisch

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.
Max Frisch

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