118 Quotes by Max Frisch

We know that every person who is loved feels transformed, unfolded, and he unfolds everything, the most intimate as well as the most familiar, to the one who loves him as well as to himself.... The person one loves is as ungraspable as the universe, as God's infinite space, he is boundless, full of possibilities, full of secrets.

If the going is getting too easy, maybe you’re going downhill!

Everything happened exactly as I had intended it shouldn’t.

I can’t have feelings all the time. Being alone is the only possible condition for me, since I don’t want to make a woman unhappy, and women have a tendency to become unhappy. Being alone isn’t always fun, you can’t always be in form.

Every uniform corrupts one’s character.

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.

Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn’t have to experience it.

I called her a sentimentalist and artsy-craftsy. She called me Homo Faber.

Why don’t we follow our yearning?