118 Quotes by Max Frisch

You can’t make the incomprehensible comprehensible without losing it completely.

How many of the people I meet are interested in whether I’m enjoying myself, in my feelings at all?

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

I had said what I never meant to say, but what has been said cannot be unsaid, I enjoyed our silence, I was completely sober again, but all the same I had no idea what I was thinking, probably nothing.

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

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

Stillertook part in the Spanish Civil WarIt is not clear what impelled him to this military gesture. Probably many factors were combined – a rather romantic Communism, such as was common among bourgeois intellectuals at that time.

Dignity: the doomed man’s final refuge.

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.