118 Quotes by Max Frisch

In actual fact those who do not care for politics and sit on the fence do indeed side for a political party: The ruling party.

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

A real life, a life that leaves a deposit in the shape of something alive.... It's difficult to say what makes a life a real life.... You could also say it depends on a person being identical with himself.

I have no words for my reality.

When we travel, we are like a film at the moment of exposure; it is memory that will develop it.

My greatest fear: repetition.

Jealousy is the fear of comparison.

Why do dying people never shed tears?

We live in an age of reproduction. Most of what makes up our personal picture of the world we have never seen with our own eyes--or rather, we've seen it with our own eyes, but not on the spot: our knowledge comes to us from a distance, we are televiewers, telehearers, teleknowers.