Max Frisch Quotes

I feel fairly certain that my hatred harms me more than the people whom I hate.

My greatest fear: repetition.

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

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.

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

Dignity: the doomed man's final refuge.

Jealousy is the fear of comparison.

I took the standpoint that the profession of technologist, a man who masters matter, is a masculine profession, if not the only masculine profession there is.