Max Frisch Professions : Playwright Born : May 15, 1911 Died : April 4, 1991 Browse All Authors Top 62 quotes by Max Frisch Time does not change us. It just unfolds us. Max Frisch honesty doe time 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. Max Frisch camouflage simple believe 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. Max Frisch space secret love We asked for workers. We got people instead. Max Frisch workers people Jealousy is the fear of comparison. Max Frisch comparison jealousy Technology... the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it. Max Frisch technology wisdom science When we travel, we are like a film at the moment of exposure; it is memory that will develop it. Max Frisch film moments memories My greatest fear: repetition. Max Frisch repetition greatest-fear It is only the consciousness of a nonexistence which allows us to realize for moments that we are living. Max Frisch realizing consciousness moments 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. Max Frisch distance eye age The point is to show who is the cross and who the crucified. Max Frisch marriage crosses shows 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. Max Frisch alive real identity Perhaps there are only a few women who experience without deception the overwhelming intoxication of the senses which they expectfrom their encounters with men, which they feel bound to expect because of the fuss made about it in novels, written by men. Max Frisch encounters deception men I have no words for my reality. Max Frisch reality Why do dying people never shed tears? Max Frisch tears death people 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. Max Frisch freedom political party A man with convictions finds an answer for everything. Convictions are the best form of protection against the living truth. Max Frisch protection answers men Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it. Max Frisch technology men way Travelling, gentlemen, is medieval, today we have means of communication, not to speak of tomorrow and the day after, means of communication that bring the world into our homes, to travel from one place to another is atavistic. Max Frisch communication home travel You can put anything into words, except your own life. Max Frisch Similar Authors Alan Ayckbourn playwright Bonnie Greer playwright Annie Baker playwright August Wilson playwright August Strindberg playwright Athol Fugard playwright All Authors
