You can't make the incomprehensible comprehensible without losing it completely Max Frisch More Quotes by Max Frisch More Quotes From Max Frisch Time does not change us. It just unfolds us. Max Frisch honestydoetime 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 camouflagesimplebelieve 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 spacesecretlove We asked for workers. We got people instead. Max Frisch workerspeople Jealousy is the fear of comparison. Max Frisch comparisonjealousy Technology... the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it. Max Frisch technologywisdomscience When we travel, we are like a film at the moment of exposure; it is memory that will develop it. Max Frisch filmmomentsmemories My greatest fear: repetition. Max Frisch repetitiongreatest-fear It is only the consciousness of a nonexistence which allows us to realize for moments that we are living. Max Frisch realizingconsciousnessmoments 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 distanceeyeage The point is to show who is the cross and who the crucified. Max Frisch marriagecrossesshows 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 aliverealidentity 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 encountersdeceptionmen I have no words for my reality. Max Frisch reality Why do dying people never shed tears? Max Frisch tearsdeathpeople 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 freedompoliticalparty A man with convictions finds an answer for everything. Convictions are the best form of protection against the living truth. Max Frisch protectionanswersmen Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it. Max Frisch technologymenway 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 communicationhometravel You can put anything into words, except your own life. Max Frisch
