Max Frisch Quotes

Progress everywhere today does seem to come so very heavily disguised as Chaos.

I'm interested in where we are, where we're going, where we've come from.

The future is fluid. Each act, each decision, and each development creates new possibilities and eliminates others. The future is ours to direct.

My mother could never have said she loved fall, but as she walked down the steps with her suitcase in hand toward the red Monte Carlo her husband had been waiting in for nearly an hour, she could have said that she respected its place as a mediator between two extremes. Fall came and went, while winter was endured and summer was revered. Fall was the repose that made both possible and bearable, and now here she was was with her husband next to her, heading headlong into an early-fall afternoon with only the vaguest ideas of who they were becoming and what came next.

Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.

Life is strange. You keep moving and keep growing. Before you know it, you look back and think, "What was that?"

Sometimes the essay is where we end up when everything that we know must change.

While we flatter ourselves that things remain the same, they are changing under our very eyes from year to year, from day to day.

It is hard to believe that something that seems so permanent was once so different. Change. I guess that really is one thing you can count on.

Every wave is new until it breaks.

I don't think there's ever a moment when you can actually say, "I found it." Even when you think you did, the next moment something happens and it can drift away. It's about the evolution of love and faith. It constantly surprises us.

I'm not the type of person that just needs to feel concrete and like nothing's going to change. I revel in the change.

The future is sooner and stranger than you think.

In order to grow, you must accept new responsibilities, no matter how uncertain you may feel or how unprepared you are to deal with them.

Nought endures but change.

And he didn't really know where he was going, but he did know he was going somewhere, because you really have to go somewhere, don't you?

It is strange how we hold on to the pieces of the past while we wait for our futures.

Profound and powerful forces are shaking and remaking our world. And the urgent question of our time is whether we can make change our friend and not our enemy.

My only job has been to say that you have to, try different things and let yourself become a different person, have experiences.

The present order is the disorder of the future.

The process of growing and learning always involves risk.

There is no normal. What my job was a few years ago was completely different than what it is today. As soon as I have it dialed in, the company changes and the team changes and my role changes as a result. What the company needs is always evolving, and I don't get to choose what I want to do as much as I thought I would be now - which is OK. It keeps me in this position of learning new things and keeping me humble. There is always something I don't know, and I'm comfortable with that.

Everything had been based on a kind of certainty, a sense of man at the center of things, a sense of order and hierarchy. And suddenly, almost simultaneously, extraordinary discoveries are made.

Thats the beautiful thing about being human: Things change.

I know peace exists. And we are always changing. It's scary.