Max Frisch Quotes

Not everything has a happy ending, and not everything has an ending. Some things just kind of dribble away or cut off abruptly.

If we knew the meaning to everything that is happening to us, then there would be no meaning.

I see the poem or the novel ending with an open door.

Hmmm... I never get the answer I think I'm going to get.

Everyone always wants to find the answer, to feel that things are resolved. But in dreams, maybe there isn't an answer so much.

Boys frustrate me. I hate all their indirect messages, I hate game playing. Do you like me or don't you? Just tell me so I can get over you.

Our story is a 'once upon a time', but it's not a 'happy ever after'.

Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece.

It's a phenomenon that we don't really understand.

No one was more shocked or angry than I was when we didn't find the weapons. I had a sickening feeling every time I thought about it. I still do.

We don't understand why we're here, no one's giving us an answer, religion is vague, your parents can't help because they're just people, and it's all terrible, and there's no meaning to anything.

When he says he loves me, it only means he loves me at that particular instant. Like his promises, which he never keeps. Why does he torment me like this, when he could finish it off at once?

My character, Rick Spleen, is a what-if version of me, really, where nothing did quite turn out right and everything else is still around the corner.

Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.

I don't see novels ending with any real sense of closure.

Life is like an onion: you peel off layer after layer and then you find there is nothing in it.

I'm of the opinion that life doesn't always tie up neatly at the end of the episode.

One mysterious person looking at another mysterious person equals what? Another mystery.

I like it when stories are left open.

'Requiem' has been controversial because people don't feel I gave it closure.

I don't want to put meaning on what I do because I don't know what it is.

I feel like every conversation with my father is like an M. Night Shyamalan movie; 90 minutes of build-up to no payoff.

The answer is there is no answer.

Sometimes when you finish a book, you don't know quite what you've got.

I wasn't ready for 'Bright Star' to end when it did.