# Montauk

- Author: [Max Frisch](https://www.leafyquotes.com/max-frisch.md)
- Quotes: 7
- Book page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/max-frisch/montauk

## Quotes

> Life is boring. I have experiences now only when I am writing.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/max-frisch/montauk/life-is-boring.md)

> A society needs famous people; the question is whom it chooses for that role. Any criticism of its choice is by implication a criticism of that society.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/max-frisch/montauk/a-society-needs.md)

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

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/max-frisch/montauk/our-guilt-has.md)

> There are moments when her voice is all he needs.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/max-frisch/montauk/there-are-moments.md)

> If on some occasion I happen to read something in it — because, for instance, I need to know a date — I am always disconcerted to find that two or five years ago I came to exactly the same conclusion, only to forget it because I had not succeeded in living up to it; in fact, I had tenaciously been doing the very opposite.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/max-frisch/montauk/if-on-some.md)

> You can lose a woman when you have won her.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/max-frisch/montauk/you-can-lose.md)

> The self knowledge that gradually or abruptly alienates a person from his previous life.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/max-frisch/montauk/the-self-knowledge.md)