Author Profile
Friedrich Durrenmatt
1921 – 1990 • Swiss • Author
58
Total Quotes
Collected Meditations
Showing 58 quotesEverything that is necessary is also easy. You just have to accept it. And the most necessary, the most natural matter on this planet is death.— Friedrich Durrenmatt
There is a moment when nothing can be wiped out and left behind any more, when there is only reality and reality is horrifying.— Friedrich Durrenmatt
News reports don't change the world. Only facts change it, and those have already happened when we get the news.— Friedrich Durrenmatt
Revolutions demand enormous sacrifices and, at the same time, create a new need to change the world again.— Friedrich Durrenmatt
The art of the cuisine, when fully mastered, is the one human capability of which only good things can be said.— Friedrich Durrenmatt
Whoever is content with the world, and who profits from its lack of justice, does not want to change it.— Friedrich Durrenmatt
Today's difference between Russia and the United States is that in Russia everybody takes everybody else for a spy, and in the United States everybody takes everybody else for a criminal.— Friedrich Durrenmatt
Above all, be suspicious of your fatherland. Nobody is more inclined to become a murderer than a fatherland.— Friedrich Durrenmatt