Friedrich Durrenmatt Literature Quotations

Resistance at all cost is the most senseless act there is.

The art of the cuisine, when fully mastered, is the one human capability of which only good things can be said.

Someone who is about to die does not mourn the dead.

The worst possible turn can not be programmed. It is caused by coincidence.

The world is bad but not without hope. It is only hopeless when you look at it from an ideal viewpoint.

In a society which is structured the wrong way, piety has no effect.

News reports don't change the world. Only facts change it, and those have already happened when we get the news.

The freedom of each individual can only be the freedom of all.

When death has you by the throat, you don't mince words.

Truth is always a delusion.

Everything 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.

The difference between humans and wild animals is that humans pray before they commit murder.