Quotes By Dag Hammarskjold

Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.

To forgive oneself? No, that doesn't work: we have to be forgiven. But we can only believe this is possible if we ourselves can forgive.

The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.

Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

The Assembly has witnessed over the last weeks how historical truth is established; once an allegation has been repeated a few times, it is no longer an allegation, it is an established fact, even if no evidence has been brought out in order to support it.

Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.

The longest journey is the journey inwards. Of him who has chosen his destiny, Who has started upon his quest for the source of his being.

Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.

The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.

Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.

In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us.

The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.

The breaking wave and the muscle as it contracts obey the same law. Delicate line gathers the body's total strength in a bold balance. Shall my soul meet so severe a curve, journeying on its way to form?

Is life so wretched? Isn't it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up.

Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.

We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.

Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.

Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.

It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.

"Freedom from fear" could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.

It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.

What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear.

It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy - from lack of character.

Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.

Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.

If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Everything will be all right - you know when? When people, just people, stop thinking of the United Nations as a weird Picasso abstraction and see it as a drawing they made themselves.

Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy.

I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.

Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. a mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning.