Quotes By Dag Hammarskjold

"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.

Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.

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.

Your body must become familiar with its death - in all its possible forms and degrees - as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.

I am the vessel. The draft is God's. And God is the thirsty one.

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

There is a point at which everything becomes simple and there is no longer any question of choice, because all you have staked will be lost if you look back. Life's point of no return.

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