Dag Hammarskjold Quotes & Quotations

Dag Hammarskjold Quotes

» Fatigue dulls the pain, but awakes enticing thoughts of death. So! that is the way in which you are tempted to overcome your loneliness -- by making the ultimate escape from life. -- No! It may be that death is to be your ultimate gift to life: it must not be an act of treachery against it.

» ''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.

» Every deed and every relationship is surrounded by an atmosphere of silence. Friendship needs no words -- it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

» Friendship needs no words...

» Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only those who keep their eye fixed on the far horizon will find their right road.

» When the morning's freshness has been replaced by the weariness of midday, when the leg muscles give under the strain, the climb seems endless, and suddenly nothing will go quite as you wish-it is then that you must not hesitate.

» A task becomes a duty from the moment you suspect it to be an essential part of that integrity which alone entitles a man to assume responsibility.

» 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.

» 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.

» Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.

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