24 Quotes By Dag Hammarskjold


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.
Dag Hammarskjold on alone

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

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

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.
Dag Hammarskjold on death

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

'Freedom from fear' could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
Dag Hammarskjold on fear

Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again.
Dag Hammarskjold on forgiveness

'Freedom from fear' could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
Dag Hammarskjold on freedom

Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
Dag Hammarskjold on friendship

God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.
Dag Hammarskjold on god

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

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.
Dag Hammarskjold on happiness

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

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.
Dag Hammarskjold on history

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

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.
Dag Hammarskjold on peace

Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
Dag Hammarskjold on peace

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

Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.
Dag Hammarskjold on power

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