Dag Hammarskjöld

Life yields only to the conqueror.

— Dag Hammarskjold

Do not seek death. Death will find you,

— Dag Hammarskjold

Friendship needs no words.

— Dag Hammarskjold

Forgiving is forgetting, in spite of remembering.

— Dag Hammarskjold

I never discuss discussions.

— Dag Hammarskjold

What you must dare: is to be yourself.

— Dag Hammarskjold

Only one feat is possible: not to have run away.

— Dag Hammarskjold

The longest journey is the journey inward.

— Dag Hammarskjold

“Somebody placed the shuttle in your hand: somebody who had already arranged the threads.”

— Dag Hammarskjöld

Our work for peace must begin within the private world of each one of us.

— Dag Hammarskjold

“Apes. The moon woke them-- round the world's navel revolved prayer wheels of steps.”

— Dag Hammarskjöld

Set-backs in efforts to implement an ideal do not prove that the ideal is wrong...

— Dag Hammarskjold

Doffing the ego's safe glory, he finds his naked reality.

— Dag Hammarskjold

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

— Dag Hammarskjold

Peacekeeping is not a job for soldiers, but only soldiers can do it.

— Dag Hammarskjold

“His moral lecture blazed with hate. What could have driven a child that far?”

— Dag Hammarskjöld

The concept of loyalty is distorted when it is understood to mean blind acceptance. It is correctly interpreted when it is assumed…

— Dag Hammarskjold

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

— Dag Hammarskjold

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

— Dag Hammarskjold

“PRAY that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for." Dag Hammarskjold Swedish diplomat…

— Dag Hammarskjold

Beneath the hush a whisper from long ago, promising peace of mind and a burden shared. No peace which is not peace…

— Dag Hammarskjold

In a political context of the utmost significance, ["freedom from fear"] recognizes a human right which, in a broad sense, may be…

— Dag Hammarskjold

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

— Dag Hammarskjold

The devils enter uninvited when the house stands empty. For other kinds of guests, you have to first open the door.

— Dag Hammarskjold

“That our pains and longings are thousandfold and can be anesthetized in a thousand different ways is as commonplace a truth as…

— Dag Hammarskjöld

The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and…

— Dag Hammarskjold

You take the pen, and the lines dance. You take the flute and the notes shimmer. You take the brush, and the…

— Dag Hammarskjold

For the sacrificed, in the hour of sacrifice, only one thing counts: faith-alone among enemies and skeptics. Faith, in spite of the…

— Dag Hammarskjold

“He stood erect - as a peg-top does as long as the whip keeps lashing it. He was modest - thanks to…

— Dag Hammarskjöld

The dizziness in the face of les espaces infinis--only overcome if we dare to gaze into them without any protection. And accept…

— Dag Hammarskjold

You cannot play with the animal in you without becoming wholly animal, play with falsehood without forfeiting your right to truth, play…

— Dag Hammarskjold

I don't know Who, or what, put the question, I don't know when it was put. I don't even remember answering. But…

— Dag Hammarskjold

“Humility is just as much the opposite of self-abasement as it is of self-exaltation. To be humble is not to make comparisons.…

— Dag Hammarskjöld

It is not the Soviet Union or indeed any other big Powers who need the United Nations for their protection. It is…

— Dag Hammarskjold

To have humility is to experience reality, not in relation to ourselves, but in its sacred independence. It is to see, judge,…

— Dag Hammarskjold

At every moment you choose yourself. But do you choose *your* self? Body and soul contain a thousand possibilities out of which…

— Dag Hammarskjold

So rests the sky against the earth. The dark still tarn in the lap of the forest. As a husband embraces his…

— Dag Hammarskjold

Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.

— Dag Hammarskjold

Each day the first day: Each day a life.

— Dag Hammarskjold

I have only my own burden to bear.

— Dag Hammarskjold