Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for. — Dag Hammarskjold Copy Share Image
It is not the repeated mistakes, the long succession of petty betrayals--though, God knows, they would give cause enough for anxiety and self-contempt--but the huge elementary mistake, the betrayal of that within me which is greater than I--in complacent adjustment… — Dag Hammarskjold Copy Share Image
“Didst thou give me this inescapable loneliness so that it would be easier for me to give thee all?” — Dag Hammarskjöld Copy Share Image
Beneath the hush a whisper from long ago, promising peace of mind and a burden shared. No peace which is not peace for all,… — Dag Hammarskjold Copy Share Image
For the sacrificed, in the hour of sacrifice, only one thing counts: faith-alone among enemies and skeptics. Faith, in spite of the humiliation which… — Dag Hammarskjold Copy Share Image
If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party. — Dag Hammarskjold Copy Share Image
Your position never gives you the right to command. It only imposes on you the duty of so living your life that others can… — Dag Hammarskjold Copy Share Image
Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept whatcan be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles… — Dag Hammarskjöld Copy Share Image
We all have within us a center of stillness surrounded by silence. — Dag Hammarskjold Copy Share Image
There is a point at which everything becomes simple and there is no longer any question of choice, because all you have staked will… — Dag Hammarskjold Copy Share Image
God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our… — Dag Hammarskjold Copy Share Image
