Dag Hammarskjöld

Friendship needs no words.

— Dag Hammarskjold

Do not seek death. Death will find you,

— Dag Hammarskjold

Forgiving is forgetting, in spite of remembering.

— Dag Hammarskjold

Life yields only to the conqueror.

— Dag Hammarskjold

Each day the first day: Each day a life.

— Dag Hammarskjold

I have only my own burden to bear.

— Dag Hammarskjold

Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.

— Dag Hammarskjold

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

— Dag Hammarskjold

Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.

— Dag Hammarskjold

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

— Dag Hammarskjold

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

— Dag Hammarskjold

“Trees quiver in the wind, sailing on a sea of mist out of earshot.”

— Dag Hammarskjöld

“Didst thou give me this inescapable loneliness so that it would be easier for me to give thee all?”

— Dag Hammarskjöld

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

— Dag Hammarskjold

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

— Dag Hammarskjold

The UN wasn't created to take mankind into paradise, but rather, to save humanity from hell.

— Dag Hammarskjold

Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at…

— Dag Hammarskjold

Be grateful as your deeds become less and less associated with your name, as your feet ever more lightly tread the earth.

— Dag Hammarskjold

Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far…

— Dag Hammarskjold

Is life so wretched? Isn't it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddled? You are the one…

— Dag Hammarskjold

At some moment I did answer "Yes" to someone or something. And from that hour on I was certain that existence is…

— Dag Hammarskjold

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

— Dag Hammarskjold

This accidental meeting of possibilities calls itself I. I ask: what am I doing here? And, at once, this I becomes unreal.

— Dag Hammarskjold

Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. a mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that…

— Dag Hammarskjold

You are merely the lens in the beam. You can only receive, give, and possess the light as the lens does. If…

— Dag Hammarskjold

“The 'mystical experience'. Always here and now - in that freedom which is one with distance in that stillness which is born…

— Dag Hammarskjöld

Your body must become familiar with its death - in all its possible forms and degrees - as a self-evident, imminent, and…

— 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

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

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

— Dag Hammarskjöld

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

— Dag Hammarskjold

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

— 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

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

— 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

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

— Dag Hammarskjold

What you must dare: is to be yourself.

— Dag Hammarskjold

The longest journey is the journey inward.

— Dag Hammarskjold

I never discuss discussions.

— Dag Hammarskjold