Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to… — Dag Hammarskjold Animal Copy Share Image
Isn't the fulfillment of our duty towards our neighbor an expression of deepest desire? — Dag Hammarskjold Desire Copy Share Image
The myths have always condemned those who 'looked back.' Condemned them, whatever the paradise may have been which they were leaving. Hence… — Dag Hammarskjold Decision Copy Share Image
It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity. — Dag Hammarskjold Doubt Copy Share Image
Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment. — Dag Hammarskjold Death Copy Share Image
At some moment I did answer "Yes" to someone or something. And from that hour on I was certain that existence is… — Dag Hammarskjold Answers Copy Share Image
“You are your own god – and are surprised when you find that the wolf pack is hunting you across the desolate… — Dag Hammarskjöld Wolf pack Copy Share Image
Smiling, sincere, incorruptible - His body disciplined and limber. A man who had become what he could, And was what he was-… — Dag Hammarskjold Body Copy Share Image
When you have reached the point where you no longer expect a response, you will at last be able to give in… — Dag Hammarskjold Able Copy Share Image
It is more important to understand the ground of your own behavior than to understand the motives of another. — Dag Hammarskjold Behavior Copy Share Image
I am the vessel. The draft is God's. And God is the thirsty one. — Dag Hammarskjold God Copy Share Image
The UN wasn't created to take mankind into paradise, but rather, to save humanity from hell. — Dag Hammarskjold Hell Copy Share Image
The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and… — Dag Hammarskjold Abandoned Copy Share Image
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 Answers Copy Share Image
“My home drove me into the wilderness. Few look for me. Few hear me.” — Dag Hammarskjöld Home Copy Share Image
Set-backs in efforts to implement an ideal do not prove that the ideal is wrong... — Dag Hammarskjold Faults Copy Share Image
Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at… — Dag Hammarskjold Aging Copy Share Image
Better than other people.' Sometimes he says: 'That, at least, you are.' But more often: 'Why should you be? Either you are… — Dag Hammarskjold People Copy Share Image
Here man is no longer the center of the world, only a witness, but a witness who is also a partner in… — Dag Hammarskjold Affinity Copy Share Image
What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my… — Dag Hammarskjold Anguish Copy Share Image
The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others. — Dag Hammarskjold Dignity Copy Share Image
Fatigue dulls the pain, but awakes enticing thoughts of death. So! that is the way in which you are tempted to overcome… — Dag Hammarskjold Death Copy Share Image
Respect for the word - to employ it with scrupulous care and in incorruptible heartfelt love of truth - is essential if… — Dag Hammarskjold Bridges Copy Share Image