“A human intimacy--free from the earth but blessing the earth.” — Dag Hammarskjöld Intimacy Copy Share Image
“Too tired for company, You seek a solitude You are too tired to fill.” — Dag Hammarskjold Business Copy Share Image
Isn't the fulfillment of our duty towards our neighbor an expression of deepest desire? — Dag Hammarskjold Desire Copy Share Image
Our work for peace must begin within the private world of each of us. — Dag Hammarskjold Inspirational Copy Share Image
To reach perfection, we must all pass, one by one, through the death of self-effacement. — Dag Hammarskjold Death Copy Share Image
On the bookshelf of life, God is a useful work of reference, always at hand but seldom consulted. — Dag Hammarskjold Copy Share Image
It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity. — Dag Hammarskjold Insecurity Copy Share Image
“In the point of rest at the center of our being, we encounter a world where all things are at rest in… — Dag Hammarskjöld Life Copy Share Image
In the presence of God, nothing stands between Him and us - we are forgiven. But we cannot feel His presence if… — Dag Hammarskjold Copy Share Image
Acts of violence-- Whether on a large or a small scale, the bitter paradox: the meaningfulness of death--and the meaninglessness of killing. — Dag Hammarskjold Acts of violence 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… — Dag Hammarskjöld Generosity Copy Share Image
He is one of those who has had the wilderness for a pillow, and called a star his brother. Alone. But loneliness… — Dag Hammarskjold Brother Copy Share Image
The concept of loyalty is distorted when it is understood to mean blind acceptance. It is correctly interpreted when it is assumed… — Dag Hammarskjold Acceptance 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… — Dag Hammarskjold Copy Share Image
“PRAY that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for." Dag Hammarskjold Swedish diplomat… — Dag Hammarskjold Loneliness Copy Share Image
The Assembly has witnessed over the last weeks how historical truth is established; once an allegation has been repeated a few times,… — Dag Hammarskjold Copy Share Image
The world cannot live at peace without the United Nations. For this reason: it creates a reasonable guarantee that all this change… — Dag Hammarskjold 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
To preserve the silence within--amid all the noise. To remain open and quiet, a moist humus in the fertile darkness where the… — Dag Hammarskjold Darkness Copy Share Image
Like wind-- In it, with it, of it. Of it just like a sail, so light and strong that, even when it… — Dag Hammarskjold 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
Perhaps a great love is never returned. Had it been given warmth and shelter by its counterpart in the Other, perhaps it… — Dag Hammarskjold Copy Share Image
“Jesus' 'lack of moral principles.' He sat at meat with publicans and sinners, he consorted with harlots. Did he do this to… — Dag Hammarskjöld Human nature Copy Share Image
The truth is so simple that it is regarded as a pretentious banality. — Dag Hammarskjold Copy Share Image
We cannot afford to forget any experience, not even the most painful. — Dag Hammarskjold Experience Copy Share Image
We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours. — Dag Hammarskjold Copy Share Image
“No cracking of the whip of words disturbed his peace in a space that sung.” — Dag Hammarskjöld Peace Copy Share Image
Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions. — Dag Hammarskjold Convictions Copy Share Image
It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy - from lack of character. — Dag Hammarskjold Character Copy Share Image
Pray that your loneliness spurs you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for. — Dag Hammarskjold Happiness Copy Share Image
Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness. — Dag Hammarskjold Friendship Copy Share Image
Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods,… — Dag Hammarskjold 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… — Dag Hammarskjold Burden Copy Share Image
In a political context of the utmost significance, ["freedom from fear"] recognizes a human right which, in a broad sense, may be… — Dag Hammarskjold Copy Share Image
Everything will be all right - you know when? When people, just people, stop thinking of the United Nations as a weird… — Dag Hammarskjold Artist Copy Share Image
It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses. — Dag Hammarskjold Individual Copy Share Image