All Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
- Everything will be all right - you know when? When people, just people, stop thinking of the United Nations as a weird Picasso abstraction and… Abstraction
- The Assembly has witnessed over the last weeks how historical truth is established; once an allegation has been repeated a few times, it is no… Allegation
- The breaking wave and the muscle as it contracts obey the same law. Delicate line gathers the body's total strength in a bold balance. Shall… Balance
- Your body must become familiar with its death - in all its possible forms and degrees - as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step… All
- Better than other people.' Sometimes he says: 'That, at least, you are.' But more often: 'Why should you be? Either you are what you can… Better
- At every moment you choose yourself. But do you choose *your* self? Body and soul contain a thousand possibilities out of which you can build… All
- Beneath the hush a whisper from long ago, promising peace of mind and a burden shared. No peace which is not peace for all, no… Ago
- He is one of those who has had the wilderness for a pillow, and called a star his brother. Alone. But loneliness can be a… Alone
- Like the bee, we distill poison from honey for our self-defense--what happens to the bee if it uses its sting is well known. Bee
- 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… Adjustment
- The dizziness in the face of les espaces infinis--only overcome if we dare to gaze into them without any protection. And accept them as the… Accept
- When you have reached the point where you no longer expect a response, you will at last be able to give in such a way… Able
- Humility before the flower at the timber line is the gate which gives access to the path up the open fell. Access
- When the sense of the earth unites with the sense of one's body, one becomes earth of the earth, a plant among plants, an animal… Among
- To preserve the silence within--amid all the noise. To remain open and quiet, a moist humus in the fertile darkness where the rain falls and… Across
- The light died in the low clouds. Falling snow drank in the dusk. Shrouded in silence, the branches wrapped me in their peace. When the… Boundaries
- Doffing the ego's safe glory, he finds his naked reality. Ego
- This accidental meeting of possibilities calls itself I. I ask: what am I doing here? And, at once, this I becomes unreal. Accidental
- Forgiveness breaks the chain of causality because he who 'forgives' you--out of love--takes upon himself the consequences of what you have done. Forgiveness, therefore, always… Always Entails
- In a dream I walked with God through the deep places of creation; past walls that receded and gates that opened through hall after hall… Acquainted
- It is not we who seek the Way, but the Way which seeks us. That is why you are faithful to it, even while you… Act
- Acts of violence-- Whether on a large or a small scale, the bitter paradox: the meaningfulness of death--and the meaninglessness of killing. Acts
- Like wind-- In it, with it, of it. Of it just like a sail, so light and strong that, even when it is bent flat,… All
- You wake from dreams of doom and--for a moment--you know: beyond all the noise and the gestures, the only real thing, love's calm unwavering flame… All
- To have humility is to experience reality, not in relation to ourselves, but in its sacred independence. It is to see, judge, and act from… Act