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Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
«Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.»
«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 at some moment I did answer Yes to Someone, or Something,and from that hour I was certain that existence is meaningful and that, therefore, my life, in self-surrender, had a goal.»
«Fatigue dulls the pain, but awakes enticing thoughts of death. So! that is the way in which you are tempted to overcome your loneliness -- by making the ultimate escape from life. -- No! It may be that death is to be your ultimate gift to life: it must not be an act of treachery against it.»
Author: Dag Hammarskjold
(Statesman)
| Keywords:
awakes, dulls, entices, enticing, escape from, fatigue, tempted, treachery
«The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.»
Author: Dag Hammarskjold
(Statesman)
| About:
Apathy,
Dignity,
Indifference,
Self-confidence,
Self-love
| Keywords:
dignities
«Everything will be all right - you know when? When people, just people, stop thinking of the United Nations as a weird Picasso abstraction and see it as a drawing they made themselves.»
Author: Dag Hammarskjold
(Statesman)
| About:
Mankind,
Thinking
| Keywords:
abstraction, drawing, Picasso, The United Nations, United Nations
«Time always seems long to the child who is waiting - for Christmas, for next summer, for becoming a grownup: long also when he surrenders his whole soul to each moment of a happy day»
Author: Dag Hammarskjold
(Statesman)
| About:
Children,
Christmas,
Time
| Keywords:
grownup, grownups, Long To, surrenders
«If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party»
Author: Dag Hammarskjold
(Statesman)
| About:
Death and dying,
Social service
| Keywords:
sneaking, sneaks, sneak out, sneak up, social function, The Party, tiptoe, tiptoed
«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 longer an allegation, it is an established fact, even if no evidence has been brought out in order to support it.»
Author: Dag Hammarskjold
(Statesman)
| Keywords:
allegation, allegations, assembly, at long last, a few, brought, each week, established, evidence, evidences, fact, few, has-been, historical, in evidence, in no time, in order, last, longer, no longer, once, order, Orders of, out in, out of order, over, repeated, support, take orders, The Last, This Week, times, weeks, week after week, witnessed, witnessing
«The big, shoe-thumping fellow continues as a dark thunderhead to threaten all unrepentant non-Communists with hail and thunder.»
Author: Dag Hammarskjold
(Statesman)
| About:
Communism
| Keywords:
thump, thumping, thumps, thunder, unrepentant