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Dag Hammarskjold Quotes

«If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.»
«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.»
Author: Dag Hammarskjold (Statesman) | Keywords: answering
«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.»
«The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.»
«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.»
«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»
«If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party»
«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.»
«The big, shoe-thumping fellow continues as a dark thunderhead to threaten all unrepentant non-Communists with hail and thunder.»

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