Quotes by Dag Hammarskjold

About Dag Hammarskjold:

Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld is the youngest to have held the post. He is one of only three people to be awarded a posthumous Nobel Prize. Hammarskjöld is the only UN Secretary-General to die in office; his death occurred en route to cease-fire negotiations. US President John F. Kennedy called Hammarskjöld "the greatest statesman of our century".
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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 communion.

Dag Hammarskjold

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 rest until all has been fulfilled.

Dag Hammarskjold

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 the grain ripens--no matter how many tramp across the parade ground in whirling dust under an arid sky.

Dag Hammarskjold

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 were erased, once again the wonder: that *I* exist.

Dag Hammarskjold

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 born from the soil and fertilizing it. In this union, the body is confirmed in its pantheism.

Dag Hammarskjold

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 in the half-light of an early dawn.

Dag Hammarskjold

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 stand waiting, so long as you are prepared, and act the moment you are confronted by its demands.

Dag Hammarskjold

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, it gathers all the power of the wind without hampering its course. Like light-- In light, lit through by light, transformed into light. Li...

Dag Hammarskjold

Humility before the flower at the timber line is the gate which gives access to the path up the open fell.

Dag Hammarskjold

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

We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.

Dag Hammarskjold

Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.

Dag Hammarskjold

Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.

Dag Hammarskjold

Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again.

Dag Hammarskjold

Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.

Dag Hammarskjold

Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.

Dag Hammarskjold

Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. a mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning.

Dag Hammarskjold

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.

Dag Hammarskjold

Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.

Dag Hammarskjold

In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us.

Dag Hammarskjold

Your body must become familiar with its death - in all its possible forms and degrees - as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

Dag Hammarskjold

Author Bio

  • NameDag Hammarskjold
  • DescriptionSwedish diplomat, economist, and author
  • AliasesDag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld
  • BornJuly 29, 1905
  • DiedSeptember 18, 1961
  • CountrySweden
  • ProfessionPolitician; Diplomat; Economist; Poet; Writer
  • AwardsNobel Peace Prize