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Dag Hammarskjold quotes, quotations, sayings

When the morning's freshness has been replaced by the weariness of midday, when the leg muscles give under the strain, the climb seems endless, and suddenly nothing will go quite as you wish-it is then that you must not hesitate.
Dag Hammarskjold
 1009    
Friendship needs no words...
Dag Hammarskjold
 1004    
''To forgive oneself? No, that doesn't work: we have to be forgiven. But we can only believe this is possible if we ourselves can forgive.
Dag Hammarskjold
 1004    
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
 1004    
The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.
Dag Hammarskjold
 1004    
A successful lie is doubly a lie; an error which has to be corrected is a heavier burden than the truth.
Dag Hammarskjold, newspaper quote of the day
 1004    
MISERICORDE, n. A dagger which in mediaeval warfare was used by the foot soldier to remind an unhorsed knight that he was mortal.
Ambrose Bierce
 1004    
Every deed and every relationship is surrounded by an atmosphere of silence. Friendship needs no words -- it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
Dag Hammarskjold
 1004    
A man renowned for repartee will seldom scruple to make free with friendship's finest feeling, will thrust a dagger at your breast, and say he wounded you in jest, by way of balm for healing.
William Cowper
 1004    
The longest journey is the journey inwards. Of him who has chosen his destiny, Who has started upon his quest for the source of his being.
Dag Hammarskjold
 1004    
Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee. I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible To feeling as to sight? or art thou but A dagger of the mind, a false creation, Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?
William Shakespeare, 'Macbeth', Act 2 scene 1
 1004    
Thy words, I grant are bigger, for I wear not, my dagger in my mouth.
William Shakespeare
 1004    
In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.
Dag Hammarskjold
 1004    
Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy.
Dag Hammarskjold
 1004    
Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh.
E. M. Cioran
 1004    
Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.
Dag Hammarskjold
 1004    
Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
Dag Hammarskjold
 1004    
If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.
Dag Hammarskjold
 1004    
In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.
Dag Hammarskjold
 1004    
We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.
Dag Hammarskjold
 1004    
The myths have always condemned those who ''looked back.'' Condemned them, whatever the paradise may have been which they were leaving. Hence this shadow over each departure from your decision.
Dag Hammarskjold
 1004    
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.
Dag Hammarskjold
 1004    
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.
Dag Hammarskjold
 1004    
Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only those who keep their eye fixed on the far horizon will find their right road.
Dag Hammarskjold
 1004    
A task becomes a duty from the moment you suspect it to be an essential part of that integrity which alone entitles a man to assume responsibility.
Dag Hammarskjold
 1004    
What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear.
Dag Hammarskjold
 1004    
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
 1004    
Cruel with guilt, and daring with despair, the midnight murderer bursts the faithless bar; invades the sacred hour of silent rest and leaves, unseen, a dagger in your breast.
Samuel Johnson
 1004    
It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
Dag Hammarskjold
 1004    
Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
Dag Hammarskjold
 1004    
Never measure the height of a mountain, until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.
Dag Hammarskjold
 1004    
Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.
Dag Hammarskjold
 1004    
Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
Dag Hammarskjold
 1004    
Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.
Dag Hammarskjold
 1004    
The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.
Dag Hammarskjold
 1004    
The UN is not just a product of do-gooders. It is harshly real. The day will come when men will see the U.N. and what it means clearly. 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.
Dag Hammarskjold
 1004    
A candour affected is a dagger concealed.
Marcus Aurelius
 1004    
Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand Come, let me clutch thee. I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible To feeling as to sight or art thou but A dagger of the mind, a false creation, Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain
William Shakespeare
 1004    
The slanderer and the assassin differ only in the weapon they use; with the one it is the dagger, with the other the tongue. The former is worse that the latter, for the last only kills the body, while the other murders the reputation.
Tyron Edwards
 1004    
Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road.
Dag Hammarskjold
 1004    
You are the lens in the beam. You can only receive, give, and possess the light as the lens does. If you seek yourself, you rob the lens of its transparency. You will know life and be acknowledged by it according to your degree of transparency, your capacity, that is, to vanish as an end, and remain purely as a means.
Dag Hammarskjold
 1004    
On the heights, all paths are paved with daggers.
Robert Jordan, The Wheel of Time
 1004    
You have never done enough, so long as it is still possible that you have something of value to contribute
Dag Hammarskjold
 1004    
Do not look back. And do not dream about the future, either. It will neither give you back the past, nor satisfy your other daydreams. Your duty, your reward- your destiny-are here and now.
Dag Hammarskjold, newpaper quote of the day
 1004    
The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.
Dag Hammarskjold
 1004    


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