Quotes from Dag Hammarskjold

Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.

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.

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.

Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

Isn't the fulfillment of our duty towards our neighbor an expression of deepest desire?

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.

You dare your Yes - and experience a meaning...You repeat your Yes - and all things acquire a meaning...When everything has a meaning, how can you live anything but a YES.

We cannot afford to forget any experience, not even the most painful.

Is life so wretched? Isn't it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up.

Your position never gives you the right to command. It only imposes on you the duty of so living your life that others can receive your orders without being humiliated.

Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.

There is a point at which everything becomes simple and there is no longer any question of choice, because all you have staked will be lost if you look back. Life's point of no return.

How Forgiveness Helps Us 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 again made clean.

The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.

If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party

Friendship needs no words...