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 HAMMARSKJOLDIt is no longer an allegation, it is an established fact, even if no evidence has been brought out in order to support it.
More Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
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God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.
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Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
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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.
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Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.
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If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.
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Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
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Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
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Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
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Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.
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The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat.
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The breaking wave and the muscle as it contracts obey the same law. Delicate line gathers the body’s total strength in a bold balance. Shall my soul meet so severe a curve, journeying on its way to form?
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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.
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The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.
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The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.
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I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.
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