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 HAMMARSKJOLDIn the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us.
More Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
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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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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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It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.
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Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.
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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.
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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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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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The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.
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Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.
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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.
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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.
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Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
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Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
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Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.
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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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