Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDEverything 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.
More Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
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If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.
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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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Freedom from fear’ could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
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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.
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If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.
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It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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I never discuss discussions.
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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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It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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I am the vessel. The draft is God’s. And God is the thirsty one.
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I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.
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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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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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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 only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.
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