In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDFriendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
More Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
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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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I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.
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We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.
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Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
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I never discuss discussions.
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Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.
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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.
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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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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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It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy – from lack of character.
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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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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.
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Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
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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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