Author Profile
Dag Hammarskjold
1905 – 1961 • Swedish • Diplomat
49
Total Quotes
Collected Meditations
Showing 49 quotesThe only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.— Dag Hammarskjold
The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.— Dag Hammarskjold
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 Hammarskjold
The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.— Dag Hammarskjold
Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.— Dag Hammarskjold
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.— Dag Hammarskjold
Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.— Dag Hammarskjold
Your body must become familiar with its death - in all its possible forms and degrees - as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.— Dag Hammarskjold
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.— Dag Hammarskjold
It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.— Dag Hammarskjold
Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.— Dag Hammarskjold