Dag Hammarskjold Quotes

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Dag Hammarskjold

Profession : Diplomat

Birth : July 29, 1905

In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us.

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A task becomes a duty from the moment you suspect it to be an essential part of that integrity which alone entitles a man to assume responsibility.

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I am the vessel. The draft is God's. And God is the thirsty one.

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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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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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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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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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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.

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It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.

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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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The Assembly has witnessed over the last weeks how historical truth is established; once an allegation has been repeated a few times, it is no longer an allegation, it is an established fact, even if no evidence has been brought out in order to support it.

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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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It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy - from lack of character.

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I never discuss discussions.

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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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The myths have always condemned those who 'looked back.' Condemned them, whatever the paradise may have been which they were leaving. Hence this shadow over each departure from your decision.

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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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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 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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Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.

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