Quotes by Dag Hammarskjold

“The longest journey is the journey inwards. Of him who has chosen his destiny, Who has started upon his quest for the source of his being.”

“Man has no choice but to love. For when he does not, he finds his alternatives lie in loneliness, destruction and despair.”

“Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.”

“The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness.”

“It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity”

“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.”

“My specialty is being right when other people are wrong”

“As we grow as unique persons, we learn to respect the uniqueness of others.”

“Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.”

“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.”

“Friendship needs no words...”

Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find his right road.

Is life so wretched? Isnt it rather your hands which are too small your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up.

Time goes by: reputation increases ability declines.

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. Lifes point of no return.

Only one feat is possible: not to have run away.

Life only demands from you the strength you possess.

We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.

How Forgiveness Helps Us Forgiveness is the answer to the childs dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again what is soiled is again made clean.

Friendship needs no words-it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.