Dag Hammarskjold
Dag Hammarskjold
Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld; 29 July 1905 – 18 September 1961) was a Swedish diplomat, economist, and author. The second secretary-general of the United Nations, he served from April 1953 until his death in a plane crash in September 1961. At the age of 56 years and 255 days, Hammarskjöld was the youngest to have held the post. He is one of only four people to be awarded a posthumous Nobel Prize. Hammarskjöld is the only UN secretary-general to...
NationalitySwedish
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth29 July 1905
CountrySweden
Dag Hammarskjold quotes about
Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.
We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.
Here man is no longer the center of the world, only a witness, but a witness who is also a partner in the silent life of Nature, bound by secret affinities of the trees.
I don't know Who, or what, put the question, I don't know when it was put. I don't even remember answering. But at some moment I did answer Yes to Someone, or Something,and from that hour I was certain that existence is meaningful and that, therefore, my life, in self-surrender, had a goal.
Our work for peace must begin within the private world of each of us. To build for man a world without fear, we must be without fear. To build a world of justice , we must be just.
Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again.
Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
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 the right road.
Each morning we must hold out the chalice of our being to receive, to carry, and give back. It must be held out empty - for the past must only be reflected in its polish, its shape, its capacity.
We cannot afford to forget any experience, not even the most painful.
Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.
If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.
Friendship needs no words.
In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us.