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
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.
For all that has been, Thank you. For all that is to come, Yes!
Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.
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.
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.
I never discuss discussions.
Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.