Quotes by

Dag Hammarskjold

Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions. – Dag Hammarskjold

Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment. – Dag Hammarskjold

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

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. – Dag Hammarskjold

If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer. – Dag Hammarskjold

Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon. – Dag Hammarskjold

Friendship needs no words — it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness. – Dag Hammarskjold