hammarskjold Quotes

“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.”

“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.”

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

“Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.”

“Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.”

“Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.”