195 Quotes by Dag Hammarskjöld

At some moment I did answer "Yes" to someone or something. And from that hour on I was certain that existence is meaningful.

For the sacrificed, in the hour of sacrifice, only one thing counts: faith-alone among enemies and skeptics. Faith, in spite of the humiliation which is both the necessary precondition and the consequence of faith, faith without any hope of compensation other than he can find in a faith which reality seems so thoroughly to refute.

Unless there is a spiritual renaissance, the world will know no peace.

You take the pen, and the lines dance. You take the flute and the notes shimmer. You take the brush, and the colors sing. So all things have meaning and beauty in that space beyond time where you are. How, then, can I hold back anything from you?

The devils enter uninvited when the house stands empty. For other kinds of guests, you have to first open the door.

Isn't the fulfillment of our duty towards our neighbor an expression of deepest desire?

Life yields only to the conqueror.

To reach perfection, we must all pass, one by one, through the death of self-effacement.

The truth is so simple that it is regarded as a pretentious banality.