Famous Dag Hammarskjld Quotes

  • Apes. The moon woke them–round the world’s navel revolvedprayer wheels of steps. – Dag Hammarskjld

    Apes. The moon woke them–round the world’s navel revolvedprayer wheels of steps.– Dag Hammarskjld

  • My home drove meinto the wilderness.Few look for me. Few hear me. – Dag Hammarskjld

    My home drove meinto the wilderness.Few look for me. Few hear me.– Dag Hammarskjld

  • Humility before the flower at the timber line is the gate which gives access to the path up the open fell. – Dag Hammarskjld

    Humility before the flower at the timber line is the gate which gives access to the path up the open fell.– Dag Hammarskjld

  • His moral lectureblazed with hate.What could have driven a child that far? – Dag Hammarskjld

    His moral lectureblazed with hate.What could have driven a child that far?– Dag Hammarskjld

  • This accidentalmeeting of possibilitiescalls itself I.I ask: what am I doing here?And, at once, this Ibecomes unreal. – Dag Hammarskjld

    This accidentalmeeting of possibilitiescalls itself I.I ask: what am I doing here?And, at once, this Ibecomes unreal.– Dag Hammarskjld

  • What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear. – Dag Hammarskjld

    What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear.– Dag Hammarskjld

  • 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. – Dag Hammarskjld

    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.– Dag Hammarskjld

  • Doffing the ego’ssafe glory, he findshis naked reality. – Dag Hammarskjld

    Doffing the ego’ssafe glory, he findshis naked reality.– Dag Hammarskjld

  • Trees quiver in the wind,sailing on a sea of mistout of earshot. – Dag Hammarskjld

    Trees quiver in the wind,sailing on a sea of mistout of earshot.– Dag Hammarskjld

  • He is one of those who has had the wilderness for a pillow, and called a star his brother. Alone. But loneliness can be a communion. – Dag Hammarskjld

    He is one of those who has had the wilderness for a pillow, and called a star his brother. Alone. But loneliness can be a communion.– Dag Hammarskjld