Quotes by Dag Hammarskjold

Time always seems long to the child who is waiting – for Christmas, for next summer, for becoming a grownup: long also when he surrenders his whole soul to each moment of a happy day.

The Assembly has witnessed over the last weeks how historical truth is established once an allegation has been repeated a few times, it is no longer an allegation, it is an established fact, even if no evidence has been brought out in order to support it.

The breaking wave and the muscle as it contracts obey the same law. Delicate line gathers the body’s total strength in a bold balance. Shall my soul meet so severe a curve, journeying on its way to form?

Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible not to run away.

Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.

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

Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.

The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.

Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.

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