Dag Hammarskjold Quotes About Loneliness

Quotes about: Loneliness

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

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Friendship, Loneliness, Being Alone

  "Markings". Book by Dag Hammarskjold, 1964.

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

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Love, Life, Relationship

  "Markings". Book by Dag Hammarskjold, 1964.

• 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 Hammarskjold

  Loneliness, Being Alone, Bears

  "Markings". Book by Dag Hammarskjold, 1964.

• Perhaps a great love is never returned. Had it been given warmth and shelter by its counterpart in the Other, perhaps it would have been hindered from ever growing to maturity. It "gives" us nothing. But in its world of loneliness it leads us up to the summits with wide vistas - of great insights.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Love, Loneliness, Maturity

• 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 Hammarskjold

  Nature, Brother, Stars

• Fatigue dulls the pain, but awakes enticing thoughts of death. So! that is the way in which you are tempted to overcome your loneliness -- by making the ultimate escape from life. -- No! It may be that death is to be your ultimate gift to life: it must not be an act of treachery against it.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Pain, Work, Loneliness

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