Quote by Dag Hammarskjold

In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us.

In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which de

Summary

This quote suggests that our understanding and beliefs about death greatly influence how we navigate the challenges and uncertainties of life. It implies that our perspective on mortality shapes our attitude towards various existential inquiries, such as the purpose of life, our values, and how we approach difficult choices. By contemplating death and forming a personal conception of it, we can gain insight into our own priorities and motivations, guiding our actions and decisions while we are still alive.

By Dag Hammarskjold

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

If the president is failing to disclose material facts with

If the president is failing to disclose material facts with regard to legislation being presented to the Congress on a question as important as war and peace, I think it does impair the level of trust that the House and the Senate have for this administration.

Trust

My parents always made education and school the number one p

My parents always made education and school the number one priority. They believed that an education is the best gift you can give to your child.

Education

When you learn not to want things so badly, life comes to yo

When you learn not to want things so badly, life comes to you.

Serenity

In theory, everybody buys the best and cheapest commodities

In theory, everybody buys the best and cheapest commodities offered to him on the market. In practice, if every one went around pricing, and chemically testing before purchasing, the dozens of soaps or fabrics or brands of bread which are for sale, economic life would become hopelessly jammed.

Life

Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you wil

Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Change

Behold the Child among his new-born blissesA six years' Darl

Behold the Child among his new-born blissesA six years' Darling of a pigmy size!See, where 'mid work of his own hand he lies,Fretted by sallies of his mother's kisses,With light upon him from his father's eyes!See, at his feet, some little plan or chart,Some fragment from his dream of human life,Shaped by himself with newly-learned art.

William Wordsworth, Ode: Intimat

Children

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

Life

There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling

There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

Life

Very few persons, comparatively, know how to Desire with suf

Very few persons, comparatively, know how to Desire with sufficient intensity. They do not know what it is to feel and manifest that intense, eager, longing, craving, insistent, demanding, ravenous Desire which is akin to the persistent, insistent, ardent, overwhelming desire of the drowning man for a breath of air; of the shipwrecked or desert-lost man for a drink of water; of the famished man for bread and meat

Desires

I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could

I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted.

At one time I smoked, but in 1959 I couldn't think of anythi

At one time I smoked, but in 1959 I couldn't think of anything else to give up for Lent so I stopped - and I haven't had a cigarette since.

Easter

Love is the extra effort we make in our dealings with those

Love is the extra effort we make in our dealings with those whom we do not like and once you understand that, you understand all. This idea that love overtakes you is nonsense. This is but a polite manifestation of sex. To love another you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.

Love