Shadow Of Death Quotes

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere.

Nelson Mandela

Freedom, Desire, Easy

Nelson Mandela, Robin Malan (1997). “The Essential Nelson Mandela”, David Philip

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What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the winter time. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the Sunset.

Crowfoot

Life, Change, Death

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Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of trauma, I will fear no concussion.

Jim Butcher

Bible, Death Of A Loved One, Comforting

Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 7-12”, p.997, Penguin

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There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.

Nelson Mandela

Inspirational, Inspiring, Encouraging

"Long Walk to Freedom". Book by Nelson Mandela, 1995.

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The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters. He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.

David

Lying, Names, Water

King David of Israel, “Psalm 23: The Lord Is My Shepherd”

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[last words] What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night.

Crowfoot

Sunset, Native American, Firefly

"Aging in the Modern World: Selections from the Literature of Aging for Pleasure and Instruction". Book by ‎Clark Tibbitts, p. 222, 1957.

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Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living.

Thomas Browne

Soul, Departed, Shadow

'The Garden of Cyrus' (1658) ch. 4

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I came alone in this world, I have walked alone in the valley of the shadow of death, and I shall quit alone when the time comes.

Mahatma Gandhi

Death, Shadow, Valleys

Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1986). “The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Non-Violent Resistance and Social Transformation”, Clarendon Press

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The valley of the shadow of death holds no darkness for the child of God. There must be light, else there could be no shadow. Jesus is the light. He has overcome death.

Dwight L. Moody

Jesus, Children, Light

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Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six.

Leo Tolstoy

Two, Valleys, Six

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The light of genius is sometimes so resplendent as to make a man walk through life, amid glory and acclamation; but it burns very dimly and low when carried into "the valley of the shadow of death." But faith is like the evening star, shining into our souls the more brightly, the deeper is the night of death in which they sink.

William Mountford

Faith, Stars, Night

William Mountford, Frederic Dan Huntington (1850). “Martyria: A Legend, Wherein are Contained Homilies, Conversations, and Incidents of the Reign of Edward the Sixth”, p.137

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... Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,
I fear no evil, for You are with me...
Surely goodness and love will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.

David

Bible, Book, Evil

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A man who thinks that death is against life can never be non-violent. It is impossible. A man who thinks that death is the enemy can never be at ease, at home. That is impossible. How can you be at ease when the enemy is waiting for you any moment? It will jump on you and destroy you. How can you be non-tense when death is waiting just around the corner and the shadow of death is always falling on you? It can happen any moment. How can you rest when death is there? How can you relax? The enemy won't allow you to relax.

Rajneesh

Death, Fall, Home

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In the shadow of death he produces life, and though the senses are terrified, faith taking all for the best, is full of courage and assurance.

Jean-Pierre de Caussade

Faith, Courage, Produce

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That's the kind of death that frightens me. The shadow of death slowly, slowly eats away at the region of life, and before you know it everything's dark and you can't see, and the people around you think of you as more dead than alive.

Haruki Murakami

Dark, Thinking, People

"Norwegian Wood". Book by Haruki Murakami, October 10, 2011.

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When the shadow of death blots out my joy
And erases the face of the sun
Give me strength to endure, hope to believe
That living and dying are one.

William Wallace

Grief, Believe, Giving

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In order to reclaim the joy and passion of leadership, we must walk the valley of the shadow of death and name the cost of leadership.

Dan B. Allender

Passion, Order, Names

Dan B. Allender (2011). “Leading with a Limp: Take Full Advantage of Your Most Powerful Weakness”, p.28, WaterBrook

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Tonight, I ask for your prayers for all those who grieve, for the children whose worlds have been shattered, for all whose sense of safety and security has been threatened. And I pray they will be comforted by a power greater than any of us, spoken through the ages in Psalm 23: "Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I fear no evil, for You are with me."

George W. Bush

Prayer, Children, Grieving

9/11 Address to the Nation, delivered 11 September, Oval Office, Washington, D.C.

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...night possessed us and the shadow of death encompassed us, for we had fallen into sin and lost the power of sight which was ours by God's grace and by which we were able to perceive the light that bestows true life. Night and death had been poured out on our human nature, not because of any change in the true light, but because we had turned aside and no longer had any inclination towards the life-bearing light. In the last times, however, the Giver of eternal light and Source of true life has had mercy upon us.

Gregory Palamas

Christian, Night, Light

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We have this wild life experience that is full of fantastic minutiae and banal, huge events at the same time. Yet, all of it shrinks in the shadow of death. It's hard to argue with death as a game-changer.

Bryan Fuller

Games, Wild Life, Game Changers

"Bryan Fuller walks us through Hannibal's debut season (2 of 4)". Interview with Todd VanDerWerff, tv.avclub.com. July 24, 2013.

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People have nothing to say, but they are afraid of saying nothing, so what they do say comes out flat and vapid and meaningless. The shadow of death is on every face.

William S. Burroughs

People, Saying Nothing, Faces

William S. Burroughs (1988). “The Western Lands”, Penguin Group USA

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Among the tales of sorrow and of ruin that came down to us from the darkness of those days there are yet some in which amid weeping there is joy and under the shadow of death light that endures. And of these histories most fair still in the ears of the Elves is the tale of Beren and Lúthien

J. R. R. Tolkien

Light, Joy, Darkness

J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Silmarillion”, p.111, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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It is a sad and very melancholy scene, which must strike everyone who knows and feels that we also have to pass one day through the valley of the shadow of death, and “que la fin de la vie humaine, ce sont des larmes ou des cheveux blancs.” What lies beyond this is a great mystery that only God knows, but He has revealed absolutely through His word that there is a resurrection of the dead.

Vincent Van Gogh

Lying, One Day, Valleys

Vincent van Gogh, Mark Roskill (1997). “The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh”, p.112, Simon and Schuster

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No martyr ever went the way of duty, and felt the shadow of death upon it. The shadow of death is darkest in the valley, which men walk in easily, and is never felt at all on a steep place, like Calvary. Truth is everlasting, and so is every lover of it; and so he feels himself almost always.

William Mountford

Men, Valleys, Way

William Mountford (1858). “Euthanasy, Or Happy Talk Towards the End of Life”, p.471

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