Jocelyn Murray Quotes

Suffering is the fire by which love is tested.

Even in prosperous times the living robbed the dead

There is nothing more painful than the untimely death of someone young and dear to the heart. The harrowing grief surges from a bottomless well of sorrow, drowning the mourner in a torrent of agonizing pain; an exquisite pain that continues to afflict the mourner with heartache and loneliness long after the deceased is buried and gone.

The sea is as desolate and barren as it is fertile and life-giving. It is cold and dismal, yet bold and spirited. Sometimes imperious and conquering, other times gentle and meek. But it is always mysterious. Those mysteries hold many secrets. One has but to listen and watch to discover them

Desperation makes men fearless

It is not always the motives behind an action that make it noble. Sometimes it is as simple as the action itself.

This world is all vanity. It is a tempest hurling us from one sorrow to another.

Life is like the sea. Its tides and currents sometimes take a man to distant shores that he never dreamed existed

It is not triumph which defines a man, but tragedy. Triumph always brings out the best in men, but tragedy shows us what we are made of.

There is no place for innocence on the battlefield.