Siegfried Sassoon Quotes

You smug-faced crowds with kindling eye Who cheer when soldier lads march by, Sneak home and pray yo...

I am not protesting against the conduct of the war, but against the political errors and insinceriti...

All this, I suspect, has been little more than the operation known as the pilgrimage from the cradle...

The fact is that five years ago I was, as near as possible, a different person to what I am tonight....

But I've grown thoughtful now. And you have lost Your early-morning freshness of surprise At being s...

Soldiers are citizens of death's grey land, drawing no dividend from time's tomorrows.

I believe that this war, upon which I entered as a war of defense and liberation, has now become a w...

Mute in that golden silence hung with green,Come down from heaven and bring me in your eyesRemembran...

I did not dread the dark winter as people do when they have lost their youth and live alone in some ...

All the sanguine guesswork of youth is there, and the silliness; all the novelty of being alive and ...

The phrase "after-life" was also vaguely confused with going to church and not wanting to be dead - ...

I didn't want to die - not before I'd finished reading The Return of the Native anyhow.

Phantoms of thought and memory thinned and fled.