Quotes by : Siegfried Sassoon

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Phantoms of thought and memory thinned and fled.

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

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