Quotes by : Siegfried Sassoon

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

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....

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

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

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

Phantoms of thought and memory thinned and fled.

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

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....