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.

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.

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....