Siegfried Sassoon Quotes

Mute in that golden silence hung with green,Come down from heaven and bring me in your eyesRemembrance of all beauty that has been,And stillness from the pools of Paradise.

~ Siegfried Sassoon

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

~ Siegfried Sassoon

But I've grown thoughtful now. And you have lost Your early-morning freshness of surprise At being so utterly mine: you've learned to fear The gloomy, stricken places in my soul, And the occasional ghosts that haunt my gaze.

~ Siegfried Sassoon

Phantoms of thought and memory thinned and fled.

~ Siegfried Sassoon

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

~ Siegfried Sassoon

The phrase after-life was also vaguely confused with going to church and not wanting to be dead - a perplexity which can be omitted from a narrative in which I am doing my best to confine myself to actual happenings. At the age of twenty-two I believed myself to be unextinguishable.

~ Siegfried Sassoon

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

~ Siegfried Sassoon

All this, I suspect, has been little more than the operation known as the pilgrimage from the cradle to the grave, but I have had a comfortable feeling that, however ordinary my enterprises may have been, they had at any rate the advantage of containing, for me, an element of sustained unfamiliarity. I am one of those persons who begin life by exclaiming they've never seen anything like this before and die in the hope that they may say the same of heaven.

~ Siegfried Sassoon

I am not protesting against the conduct of the war, but against the political errors and insincerities for which the fighting men are being sacrificed.

~ Siegfried Sassoon

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

~ Siegfried Sassoon