"I didn't want to die - not before……" — Siegfried Sassoon
"I didn't want to die - not before I'd finished reading The Return of the Native anyhow."
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Siegfried Sassoon
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23 Quotes by Siegfried Sassoon
Siegfried Sassoon has 23 quotes on this site.
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The song was wordless; The singing will never be done.
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For it is humanly certain that most of us remember very little of what we have read. To open almost…
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The dead...are more real than the living because they are complete.
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Soldiers are citizens of death's grey land, drawing no dividend from time's tomorrows.
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Let my soul, a shining tree, Silver branches lift towards thee, Where on a hallowed winter's night The clear-eyed angels…
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I am a soldier, convinced that I am acting on behalf of soldiers.
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His wet white face and miserable eyesBrought nurses to him more than groans and sighs:But hoarse and low and rapid…
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I am not protesting against the conduct of the war, but against the political errors and insincerities for which the…
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I am making this statement as an act of wilful defiance of military authority, because I believe that the War…
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In me the tiger sniffs the rose.
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I have seen and endured the sufferings of the troops, and I can no longer be a party to prolong…
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Man, it seemed, had been created to jab the life out of Germans.
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