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Top 30 Siegfried Sassoon Quotes (2025 Update)

Siegfried Sassoon Quote: “In me the tiger sniffs the rose.”

1. “In me the tiger sniffs the rose.”

— Siegfried Sassoon

Siegfried Sassoon Quote: “Soldiers are dreamers; when the guns begin they think of firelit homes, clean beds, and wives.”

2. “Soldiers are dreamers; when the guns begin they think of firelit homes, clean beds, and wives.”

— Siegfried Sassoon

Siegfried Sassoon Quote: “O German mother dreaming by the fire, While you are knitting socks to send your son His face is trodden deeper in the mud.”

3. “O German mother dreaming by the fire, While you are knitting socks to send your son His face is trodden deeper in the mud.”

— Siegfried Sassoon

Siegfried Sassoon Quote: “Who’s this – alone with stone and sky? It’s only my old dog and I – It’s only him; it’s only me; Alone with stone and grass and tree. What share we most – we two together? Smells, and awareness of the weather. What is it makes us more than dust? My trust in him; in me his trust.”

4. “Who’s this – alone with stone and sky? It’s only my old dog and I – It’s only him; it’s only me; Alone with stone and grass and tree. What share we most – we two together? Smells, and awareness of the weather. What is it makes us more than dust? My trust in him; in me his trust.”

— Siegfried Sassoon

Siegfried Sassoon Quote: “The fact is that five years ago I was, as near as possible, a different person to what I am tonight. I, as I am now, didn’t exist at all. Will the same thing happen in the next five years? I hope so.”

5. “The fact is that five years ago I was, as near as possible, a different person to what I am tonight. I, as I am now, didn’t exist at all. Will the same thing happen in the next five years? I hope so.”

— Siegfried Sassoon

Siegfried Sassoon Quote: “Let my soul, a shining tree, Silver branches lift towards thee, Where on a hallowed winter’s night The clear-eyed angels may alight.”

6. “Let my soul, a shining tree, Silver branches lift towards thee, Where on a hallowed winter’s night The clear-eyed angels may alight.”

— Siegfried Sassoon

Siegfried Sassoon Quote: “I didn’t want to die – not before I’d finished reading The Return of the Native anyhow.”

7. “I didn’t want to die – not before I’d finished reading The Return of the Native anyhow.”

— Siegfried Sassoon

Siegfried Sassoon Quote: “In war-time the word patriotism means suppression of truth.”

8. “In war-time the word patriotism means suppression of truth.”

— Siegfried Sassoon

Siegfried Sassoon Quote: “I am a soldier, convinced that I am acting on behalf of soldiers.”

9. “I am a soldier, convinced that I am acting on behalf of soldiers.”

— Siegfried Sassoon

Siegfried Sassoon Quote: “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.”

10. “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

Siegfried Sassoon Quote: “And the wind upon its way whispered the boughs of May, And touched the nodding peony flowers to bid them waken.”

11. “And the wind upon its way whispered the boughs of May, And touched the nodding peony flowers to bid them waken.”

— Siegfried Sassoon

Siegfried Sassoon Quote: “Mud and rain and wretchedness and blood. Why should jolly soldier-boys complain? God made these before the roofless Flood – Mud and rain.”

12. “Mud and rain and wretchedness and blood. Why should jolly soldier-boys complain? God made these before the roofless Flood – Mud and rain.”

— Siegfried Sassoon

Siegfried Sassoon Quote: “Oh yes, I know the way to heaven was easy. We found the little kingdom of our passion that all can share who walk the road of lovers. In wild and secret happiness we stumbled; and gods and demons clamoured in our senses.”

13. “Oh yes, I know the way to heaven was easy. We found the little kingdom of our passion that all can share who walk the road of lovers. In wild and secret happiness we stumbled; and gods and demons clamoured in our senses.”

— Siegfried Sassoon

Siegfried Sassoon Quote: “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.”

14. “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

Siegfried Sassoon Quote: “Soldiers are citizens of death’s grey land, drawing no dividend from time’s tomorrows.”

15. “Soldiers are citizens of death’s grey land, drawing no dividend from time’s tomorrows.”

— Siegfried Sassoon

Siegfried Sassoon Quote: “Rambling among woods and meadows, I could ‘take sweet counsel’ with the country-side; sitting on a grassy bank and lifting my face to the sun, I could feel an intensity of thankfulness such as I’d never known before the War; listening to the little brook that bubbled out of a copse and across a rushy field, I could discard my personal relationship with the military machine and its ant-like armies. On.”

16. “Rambling among woods and meadows, I could ‘take sweet counsel’ with the country-side; sitting on a grassy bank and lifting my face to the sun, I could feel an intensity of thankfulness such as I’d never known before the War; listening to the little brook that bubbled out of a copse and across a rushy field, I could discard my personal relationship with the military machine and its ant-like armies. On.”

— Siegfried Sassoon

Siegfried Sassoon Quote: “The visionless officialized fatuityThat once kept Europe safe for Perpetuity.”

17. “The visionless officialized fatuityThat once kept Europe safe for Perpetuity.”

— Siegfried Sassoon

Siegfried Sassoon Quote: “The song was wordless; The singing will never be done.”

18. “The song was wordless; The singing will never be done.”

— Siegfried Sassoon

Siegfried Sassoon Quote: “In 1917 I was only beginning to learn that life, for the majority of the population, is an unlovely struggle against unfair odds, culminating in a cheap funeral.”

19. “In 1917 I was only beginning to learn that life, for the majority of the population, is an unlovely struggle against unfair odds, culminating in a cheap funeral.”

— Siegfried Sassoon

Siegfried Sassoon Quote: “I have seen and endured the sufferings of the troops, and I can no longer be a party to prolong these sufferings for ends which I believe to be evil and unjust.”

20. “I have seen and endured the sufferings of the troops, and I can no longer be a party to prolong these sufferings for ends which I believe to be evil and unjust.”

— Siegfried Sassoon

Siegfried Sassoon Quote: “Alone he staggered on until he found Dawn’s ghost that filtered down a shafted stair To the dazed, muttering creatures underground Who hear the boom of shells in muffled sound. At last, with sweat of horror in his hair, He climbed through darkness to the twilight air, Unloading hell behind him step by step.”

21. “Alone he staggered on until he found Dawn’s ghost that filtered down a shafted stair To the dazed, muttering creatures underground Who hear the boom of shells in muffled sound. At last, with sweat of horror in his hair, He climbed through darkness to the twilight air, Unloading hell behind him step by step.”

— Siegfried Sassoon

Siegfried Sassoon Quote: “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.”

22. “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

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

23. “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

Siegfried Sassoon Quote: “I believe that the purpose for which I and my fellow soldiers entered upon this war should have been so clearly stated as to have made it impossible to change them, and that, had this been done, the objects which actuated us would now be attainable by negotiation.”

24. “I believe that the purpose for which I and my fellow soldiers entered upon this war should have been so clearly stated as to have made it impossible to change them, and that, had this been done, the objects which actuated us would now be attainable by negotiation.”

— Siegfried Sassoon

Siegfried Sassoon Quote: “And my last words shall be these – that it is only from the inmost silences of the heart that we know the world for what it is, and ourselves for what the world has made us.”

25. “And my last words shall be these – that it is only from the inmost silences of the heart that we know the world for what it is, and ourselves for what the world has made us.”

— Siegfried Sassoon

Siegfried Sassoon Quote: “Winged lovely moments, can I call you home?”

26. “Winged lovely moments, can I call you home?”

— Siegfried Sassoon

Siegfried Sassoon Quote: “I have always been considerably addicted to my own company.”

27. “I have always been considerably addicted to my own company.”

— Siegfried Sassoon

Siegfried Sassoon Quote: “To him, as to me, the War was inevitable and justifiable. Courage remained a virtue. And that exploitation of courage, if I may be allowed to say a thing so obvious, was the essential tragedy of the War, which, as everyone now agrees, was a crime against humanity.”

28. “To him, as to me, the War was inevitable and justifiable. Courage remained a virtue. And that exploitation of courage, if I may be allowed to say a thing so obvious, was the essential tragedy of the War, which, as everyone now agrees, was a crime against humanity.”

— Siegfried Sassoon

Siegfried Sassoon Quote: “In the years 1910 and 1911 I had 51 innings with 10 not outs and an average of 19. This I consider a creditable record for a poet.”

29. “In the years 1910 and 1911 I had 51 innings with 10 not outs and an average of 19. This I consider a creditable record for a poet.”

— Siegfried Sassoon

Siegfried Sassoon Quote: “We were carrying something in our heads which belonged to us alone, and to those we had left behind us in the battle.”

30. “We were carrying something in our heads which belonged to us alone, and to those we had left behind us in the battle.”

— Siegfried Sassoon

Siegfried Sassoon Quote: “Man, it seemed, had been created to jab the life out of Germans.”

31. “Man, it seemed, had been created to jab the life out of Germans.”

— Siegfried Sassoon

Siegfried Sassoon Quote: “As regards being dead, however, one of my main consolations has always been that I have the strongest intention of being an extremely active ghost. Let nobody make any mistake about that.”

32. “As regards being dead, however, one of my main consolations has always been that I have the strongest intention of being an extremely active ghost. Let nobody make any mistake about that.”

— Siegfried Sassoon

Siegfried Sassoon Quote: “If I ever thought of myself as a man of thirty-five it was a visualization of dreary decrepitude.”

33. “If I ever thought of myself as a man of thirty-five it was a visualization of dreary decrepitude.”

— Siegfried Sassoon

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