Siegfried Sassoon: Quotes about death

Siegfried Sassoon was English poet, diarist and memoirist. Explore interesting quotes on death.
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“Soldiers are citizens of death's grey land,
Drawing no dividend from time's to-morrows.”

Siegfried Sassoon

The Counter-Attack and Other Poems (1918)
Context: Soldiers are citizens of death's grey land,
Drawing no dividend from time's to-morrows.
In the great hour of destiny they stand,
Each with his feuds, and jealousies, and sorrows.

Death , Time , Drawing

“If I were fierce, and bald, and short of breath,
I'd live with scarlet Majors at the Base,
And speed glum heroes up the line of death.”

Siegfried Sassoon

"Base Details"
The Counter-Attack and Other Poems (1918)

Death , Speed

“Lost in a blurred confusion of yells and groans…
Down, and down, and down, he sank and drowned,
Bleeding to death. The counter-attack had failed.”

Siegfried Sassoon

"Counter-Attack"
The Counter-Attack and Other Poems (1918)

Death