Siegfried Sassoon: Quotes about home

Siegfried Sassoon was English poet, diarist and memoirist. Explore interesting quotes on home.

Siegfried Sassoon: 46 quotes 1 like

“I believe that I may help to destroy the callous complacency with which the majority of those at home regard the contrivance of agonies which they do not share, and which they have not sufficient imagination to realize.”

Siegfried Sassoon

A Soldier's Declaration (July 1917)
Context: 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.
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.
On behalf of those who are suffering now I make this protest against the deception which is being practised on them; also I believe that I may help to destroy the callous complacency with which the majority of those at home regard the contrivance of agonies which they do not share, and which they have not sufficient imagination to realize.

Home , Imagination , Help

“You smug-faced crowds with kindling eye
Who cheer when soldier lads march by,
Sneak home and pray you'll never know
The hell where youth and laughter go.”

Siegfried Sassoon

"Suicide in the Trenches"
The Counter-Attack and Other Poems (1918)

Youth , Home , Hell , Laughter

“I'd say — "I used to know his father well;
Yes, we've lost heavily in this last scrap."
And when the war is done and youth stone dead
I'd toddle safely home and die — in bed.”

Siegfried Sassoon

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

War , Youth , Home , Dead

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

Siegfried Sassoon

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

Home , Thinking