Sherston's Progress Quotes

“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, Sherston's Progress

“Sitting here I glance over my right shoulder at the little row of books, red and green and blue, which stand waiting for my hand, offering their accumulated riches. I think of the years that may be in store for me, and of all the pages I may turn.”
― Siegfried Sassoon, Sherston's Progress

“One evening I asked whether he [Rivers] thought I was suffering from shell-shock.
‘Certainly not,’ he replied.
'What have I got then?’
'Well, you appear to be suffering from an anti-war complex.”
― Siegfried Sassoon, Sherston's Progress