Memoirs of an Infantry Officer Quotes

“I have always been considerably addicted to my own company.”
― Siegfried Sassoon, Memoirs of an Infantry Officer

“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, Memoirs of an Infantry Officer

“In war-time the word patriotism means suppression of truth.”
― Siegfried Sassoon, Memoirs of an Infantry Officer

“I am staring at a sunlit picture of Hell, and still the breeze shakes the yellow weeds, and the poppies glow under Crawley Ridge where some shells fell a few minutes ago.”
― Siegfried Sassoon, Memoirs of an Infantry Officer

“The purgatory I'd let myself in for always came between me and the pages; there was no escape for me now.”
― Siegfried Sassoon, Memoirs of an Infantry Officer

“None of us could know how insignificant we were...”
― Siegfried Sassoon, Memoirs of an Infantry Officer