What did Siegfried Sassoon mean by: And there’d be no more jokes in Music-halls To mock the riddled corpses round Bapaume. - Siegfried Sassoon Poet · United Kingdom Copy
+ The dead…are more real than the living because they are complete. Feraz Zeid, January 3, 2024January 10, 2024, Siegfried Sassoon, 0 - Siegfried Sassoon Poet · United Kingdom
+ Soldiers are dreamers; when the guns begin they think of firelit homes, clean beds, and wives. Feraz Zeid, January 3, 2024January 10, 2024, Siegfried Sassoon, Gun, Home, 0 - Siegfried Sassoon Poet · United Kingdom
+ Soldiers are citizens of death’s grey land, drawing no dividend from time’s tomorrows. Feraz Zeid, January 3, 2024January 10, 2024, Siegfried Sassoon, Drawing, Land, Soldier, 0 - Siegfried Sassoon Poet · United Kingdom
+ And when the war is done and youth stone dead, I’d toddle safely home and die–in bed. Feraz Zeid, January 3, 2024January 10, 2024, Siegfried Sassoon, Betray, Home, War, 0 - Siegfried Sassoon Poet · United Kingdom
Anyone who hasn’t experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all. - Jean Genet Playwright · France
Anyone who’s never experienced the pleasure of betrayal doesn’t know what pleasure is. - Jean Genet Playwright · France
The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that, you’ve got it made. - Jean Giraudoux Playwright · France
And what does anyone know about traitors, or why Judas did what he did? - Jean Rhys Writer · Dominica
By betrayal, I mean promising to be on your side, then being on somebody else’s. - Jeanette Winterson Author · England
When we try to conceal our innermost drives, the entire being screams betrayal. - Frank Herbert Author · USA
Each generation must discover its mission, fulfill it or betray it, in relative opacity. - Frantz Fanon Psychiatrist · Martinique