Whom The Bell Tolls Quotes:

No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

- John Donne

source: Devotions upon Emergent Occasions no. 17 (1624)

topic: Teamwork, Men, Islands, Indivisible, Inspirational Diversity

The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.

- Ernest Hemingway

topic: Death, Hate, Fighting, Whom The Bell Tolls, Fighting On

Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.

- John Donne

source: Devotions upon Emergent Occasions no. 17 (1624)

topic: Death, Peace, Men, Death And Grieving, Death Grieving

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

- John Donne

topic: Death, Book, Men, Whom The Bell Tolls, Congregation

All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated....As therefore the bell that rings to a sermon, calls not upon the preacher only, but upon the congregation to come: so this bell calls us all....No man is an island, entire of itself...any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.

- John Donne

source: 1624 Devotions upon Emergent Occasions, Meditation no.17.

topic: Book, Men, Islands, Whom The Bell Tolls, Diminish

Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be.

- Ernest Hemingway

source: Ernest Hemingway (2014). “For Whom the Bell Tolls”, p.468, Simon and Schuster

topic: One Day, Today, Whom The Bell Tolls

ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee

- John Donne

source: John Donne, “No Man Is An Island”

topic: Tolls, Bells, Thee, Make Peace Not War, Someone Dying

I am an old man who will live until I die," Anselmo said.

- Ernest Hemingway

source: Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.2545, Simon and Schuster

topic: Men, Tolls, Said, Whom The Bell Tolls

There's no one thing that's true. It's all true.

- Ernest Hemingway

source: Ernest Hemingway (2014). “For Whom the Bell Tolls”, p.505, Simon and Schuster

topic: Inspiring, Tolls, Literature, Whom The Bell Tolls

Ask not for whom the bell tolls.

- Murdoc Niccals

topic: Tolls, Bells, Asks, Whom The Bell Tolls

Dying was nothing and he had no picture of it nor fear of it in his mind. But living was a field of grain blowing in the wind on the side of a hill. Living was a hawk in the sky. Living was an earthen jar of water in the dust of the threshing with the grain flailed out and the chaff blowing. Living was a horse between your legs and a carbine under one leg and a hill and a valley and a stream with trees along it and the far side of the valley and the hills beyond.

- Ernest Hemingway

source: Ernest Hemingway (2012). “Hemingway on War”, p.191, Simon and Schuster

topic: Inspiring, Horse, Dust, Whom The Bell Tolls, Far Side

To make war all you need is intelligence. But to win you need talent and material.

- Ernest Hemingway

source: Ernest Hemingway (2014). “For Whom the Bell Tolls”, p.112, Simon and Schuster

topic: War, Winning, Needs, Whom The Bell Tolls

There are many who do not know they are fascists but will find it out when the time comes.

- Ernest Hemingway

source: Ernest Hemingway (2014). “For Whom the Bell Tolls”, p.232, Simon and Schuster

topic: Tolls, Fascists, Knows, Whom The Bell Tolls

How little we know of what there is to know.

- Ernest Hemingway

source: Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.2922, Simon and Schuster

topic: Knowledge, Tolls, Littles, Whom The Bell Tolls

He was just a coward and that was the worst luck any many could have.

- Ernest Hemingway

source: Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.2877, Simon and Schuster

topic: Luck, Coward, Tolls, Whom The Bell Tolls

I suppose if a man has something once, always something of it remains.

- Ernest Hemingway

source: Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.2933, Simon and Schuster

topic: Life Lesson, Men, Tolls, Whom The Bell Tolls

This was a big storm and he might as well enjoy it. It was ruining everything, but you might as well enjoy it

- Ernest Hemingway

source: Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.2717, Simon and Schuster

topic: Storm, Tolls, Might, Ruining Everything, Whom The Bell Tolls

I loved you when I saw you today and I loved you always but I never saw you before.

- Ernest Hemingway

topic: Today, Saws, I Loved You, Whom The Bell Tolls

I do not know how to kiss, or I would kiss you. Where do the noses go?

- Ingrid Bergman

topic: Kissing, Noses, Whom The Bell Tolls

For her everything was red, orange, gold-red from the sun on the closed eyes, and it all was that color, all of it, the filling, the possessing, the having, all of that color, all in a blindness of that color." - Ernest Hemingway.

- Ernest Hemingway

topic: Eye, Color, Orange, Closed Eyes, Whom The Bell Tolls

But did thee feel the earth move?

- Ernest Hemingway

source: For Whom the Bell Tolls ch. 13 (1940)

topic: Moving, Tolls, Earth, Whom The Bell Tolls

War is tragedy. The great war stories are tragedies. It's the failure of diplomacy. 'War and Peace,' 'A Farewell to Arms,' 'For Whom the Bell Tolls.' Those are some of the greatest tragedies.

- David Mamet

source: "TheDC Interviews: David Mamet talks War". Interview with Patrick Howley, dailycaller.com. December 27, 2013.

topic: War, Farewell, Tragedy, War Stories, Whom The Bell Tolls

I dare you to read a book this weekend! War and Peace? To Kill a Mocking Bird? Catcher in the Rye? The Heart is a Lonely Hunter? For Whom the Bell Tolls? As i lay Dying? Giovanni's Room? The Bell Jar? These books changed my life. #artforfreedom #rebelheart

- Madonna Ciccone

topic: Lonely, War, Book, Mocking Bird, Whom The Bell Tolls

In For Whom the Bell Tolls, Hemingway cozies up to revolution by romanticizing it (and not only with those execrable love scenes).

- Madison Smartt Bell

topic: Tolls, Bells, Revolution, Whom The Bell Tolls

I have a graduate degree from Penn State. I studied at Penn State under a noted Hemingway scholar, Philip Young. I had an interest in thrillers, and it occurred to me that Hemingway wrote many action scenes: the war scenes in 'A Farewell to Arms' and 'For Whom the Bell Tolls' come to mind. But the scenes don't feel pulpy.

- David Morrell

source: "Writer-to-Writer: A Conversation David Morrell, Master of the Modern Thriller". Interview with Mark Rubinstein, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 4, 2013.

topic: War, Farewell, Mind, Whom The Bell Tolls, Farewell To Arms