What is the full quote from which "For Whom the Bell Tolls.........." came from?

Question

biblical quote, Hemmingway novel

Answer 1

This qoute has had an interesting and profound journey through the times after its creation.

The original quote is taken from "Meditation XVII" of Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions, a 1624 metaphysical poem by John Donne.

"No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were. 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."

Hemingway specifically used "For Whom the Bell Tolls" as a title for his book about an antifascist guerilla unit in the mountains during the Spanish Civil War.

"For Whom the Bell Tolls" is also a song by Metallica on their 1984 album Ride the Lightning. It's about war and the human spirit, and is a direct reference to Hemingways book "For Whom The Bell Tolls". It's the chapter in which El Sordo, another guerilla leader, takes a position on a hill, surrounded on all sides, and he and his five comrades are killed by an airstrike. This is in the line "Men of five still alive through the raging glow, gone insane from the pain that they surely know."

"For Whom the Bell Tolls" is also the title of a haunting classical operatic composition by pianist Steve Baker and vocalist Carmen Daye. Among other collections, it can be most recently found on the original soundtrack to the Richard Kelly film Donnie Darko (Sanctuary Records 2004).

From 1624 to 2004, this quote has an amazing (off the) shelf life.

Answer 2

It's a quote from John Donne, the English poet:

No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were. 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...

Answer 3

Well, there's John Donne. "“Never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.”"

" "No man is an island, entire of itself; every
man is a piece of the continent, a part of the
main. If a clod be washed away by the sea,
Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory
were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or
of thine own were: any man's death diminishes
me, because I am involved in mankind, and
therefore never send to know for whom the bells
tolls; it tolls for thee."

John Donne
Devotions upon
Emergent Occasions, no. 17
(Meditation)
1624 (published)"

Answer 4

It's from Meditation XVII of a poem called "Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions" by John Donne, and the quote goes like this:

"Any man's death diminshes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee."

Answer 5

"John Donne
No man is an Island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were; 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."

Answer 6

Not Biblical, as so many have pointed out. And there's only one "m" in Hemingway.