# Quote — Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls

> For him it was a dark passage which led to nowhere, then to nowhere, then again to nowhere, once again to nowhere, always and forever to nowhere, heavy on the elbows in the earth to nowhere, dark, never any end to nowhere, hung on all time always to unknowing nowhere, this time and again for always to nowhere, now not to be borne once again always and to nowhere, now beyond all bearing up, up, up and into nowhere, suddenly, scaldingly, holdingly all nowhere gone and time absolutely still and they were both there, time having stopped and he felt the earth move out and away from under them.

- Author: [Ernest Hemingway](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ernest-hemingway.md)
- Book: [For Whom the Bell Tolls](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ernest-hemingway/for-whom-the-bell-tolls.md)
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/ernest-hemingway/for-whom-the-bell-tolls/for-him-it-was

## More from this book

> Dying is only bad when it takes a long time and hurts so much that it humiliates you.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ernest-hemingway/for-whom-the-bell-tolls/dying-is-only.md)

> 'But are there not many Fascists in your country?'
>
> 'There are many who do not know they are Fascists, but will find it out when the time comes'.

p. 208 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ernest-hemingway/for-whom-the-bell-tolls/but-are-there.md)

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

p. 467 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ernest-hemingway/for-whom-the-bell-tolls/theres-no-one.md)