# Quote — Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls

> Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be. But what will happen in all the other days that ever come can depend on what you do today. It's been that way all this year. It's been that way so many times. All of war is that way.

- 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)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ernest_Hemingway#For_Whom_the_Bell_Tolls_(1940)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/ernest-hemingway/for-whom-the-bell-tolls/today-is-only

## 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)