12 quotes
If we win here we will win everywhere. The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.
For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940)
Dying is only bad when it takes a long time and hurts so much that it humiliates you.
For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940)
There's no one thing that's true. It's all true.
For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940)
If every one said orders were impossible to carry out when they were received where would you be? Where would we all be if you just said, "Impossible," when orders came?
For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940)
'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'.
For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940)
He was just a coward and that was the worst luck any man could have.
For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940)
That tomorrow should come and that I should be there.
For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940)
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.
For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940)
But did thee feel the earth move?
For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940)
"Just kiss me."
She kissed him on the cheek.
"No."
"Where do the noses go? I always wondered where the noses would go."
"Look, turn thy head" and then their mouths were tight together.
For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940)
I am no romantic glorifier of the Spanish woman, nor did I ever think of a casual piece as anything much other than a casual piece in any country. But when I am with Maria I love her so that I feel, literally, as though I would die and I never believed in that or thought that it could happen.
For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940)
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.
For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940)