Hemingway quotes part of the meditation (using Donne's original spelling) in the book's epigraph, which in turn refers to the practice of funeral tolling::No man is an "Iland", intire of it selfe; every man is a peece of the "Continent", a part of the "maine"; if a "Clod" bee washed away by the "Sea", "Europe" is the lesse, as well as if a "Promontorie" were, as well as if a "Mannor" of thy "friends" or of "thine" "owne " were; any mans "death" diminishes "me", because I am involved in "Mankinde"; And therefore never send to know for whom the "bell" tolls; It tolls for "thee".
Pokopan je na Nacionalnem pokopališču Arlington.