And yet from the loneliness of his hospital bed, as he listened to funeral and wedding bells ring around him, he came to his famous insight about the spiritual connectedness of human experience: “No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. . . . 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.”
