Quotes About Clock

The night breathed through the apartment like a dark animal. The ticking of a clock. The groan of a floorboard as he slipped out of his room. All was drowned by its silence. But Jacob loved the night. He felt it on his skin like a promise. Like a cloak woven from freedom and danger.

Time cannot tick backward

Time went on. Whatever happened, nothing happened, because she was so beautifully out of contact . . . Time went on as the clock does, half-past eight instead of half-past seven.

Then they all heard the town clock chime. The goblin put his head to one side as if he was counting. The clock chimed twelve times, and then the goblin giggled. "Twelve o'clock," he said, rubbing his hands together with glee.

El reloj marca los minutos… pero ¿y la eternidad? ¿Qué marca la eternidad?

Like a clock of life on which the seconds race, the page number hangs over the characters in a novel. Where is the reader who has not once lifted to it a fleeting, fearful glance?

Happiness is waking up, looking at the clock and finding that you still have two hours left to sleep.

There are people whose watch stops at a certain hour and who remain permanently at that age.

the body is a clock — bones tick and tock years gather in flesh an alarm set for death

The clock strikes one that just struck two – Some schism in the sum; A sorcerer from Genesis Has wrecked the pendulum.

And man watches his ingenious clock and his makeshift calendar and ticks off the days, wondering where time goes. Cherishing life, metering it out for himself in bits and pieces, hoping thus to control it.

Eternity is a clock which says 'tick' in one century and 'tock' in the next.

Eternity is a clock without hands.

Tick tock— It's cake o'clock!

Tick tock— It's beer o'clock!

Here's to the Clock! Whose hands, we pray heaven, When we come home at three, Have stopped at eleven!

Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting.

I ain't need no proof of puberty at fucking six o'clock on a Wednesday morning.

a universe in thermal equilibrium, in which nothing happened except random motion of the atoms, would have no clock.

Most schools have a loud system of loud bells, which startle the students and teachers at regular intervals and remind them that time is passing even more slowly than it seems.

The clock on the dash told me I was seven minutes late, and the urge to scream told me I was home.

Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture.

We spend our lives on the run: we get up by the clock, eat and sleep by the clock, get up again, go to work - and then we retire. And what do they give us? A bloody clock.

In moments of transcendence, when time stands still, your biological clock will stop. The spirit is that domain of our awareness where there is no time.