Clock Quote by Abe Kōbō

“When you have a watch, time is like a swimming pool. There are edges and sides. Without a watch, time is like the ocean.…

— Carol Rifka Brunt

“Only one thing held my attention: the hands of a clock stopped at the minute that Frederick expired. I was deceived by the stillness…

— Chateaubriand

“The street heaves and winds, burns and bumps, but behind the glass the locksmith, the old curator of timepieces, stands motionless with a single…

— Pablo Neruda

“And as the hands of the clocks clicked to eight past one, the house awoke to the sudden and definite realization that now was…

— Scott Thomas

“TIME Time goes round and round the spinning clock, until the fateful day time folds it's tired hands and stops.”

— Carolee Dean

“It was in this apartment, also, that there stood against the western wall, a gigantic clock of ebony. It's pendulum swung to and fro…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“A Watched Clock never ticks”

— Mwha

“the clock is ticking”

— Chinua Achebe (Author

“..ust in time to see the long-strided watchman of the minutes catch up with his bowlegged brother of the hours. As the two embarced,…

— Amor Towles

“Time would not pass. Somebody was playing with the clocks, and not only with the electric clocks, but the wind-up kind, too. The second…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“I avoid looking at the clock, fearing the slow passing of time that will only seem slower if I watch its progress.”

— Michelle Zink

“A clock and a watch may be different, but time is all they talk about.”

— Eduvie Donald