Midnight Quote by Amor Towles

“Clocks served two purposes, in my opinion. The first was to tell people the time, and the second to impress upon me that time…

— Cees Nooteboom

“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

“They waited and watched, while the clocks seemed to resist time.”

— R.J. Lawrence

“The dial of the clock wears out unevenly; Most worn Is the area round eight. As it is stared at with abrasive glances unfailingly…

— Abe Kōbō

“And so I told myself to take that one. Because Father said clocks slay time. He said time is dead as long as it…

— William Faulkner

“The Clock on the Morning Lenape Building Must Clocks be circles? Time is not a circle. Suppose the Mother of All Minutes started right…

— Jerry Spinelli

“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

“Clocks are the enemies of time... they are the gaolers of day and the turnkeys of night." Tom Thumb”

— Lavie Tidhar

“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

“Time stands still only in the broken watch.”

— Tamerlan Kuzgov

“A few seconds later, my father broke his big toe; but his accident was a mere trifle when set beside what had befallen me…

— Salman Rushdie

“cranky. Sarah took the time to work on an old pocket watch that had been wound so tight that the mainspring had broken. Wyatt’s…

— Shelley Noble