Quote by Kurt Vonnegut

“There was nothing I could do about it. As an Earthling, I had to believe whatever clocks said—and calendars.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

“The calendar is a human invention; time does not exist on the spiritual level.”

— Isabel Allende

What would aliens say when told earthlings shift clocks twice a year to fool themselves into thinking there's more sunlight?

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“I was attuned to the rhythms of the earth and sky in ways that I had not been before I lived in a time…

— deborah harkness

“. . . another year has passed, or so they say, but calenders lie. They're a kind of cosmic business machine like their cousin…

— Jim Harrison

“Aside from all else, there is some truth in that; clocks indeed must have their sacrifice: what is death but an offering to time…

— Truman Capote

“We may be just two different clocks, that do not tock in unison.”

— Lang Leav

“Be mindful of how you approach time. Watching the clock is not the same as watching the sun rise.”

— Sophia Bedford-Pierce

“I looked at all the people, feeling sorry for them. They were still subordinate to clock and calendar. Absolved of that, I stood becalmed.”

— Richard Matheson

“We are all of us clocks whose faces tell the passing years.”

— Arthur Stanley Eddington

“one must not allow the clock and the calender to blind him to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle --and…

— Robin S. Sharma

“People no longer live by sun and moon, by wind and stars, but by some slyly contrived conventions known as clocks and calendars.”

— Matthew Goldman