Ancient Quote by Lawrence Durrell

The steward, according to custom, had stopped all the clocks. This, in the language of Narouz, said "Your stay with us is so brief,…

— Lawrence Durrell

“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

They took away time, and they gave us the clock.

— Abdullah Ibrahim

“The clocks had struck their dreadful purpose and the time now brought all circumstances into the circle.”

— Don Bradley

“The clocks understood, they kept moving, motion, following the truth that change is the nature of God's mind, and resistance to it is the…

— Craig Ferguson

“It was difficult to imagine that a full day hadn't yet passed since we boarded the airliner in New York. I paused. Medieval man…

— Tod Wodicka

“With the invention of the clock, Eternity ceased to serve as the measure and focus of human events.”

— Neil Postman

“To stop the clock of busy existence at the hour when we were personally sequestered from it, to suppose mankind stricken motionless when we…

— Charles Dickens

“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

“Time should have stopped with the clocks but instead it moved in a glazed dream of tiredness without their ticking insistence.”

— John McGahern

This required abandoning the idea that there is a universal quantity called time that all clocks measure. Instead, everyone would have his own personal…

— Stephen Hawking

“A clock ticked somewhere in the darkness. This was the time of night when things seemed unreal, when a thought that could be dismissed…

— Ali Shaw