Clock Quote by Peter Carey

“My wife complained the other day that our kitchen clock almost killed her mother. It fell seconds after where she had been sitting. That…

— Various

“It was as if he had been assigned to take apart a fiendishly complicated alarm clock to see why it wasn’t working, only to…

— Michael Lewis

“Our living room had a clock in it that used to clear its throat before striking the hours. He is that harrumphing.”

— Joseph Roth

“I could think of no better place to secretly murder someone than inside a fridge. Well, actually there were probably several better ones, but…

— Yahtzee Croshaw

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

— Don Bradley

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

— John McGahern

“there is of course madness and terror too in knowing that some part of you wound up like a clock can never be wound…

— Charles Bukowski

“If it was a time bomb, then what she had done that day was started the clock.”

— Neal Shusterman

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

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Death Laughs In The Faces Of Clocks”

— Dean Cavanagh

“it wasn't so much like the hands of time had stood still here, more like they'd been thrown in the air in exasperation, the…

— Christopher Moore

“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