Clock Quote by Ralph Ellison

The clock talked loud. I threw it away, it scared me what it talked.

— Tillie Olsen

“Alarm clocks unset, their taunts silent. Crystals flashing dire red, as if to warn of seconds that dwell, of years that fleet.”

— J. Andrew Schrecker

The clock tick-tocked, solemn and profound. It might have been the dry pulse of the decaying house itself, after a while it whirred and…

— William Faulkner

“The siren soared again, closer at hand, and then, with no anticipatory roar and clamour, a dark and sinuous body curved into view against…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Time can tick when there is no clock.

— Anne Rice

“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

“Some accidental frequency in the siren had lit a gene like a flare in their rib cages, freeing them - for what greater freedom…

— Andrew Sean Greer

“Time howled in my ear, screaming with laughter at the idea that we could control it with wristwatches, alarm clocks, revolutions, history.”

— Viet Thanh Nguyen

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

— Abdullah Ibrahim

Even the clock shows the time without knowing anything.

— Vikrant Parsai

How loud clocks can tick when a room is empty, and one is alone!

— Amy Lowell

There is no alarm clock like embarrassment,

— Maryrose Wood