Cruelty Quote by Victoria Jenkins

“The world kept spinning, clocks kept ticking: time didn’t stop for anyone’s tragedy. Tomorrow the world would carry on as though Keira North had…

— Victoria Jenkins

“God, Alex loved me. He truly did. I just hadn't learned that time is elastic: it stretches and gives, far more graciously than it…

— Deidre Knight

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

— John McGahern

“What greater comfort does time afford, than the objects of terror re-encountered, and their fraudulence exposed in the flash of reason?”

— William Gaddis

“Time keeps ticking away, unaware of the suffering each second generates. Time doesn’t care, because if it did, it would’ve reversed.”

— Laura Kreitzer

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

— Don Bradley

“Time is the cruelest force of all.”

— Cixin Liu

“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

“What a pity clocks don't realize the interesting work they do in making history, as they go on ticking out moments which never before…

— Alice Muriel Williamson

“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

“Time was never neutral and often felt dangerous. We either think we have all the time in the world or time moves too fast…

— Katherine Reay

“TIME Time goes round and round the spinning clock, until the fateful day time folds it's tired hands and stops.”

— Carolee Dean