38 Quotes About Clocks

I hate clocks. They tick. Other things make noises in their time and need, but clocks mechanically beat the seconds to death.

… there is something very strange and childish in the way grown-ups feel about their clocks—in that respect, I was never a child. I am willing to agree that the clock is probably the most remarkable thing that grown-ups ever produced. Grown-ups have it in them to be creative, and sometimes, with the help of ambition, hard work, and a bit of luck they actually are, but being grown-ups, they have no sooner created some epoch-making invention than they become a slave to it.

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 source of great pain.

You shouldn't be in here!

U Србији još samo časovnici funkcionišu odgovorno, principijelno, nepristrasno, lako i neprimetno. Ali, i oni jedva odolevaju sveprožimajućoj entropiji sistema neprosvećenog voluntarizma. Sistem melje i korodira temeljno kao poplava termita. Samo je pitanje vremena kada će i poslednji u svojoj vrsti konačno izneveriti plemeniti princip sopstvenog osporenja, koji im nalaže da neprestano rade i da su tačni.

For the modern physicist, reality is the whole thing, past and future joined in a single history. The sensation of now is just that, a sensation, and different for everyone. Instead of one master clock, we have clocks in multitudes.

There are clocks on there, I notice, but you still don't know what time it is.

I could go on and on telling you about clocks but I shall resist the temptation.

In the end, we all want a wife. But the home has become increasingly invaded by the ethos of work, work, work, with twin sets of external clocks imposed on a household's natural rhythms.