“The duke had a mind that ticked like a clock and, like a clock, it regularly went cuckoo.”

“Time can tick when there is no clock.”

“People don't understand the virtue of time, until their clock stops ticking. ”

“The clock always ticks. There are times you don't hear it, and there are times that you do.”

“The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires to be as constantly wound up.”

“When I was a boy, I had a clock with a pendulum that could be lifted off. I found that the clock went very much faster without the pendulum. If the main purpose of a clock is to go, the clock was the better for losing its pendulum. True, it could no longer tell the time, but that did not matter if one could teach oneself to be indifferent to the passage of time. The linguistic philosophy which cares only about language and not about the world, is like the boy who preferred the clock without the pendulum because, although it no longer told the time, it went more easily than before and at a more exhilarating pace.”

“The clock ticked with empty urgency, as though trying to catch up with the time. In the street a siren howled.”

“Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting.”

“No life goes past so swiftly as an eventless one, no clock spins like a clock whose days are all alike.”

“The house kept its own time, like the old-fashioned grandfather clock in the living room. People who happened by raised the weights, and as long as the weights were wound, the clock continued ticking away. But with people gone and the weights unattended, whole chunks of time were left to collect in deposits of faded life on the floor.”