“When the wedding march sounds the resolute approach, the clock no longer ticks, it tolls the hour…. The figures in the aisle are no longer individuals, they symbolize the human race.”

“The human race, whose intelligence dates back only a single tick of the astronomical clock, could hardly hope to understand so soon what it all means.”

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

“Grimly, she realized that clocks don't make a sound that even remotely resembles ticking, tocking. It was more the sound of a hammer, upside down, hacking methodically at the earth. It was the sound of a grave.”

“sounds of life and movement, people getting ready and people giving up, the sound of hope and the sound of hanging on, and behind them all, the quiet, deadly ticking of a thousand hungry clocks…”

“Longer than a winter's night for a man who is ill-wed.”

“Once thou art wed, no longer canst thou be
Lord of thyself.”

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

“You have to cherish things in a different way when you know the clock is ticking, you are under pressure.”

“Last place gets to stay in the race longer.”