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

“Time can tick when there is no clock.”

“It's no fun being a broody Iranian woman. Every time I said to people "My body clock is ticking," they would hit the ground!”

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

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

“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.”

“The death clock is ticking slowly in our breast, and each drop of blood measures its time, and our life is a lingering fever.”

“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.”

“In the Land of Memory the time is always.
In the Kingdom of Ago, the clocks tick… but their hands never move.
There is an Unfound Door
(O lost)
and memory is the key which opens it.”

“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…”