Tick Tock Quotes

“Clocks were invented to warn us. Tick (time is passing). Tock (time has passed).”
― Kamand Kojouri

“…it was during a period he had so much time on his hands that he felt that time had stopped.

How could time have stopped?

‘Because,’ he said, ‘and you will understand this when you are older, sometimes you feel that everything around you has come to an end. You feel that you are completely alone, that time is frozen and that you are invisible. At first, you might feel exhilarated by the sense of freedom, but then you’ll be frightened that you are lost and you will never be able to go back.’

He explained that when he first felt this, he had been isolated and afraid and had prised open his watch case to verify that time was indeed passing. The rhythm of the watch might have been imagined. Sound was not enough, he needed to see and touch it. It was the first time that he had dismantled a mechanism. The turning wheels, ticking each second away, had reassured him.

It was then that he had comprehended the importance of time.”
― Ariana Neumann, When Time Stopped: A Memoir of My Father's War and What Remains

“Your tears don't stop the clock.”
― Santosh Kalwar, The Lacetier

“It’s so overwhelming when you notice how the clock ticks; so many tiny pieces holding each other together just so it keeps going. We are like clocks, too! Always ticking to the tocks. When the pieces of our soul are torn away or broken – we can’t be sent to the mending shop, however. So how do we get better? Workable? Thoughts can be tiring, at times. Or maybe it’s the same time – who knows? The clock is broken. Meh.”
― Sijdah Hussain, Red Sugar, No More

“He knew
It was time
Time to try again....”
― Kabashe Pillay

“Tick-Tock Tick-Tock Memory

The tick tock tick tocks goes the clock

The memory in my heart not aged but I am aged,

As the tick tock tick tock goes on.”
― Sarvesh Murthi .D.D

“I'm not totally engaged with the man, rather, the clock on the wall behind him. About six, but ticking slow and tocking even slower.”
― Patrick R.F. Blakley, Drummond: Learning to find himself in the music