“I don’t need an alarm clock. My ideas wake me.”

“If you need an alarm clock, you need a new job.”

“He awoke at six, as usual. He needed no alarm clock. He was already comprehensively alarmed.”

“Disasters work like alarm clocks to the world, hence God allows them. They are shouting, 'Wake up! Love! Pray!”

“My alarm clock during my childhood was a pride of lions.”

“In this country people don't respect the morning. An alarm clock violently wakes them up, shatters their sleep like the blow of an ax, and they immediately surrender themselves to deadly haste. Can you tell me what kind of day can follow a beginning of such violence? What happens to people whose alarm clock daily gives them a small electric shock? Each day they become more used to violence and less used to pleasure. Believe me, it is the mornings that determine a man's character.”