Alarm Quotes

“Like crying wolf, if you keep looking for sympathy as a justification for your actions, you will someday be left standing alone when you really need help.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“Since we live in a world of appearances, people are judged by what they seem to be. If the mind can't read the predictable features, it reacts with alarm or aversion. Faces which don’t fit in the picture are socially banned. An ugly countenance, a hideous outlook can be considered as a crime and criminals must be inexorably discarded from society. ( "Ugly mug offense" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

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

“You will make an interesting High King,' I tell him.

He looks alarmed. 'I most definitely will not. The Folk adore Cardan and they're terrified of my sister, two excellent things. I hope they rule Elfhame for a thousand years and then pass it down to one of a dozen offspring. No need for me to be involved.”
― Holly Black, The Stolen Heir

“An alarm rings again again.
It's still the same again again.
Still the season of COVID-19 (variant three and maybe four).
Still the season of political instability.
Still so much to contend with.
Groundhog Day.
Groundhog Day Again.
Groundhog Day Again Again.”
― Shellen Lubin

“She dislikes questions about her alarms.”
― Misba, The High Auction

“Two alarms within five minutes, and one of them is about death.”
― Misba, The High Auction

“Were death alarms normal before? Before everything?”
― Misba, The High Auction

“… she’s worried more about mail being late than perceiving a death alarm.”
― Misba, The High Auction

“Before we are alarmed, we see correctly; when we are alarmed, we see double; and when we have been alarmed, we see nothing but trouble.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“Because she lives in a state of alarm, she notices things that others miss.”
― Christine Ann Lawson, Understanding the Borderline Mother

“To step into your greatness is to acknowledge your innate thirst for adventure, growth, knowledge and wisdom and commit to doing the required actions.”
― Tony Jeton Selimi, #Loneliness: The Virus of the Modern Age

“If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm.”
― Elizabeth Bowen, The Death of the Heart

“I lost my circadian rhythm during extreme night shift work and I restored it by using continuous light therapy. I was waking up at sunrise with the birds, no alarm clock needed.”
― Steven Magee

“As humanity progresses its technology on a global level, the observed degradation of natural processes and growth cycles are the alarm systems that nature uses to alert us that some of this progress is biologically toxic.”
― Steven Magee

“When the global masses eventually realize the extensive toxicity of Space, I will be able to say I was sounding the alarm many years ago.”
― Steven Magee

“There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality”
― Seneca

“He slumped down in the command seat and shut off the irritating alarm. He sighed again. It seemed to be a wonderful day for Mykl d’Angelo, captain and owner of the ‘tramp’ freighter Pegasus. As wonderful days went on his personal scale, this one was rated one of the best.”
― Christina Engela, Blachart

“Considering that GOD is my Giant alarm clock and I am so glad he woke me up today.”
― Chuck Bridges

“To become a better you, look nowhere else for another alarm to blow before you wake up. Get up and rise up.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Become a Better You

“A person's conscience will object and accuse when an action may be harmful to themselves or others. It sounds an inner alarm to keep them from going further.”
― Henry Hon

“Alarms don't wake you up, your responsibilities do.”
― Nitya Prakash

“I am proud to be one of the few scientists sounding the alarm on the biological toxicity of the development of Space.”
― Steven Magee

“My friend remarked, "When my alarm went off this morning, I found myself saying - Do I really need my job?"
It was not all that long ago, I had a similar thought. Then I made a decision - I will love my job until I can exchange it for my passion. Today, I am living my passion and I don't need my job.
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― Sir Peter James Dotcome, Eerie Stillnes and Other Short Stories

“In a time of danger, the person sounding the paranoid continual alarm will eventually be right. A voice arguing for our complete rightness and the complete wrongness of our enemies, a voice constantly broadening the definition of "enemy," relieves us of the burden of living with ambiguity.”
― George Saunders, The Braindead Megaphone

“Prophetic dreams are alarms set up by heaven to awaken the earth.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, The Oneironaut’s Diary

“During an abduction, you may have less than a minute to raise the alarm before you are never seen again!”
― Steven Magee

“The Christian School has a team called the Warriors--WELCOME BACK WARRIORS! shouts the banner over the road.

But the billboard in front of the school says the "Trait for the Week" is peace.

Victor feels alarmed about entering such a facility.

He may come out confused.

He may emerge wearing a black armband, carrying a spear.”
― Naomi Shihab Nye, There Is No Long Distance Now

“It takes consistent focus and time to fully wake to the genius in you. This #DO7E transformational genius quote is a divine alarm...use it don't hit snooze it.”
― Dr. Tracey Bond

“These women live the secure, safe bubble, the nine-to-five, decent bubble. But who wants sleepy bubbles when you can have the excitant of the power, the stimulus of control, even of the cruelty. All that gradual, cunning, imperceptible advancement. Don't you just love," they said, "the sudden erotic alarm?”
― Anna Burns, Milkman