These beautiful sunset quotes provide a lot for one to reflect upon.
A sunset is nothing less than a glimpse into the universe. Watching the sun fall is much more than enjoying the magnificence of the gleaming rays of the sun and the magic they play on heaven and earth. There is also a primal connection of our human existence that a setting sun reminds us of. It also makes us realize our place in the solar system and the universe itself.
Everyone from poets to scientists, to the ordinary folks, have been mesmerized by the inexpressible aura and charm of these natural occurrences. Many have attempted to turn that feeling and elegance into words. Here’s our collection of the best of those.
Quotes about Sunsets
O, Sunlight! The most precious gold to be found on Earth.
Roman Payne
When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.
Mahatma Gandhi
There is a sunrise and a sunset every single day, and they’re absolutely free. Don’t miss so many of them.
Jo Walton
Perfect happiness is a beautiful sunset, the giggle of a grandchild, the first snowfall. It’s the little things that make happy moments, not the grand events. Joy comes in sips, not gulps.
Sharon Draper
Twilight fell: The sky turned to a light, dusky purple littered with tiny silver stars.
J.K. Rowling
Best Sunset Quotes
Never waste any amount of time doing anything important when there is a sunset outside that you should be sitting under!
C. JoyBell C.
I always say that the times in my life when I’ve been happiest are the times when I’ve seen, like, a sunset.
Chris Evans
The biggest cliche in photography is sunrise and sunset.
Catherine Opie
I believe in evolution. But I also believe, when I hike the Grand Canyon and see it at sunset, that the hand of God is there also.
John McCain
Feelings aroused by the touch of someone’s hand, the sound of music, the smell of a flower, a beautiful sunset, a work of art, love, laughter, hope, and faith – all work on both the unconscious and the conscious aspects of the self, and they have physiological consequences as well.
Bernie Siegel
Every sunset brings the promise of a new dawn.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Don’t forget: Beautiful sunsets need cloudy skies.
Paulo Coelho
Sunset is a wonderful opportunity for us to appreciate all the great things the sun gives us!
Mehmet Murat ildan
It is almost impossible to watch a sunset and not dream.
Bernard Williams
When the sun has set, no candle can replace it.
George R.R. Martin
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Short Sunset Quotes
Sunsets, like childhood, are viewed with wonder not just because they are beautiful but because they are fleeting.
Richard Paul Evans
Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm but to add color to my sunset sky.
Rabindranath Tagore
If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.
G.K. Chesterton
Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do every day what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer the goal.
Elbert Hubbard
Come watch with me the shaft of fire that glows
In yonder West: the fair, frail palaces,
The fading Alps and archipelagoes,
And great cloud-continents of sunset-seas.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Bursts of gold on lavender melting into saffron. It’s the time of day when the sky looks like it has been spray-painted by a graffiti artist.
Mia Kirshner
The sky broke like an egg into full sunset and the water caught fire.
Pamela Hansford Johnson
Romantic Sunset Quotations
The first stab of love is like a sunset, a blaze of color — oranges, pearly pinks, vibrant purples…
Anna Godbersen
If the boy and girl walk off into the sunset hand-in-hand in the last scene, it adds 10 million to the box office.
George Lucas
Someday, you will find the one, who will watch every sunrise with you until the sunset of your life.
Unknown
Let us freely walk in the countryside, like a horse peacefully walking towards sunset without any particular purpose!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
Tell me the story about how the sun loved the moon so much he died every night to let her breathe.
Unknown
Appreciate small moments of happiness, for they are so important.
Unknown
Never go too long without watching a sunset.
Atticus
May every sunrise hold more promise,
And every sunset holds more peace.
Unknown
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Sunset Quotes Life
Life does not come with instructions on how to live, but it does come with trees, sunsets, smiles, and laughter, so enjoy your day.
Debbie Shapiro
the redness had seeped from the day and night was arranging herself around us. Cooling things down, staining and dyeing the evening purple and blue-black.
Sue Monk Kidd
There’s a special quality to the loneliness of dusk, a melancholy more brooding even than the nights.
Ed Gorman
To watch a sunset is to connect with the Divine.
Gina De Gorna
Good Sunset Quotes Inspirational
Sunsets are my escape into the reality I want to continuously live.
Rachel Roy
Keep looking up! I learn from the past, dream about the future and look up. There’s nothing like a beautiful sunset to end a healthy day.
Rachel Boston
There is nothing more musical than a sunset.
Claude Debussy
Once I saw a chimpanzee gaze at a particularly beautiful sunset for a full 15 minutes, watching the changing colors [and then] retire to the forest without picking a pawpaw for supper.
Adriaan Kortlandt
Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.
John Lubbock
Beautiful Sunset Quotes
Sunset is still my favorite color, and rainbow is second.
Mattie Stepanek
Sunset on the water ought to be a quiet and easy time, but I guess some people can’t stand a little silence.
Carl Hiaasen
If I could lick the sunset, I’ll bet it would taste like Neapolitan ice cream.
Jarod Kintz
No sun outlasts its sunset but will rise again and bring the dawn.
Maya Angelou
The sun tells the best joke of a day full of them, setting so spectacularly that you can almost smell the tropical paradise lazing somewhere over this rim of endless, gray socialist towers. Miles of square windows explode orange, red, and purple, like a million TV sets broadcasting the apocalypse. Clouds unspool. The sky drains of birds.
Tod Wodicka
Every sunset is an opportunity to reset.
Richie Norton
Sunset is so marvelous that even the sun itself watches it every day in the reflections of the infinite oceans!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
Sunsets are just little glimpses of the Golden streets of Heaven…..
Unknown
Sun Sayings
Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.
Unknown
Let us dance in the sun, wearing wildflowers in our hair…
Susan Polis Schutz
The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.
Galileo Galilei
When the sun is shining I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome.
Wilma Rudolph
Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain’t going away.
Elvis Presley
When the sun shines, it not only brightens our day; it enlightens us, our soul, cleansing it of the gloominess that the night’s darkness had brought in.
Tista Ray
Inspirational
Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.
Samuel Smiles
To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.
David Viscott
There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind.
Annie Dillard
If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
Victor Hugo
Sunshine is a welcome thing. It brings a lot of brightness.
Jimmie Davis
You need to spend time crawling alone through shadows to truly appreciate what it is to stand in the sun.
Shaun Hick
Inspirational Sunset Quotes
If you want to shine like a sun, first burn like a sun.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
The sun is the most important thing in everybody’s life, whether you’re a plant, an animal or a fish, and we take it for granted.
Danny Boyle
The Sun is such a lonely star. Whenever he comes out to see his friends, they all disappear.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
The sun is new each day.
Heraclitus
If you want to see the sunshine, you have to weather the storm.
Frank Lane
To the best of our knowledge, our Sun is the only star proven to grow vegetables.
Philip Scherrer
Even the sun directs our gaze away from itself and to the life illumined by it.
Eberhard Arnold
Appreciate small moments of happiness.
Unknown
Daylight reveals color; artificial light drains it.
Helena Rubinstein
— Mike O’Halloran
Mike is the founder and editor of Greeting Card Poet.
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