Sunset Quotes and Sayings
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 ordinary folks, has 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
1.) O, Sunlight! The most precious gold to be found on Earth.
Roman Payne
2.) 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
3.) There is a sunrise and a sunset every single day, and they’re absolutely free. Don’t miss so many of them.
Jo Walton
4.) 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
5.) Twilight fell: The sky turned to a light, dusky purple littered with tiny silver stars.
J.K. Rowling
Best Sunset Quotes
6.) Never waste any amount of time doing anything important when there is a sunset outside that you should be sitting under!
C. JoyBell C.
7.) 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
8.) The biggest cliche in photography is sunrise and sunset.
Catherine Opie
9.) 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
10.) 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
11.) Don’t forget: Beautiful sunsets need cloudy skies.
Paulo Coelho
12.) Sunset is a wonderful opportunity for us to appreciate all the great things the sun gives us!
Mehmet Murat ildan
13.) It is almost impossible to watch a sunset and not dream.
Bernard Williams
14.) When the sun has set, no candle can replace it.
George R.R. Martin
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Short Sunset Quotes
15.) Sunsets, like childhood, are viewed with wonder not just because they are beautiful but because they are fleeting.
Richard Paul Evans
16.) Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm but to add color to my sunset sky.
Rabindranath Tagore
17.) 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
18.) 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
19.) 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
20.) 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
21.) The sky broke like an egg into full sunset and the water caught fire.
Pamela Hansford Johnson
Romantic Sunset Quotations
22.) The first stab of love is like a sunset, a blaze of color — oranges, pearly pinks, vibrant purples…
Anna Godbersen
23.) 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
24.) Someday, you will find the one, who will watch every sunrise with you until the sunset of your life.
Unknown
25.) Let us freely walk in the countryside, like a horse peacefully walking towards sunset without any particular purpose!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
26.) Tell me the story about how the sun loved the moon so much he died every night to let her breathe.
Unknown
27.) Appreciate small moments of happiness, for they are so important.
Unknown
28.) Never go too long without watching a sunset.
Atticus
29.) May every sunrise hold more promise,
And every sunset holds more peace.
Unknown
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Sunset Quotes Life
30.) 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
31.) 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
32.) There’s a special quality to the loneliness of dusk, a melancholy more brooding even than the nights.
Ed Gorman
33.) To watch a sunset is to connect with the Divine.
Gina De Gorna
Good Sunset Quotes Inspirational
34.) Sunsets are my escape into the reality I want to continuously live.
Rachel Roy
35.) 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
36.) There is nothing more musical than a sunset.
Claude Debussy
37.) 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
38.) Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.
John Lubbock
Beautiful Sunset Quotes
39.) Sunset is still my favorite color, and rainbow is second.
Mattie Stepanek
40.) 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
41.) If I could lick the sunset, I’ll bet it would taste like Neapolitan ice cream.
Jarod Kintz
42.) No sun outlasts its sunset but will rise again and bring the dawn.
Maya Angelou
43.) 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
44.) Every sunset is an opportunity to reset.
Richie Norton
45.) Sunset is so marvelous that even the sun itself watches it every day in the reflections of the infinite oceans!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
46.) Sunsets are just little glimpses of the Golden streets of Heaven…..
Unknown
Sun Sayings
47.) Turn your face to the sun, and the shadows fall behind you.
Unknown
48.) Let us dance in the sun, wearing wildflowers in our hair…
Susan Polis Schutz
49.) 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
50.) When the sun is shining, I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome.
Wilma Rudolph
51.) Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain’t going away.
Elvis Presley
52.) 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
Awe-inspiring
53.) Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.
Samuel Smiles
54.) To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.
David Viscott
55.) There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind.
Annie Dillard
56.) If I had to choose a religion, the sun, as the universal giver of life, would be my god.
Napoleon Bonaparte
57.) Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
Victor Hugo
58.) Sunshine is a welcome thing. It brings a lot of brightness.
Jimmie Davis
59.) You need to spend time crawling alone through shadows to truly appreciate what it is to stand in the sun.
Shaun Hick
Inspiring Sunset Quotes
60.) If you want to shine like a sun, first burn like a sun.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
61.) 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
62.) The Sun is such a lonely star. Whenever he comes out to see his friends, they all disappear.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
63.) The sun is new each day.
Heraclitus
64.) If you want to see the sunshine, you have to weather the storm.
Frank Lane
65.) To the best of our knowledge, our Sun is the only star proven to grow vegetables.
Philip Scherrer
66.) Even the sun directs our gaze away from itself and to the life illumined by it.
Eberhard Arnold
67.) Appreciate small moments of happiness.
Unknown
68.) Daylight reveals color; artificial light drains it.
Helena Rubinstein
Motivational Sunset Quotes
69.) Sunsets are proof that endings can be beautiful too.
Beau Taplin
70.) Enjoy each sunset for the promise of a new tomorrow.
Unknown
71.) When your world moves too fast, and you lose yourself in the chaos, introduce yourself to each color of the sunset.
Christy Ann Martine
72.) A sunrise or sunset can be ablaze with brilliance and arouse all the passion, all the yearning, in the soul of the beholder.
Mary Balogh
73.) May every sunrise hold more promise and every sunset hold more peace.
Umair Siddiqui
74.) Every one of a hundred thousand cities around the world had its own special sunset and it was worth going there, just once, if only to see the sun go down.
Ryu Murakami
75.) The darkness that follows a sunset is never so dark that it can change the inevitability of a sunrise.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
Gratitude
76.) My joy is the golden sunset giving thanks for another day.
Jonathan Lockwood
77.) The sky takes on shades of orange during sunrise and sunset, the colour that gives you hope that the sun will set only to rise again.
Ram Charan
78.) Soften the orange a bit on the right hand corner. I don’t try to control a sunset. I watch with awe as it unfolds.
Carl Rogers
79.) If you are in a beautiful place where you can enjoy sunrise and sunset, then you are living like a lord.
Nathan Phillips
80.) Every moment of life is unique – a kiss, a sunset, a dance, a joke. None will ever recur in quite the same way. Each happens only once in the history of the universe.
Stephen Nachmanovitch
Awesome Sunset Quotes
81.) Sunsets are proof that no matter what happens, every day can end beautifully.
Kristen Butler
82.) A sunset is the sun’s fiery kiss to the night.
Crystal Woods
83.) Enjoy the beauty of a sunset and enjoy nature’s farewell kiss for the night.
Sharon Rene
84.) The strange thing about the sunset is that we actually don’t want the sun to set; we want it to stay right on the horizon, not below it, not above it, just right on it.
Mehmet Murat Ildan
85.) A sunrise or sunset can be ablaze with brilliance and arouse all the passion, all the yearning, in the soul of the beholder.
Mary Balogh
86.) The sun is setting in a burnt orange sky; the cliffs are black silhouettes; the sea liquid silver.
Laura Treacy Bentley
87.) The sky has changed from orange to a hundred shades of pink to a dark navy blue, and here I am still loving you.
A.Y.
Famous Sunset Quotes
88.) Softly the evening came with the sunset.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
89.) Every sunset brings the promise of a new dawn.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
90.) The water was glassy and calm, still candy-colored in the afterglow of sunset.
Stephen King
91.) We were made to enjoy music, to enjoy beautiful sunsets, to enjoy looking at the billows of the sea. Desmond Tutu
92.) That was her magic — she could still see the sunset, even on those darkest days.
Atticus
93.) Foam is white, and waves are grey; Beyond the sunset leads my way.
J.R.R. Tolkien
94.) Her heart was made of liquid sunsets.
Virginia Woolf
Sunset Captions
95.) See the beauty of sunset to enjoy the passion of life.
Debasish Mridha
96.) My soul is an empty carousel at sunset.
Pablo Neruda
97.) It is almost impossible to watch a sunset and not dream.
Bern Williams
98.) With every sunset a new hope is born, and an old expectation dies.
Noor Unnahar
99.) Meet me where the sun touches the sea.
Jennifer Donnelly
100.) Sunset is the opening music of the night.
Mehmet Murat Ildan
Short Sunset Instagram Captions
101.) In a sunset state of mind.
102.) The sky is putting on a show.
103.) A picture-perfect end to the day.
104.) Fifty shades of pink.
105.) Beautiful moments to treasure.
106.) Golden hour is my happy hour.
107.) I was born to chase sunsets.
108.) Lose yourself in the sunset.
109.) A promise of a new tomorrow.
110.) Clear your mind, and watch the sky.
By Mike O’Halloran
Mike is the founder and editor of Greeting Card Poet.
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