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Quotes About Sunset

The sun finally died in beauty, flinging out its crimson flames, which cast their reflection on the faces of passers-by, giving them a strangely feverish look. The darkness of the trees became deeper. You could hear the Seine flowing. Sounds carried farther, and people in their beds could feel, as they did every night, the vibration of the ground as buses rolled past.
~ Georges Simenon
You know, in a workplace, when you shrink the size of a workforce, there is pain there. But there is no question: we have a government that we can no longer afford. That is the cold, hard fact. So we have to make this more efficient. We have to sunset programs that no longer work. We have to eliminate waste and fraud. We must do this.
~ Meg Whitman
I am inspired by anything beautiful. Sometime it's a pair of eyes or flowing gorgeous hair, other times it's the sky or a sunset. I've been inspired by supple skin or the texture of a soft shirt.
~ Nadine Velazquez
Long runs are definitely tedious, but I find that timing is important on them. I like to do my long runs either early in the morning as the sun rises or in the late afternoon when the sun sets because it gives me something to see instead of thinking about how long I'm running.
~ Andi Dorfman
Children there rowed boats, climbed trees, picked mussels, ending every summer day cleaned up and carrying the ice in the silver bucket, the Goldfish crackers, and the Scotch, down to the dock at six, where they'd stand ranged along the splintering wooden boards looking down at the white bodies of the flashing fish, while the grown-ups behind them drank as the sun fell into the sea. The Miltons of Crockett's Island.
~ Sarah Blake
Imagine a sunset, lavender and red / as battered morals . . .
~ Sarah Gorham
The world is disappearing, piece by piece; the darkness has closed in around me long before the sun sets.
~ Sarah Monette
The sky was a fading red and nothing remained of the day save for a line of molten gold slowly lowering on the western horizon.
~ Scott Lynch
Our island is two leagues long and one league wide, and if you were standing on one of the hills that rise in the middle of it, you would think that it looked like a fish. Like a dolphin lying on its side, with its tail pointing toward the sunrise, its nose pointing to the sunset, and its fins making reefs and the rocky ledges along the shore. Whether someone did stand there on the low hills in the days when the earth was new and, because of its shape, called it the Island of the Blue Dolphins
~ Scott O'Dell
There's something about old houses at sunset...they are ghosts made of wood, softening in the dusk that comes upon them like a tide.
~ Scott Thomas
Never waste any amount of time doing anything important when there is a sunset outside that you should be sitting under! - C. JoyBell C.
~ Unknown
... but the longest day hath its evening.
~ Walter Raleigh
In a whisper he began begging for—and, as the sun set, received—the concession people always beg for: a little more time.
~ Zadie Smith
Seeing a sunset, Linnea felt connected both to the earth below and God above.
~ Mary Alice Monroe
The sun had long set, but one blood-red gash like an open wound lay low in the distant west.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Our reverence for independence takes no account of the reality of what happens in life: sooner or later, independence will become impossible. Serious illness or infirmity will strike . It is as inevitable as sunset. And then a new question arises: If independence is what we live for, what do we do when it can no longer be sustained?
~ Atul Gawande
Serious illness or infirmity will strike. It is as inevitable as sunset. And then a new question arises: If independence is what we live for, what do we do when it can no longer be sustained?
~ Atul Gawande
Until well into the evening, when the vermillion sun plunged precipitously into the harbor, Alexandria remained a swirl of reds and yellows, a swelling kaleidoscope of music, chaos, and color.
~ Stacy Schiff
Patrick started running after the sunset. And Sam immediately followed him. And I saw them in silhouette. Running after the sun.
~ Stephen Chbosky
And then Patrick started running after the sunset. And Sam immediately followed him. And I saw them in silhouette. Running after the sun. Then, I started running. And everything was as good as it could be.
~ Stephen Chbosky
And we were talking about things that seemed important at the time. And we were looking up that hill. And then Patrick started running after the sunset. And Sam immediately followed him. And I saw them in silhouette. Running after the sun. Then, I started running. And everything was as good as it could be.
~ Stephen Chbosky
then Patrick started running after the sunset. And Sam immediately followed him. And I saw them in silhouette. Running after the sun. Then, I started running. And everything was as good as it could be.
~ Stephen Chbosky
The water was glassy and calm, still candy-colored in the afterglow of sunset.
~ Stephen King
Look', she said. It's going to be a beautiful sunset. Shall we stay out and watch it?' 'All right,' I said, and we stayed there on the lawn for quite awhile, arms around each other's waists, first watching the bright colors come up in the sky, then watching them fade to ashes of gray.
~ Stephen King