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Quotes About Sunset

I feel claustrophobic. I need more than a couple of hours' light a day. I'm sick and tired of watching the sun set two hours after dawn. I need more light than this.
~ Debbie Macomber
For reality's glow and glory, without poetry, Fade, like the red operas of sunset
~ Delmore Schwartz
Its perorations verge upon the ceaseless orations of the ocean: For reality's glow and glory, without poetry, Fade, like the red operas of sunset, The blue rivers and windows of morning.
~ Delmore Schwartz
The sky was a bruised red shot with black, almost exactly the colors of a tattoo. Sunset had two minutes left to live.
~ Denis Johnson
The sun lowered itself through the roof of clouds, ignited the sea, and filled the big picture window with molten light, so that we did our dealing and dreaming in a brilliant fog.
~ Denis Johnson
The sun was beginning to fade, though, and the air - slightly chilled as it slid through the trees - carried with it just the barest hint of rain.
~ Dennis Lehane
He turned his head to look full at me, his hair fire-struck with the setting sun, face dark in silhouette. Twenty-four years ago today, I married ye, Sassenach, he said softly. I hope ye willna have cause yet to regret it. -Jamie Fraser
~ Diana Gabaldon
If ye were no longer there—or somewhere—" he said very softly, "then the sun would no longer come up or go down." He lifted my hand and kissed it, very gently. He laid it, closed around my ring, upon my chest, rose, and left.
~ Diana Gabaldon
The light faded slowly, retreating through the trees. The thick mossy trunks grew dense with shadow, edges still rimmed with a fugitive light that hid among the leaves, green shadows shifting with the sunset breeze.
~ Diana Gabaldon
Divina poesia! - diss'egli togliendo gli occhi dal bel tramonto che omai si scolorava in un vago crepuscolo - chi primo si alzò con te nelle speranze infinite fu il vero consolatore dell'umanità. Per insegnare agli uomini la felicità bisognerebbe educarli poeti, non scienziati o anatomici.
~ Unknown
Even the longest day has its end.
~ Irish proverb
The orange sun is rolling across the sky like a severed head, gentle light glimmers in the ravines among the clouds, the banners of the sunset are fluttering above our heads. The stench of yesterday's blood and slaughtered horses drips into the evening chill.
~ Unknown
So shines the setting sun on adverse skies, and paints a rainbow on the storm.
~ Isaac Watts
Work stops at sunset. Darkness falls over the building site. The sky is filled with stars. "There is the blueprint," they say.
~ Italo Calvino
The sun in its slow descent filtered great cathedral-moats of gold through latticed boughs of pine and birch and maple. It was that time of day- or afternoon- when the forest's breath, sun-stunned, yearning for night, impalpably swoons to the slow pulsations of blood and time and silence.
~ Dalton Trumbo
Watching sunrise and sunset from space, which is a beautiful sight, has been a personal privilege I have attained while being there. Another reflection from within I felt was that there was nothing which was neither visible and nor with a supportive environment as to how Planet Earth is.
~ Rakesh Sharma
When night comes, the gods again taunt us with a radiant sunset. "Nothing should be this beautiful," I quietly say to Chou. "The gods are playing tricks on us. How could they be so cruel and still make the sky so lovely?". My words tug at my heart. It is unfair of the gods to show us beauty when I am in so much pain and anguish. "I want to destroy all the beautiful things.
~ Loung Ung
miraba como los rayos dorados del sol poniente iluminaban las flores multicolores. La hierba tenía un brillo rojizo y las rocas se encendían.
~ Johanna Spyri
The evening light was like honey in the trees When you left me and walked to the end of the street Where the sunset abruptly ended. The wedding-cake drawbridge lowered itself To the fragile forget-me-not flower. You climbed aboard. Burnt horizons suddenly paved with golden stones, Dreams I had, including suicide, Puff out the hot-air balloon now. It is bursting, it is about to burst
~ John Ashbery
Many things lost in life can be restored; however, time misused can never be recovered. Once the sun goes down, the day is forever gone.
~ John Bevere
Forse è la vita chiusa che facciamo qui, e la noia in cui ci imbattiamo quando cerchiamo di variarla. Queste abitudini, questi giorni come vestiti vecchi. Ieri un giorno di luce brillante, di brillantezza acustica: il tintinnio di ruote di treni lontani sui binari risuonava netto. Dolori da sinusite. Ho portato Ben in macchina sulla collina a vedere il tramonto, il buio terso, le colline, le luci lontane, le nuvole tinte, il cielo color lavanda e limone.
~ John Cheever
Keep your eyes on the east side where the sun will rise because the past is on the west where the sunsets.
~ Unknown
Live to revel in just another twilight. Life may sink and disappear along with the sunset never to rise again
~ Munia Khan
Sunset and evening star And one clear call for me! And may there be no moaning of the bar When I put out to sea.
~ Lord Alfred Tennyson