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Quotes About Sunset

Every sunset I witness inspires me with the desire to go to West as distant and as fair as that which the sun goes down. Eastward I go only by force; but westward I go free.
~ Henry David Thoreau
I think there are lovely sunsets in hell—and that's where my desire for you is sending me
~ John Geddes
Honestly, David, sometimes when they all start I don't know whether to scream or just walk out into the sunset. [...] - Why don't you do both? Walk into the sunset screaming?
~ Diana Wynne Jones
A sunset is the story of the world's day.
~ Don DeLillo
Grass: I live in a great steel tower that reflects the blazing sun. People catch fire just walking by. The more bodies that pile up around you, the greater your equity, the stronger your power, the longer you live. This is the point of living in a high rise. To see the bodies pile up at sunset, the nostalgic hour, the hour of summing up, stirring the cocktails, feeling the great tower sway in the hot winds.
~ Don DeLillo
Las puestas de sol no tienen prisa, y nosotros tampoco. El cielo se encuentra sometido a un sortilegio poderoso y estructurado.
~ Don DeLillo
When the sun went down, the sky lit up like Jesus was coming back.
~ Donald Miller
I felt rotten. Dead butterfly floating on the surface of the pool. Audible machine hum. Drowned crickets and beetles swirling in the plastic filter baskets. Above, the setting sun flared gaudy and inhuman, blood-red shelves of cloud that suggested end-times footage of catastrophe and ruin: detonations on Pacific atolls, wildlife running before sheets of flame.
~ Donna Tartt
Was it wrong, wanting to sleep late with the covers over my head and wander around a peaceful house with old seashells in drawers and wicker baskets of folded upholstery fabric stored under the parlor secretary, sunset falling in drastic coral spokes through the fanlight over the front door?
~ Donna Tartt
The light was leaving in the west it was blue The children's laughter sang and skipping just like the stones they threw the voices echoed across the way its getting late It was just another night with the sun set and the moon rise not so far behind to give us just enough light to lay down underneath the stars listen to papas translations of the stories across the sky we drew our own constellations
~ Jack Johnson
There was plenty of green light left in that orange light Em.
~ Jaclyn Moriarty
was low in the sky, and the woods seemed to be sprouting strange
~ Unknown
Dusk came earlier in the valley than in places outside the mountains' muscular shadows.
~ Jake Tapper
The brilliant red sphere balanced on the rim of the water like a beach ball. Then it slipped beyond the horizon, leaving the soft haze of twilight behind it.
~ Lurlene McDaniel
out over the sea," he said. When it
~ Unknown
I almost did not come, because I did not want to leave it." He smiled. "Now I know how to make you follow me everywhere." The sun sank below Pelion's ridges, and we were happy.
~ Madeline Miller
The rain had washed the sunset time to a lambent beauty.
~ John D. MacDonald
O that our dreamings all, of sleep or wake, Would all their colours from the sunset take.
~ John Keats
O that our dreamings all, of sleep or wake, Would all their colours from the sunset take: From something of material sublime, Rather than shadow our own soul's day-time In the dark void of night. For in the world We jostle, - but my flag is not unfurl'd...
~ John Keats
Allow failure to teach you A supreme lesson: Each sunset is the beginning Of a very, very bright And powerful sunrise.
~ Sri Chinmoy
Happy are those who don't fear to see the sun go down, but instead look forward to watching the stars come out.
~ Unknown
Sunsets, like childhood, are viewed with wonder not just because they are beautiful but because they are fleeting.
~ Richard Paul Evans
Why sunset is more colorful than sunrise? It's an irony of life saying, 'sometimes, good things happen in goodbyes.'
~ Unknown
Life is all about moving and enjoying every sunset and looking forward to the next sunrise.
~ Unknown