Sunset Quotes:

I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Sunset, Done, Losing, Interest In Politics, Losing Interest

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

topic: Beautiful, Sunset, Animal, Supper, Changing Colors

Every Friday I used to have about fifty, sixty kids who would wait for me on Sunset Boulevard and I'd take them all to dinner. All runaways.

- Al Lewis

topic: Friday, Kids, Sunset, Wait For Me, Sunset Boulevard

You normally have to be bashed about a bit by life to see the point of daffodils, sunsets and uneventful nice days.

- Alain de Botton

topic: Nice, Sunset, Nice Day, Daffodil

I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.

- Aldous Huxley

topic: Sunset, Dark, Obscurity, Celery, Genuineness

The sun was down, And all the west was paved with sullen fire. I cried, Behold! the barren beach of hell At ebb of tide.

- Alexander Smith

topic: Beach, Sunset, Fire, Sullen

My purpose holds to sail beyond the sunset and the baths of all the Western stars until I die.

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

topic: Stars, Sunset, Purpose, Beyond The Stars

Come, my friends Tis not too late to seek a newer world Push off, and sitting well in order smite The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds To sail beyond the sunset and the baths Of all the western stars, until I die

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

topic: Stars, Sunset, Order

After you understand about the sun and the stars and the rotation of the earth, you may still miss the radiance of the sunset.

- Alfred North Whitehead

topic: Stars, Attitude, Sunset, Rotation

My father once nearly came to blows with a female dinner guest about whether a particular patch of embroidery was fuchsia or magenta. But the infinite gradations of color in a fine sunset - from salmon to canary to midnight blue - left him wordless.

- Alison Bechdel

topic: Father, Sunset, Blow, Midnight Blue, Canaries

But afterall it's not the winning that matters, is it? Or is it? It'sto coinawordtheamenitiesthatcount: thesmell of the dandelions, the puff of the pipe, the click of the bat, the rain on the neck, the chill down the spine, the slow, exquisite coming on of sunset and dinner and rheumatism.

- Alistair Cooke

source: Quoted in Helen Exley Cricket Quotations (1992).

topic: Rain, Sunset, Winning

I watch an awful lot of old Hollywood movies - Ill devour anything with Bette Davis or Joan Crawford. My absolute favourite is Sunset Boulevard starring Gloria Swanson.

- Amanda Donohoe

topic: Sunset, Hollywood, Watches, Old Hollywood, Sunset Boulevard

I run because I enjoy it — not always, but most of the time. I run because I have always run — not trained, but run. What do I get? Joy and pain. Good health and injuries. Exhilaration and despair. A feeling of accomplishment and a feeling of waste. The sunrise and the sunset.

- Amby Burfoot

topic: Running, Pain, Sunset

We have all eternity to celebrate the victories but only a few hours before sunset to win them.

- Amy Carmichael

topic: Inspiration, Sunset, Winning, Before Sunset

It is more important that you should know about the reverses than about the successes of the war. We shall have all eternity to celebrate the victories, but we have only the few hours before sunset in which to win them. We are not winning them as we should, because the fact of the reverses is so little realized, and the needed reinforcements are not forthcoming, as they would be in the position were thoroughly understood...So we have tried to tell you the truth the uninteresting, unromantic truth.

- Amy Carmichael

topic: War, Inspiration, Sunset, Forthcoming, Reinforcement

Get outside. Watch the sunrise. Watch the sunset. How does that make you feel? Does it make you feel big or tiny? Because there's something good about feeling both.

- Amy Grant

topic: Sunset, Feelings, Sunrise, Sunrise And Sunset

He asked if he could recite a poem he had written that morning: 'You speak,' he said, 'the language of shooting stars, more surprising than sunrise, more brilliant than the sun, as brief as sunset. I want to follow its trail to eternity.

- Amy Tan

topic: Morning, Stars, Sunset, Shooting Star

A bookcase is as good as a view, as much of a panorama as the sight of a city or a river. There are dawns and sunsets in books - storms and zephyrs.

- Anatole Broyard

topic: Book, Sunset, Cities, Zephyr, Bookcases

Just as a musician loves music and not nightingales, and a poet loves poetry and not sunsets, a painter is not primarily a person who responds to figures and landscapes. He is primarily one who loves pictures.

- Andre Malraux

topic: Love Picture, Sunset, Musician, Musician Love, Love Poetry

When the long, varnished buds of beech Point out beyond their reach, And tanned by summer suns Leaves of bright bryony turn bronze, And gossamer floats bright and wet From trees that are their own sunset, Spring, summer, autumn I come here, And what is there to fear? And yet I never lose the feeling That someone else behind is stealing Or else in front has disappeared; Though nothing I have seen or heard, Makes me still walk beneath these boughs With cautious step as in a haunted house.

- Andrew Young

topic: Summer, Spring, Sunset, Bronze, Spring Summer

Just as we could have rode into the sunset, along came the Internet, and it tripled the significance of the PC.

- Andy Grove

topic: Sunset, Technology, Internet, Internet Users

Virtue is relative at best, there's nothing worse than a sunset when your driving due West.

- Ani DiFranco

topic: Philosophy, Sunset, West

He was golden and beautiful as a sunset.

- Anita Diament

topic: Beautiful, Sunset, Golden

A happy marriage has the tranquility of a lovely sunset.

- Ann Landers

topic: Sunset, Lovely, Happy Marriage

Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.

- Ann Landers

topic: Love, Wedding, Sunset, Brilliance, Comets

Sunset in the ethereal waves: I cannot tell if the day is ending, or the world, or if the secret of secrets is inside me again.

- Anna Akhmatova

topic: Sunset, Secret, World, Ethereal

This land, although not my native land, Will be remembered forever. And the sea's lightly iced, Unsalty water. The sand on the bottom is whiter than chalk, The air is heady, like wine, And the rosy body of the pines Is naked in the sunset hour. And the sunset itself on such waves of ether That I just can't comprehend Whether it is the end of the day, the end of the world, Or the mystery of mysteries in me again.

- Anna Akhmatova

topic: Wine, Sunset, Air, Chalk, Native Land

The first stab of love is like a sunset, a blaze of color -- oranges, pearly pinks, vibrant purples...

- Anna Godbersen

source: Anna Godbersen (2014). “The Luxe Complete Collection: The Luxe, Rumors, Envy, Splendor”, p.51, Harper Collins

topic: Best Friend, Crush, Sunset, Beautiful Sunset

Give me a well-cooked, well-served meal, a bouquet, and a sunset, and I can do more for a man's soul than all the cant ever preached. I can even do it without a sunset!

- Anne Ellis

source: Anne Ellis (1999). “The Life of an Ordinary Woman”, p.14, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Sunset, Men, Giving

One day," you said to me, "I saw the sunset forty-four times!" And a little later you added: "You know-- one loves the sunset, when one is so sad..." "Were you so sad, then?" I asked, "on the day of the forty-four sunsets?" But the little prince made no reply.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

topic: Sunset, One Day, Four

You know... when you are sad you love the sunsets.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

topic: Sunset, Quiet

The gray-green stretch of sandy grass,Indefinitely desolate;A sea of lead, a sky of slate;Already autumn in the air, alas!One stark monotony of stone,The long hotel, acutely white,Against the after-sunset lightWithers gray-green, and takes the grass's tone.

- Arthur Symons

topic: Sunset, Autumn, Air, Monotony

Those circumstances, which to the dim eye of Jacob's faith wore a hue so somber, were at that very moment developing and perfecting the events which were to shed around the evening of his life the halo of a glorious and cloudless sunset. All things were working together for his good! And so, troubled soul, the "much tribulation" will soon be over, and as you enter the "kingdom of God" you shall then see, no longer "through a glass darkly" but in the unshadowed sunlight of the Divine presence, that "all things" did "work together" for your personal and eternal good.

- Arthur W. Pink

topic: Sunset, Eye, Glasses, Jacob, Somber

When she looked at herself in her wedding photographs, Ammu felt the woman that looked back at her was someone else. A foolish jewelled bride. Her silk sunset-coloured sari shot with gold. Rings on every finger. White dots of sandalwood paste over her arched eye-brows. Looking at herself like this, Ammu's soft mouth would twist into a small, bitter smile at the memory - not of the wedding itself so much as the fact that she had permitted herself to be so painstakingly decorated before being led to the gallows. It seemed so absurd. So futile. Like polishing firewood.

- Arundhati Roy

topic: Memories, Eye, Sunset, Gallows, Sari

There is nothing worse than having an enemy who is a total loser. It's incredibly frustrating when seeking revenge against one, because you come to the realization that there is really nothing you can do to make the person's life worse than it already is. They have nothing to take; there is no way to screw them over if you have been their victim. It's maddening.

- Ashly Lorenzana

topic: Revenge, Sunset, Enemy, Anger And Frustration, Seeking Revenge

I would give the greatest sunset in the world for one sight of New York's skyline.

- Ayn Rand

topic: New York, Sunset, Sight, I Love New York, Fountainhead

After forty a woman has to choose between losing her figure or her face. My advice is to keep your face, and stay sitting down.

- Barbara Cartland

source: Quoted in Times (London), 6 Oct. 1993.

topic: Birthday, Women, Sunset, Losing Her

Stop what you are doing long enough to enjoy the sunset, listen to a special song that lifts you up, or pick up the phone and share some special thought with a caring friend.

- Barbara Johnson

topic: Song, Sunset, Caring

When LOVE played the still hipper Whisky A Go-Go, further west along Sunset, Arthur Lee claims they 'started the whole hippy thing' in tandem with an in-crowd of freaks led by aging beatnik sculptor Vito Paulekas. It was Vito, Carl Franzoni, Sue, Beatle Bob, Bryan Maclean and me...people would come to Ben Frank's to hang out with us after we played shows.

- Barney Hoskyns

topic: Sunset, People, Crowds, Tandem, Beatnik

Pure and undimmed, thy angel smile Is mirrored on my dreams, Like evening's sunset-girded isle Upon her shadowed streams: And o'er my thoughts thy vision floats, Like melody of spring-bird, notes; When the blue halcyon gently laves His plumage in the flashing waves.

- Benjamin

topic: Dream, Spring, Sunset, Isle

It is almost impossible to watch a sunset and not dream.

- Bernard Williams

topic: Dream, Sunset, Watches, Impossible Dream, Beautiful Sunset

We long to find someone who has been where we've been, who shares our fragile places, who sees our sunsets with the same shades of blue. Soul mates. They somehow validate the depth of our experiences.

- Beth Moore

topic: Sunset, Blue, Long, Shades Of Blue

Don't assume that God will always work in your life the way He always has. A sunset is proof that God colors outside the lines. He has no status quo. Even the laws of nature are His to interrupt. As many times as you've prayed before, today may be the day when God sends the answer so swiftly-so divinely-that you're windburned.

- Beth Moore

topic: Sunset, Color, Law

FLYING DOWN SUNSET SMOKING CRACK TRANSVESTITE IN THE FRONT EDDI MURPHY IN THE BACK MOP HAD ME GRINDY AND GRIDDY MARILYN MANSON, I DYED MY HAIR BLUE AND GREW SOME TITTIES

- Bizarre

topic: Sunset, Hair, Blue, Transvestites

My pet-sitting day ends around sunset, and it's very satisfying to know that I've made several living beings happy that day. That I left their food bowls sparkling clean and fresh water in their water bowls. That I brushed them so their coats shined, and played with them until all our hearts were beating faster. That I kissed them goodbye and left them with their tails wagging or flipping or at least raised in a happy kind of way. That's a heck of a lot more than any president, pope, prime minister, or potentate can say, and I wouldn't switch places with any of them.

- Blaize Clement

source: Blaize Clement (2009). “Cat Sitter on a Hot Tin Roof: A Dixie Hemingway Mystery”, p.32, Macmillan

topic: Goodbye, Sunset, Heart, Prime Minister

I was looking to show people I could act. I was looking for something that would take me away from the whole hunk riding off into the sunset thing that people wanted me to play after Brown Sugar.

- Boris Kodjoe

topic: Sunset, Play, People, Take Me Away, Brown Sugar

Our American heritage is greater than any one of us. It can express itself in very homely truths; in the end it can lift up our eyes beyond the glow in the sunset skies.

- Bruce Catton

topic: Sunset, Eye, Sky

When drawing the sun, try to have on hand colored paper, chalk, felt-tip markers, crayons, pencils, ball point pens. You can draw a sun with any one of them. Also remember that sunset and dawn are the back and front of the same phenomenon: when we are looking at the sunset, the people over there are looking at the dawn.

- Bruno Munari

topic: Sunset, Hands, Drawing, Crayon

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

source: Carl Hiaasen (2014). “Carl Hiaasen Collection: Hoot, Flush, Scat, Chomp”, p.204, Knopf Books for Young Readers

topic: Sunset, People, Water

One of the most satisfying experiences I know is fully to appreciate an individual in the same way I appreciate a sunset. When I look at a sunset... I don't find myself saying, 'Soften the orange a little more on the right hand corner, and put a bit more purple along the base, and use a little more pink in the cloud color...' I don't try to control a sunset. I watch it with awe as it unfolds.

- Carl Rogers

topic: Sunset, Hands, Color

People are just as wonderful as sunsets if you let them be. When I look at a sunset, I don't find myself saying, "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

topic: Sunset, Hands, Orange

It does no harm to the romance of the sunset to know a little bit about it.

- Carl Sagan

topic: Sunset, Romance, Doe, Wavelength, Pale Blue Dot

It is sometimes said that scientists are unromantic, that their passion to figure out robs the world of beauty and mystery. But is it not stirring to understand how the world actually works — that white light is made of colors, that color is the way we perceive the wavelengths of light, that transparent air reflects light, that in so doing it discriminates among the waves, and that the sky is blue for the same reason that the sunset is red? It does no harm to the romance of the sunset to know a little bit about it.

- Carl Sagan

topic: Sunset, Passion, Science, Wavelength, White Light

There's never one sunrise the same or one sunset the same.

- Carlos Santana

topic: Sunset, Sunrise

Without losers, where would the winners be?

- Casey Stengel

source: Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

topic: Sports, Sunset, Loser

I like that time is marked by each sunrise and sunset whether or not you actually see it.

- Catherine Opie

topic: Sunset, Sunrise, Sunrise And Sunset

The biggest cliche in Photography is Sunrise and Sunset.

- Catherine Opie

topic: Photography, Sunset, Sunrise, Sunrise And Sunset

Today my son and I went for a stroll and saw the sea lions and watched the sunset and played ball in the park with our dog.

- Charisma Carpenter

topic: Dog, Sunset, Son

If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose.

- Charles Bukowski

topic: Life, Sunset, Thought Provoking

the tired sunsets and the tired people - it takes a lifetime to die and no time at all.

- Charles Bukowski

topic: Tired, Sunset, People

We will put no impediment in your way and we will be at dockside bidding you a farewell as you set off into the sunset.

- Charles Lichenstein

topic: Farewell, Sunset, Bidding

We moved leisurely towards Mount Foster, on the 22nd, and arrived opposite to it a little before sunset.

- Charles Sturt

topic: Sunset, Opposites, Littles, Before Sunset

It had nothing to do with gear or footwear or the backpacking fads or philosophies of any particular era or even with getting from point A to point B. It had to do with how it felt to be in the wild. With what it was like to walk for miles with no reason other than to witness the accumulation of trees and meadows, mountains and deserts, streams and rocks, rivers and grasses, sunrises and sunsets. The experience was powerful and fundamental. It seemed to me that it had always felt like this to be a human in the wild, and as long as the wild existed it would always feel this way.

- Cheryl Strayed

topic: Powerful, Philosophy, Sunset, Sunrise And Sunset, Mountain Streams

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

source: "Moose: A Memoir". Book by Stephanie Klein, www.today.com. 2008.

topic: Sunset

We had individuality. We did as we pleased. We stayed up late. We dressed the way we wanted. I used to whiz down Sunset Boulevard in my open Kissel, with several red chow dogs to match my hair. Today, they're sensible and end up with better health. But we had more fun.

- Clara Bow

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Dog, Fun, Sunset, Sunset Boulevard, Boulevard

There is nothing more musical than a sunset.

- Claude Debussy

source: "The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music". Book by Don Michael Randel, 1996.

topic: Sunset, Musical, Sunrise, Mother Nature, Dusk

A beautiful sunset that was mistaken for a dawn.

- Claude Debussy

topic: Beautiful, Sunset, Dawn

There is nothing is more musical than a sunset. He who feels what he sees will find no more beautiful example of development in all that book which, alas, musicians read but too little - the book of Nature.

- Claude Debussy

topic: Beautiful, Book, Sunset

The Lord has turned all our sunsets into sunrise.

- Clement of Alexandria

topic: Sunset, Sunrise, Lord

He changed sunset into sunrise.

- Clement of Alexandria

topic: Sunset, Sunrise, Changed

It's the idea that people living close to nature tend to be noble. It's seeing all those sunsets that does it. You can't watch a sunset and then go off and set fire to your neighbor's tepee. Living close to nature is wonderful for your mental health.

- Daniel Quinn

topic: Sunset, Fire, Ideas

Western funerals: black hearses, and black horses, and fast-fading flowers. Why should black be the colour of death? Why not the colours of a sunset?

- Daniele Vare

source: Daniele Varè (1954). “Novels of Yen-Ching”

topic: Horse, Flower, Sunset

I want to make hand-held music, undiminished by the need to make everybody in the world listen at once. The goal is to ride into the sunset, stereo blasting, and all of what's got you worried will disappear in the rear view mirror!

- Dave Sitek

topic: Sunset, Mirrors, Views, Rear View, Rear View Mirror

I think my soul never was in such an agony before. I felt no restraint, for the treasures of divine grace were opened to me. I wrestled for absent friends, for the ingathering of souls, for multitudes of poor souls, and for many that I thought were the children of God, in many distant places. I was in such an agony, for half an hour before sunset, till near dark, that I was all over wet with sweat: but yet is seemed to me that I had wasted away the day, and had done nothing. Oh!, my dear Savior did sweat blood for poor souls!

- David Brainerd

topic: Children, Sunset, Dark, Divine Grace, Absent Friends

If done correctly, these techniques can allow the Bobo pilgrim to have 6 unforgettable moments a morning, 2 rapturous experiences over lunch, 1,5 profound insights in the afternoon (on average), and .667 life-altering epiphanies after each sunset.

- David Brooks

topic: Morning, Sunset, Average, Life Altering, Unforgettable Moments

...in that dilated moment after sunset when the sky holds all the light...

- David Wroblewski

topic: Sunset, Light, Sky

How passionately we love everything that cannot last: the dazzling crystallory of winter, the spring in bloom, the fragile flight of butterflies, crimson sunsets, a kiss, and life.

- Dean Koontz

topic: Spring, Sunset, Butterfly, Crimson, Dazzling

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

topic: Laughter, Sunset, Tree, Day Well Spent, Smile And Laugh

That evening, rowing on the quiet river as sunset turned to dusk, I saw an occasional smoky smudge on the towpath, always slightly ahead of me, like a dark star guiding me home.

- Deborah Harkness

source: Deborah Harkness (2014). “All Souls Trilogy”, p.63, Penguin

topic: Stars, Home, Sunset

I close my eyes to indulge and reminisce of a sunset that never existed.

- Delano Johnson

topic: Sunset, Eye, Reminiscing

I know when dark-haired evening put on her bright silk at sunset, and, folding the sea sidled under the sheet with her starry laugh, that there'd be no rest, there'd be no forgetting. Is like telling mourners round the graveside about resurrection, they want the dead back.

- Derek Walcott

topic: Sunset, Dark, Sea

We were made to enjoy music, to enjoy beautiful sunsets, to enjoy looking at the billows of the sea and to be thrilled with a rose that is bedecked with dew… Human beings are actually created for the transcendent, for the sublime, for the beautiful, for the truthful... and all of us are given the task of trying to make this world a little more hospitable to these beautiful things.

- Desmond Tutu

topic: Beauty, Beautiful, Sunset, Beautiful Sunset

... he was sunset against the mountains, strong, vibrant, dangerous, and yet somehow sheltering, protective. And married. Picnic, meet rain.

- Devon Monk

source: Devon Monk (2009). “Magic in the Shadows: An Allie Beckstrom Novel”, p.61, Penguin

topic: Strong, Rain, Sunset

Some people say they're retired and it means they have time to do things they want to do. I have always had the privilege to engage in my hobbies as if they were work. And they are. So hobbies are work, but work that you want to do; they are play. Retirement? That sounds like you're going to passively walk into the sunset and disappear.

- Diane Keaton

topic: Retirement, Mean, Sunset

My treasure chest is filled with gold. Gold . . . gold . . . gold . . . Vagabond's gold and drifter's gold . . . Worthless, priceless, dreamer's gold . . . Gold of the sunset . . . gold of the dawn . . .Gold of the showertrees on my lawn . . . Poet's gold and artist's gold . . . Gold that can not be bought or sold - Gold.

- Don Blanding

topic: Sunset, Artist, Dreamer, Drifters, Vagabonds

If I have a hope, it's that God sat over the dark nothing and wrote you and me, specifically, into the story and put us in with the sunset and the rainstorm as though to say, “Enjoy your place in my story. The beauty of it means you matter, and you can create within it even as I have created you.”

- Donald Miller

source: Donald Miller (2009). “A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life”, p.59, Thomas Nelson Inc

topic: Sunset, Mean, Dark, Rainstorms

I envy people who can just look at a sunset. I wonder how you can shoot it. There is nothing more grotesque to me than a vacation.

- Dustin Hoffman

topic: Sunset, Vacation, People

At some glad moment was it nature's choice to dower a scrap of sunset with a voice?

- Edgar Fawcett

source: Edgar Fawcett (1878). “Fantasy and Passion”

topic: Sunset, Voice, Choices

At sunset we are rattling through the streets of the little town of Cordova.

- Edward Burnett Tylor

source: Edward Burnett Tylor (1861). “Anahuac; Or, Mexico and the Mexicans: Ancient and Modern”, p.25

topic: Sunset, Littles, Towns

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 to your goal.

- Elbert Hubbard

topic: Perseverance, Sunset, Goal, Sunrise And Sunset, Dawn And Dusk

Today I walked on the lion-coloured hills with only cypresses for company, until the sunset caught me, turned the brush to copper set the clouds to one great roof of flame above the earth, so that I walk through fire, beneath fire, and all in beauty. Being alone I could not be alone, but felt (closer than flesh) the presence of those who once had burned in such transfigurations. My happiness ran through the centuries in one continual brightness. Looking down, I saw the earth beneath me like a rose petaled with mountains, fragrant with deep peace.

- Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth

topic: Sunset, Night, Fire, Copper, Cypresses

I say that almost everywhere there is beauty enough to fill a person's life if one would only be sensitive to it. but Henry says No: that broken beauty is only a torment, that one must have a whole beauty with man living in relation to it to have a rich civilization and art. . . . Is it because I am a woman that I accept what crumbs I may have, accept the hot-dog stands and amusement parks if I must, if the blue is bright beyond them and the sunset flushes the breasts of sea birds?

- Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth

topic: Dog, Art, Sunset, Amusement Parks, Sea Birds

The sunset caught me, turned the brush to copper,/ set the clouds/ to one great roof of flame/ above the earth.

- Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth

topic: Sunset, Clouds, Flames

As for me, I believe that if there's a God - and I am as neutral on the subject as is possible - then the most basic proof of His existence is black humor. What else explains it, that odd, reliable comfort that billows up at the worst moments, like a beautiful sunset woven out of the smoke over a bombed city.

- Elizabeth McCracken

topic: Beautiful, Believe, Sunset, Beautiful Sunset, Black Humor

The sun sets in the west (just about everyone knows that), but Sunset Towers faced east. Strange!

- Ellen Raskin

source: Ellen Raskin (2014). “The Westing Game”, p.1, Obelix Books

topic: Sunset, East, Towers, Sun Set

Bring me the sunset in a cup.

- Emily Dickinson

topic: Sunset, Cups

Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, With conquering limbs astride from land to land; Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name Mother of exiles.

- Emma Lazarus

source: "The New Colossus" l. 1 (1883).

topic: Mother, New York, Sunset, Statue Of Liberty, Colossus

I can't give you the sunset, but I can give you the night.

- Erin McCarthy

topic: Sunset, Night, Giving, Put First Things First, Inspiring Students

When you do 'Before Sunset,' you know while it's a limited audience, there was a very small group of people that love 'Before Sunrise.' You feel a certain pressure to make sure that you uphold a level of quality that has been a bar. You set a bar and you have to at least match it.

- Ethan Hawke

topic: Sunset, People, Sunrise, Before Sunrise, Before Sunset

Great Spirit when we come singing. When we face the sunset the last song, may it be, without shame, singing "It is finished in beauty. It is finished in beauty!"

- Evelyn Eaton

topic: Song, Rest In Peace, Sunset

It's a long, slow sunset for ink-on-paper magazines, but sunsets can produce vast sums of money.

- Felix Dennis

topic: Sunset, Long, Ink

Hope is the raw material of losers.

- Fernando Flores

topic: Sunset, Raw Materials, Loser

It was no accident, no coincidence, that the seasons came round and round year after year. It was the Lord speaking to us all and showing us over and over again the birth, life, death, and resurrection of his only begotten Son, our Savior, Jesus Christ, our Lord. It was like a best-loved story being told day after day with each sunrise and sunset, year after year with the seasons, down through the ages since time began.

- Francine Rivers

source: Francine Rivers (2013). “The Last Sin Eater”, p.286, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

topic: Jesus, Sunset, Son, Sunrise And Sunset, Birth Life

St. Francis of Assisi was hoeing his garden when someone asked what he would do if he were suddenly to learn that he would die before sunset that very day. "I would finish hoeing my garden," he replied.

- Francis of Assisi

topic: Sunset, Garden, St Francis Of Assisi, Before Sunset

It was a rich and gorgeous sunset - an American sunset; and the ruddy glow of the sky was reflected from some extensive pools of water among the shadowy copses in the meadow below.

- Francis Parkman

source: Francis Parkman (1991). “The Oregon Trail ; The Conspiracy of Pontiac”, p.40, Library of America

topic: Sunset, Sky, Water, Meadows

I think of the medium as a people-to-people medium, not cameraman-to-people, not direction-to-people, not writers-to-people, but people-to-peopleYou can only involve an audience with people. You can't involve them with gimmicks, with sunsets, with hand-held cameras, zoom shots, or anything else. They couldn't care less about those things. But you give them something to worry about, some person they can worry about, and care about, and you've got them, you've got them involved.

- Frank Capra

topic: Sunset, Thinking, Hands, Zoom

You want proof there's a God? Look outside, watch a sunset.

- Frank Peretti

topic: Sunset, Watches, Looks

A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about.

- Fyodor Dostoevsky

topic: Real, Sunset, Gambling, True Gentleman, Real Gentleman

You only get one sunrise and one sunset a day, and you only get so many days on the planet. A good photographer does the math and doesn't waste either.

- Galen Rowell

topic: Sunset, Math, Sunrise, Calculating

No matter where you go, no matter how many gifts you give and receive this holiday season, unless you are actually present, it all flies by as if in a dream. Satisfaction in anything--a meal, an interaction, a gift, a sunset--depends on your willingness to take it in. Breathe. Feel your arms and your legs. You are allowed to love every little thing about yourself and your life. You are allowed to take up space and be all that you are. Really you are.

- Geneen Roth

topic: Dream, Holiday, Sunset

The dust of exploded beliefs may make a fine sunset.

- Geoffrey Madan

source: 'Livre sans nom: Twelve Reflections' (privately printed 1934) no. 12

topic: Sunset, Dust, May, Thinking Flexibly

It is only losers that are prosecuted.

- George Galloway

topic: Sunset, Loser

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

topic: Girl, Sunset, Boys, Happy Girl, Boy And Girl

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

- George MacDonald

topic: Death, Sunset, Literature

Lovely are the curves of the white owl sweeping Wavy in the dusk lit by one large star. Lone on the fir-branch, his rattle-note unvaried, Brooding o'er the gloom, spins the brown eve-jar.

- George Meredith

topic: Stars, Sunset, Night, Lone

Sunrays, leaning on our southern hills and lighting Wild cloud-mountains that drag the hills along, Oft ends the day of your shifting brilliant laughter Chill as a dull face frowning on a song. Ay, but shows the South-west a ripple-feathered bosom Blown to silver while the clouds are shaken and ascend Scaling the mid-heavens as they stream, there comes a sunset Rich, deep like love in beauty without end.

- George Meredith

topic: Song, Laughter, Sunset

When the sun has set, no candle can replace it.

- George R. R. Martin

topic: Sunset, Sun, Candle, Dawn And Dusk, Sun Set

Sunsets in themselves are generally superior to sunrises; but with the sunset we appreciate images drawn from departed peace and faded glory.

- George Stillman Hillard

topic: Sunset, Appreciate, Departed, Faded

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.

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

topic: Motivational, Sunset, Men, Rosy, Beautiful Sunset

All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

topic: Art, Sunset, Bad Ass, Modern Architecture, Nocturnal

The average man votes below himself; he votes with half a mind or a hundredth part of one. A man ought to vote with the whole of himself, as he worships or gets married. A man ought to vote with his head and heart, his soul and stomach, his eye for faces and his ear for music; also (when sufficiently provoked) with his hands and feet. If he has ever seen a fine sunset, the crimson color of it should creep into his vote. The question is not so much whether only a minority of the electorate votes. The point is that only a minority of the voter votes.

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

topic: Eye, Heart, Sunset, Head And Heart, Not Voting

It's amazing to find that so many people, who I thought really knew me, could have thought that 'Sunset Boulevard' was autobiographical. I've got nobody floating in my swimming pool.

- Gloria Swanson

topic: Sunset, Swimming, People, Sunset Boulevard, Boulevard

Sunset Boulevard opened in August 1950, and it was pronounced the best movie ever made about Hollywood.

- Gloria Swanson

topic: Sunset, August, Hollywood, Sunset Boulevard, Boulevard

The Paramount executives were so pleased with Sunset Boulevard that they asked me to do a publicity tour.

- Gloria Swanson

topic: Sunset, Publicity, Euthanasia, Sunset Boulevard, Boulevard

Let your first interest be in your home. The baby you hold in your arms will grow quickly as the sunrise and the sunset of the rushing days.

- Gordon B. Hinckley

topic: Baby, Home, Sunset

Whenever you want to see me, always look at the sunset; I will be there.

- Grace Ogot

source: Grace Ogot (1988). “Land Without Thunder”, p.133, East African Publishers

topic: Death, Sunset, Looks, Always There For Me

Looking at the world through the sunset in your eyes, traveling the train through clear Moroccan skies. Ducks and pigs and chickens call, animal carpet wall to wall, American ladies five-foot tall in blue. Sweeping cobwebs from the edges of my mind, had to get away to see what we could find. Hope the days that lie ahead, bring us back to where they've led, listen not to what's been said to you. Wouldn't you know we're riding on the Marrakesh Express? Wouldn't you know we're riding on the Marrakesh Express, they're taking me to Marrakesh. All aboard the train, all aboard the train…

- Graham Nash

topic: Wall, Lying, Sunset, Cobwebs

When you see that sunset or that panoramic view of God's finest expressed in nature, and the beauty just takes your breath away, remember it is just a glimpse of the real thing that awaits you in heaven.

- Greg Laurie

topic: Real, Sunset, Views, Real Things

What does a river like the Vistula carry away with it? Everything that goes to pieces: wood, glass, pencils, pacts ... chairs, bones, and sunsets too. What had long been forgotten rose to memory, floating on its back or stomach, with the help of the Vistula.

- Gunter Grass

topic: Memories, Sunset, Glasses, Pact

I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon it, as upon a thread of silk, opalescent dawns and saffron sunsets.

- Hamlin Garland

topic: Nature, Sunset, Fire, Modern Day, Mountain Lakes

I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon it, as upon a thread of silk, opalescent dawns and saffron sunsets. It has given me blessed release from care and worry and the troubled thinking of our modern day. It has been a return to the primitive and the peaceful. Whenever the pressure of our complex city life thins my blood and benumbs my brain, I seek relief in the trail; and when I hear the coyote wailing to the yellow dawn, my cares fall from me - I am happy.

- Hamlin Garland

topic: Blessed, Fall, Sunset

Man has created some lovely dwellings, some soul-stirring literature. He has done much to alleviate physical pain. But he has not ... created a substitute for a sunset, a grove of pines, the music of the winds, the dank smell of the deep forest, or the shy beauty of a wildflower.

- Harvey Broome

topic: Pain, Sunset, Men, Dank, Stirring

What concerns me when I work, is not whether the picture is a landscape, or whether it's pastoral, or whether somebody will see a sunset in it. What concerns me is - did I make a beautiful picture?

- Helen Frankenthaler

source: "Artful Survivor". Interview with Deborah Salomon, www.nytimes.com. May 14, 1989.

topic: Beautiful, Sunset, Landscape, Beautiful Picture

That the sky is brighter than the earth means little unless the earth itself is appreciated and enjoyed. Its beauty loved gives the right to aspire to the radiance of the sunrise and sunset.

- Helen Keller

topic: Mean, Sunset, Sky, Sunrise And Sunset

Softly the evening came /with the sunset/.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

topic: Sunset, Evening

After a day of cloud and wind and rain Sometimes the setting sun breaks out again, And touching all the darksome woods with light, Smiles on the fields until they laugh and sing, Then like a ruby from the horizon's ring, Drops down into the night.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

topic: Rain, Sunset, Night, Sun Setting, Wind And Rain

Down sank the great red sun, and in golden, glimmering vapors Veiled the light of his face, like the Prophet descending from Sinai.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

topic: Sunset, Light, Red, Sinai

By unseen hands uplifted in the light Of sunset, yonder solitary cloud Floats, with its white apparel blown abroad, And wafted up to heaven.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

topic: Sunset, Clouds, Light

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.

- Horace Mann

topic: Life, Time, Sunset, Times Gone By, Sunrise And Sunset

Towards sunset we had cleared down to the level of the 12th step, which was sufficient to expose a large part of the upper portion of a plastered and sealed doorway.

- Howard Carter

topic: Sunset, Levels, Doorways

What description of clouds and sunsets was to the old novelist, description of scientific apparatus and methods is to the modern Scientific Detective writer.

- Hugo Gernsback

topic: Sunset, Clouds, Novelists

Actually, there was another band where we were three girls, around '84 when I met John Zorn, called Sunset Chorus. It was just bass and drums and guitar- we didn't make any records but we played a lot of different clubs in New York.

- Ikue Mori

topic: Girl, New York, Sunset, Chorus

Just as, in travel, one may miss seeing the sunset because one cannot find the ticket-office or is afraid of missing the train, so in even the closest human relationships a vast amount of time and of affection is drained away in minor misunderstandings, missed opportunities, and failures in consideration or understanding.

- Iris Origo

topic: Sunset, Opportunity, Office, Missed Opportunity, Human Relationships

Beauty is like a sunset: it goes as soon as you try to capture it. The beauty you like is precisely that which escapes you.

- Issey Miyake

topic: Sunset, Trying, Capture

It is true that the sky was always beautiful but I don't remember marvelling at sunset or gazing at the dawn of a new day. Survival does not allow time for poetic reflection.

- Izzeldin Abuelaish

topic: Beautiful, Sunset, Reflection

Twilight fell: The sky turned to a light, dusky purple littered with tiny silver stars.

- J. K. Rowling

topic: Stars, Twilight, Sunset, Dawn And Dusk, Dusk

Harry looked down and saw deep green mountains and lakes, coppery in the sunset.

- J. K. Rowling

topic: Sunset, Lakes, Mountain

Deprived of human intercourse, I inevitably overvalue the imagination and expect it to make the mundane glow with an aura of self-transcendence. Yet why these glorious sunsets, I ask myself, if nature does not speak to us with tongues of fire.

- J. M. Coetzee

topic: Sunset, Fire, Self

Soon it got dusk, a grapy dusk, a purple dusk over tangerine groves and long melon fields; the sun the color of pressed grapes, slashed with burgandy red, the fields the color of love and Spanish mysteries.

- Jack Kerouac

topic: Sunset, Purple, Color, Tangerines, Dawn And Dusk

Faith has its price. When misfortune strikes the true believer, he assumes he has done something to deserve punishment, but isn't quite certain what. The realist, recognizing that he lives in a Darwinian universe, is simply grateful to have made it to another sunset.

- Jack McDevitt

source: "Deepsix". Book by Jack McDevitt, 2000.

topic: Grateful, Sunset, Punishment

The range in brightness from the purple glow [of the sunset] to the dark sky above is too great for most films, and naturally it is beyond the range of printed pictures.

- James Elkins

topic: Sunset, Dark, Sky, Dark Sky

The purple light or glow, which appears roughly fifteen or twenty minutes after sunset... looks like an isolated bright spot fairly high in the sky over the place the sun has set, and then it quickly expands and sinks until it blends with the colors underneath.

- James Elkins

topic: Sunset, Light, Color

Our seasons have no fixed returns, Without our will they come and go; At noon our sudden summer burns, Ere sunset all is snow.

- James Russell Lowell

topic: Summer, Sunset, Snow

The ash her purple drops forgivingly And sadly, breaking not the general hush; The maple swamps glow like a sunset sea, Each leaf a ripple with its separate flush; All round the wood's edge creeps the skirting blaze, Ere the rain falls, the cautious farmer burns his brush.

- James Russell Lowell

topic: Rain, Fall, Sunset, Maple

I hated the mountains and the hills, the rivers and the rain. I hated the sunsets of whatever colour, I hated its beauty and its magic and the secret I would never know. I hated its indifference and the cruelty which was part of its loveliness. Above all I hated her. For she belonged to the magic and the loveliness. She had left me thirsty and all my life would be thirst and longing for what I had lost before I found it.

- Jean Rhys

topic: Rain, Sunset, Rivers, Loveliness

My mother is a big believer in being responsible for your own happiness. She always talked about finding joy in small moments and insisted that we stop and take in the beauty of an ordinary day. When I stop the car to make my kids really see a sunset, I hear my mother's voice and smile.

- Jennifer Garner

source: "What Makes a Good Man? A Conversation With Mark Shriver". Interview with Mark K. Shriver, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 12, 2012.

topic: Mother, Kids, Sunset, Ordinary Days, Being Responsible

Passion doesn't come from business or books or even a connection with another person. It is a connection to your own life force, the world around you and the spirit that connects us all. You are the source. Books, work, music, people, sunsets all provide sparks, but only you can light the fire.

- Jennifer James

source: Jennifer James (1986). “Success Is the Quality of Your Journey”, William Morrow Paperbacks

topic: Book, Passion, Sunset

The first time I saw 'Sunset Boulevard' I was probably eight or nine years old, and it really struck me how it's so simply put and elegant, yet there's so much going on.

- Jennifer Lynch

topic: Sunset, Eight, Years, Sunset Boulevard, Boulevard

I would rather watch a sunset than TV.

- Jennifer Pharr Davis

topic: Sunset, Watches, Tvs

A renowned genius once asked a student, "What are you watching when you sit on a hillside in the late afternoon as the colors turn from yellow to orange and red and finally darkness?" He answered, "You are watching the sunset." The genius responded, "That is what is wrong with our age. You know full well you are not watching the sun set. You are watching the world turn."

- Jeremy Kagan

source: "The Jewish Self: Recovering Spirituality in the Modern World". Book by Jeremy Kagan, 1998.

topic: Sunset, Yellow, Orange, Renowned, Late Afternoon

[To] me organized religion, the formalities and routines, [is] like being marched in formation to look at a sunset.

- John D. MacDonald

source: John D MacDonald (2013). “Travis McGee: Books 4-6: Introduction by Lee Child”, p.251, Random House

topic: Sunset, Religion, Looks

I don't know what you could say about a day in which you have seen four beautiful sunsets.

- John Glenn

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Beautiful, Sunset, Space, Beautiful Sunset

After you start learning all about the mechanics of piloting a riverboat, you stop seeing all the pretty sunsets and you start thinking about the weather.

- John Hartford

topic: Sunset, Thinking, Weather

The pain comes from knowing that we have never been safe, and therefore will never be safe again. It comes from knowing we can never be so ignorant again. It comes from knowing we can never be children again. Losing innocence. Remembering heaven. That was the essence of hell.

- John Jakes

source: FaceBook post by John Jakes from Dec 22, 2014

topic: Children, Pain, Sunset

The ploughman knows how many acres he shall upturn from dawn to sunset: but the thinker knows not what a day may bring forth.

- John Lancaster Spalding

topic: Sunset, Dawn, Acres

Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.

- John Lubbock

topic: Beauty, Beautiful, Sunset, Polymaths, Gates Of Heaven

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

source: "John McCain on Education". 2007 GOP primary debate, at Reagan library, hosted by MSNBC, www.issues2000.org. May 3, 2007.

topic: Believe, Sunset, Hiking, God Is There, Grand Canyon

We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved and were loved, and now we lie In Flanders fields.

- John McCrae

source: John McCrae (2015). “In Flanders Fields and Other Poems”, p.20, Dundurn

topic: Lying, Sunset, Dawn, 11th Hour, World War 1

Come to the sunset tree! The day is past and gone; The woodman's axe lies free, And the reaper's work is done.

- John Milton

topic: Death, Lying, Sunset, Reaper

I remember being out here at the Sunset Marquis, and whoever knocked on the door, I would take that picture that I was writing and I would put that in the typewriter, so when I had the meeting, they would say: 'Oh, you're working on it right now?'

- John Sayles

topic: Writing, Sunset, Typewriters

Eventually everything fails me, but when I look at the sunset or the sky, I'm reminded what it's like to be alive.

- Jon Foreman

source: Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.

topic: Sunset, Sky, Looks

In one of the Upanishads it says, when the glow of a sunset holds you and you say 'Aha,' that is the recognition of the divinity. And when you say 'Aha' to an art object, that is a recognition of divinity. And what divinity is it? It is your divinity, which is the only divinity there is. We are all phenomenal manifestations of a divine will to live, and that will and the consciousness of life is one in all of us, and that is what artwork expresses.

- Joseph Campbell

topic: Art, Sunset, Divinity, Divine Will, Will To Live

The sun truly "comes up like thunder," and it sets just as fast. Each sunrise and sunset lasts only a few seconds. But in that time you see at least eight different bands of color come and go, from a brilliant red to the brightest and deepest blue. And you see sixteen sunrises and sixteen sunsets every day you're in space. No sunrise or sunset is ever the same.

- Joseph P. Allen

topic: Sunset, Eight, Blue, Sunrise And Sunset

Daily, from sunrise to sunset, the radio, newspapers and magazines broadcast to the world how to maintain health, how to regain health... the conflicting information, expressive of the different opinions of these various health authorities, has proved to be nothing less than confusion...

- Joseph Pilates

topic: Sunset, Confusion, Sunrise, Different Opinions

Why shouldn't it be that way for the rest of us? Why not just go with it? Just walk the dog and send the tweets and eat the scones and play with the hamsters and ride the bicycles and watch the sunsets and stream the movies and never worry about any of it? I didn't know it could be that easy. I didn't know that until just now. That sounds good to me.

- Joshua Ferris

topic: Dog, Sunset, Play, Hamsters, Scones

Gravity is measured by the bottom of the foot; we trace the density and texture of the ground through our soles. Standing barefoot on a smooth glacial rock by the sea at sunset, and sensing the warmth of the sun-heated stone through one's soles, is an extraordinarily healing experience, making one part of the eternal cycle of nature. One senses the slow breathing of the earth.

- Juhani Pallasmaa

source: Juhani Pallasmaa (2012). “The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses”, p.62, John Wiley & Sons

topic: Healing, Sunset, Rocks, Warmth Of The Sun, Barefoot

...When I asked [my dad why the sky was blue] he said it was because God's a boy. If God were a girl, the sky would be pink. 'What about sunrise and sunset?' I'd asked. Dad had looked dumbfounded. 'You kids. You think too much.' It frightened me how shallow the gene pool was that Liam and I were wading in.

- Julie Anne Peters

topic: Girl, Dad, Sunset, Sunrise And Sunset, Liam

What swells inside me is a love so boundless, I am the sunrise and sunset. I am Liberty Bell in the Cascades. I am Beihai Lake. I am every beautiful, truly beautiful, thing I've ever seen, captured in my personal Geographia, the atlas of myself.

- Justina Chen

topic: Beautiful, Sunset, Lakes, Cascade, Sunrise And Sunset

The look he gave me...My stomach quivered in that exact same way when I watched Before Sunset, yearning for a guy to know me so deeply and truly, we were only really complete when we were together. That I could talk, go on wild tangents, make obtuse references, and he would divine my meaning before I knew what I was trying to say myself. Erik had fallen asleep next to me on the couch, complaining later that the movie was "just people talking." He had no idea that this movie could have been a love letter written for me.

- Justina Chen

topic: Sunset, Talking, Ideas, People Talking, Before Sunset

The coolest thing for me is the experience of floating and not feeling my weight. And hanging by a window just after sunset and watching the stars in the big black dome of the sky as the earth moves underneath.

- Kalpana Chawla

source: AsianWeek, February 7-13, 2003.

topic: Stars, Moving, Sunset

I can watch a sunset on my own.

- Kate Nash

source: Song: Merry Happy, Album: Made of Bricks, 2007

topic: Sunset, Watches

Let me, O let me bathe my soul in colours; let me swallow the sunset and drink the rainbow.

- Khalil Gibran

topic: Sunset, Rainbow, Soul, Dusk

For me optimism is two lovers walking into the sunset arm in arm. Or maybe into the sunrise - whatever appeals to you.

- Krzysztof Kieslowski

topic: Sunset, Two, Hands, Sunrise And Sunset, Two Lovers

The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers. The people don't acknowledge this. They claim membership in two imaginary parties, the Republicans and the Democrats, instead.

- Kurt Vonnegut

topic: Real, Party, Sunset

Your mom is my sunset, and you are my dawn.

- Larissa Ione

topic: Mom, Sunset, Dawn

I enjoy the competition and the process of learning as we compete. The whole thing is just fascinating. I don't know what I'll do when I retire. When I go sailing, I look around ... anyone want to race? I just love competing as opposed to just going out and watching the sunset.

- Larry Ellison

topic: Inspiring, Sunset, Race

Perhaps the only difference between me and other people is that Ive always demanded more from the sunset,

- Lars von Trier

source: "Nymphomaniac". Drama, 2013.

topic: Sunset, Differences, People

Such beauty, he thought, was too perfect to have come about by mere chance. That day in the center of the Pacific was, to him, a gift crafted deliberately, compassionately, for him and Phil. Joyful and grateful in the midst of slow dying, the two men bathed in that day until sunset brought is, and their time in the doldrums, to an end.

- Laura Hillenbrand

topic: Grateful, Sunset, Men, Doldrums

But how could anyone who's ever seen a summer - big explosion of green and skies lit up electric with splashy sunsets, a riot of flowers and wind that smells like honey - pick the snow?

- Lauren Oliver

topic: Summer, Flower, Sunset, Alex Sheathes

Living is strife and torment, disappointment and love and sacrifice, golden sunsets and black storms. I said that some time ago, and today I do not think I would add one word.

- Laurence Olivier

topic: Life, Disappointment, Sunset, Love And Sacrifice

Reminiscent of the radiant shadings of a sunset, Tangerine Tango marries the vivaciousness and adrenaline rush of red with the friendliness and warmth of yellow, to form a high-visibility, magnetic hue that emanates heat and energy.

- Leatrice Eiseman

source: "Pantone Announces "Tangerine Tango" Is The Official Color Of 2012" by Tracey Lomrantz Lester, www.glamour.com. December 09, 2011.

topic: Sunset, Yellow, Energy, Tangerines, Adrenaline Rush

Practically any Western has a homesteader in trouble, and a mysterious rider shows up off the range, solves the problem over two or three days, and then rides off into the sunset.

- Lee Child

topic: Sunset, Two, Three

There are winners, there are losers and there are people who have not yet learned how to win.

- Les Brown

topic: Inspirational, Sunset, Winning, Winners And Winning

The true purpose of education is to teach a man to carry himself triumphant to the sunset.

- Liberty Hyde Bailey

topic: Educational, Sunset, Men, Purpose Of Education, Beautiful Sunset

I was actually the one who decided to move to LA. Mom and I were driving on Sunset Boulevard during one of our trips back to see her family, and I said, 'Can we just stay?' So we did.

- Lily Collins

topic: Mom, Moving, Sunset, Driving On, Sunset Boulevard

These days I love to take in the sunset because every time I do so I remember how lucky I am to be alive. That's a great relationship to have with the setting sun.

- Lincoln Hall

source: Lincoln Hall (2008). “Dead Lucky: Life After Death on Mount Everest”, p.240, Penguin

topic: Wisdom, Sunset, Lucky

Nothing grows among its pinnacles; there is no shade except under great toadstools of sandstone whose bases have been eaten to the shape of wine glasses by the wind. Everything is flaking, cracking, disintegrating, wearing away in the long, inperceptible weather of time. The ash of ancient volcanic outbursts still sterilizes its soil, and its colors in that waste are the colors that flame in the lonely sunsets on dead planets.

- Loren Eiseley

topic: Lonely, Wine, Sunset, Toadstools, Outburst

When I turned the corner, I saw Toni waving at me from the elevator. I think I've already told you how it made me feel to see her smile and wave at me. You can have your sunsets and waterfalls. If a piano were to suddenly fall on my head, that's the image I'd want forever engraved in my mind. —Alton Richard

- Louis Sachar

topic: Fall, Sunset, Thinking

Learn to love the sunrise and sunset, the beating of rain on the roof and windows, and the gentle fall of snow on a winter day.

- Lowell L. Bennion

topic: Fall, Rain, Sunset, Sunrise And Sunset

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

- Ludwig Borne

topic: Life, Truth, Sunset, Wiser You, Truth Hurts