Sun Setting Quotes:

Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty.

- John Ruskin

topic: Science, Painting, Infinite, Infinite Beauty, Nature Beauty

The setting sun, and the music at the close, As the last taste of sweets, is sweetest last, Writ in rememberance more than long things past.

- William Shakespeare

topic: Sweet, Sunset, Past, Sun Setting, Things Past

The last taste of sweets is sweetest last.

- William Shakespeare

source: 'Richard II' (1595) act 2, sc. 1, l. 11

topic: Sweet, Food, Sunset, Sun Setting, Beautiful Sunset

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

Men shut their doors against a setting sun.

- William Shakespeare

source: 'Timon Of Athens' act 1, sc. 2, l. [152]

topic: Men, Doors, Athens, Sun Setting

One day, I watched the sun setting forty-four times......You know...when one is so terribly sad, one loves sunsets.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

topic: Sunset, One Day, Four, Sun Setting

I trust the red sun setting, the leafless November trees. On Monday morning I look foward fearlessly to Friday’s eve. But humans are not as reliable as nature, as trees. I wonder if you’ll come back; I trust only that you leave.

- Ellen Wittlinger

topic: Friday, Monday, Morning, Sun Setting

hills that stand soft and a sky that stands high and blue, and the sun setting behind a windmill, and always, always, hazy strings of mountains that fall and fall away on the horizon.

- Khaled Hosseini

topic: Fall, Blue, Sky, Sun Setting, Hazy

During the long stretches of quiet two-lane highway, with the sun setting in the distance, it was somehow easier to say things aloud, and regardless of what was said, we just kept moving toward that horizon.

- Sarah Dessen

topic: Distance, Moving, Two, Sun Setting

When you're a kid, if you watch 'The Jeffersons' with your family at seven o'clock, it seems like a natural phenomenon, like the sun setting. The universe is a strange, strange place when all of a sudden you can't use your glass with the Bionic Woman on it any more.

- Heather O'Neill

source: Heather O'Neill (2009). “Lullabies for Little Criminals: A Novel”, p.27, Harper Collins

topic: Kids, Strange Places, Glasses, Sun Setting, Bionics

I always think back to the original movies and to those quieter moments where Luke is out in A New Hope, and there are the two suns setting. It is the equivalent, basically, of a farm boy dying to get out of his small town and do something bigger. It's those kinds of universal themes that ground this whole thing in space.

- Adam Driver

source: "A galaxy faraway, so close: Adam Driver on 'Star Wars: Episode VII'" by Anthony Breznican, www.ew.com. August 15, 2014.

topic: Thinking, Boys, Space, Sun Setting, Luke

Krishna was conceived in the womb of Devaki mysteriously as the sun setting in the West imparts his rays to the rising moon in the East.

- A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

topic: God, Moon, Rays, Sun Setting, Sun Set