Sunset Quotes

Two golden hours somewhere between sunrise and sunset. Both are set with 60 diamond minutes. No reward is offered. They are gone forever. (Horace Mann)
[on Richard Wagner] A beautiful sunset that was mistaken for a dawn. View quote
Claude Debussy
Clouds come floating into my life from other days no longer to shed rain or usher storm but to give colour to my sunset sky. View quote
Rabindranath Tagore
Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset. View quote
Ann Landers
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. View quote
Elbert Hubbard
At sunset we are rattling through the streets of the little town of Cordova. View quote
Edward Burnett Tylor
The sunset you see is always better than the one you don't. More stars are always better than less. View quote
Karen Joy Fowler
The point is that when I see a sunset or a waterfall or something, for a split second it's so great, because for a little bit I'm out of my brain, and it's got nothing to do with me. I'm not trying to figure it out, you know what I mean? And I wonder if I can somehow find a way to maintain that mind stillness. View quote
Chris Evans
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. View quote
Al Lewis
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. View quote
Ikue Mori
You get in before sunrise and you get out after sunset and you go home, eat and collapse. While you're aware of the ratings, you aren't prepared for the response of the fans. (Parker Stevenson)
When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
We are apt to imagine that this hubbub of Philosophy, Literature, and Religion, which is heard in pulpits, lyceums, and parlors, vibrates through the universe, and is as catholic a sound as the creaking of the earth's axle. But if a man sleeps soundly, he will forget it all between sunset and dawn. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
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. View quote
Francis Parkman
Thus departed Hiawatha, Hiawatha the Beloved, In the glory of the sunset, In the purple mists of evening, To the regions of the home-wind, Of the Northwest-Wind, Keewaydin, To the Islands of the Blessed, To the Kingdom of Ponemah, To the Land of the Hereafter! View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I am the blue-lidded daughter of Sunset; I am the naked brilliance of the voluptuous night-sky. View quote
Aleister Crowley
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. View quote
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
People are just as wonderful as sunsets if I can 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. View quote
Carl Rogers
The Paramount executives were so pleased with Sunset Boulevard that they asked me to do a publicity tour. View quote
Gloria Swanson
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. View quote
Kalpana Chawla
I drove a bus down Sunset Boulevard once, and I didn't kill anyone. (Sanjaya Malakar)
I am the pool of gold When sunset burns and dies,- You are my deepening skies, Give me your stars to hold. View quote
Sara Teasdale
What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset. View quote
Crowfoot
The scattered tea goes with the leaves and every day a sunset dies. View quote
William Faulkner
When I die, I will see the lining of the world. The other side, beyond bird, mountain, sunset. View quote
Czesław Miłosz