This is probably the biggest list of sunset quotes you'll ever find! There's literally hundreds of inspirational quotes about sunsets here.
Quotes on Sunsets
This is quite likely the largest collection of sunset quotes you'll ever find on the internet. We have collected hundreds of sunset quotes from all over the world and compiled them in one place to be easily searched and discovered.
All architecture is great architecture after sunset. Perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art like the art of fireworks.
– Gilbert K. Chesterton
When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.
– Mahatma Gandhi
Everyone can identify with a fragrant garden with beauty of sunset with the quiet of nature with a warm and cozy cottage.
– Thomas Kincade
How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.
– George MacDonald
The true purpose of education is to teach a man to carry himself triumphant to the sunset.
– Liberty Hyde Bailey
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
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
Don’t forget: Beautiful sunsets need cloudy skies.
– Paulo Coelho
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Short Sunset Quotes
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Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.
– Henry Rollins
Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet. A happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.
– Ann Landers
A sunset is the sun’s fiery kiss to the night.
– Crystal Woods
Every sunset brings the promise of a new dawn.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
When ballet takes to the sea, even the sunset comes to take a sneak peek.
– Anthony T. Hincks
Every sunset is also a sunrise. It all depends on where you stand.
– Karl Schmidt
Sunrise is the start of something beautiful: the day. Sunset is the start of something beautiful: the night.
– Juansen Dizon
You know, when one is that sad, one can get to love the sunset.
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
It’s not just a sunset; it’s a moonrise too.
– P. C. Cast
Every sunset is an opportunity to reset.
– Richie Norton
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Quote about Sunsets
Sunset captions could be anything from short and sweet sunset quotes, funny sunset quotes, sunset jokes, sunset poems or anything you could think of.
The sun set, which is everyday magic…
– Terry Pratchett
Meanwhile the sunsets are mad orange fools raging in the gloom….
– Jack Kerouac
A sunset paints the sky as if there were no tomorrow.
– Anthony T. Hincks
Sunset is still my favourite colour, and rainbow is second.
– Mattie Stepanek
It is almost impossible to watch a sunset and not dream.
– Bern Williams
To watch a sunset is to connect with the Divine.
– Gina De Gorna
May every sunrise hold more promise and every sunset hold more peace
– Umair Siddiqui
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Setting Sun Quotes
The sunset scene has always inspired people to create great quotes- and there are plenty of sunset quotes here!
Sunsets are my escape into the reality I want to continuously live.
– Rachel Roy
Softly the evening came with the sunset.
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The evening sky was awash with peach, apricot, cream: tender little ice-cream clouds in a wide orange sky.
– Philip Pullman
If you are in a beautiful place where you can enjoy sunrise and sunset, then you are living like a lord.
– Nathan Phillips
Can you see the sunset real good on the West side? You can see it on the East side too.
– S.E. Hinton
The sky broke like an egg into full sunset and the water caught fire.
– Pamela Hansford Johnson
Just don’t forget that some of us watch the sunset too.
– S.E. Hinton
…the warm orange spreading from the horizon as not-quite-day, becomes not-quite-night.
– David Levithan
You don’t need beautiful weather to enjoy the evening. You only need a beautiful heart.
– Biju Karakkonam
They ran to the museums for paintings. I ran to the roof for sunsets.
– Darnell Lamont Walker
When your world moves too fast and you lose yourself in the chaos, introduce yourself to each colour of the sunset.
– Christy Ann Martine
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Quotes of Sunset
This collection of inspiring sunset quotes will be of use to people who are interested in sunset quotes, sunset poetry and sunset sayings.
But even the longest day wears to sunset.
– Marion Zimmer Bradley
There is nothing more musical than a sunset.
– Claude Debussy
The more clouds you have in your sky, the more colourful sunset it will be.
– Sajal Sazzad
No sun outlasts its sunset, but will rise again and bring the dawn.
– Maya Angelou
Sunsets, like childhood, are viewed with wonder not just because they are beautiful but because they are fleeting.
– Richard Paul Evans
O, Sunlight! The most precious gold to be found on Earth.
– Roman Payne
Sometimes the sunset is so beautiful, I think it might be the very last one.
– Nitya Prakash
It’s that time between day and night when the sky looks like it’s on fire and mosquitoes are on the hunt.
– Angie Thomas
When the sun has set, no candle can replace it.
– George R.R. Martin
There’s nothing like a beautiful sunset to end a healthy day.
– Rachel Boston
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Sunset Quotes Instagram
Continuing our list of the best sunset quotes, here are more sunset quotes that you may find interesting:
A beautiful sunset that was mistaken for a dawn…
– Claude Debussy
They sipped until the sun, as golden as syrupy as the bourbon, slipped into the sea.
– Delia Owens
As the saturating colours of sun-life fade from sight, the ominous moon reaches out its long arm and applies the dark dyes of night.
– Daniel J. Rice
I am not the rising star. I am the drowning sun.
– Pravin Gupta
Sunsets are proof that no matter what happens, every day can end beautifully.
– Kristen Butler
Never turn your back to the sunset, because you owe the sun a thanking for lighting you all day.
– Mehmet Murat İldan
Moon in the sky, stars out, the wide-open expanse of nothing: it made him feel free and alive as the daytime never did.
– Chuck Wendig
To capture a California sunset in South Pasadena is to hold an angel’s wings with bated breath.
– Ace Antonio Hall
A time when sky blue love bids farewell to the day and before dusk falls, the sunset ignites the smouldering embers of the moonlit soul…
– Virginia Alison
Dawn and dusk are mutual friends of the sun; one opens the door for him to a brand new day and the other one has to shut it to embrace the darkness of night.
– Munia Khan
There’s a sunrise and a sunset every single day, and they’re absolutely free. Don’t miss so many of them.
– Jo Walton
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I love sunrises and sunsets. But what I really love is the space that I have in-between them to do something incredible.
– Craig D. Lounsbrough
The redness had seeped from the day and night was arranging herself around us. Cooling things down, staining and dyeing the evening purple and blue black.
– Sue Monk Kidd
Nightfall was approaching, the light pouring away past the world’s horizon in a gradually darkening cascade.
– Obie Williams
The clouds had dispersed and for a change, the sun was visible in the west, a sinking ball of vodka and cranberry juice.
– Saurbh Katyal
Twilight fell: The sky turned to a light, dusky purple littered with tiny silver stars.
– J.K. Rowling
And like tea dissolving in hot water, the sun dissolved in the sky…creating a velvet horizon, announcing for the stars’ night dance with the moon, the awaited joy for the wounded souls.
– Abeer Allan
The sun had set, but a faint pastel haze lingered in the mid-summer sky.
– R.J. Lawrence
A slight breeze cooled the Hawaiian spring air, swaying the branches of palm trees, which cast black silhouettes against the purple and orange colours of the twilight sky.
– Victoria Kahler
The sky, at sunset, looked like a carnivorous flower.
– Roberto Bolaño
The sun is setting in a burnt orange sky; the cliffs are black silhouettes; the sea, liquid silver.
– Laura Treacy Bentley
The sky was a bruised red shot with black, almost exactly the colours of a tattoo. Sunset had two minutes left to live.
– Denis Johnson
We wanderers, ever seeking the lonelier way, begin no day where we have ended another day; and no sunrise finds us where sunset left us.
– Khalil Gibran
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When the sunset leave you great memories
When the sunset leave you great memories , that sunset will always remain in your heart.
An intense copper calm, like a universal yellow lotus, was more and more unfolding its noiseless measureless leaves upon the sea.
– Herman Melville
Outside, the air filled with cricket noise, as the sun reddened in its descent.
– R.J. Lawrence
Bursts of gold on lavender melting into saffron. It’s the time of day when the sky looks like it has been spray-painted by a graffiti artist.
– Mia Kirshner
Soon it got dusk, a grapy dusk, a purple dusk over tangerine groves and long melon fields; the sun the colour of pressed grapes, slashed with burgundy red, the fields the colour of love and Spanish mysteries.
– Jack Kerouac
The sun was a fiery furnace of gold, but finally it set in the west and the cosmos glittered like a million burning embers, briefly reminding Awa of poetry readings under starry skies in Timbuktu.
– Rehan Khan
This is my favorite time of day. When the sun is setting and the last of its fiery fingers caress the water line before relinquishing their hold to the darkness of the night. And I can watch as the stars pop out, one by one, to pinprick the sky with their silvery light.
– J.A. Souders
A large drop of sun lingered on the horizon and then dripped over and was gone, and the sky was brilliant over the spot where it had gone, and a torn cloud, like a bloody rag, hung over the spot of its going. And dusk crept over the sky from the eastern horizon, and darkness crept over the land from the east.
– John Steinbeck
When the sun went down, and touches of blue filtered into the fading afterglow, an orange lamp would light up in the knob of the bell and slowly begin to revolve. The beacon always pinpointed the onset of nightfall exactly. Against the most gorgeous sunsets or in dim drizzling mist, the beacon was ever true to its appointed moment: that precise instant in the alchemy of light and dark when darkness tipped the scales.
– Haruki Murakami
Sunset angles through the heavy curtains, drawn against the light. Dust motes dance in the red beams, ash above a dying fire. I feel like I am inside a heart, surrounded by bloody red.
– Victoria Aveyard
The stark evening sun at the far edge of the town had just unzipped the sky and finally gone down.
– Jack Bunbury
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Longer quotes about sunsets
Not all quotes and saying are short! Here are some longer ones:
The sun has collapsed against the vast expanse of the darkening ocean. Soon the turquoise sea will be completely black like a void. I hate the ocean at night. It has me thinking about hopelessness and loss. The red sky a watercolour as the thickening clouds leak together.
– Ilse VAN. Rensburg
Watching the day slowly bloom into night. That’s how it always seemed to me: not the fading of a withered flower, but the opening of some dark, rich blossom, with unexpected hues and heavy scents.
– Patricia A. McKillip
It was a glorious evening, the sun seeming to hesitate in the process of setting, as if it couldn’t bear to end the day. It was teetering on the horizon, throwing ribbons of pink and mauve across the sky like life ropes, and the air was sweet with jasmine.
– Kate Morton
The pale stars were sliding into their places. The whispering of the leaves was almost hushed. All about them it was still and shadowy and sweet. It was that wonderful moment when, for lack of a visible horizon, the not yet darkened world seems infinitely greater – a moment when anything can happen, anything be believed in.
– Olivia Howard Dunbar
The nights did not come gently but seemed to slam down angrily upon the Earth, and starlight transformed the golden brown of the wheat to the colour of polished silver.
– Rick Yancey
The sun tells the best joke of a day full of them, setting so spectacularly that you can almost smell the tropical paradise lazing somewhere over this rim of endless, grey socialist towers. Miles of square windows explode orange, red, and purple, like a million TV sets broadcasting the apocalypse. Clouds unspool. The sky drains of birds.
– Tod Wodicka
Tonight the sun has died like an Emperor… great scarlet arcs of silk… saffron… green… crimson… and the blaze of Venus to remind one of the absolute and the infinite… And along the lower rim of beauty lay the hard harsh line of the hills.
– John Coldstream
This is my favourite time of the day. Light and dark touch for a few moments… I used to wish dusk would last longer, but it’s quickness seems to add to making it special.
– Regina McBride
Sunsets. The illusion either above the horizon or below it. When day and night are linked in a way that cannot be one without the other, yet they cannot exist at the same time.
– Ebelsain Villegas
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Shorter quotes about the sunset
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Listen to the sunset, see its pretty hue. When you see it, think of me, and I’ll think of you…
– Oksana Rus
The sun still lives his silent vows to the moon, by bowing to kiss her feet whenever she walks in the room.
– Curtis Tyrone Jones
Sunsets are not a rare commodity they come and go every night, so I compare you not to a sunset for you come once in a life.
– Daniel Cook
Tea is just an excuse. I am drinking this sunset, this evening. And you.
– Sanober Khan
I can’t give you the sunset, but I can give you the night.
– Erin McCarthy
I don’t know how long we stay that way, but we watch the sun go down together. The giant, burnt-orange sphere sinks towards the horizon, colouring the rock layers until it’s gone and the canyon is covered in shadow.
– Jennifer Salvato Doktorski
Dusk is just an illusion because the sun is either above the horizon or below it. And that means that day and night are linked in a way that few things are there cannot be one without the other yet they cannot exist at the same time. How would it feel, I remember wondering, to be always together yet forever apart?
– Nicholas Sparks
The first stab of love is like a sunset, a blaze of colour – oranges, pearly pinks, vibrant purples…
– Anna Godbersen
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 the goal.
– Elbert Hubbard
Whenever you want to see me, always look at the sunset; I will be there.
– Grace Ogot
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What are good sunset quotes?
There are sunset quotes that go back thousands of years. It all depends on what you're looking for when you're reading sunset quotes. I think that sunset quote should make you think more than one thing if it is able to describe or interpret a feeling without having to be literal with its imagery.
Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add colour to my sunset sky.
– Rabindranath Tagore
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
One day, all your worries will set like the sun does and deserved happiness will come gushing like waves at the beach do.
– Jasleen Kaur Gumber
At the moment that everything goes dark, the sunset in front of us becomes the whole story. But if we find courage enough to wait until tomorrow morning, we will suddenly come to understand that in reality yesterday’s sunset was only half of the story.
– Craig D. Lounsbrough
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 R. Rogers
One day, all your worries will set like the sun does and deserved happiness will come gushing like waves at the beach do.
– Jasleen Kaur Gumber
Every sunrise is a blessing, it’s an opportunity to learn something new and to create something that can benefit others. It also gives a chance to make amends. Use it wisely before sunset.
– Euginia Herlihy
It seems there is more interest in sunsets than sunrises. Perhaps because innately we fear the dark.
– Richelle E. Goodrich
Sunsets are proof that endings can often be beautiful too.
— Beau Taplin
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Sunrise and sunset quotes
This next section contains some insightful sunset quotes. This bunch contains sunset quotes that are slightly philosophical so don't be surprised if they challenge your ways of thinking!
The sun rises, the sun falls, the wind blows and the birds sing no matter where you are. These are experiences that unite us all… something we can all enjoy together.
– Melanie Charlene
Each day you wake up, you wake up with billions around the world but when the sun sets, not all retire. It is a joyful privilege to note that you are a unique person among billions of people who wake up each day to walk on the surface of the earth. It is a noble responsibility to note that you have to use this privilege effectively.
– Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
I find it incredibly amazing how at every sunset, the sky is a different shade. No cloud is ever in the same place. Each day is a new masterpiece. A new wonder. A new memory.
– Sanober Khan
Not everyone has to ride off into the sunset with a man. Some of us just want a tan.
– Mandy Hale
At the end of the world the sunset is like a child smashing a pack of crayons into God’s face.
– Craig Stone
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
When your shadow becomes more popular than you, then you know that the sun is setting!
– Mehmet Murat İldan
He glanced at the sun which, old professional that it was, chose that moment to drop below the horizon.
– Terry Pratchett
I’ve got sunsets on the insides of my eyelids.
– Pete Wentz
It was sunsets that taught me that beauty sometimes only lasts for a couple of moments, and it was sunrises that showed me that all it takes is patience to experience it all over again.
— A.J. Lawless
Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain’t goin’ away.
– Elvis Presley
Never go too long without watching a sunset
– Atticus
About Sunset Quotes
The sunset is the most beautiful thing that a human being can ever witness in his or her life. Agree or disagree?
All I ever wanted was to dream another sunset with you.
— Mayday Parade
Every one of a hundred thousand cities around the world had its own special sunset and it was worth going there, just once, if only to see the sun go down.
— Ryu Murakami
Her heart was made of liquid sunsets.
— Virginia Woolf
Sunsets are loved because they vanish
– Ray Bradbury
Age is irrelevant. Ask me how many sunsets I’ve seen, hearts I’ve loved, trips I’ve taken, or concerts I’ve been to. That’s how old I am.
– Joelle
With every sunset a new hope is born, and an old expectation dies
– Noor Unnahar
You have to travel far and wide to see a lot of the world’s wonders, but sunsets can be appreciated in every corner of the earth.
– Kimmie Conner
Never waste any amount of time doing anything important when there is a sunset outside that you should be sitting under!
– C. Joybell C.
Sunsets is a wonderful opportunity for us to appreciate all the great things the sun gives us!
– Mehmet Murat Ildan
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
Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of heaven.
– John Lubbock
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
See the beauty of sunset to enjoy the passion of life.
– Debasish Mridha
Our final selection of inspiring sunset quotes
There’s nothing like a beautiful sunset to end a healthy day.
– Rachel Boston
The sun is a thief, and it has stolen all the colors from the earth.
– Pablo Neruda
The sunset washes everything in a rosy glow, for just as love casts out fear, so does sunset cast out night.
– Paulo Coelho
I never saw the sun set without feeling that I had lost something
– Henry David Thoreau
But what's so amazing about the sun? It's just a star!
– Neil deGrasse Tyson
What would life be without sunlight?
– Louisa May Alcott
We are all children of the sun.
– James Russell Lowell
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