These sunset quotes will inspire you. Sunset is the apparent descent of the sun below the horizon or the time in the evening when the sun disappears or daylight fades.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging sunset quotes, sunset sayings, and sunset proverbs.
Famous Sunset Quotes
- “Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty.” ~ John Ruskin
- “Every sunset brings the promise of a new dawn” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “It is almost impossible to watch a sunset and not dream.” ~ Bernard Williams
- “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
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“Don’t forget: Beautiful sunsets need cloudy skies.” ~ Paulo Coelho
- “Sunsets are my escape into the reality I want to continuously live.” ~ Rachel Roy
- “Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.” ~ John Lubbock
- “Whenever you want to see me, always look at the sunset; I will be there.” ~ Grace Ogot
- “Life is all about enjoying every sunset and looking forward for the next Sunrise.” ~ Unknown
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“There is nothing more musical than a sunset.” ~ Claude Debussy
- “This is my wish for you: Comfort on difficult days, smiles when sadness intrudes, rainbows to follow the clouds, laughter to kiss your lips, sunsets to warm your heart, hugs when spirits sag, beauty for your eyes to see, friendships to brighten your being, faith so that you can believe, confidence for when you doubt, courage to know yourself, patience to accept the truth, Love to complete your life.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson , Sunset quotes love
- “Keep looking up! I learn from the past, dream about the future and lookup. There’s nothing like a beautiful sunset to end a healthy day.” ~ Rachel Boston
- “When the sun is setting, leave whatever you are doing and watch it.” ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
- “Some days, a beautiful sunset with your best friend can be one of the most peaceful and relaxing mediations of the day.” ~ Charles M. Schulz
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“I think sunrises are rarer for me, but sunset is my favorite time of day.” ~ Jon Foreman
- “Allow failure to teach you A supreme lesson: Each sunset is the beginning Of a very, very bright And powerful sunrise.” ~ Sri Chinmoy
- “It’s not just a sunset; it’s a moonrise too.” ~ P. C. Cast
- “Sunset is so marvelous that even the sun itself watches it every day in the reflections of the infinite oceans!” ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
- “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
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“Every sunrise hold more promise, and every sunset hold more peace.” ~ Unknown
- “Softly the evening came /with the sunset/.” ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- “Looking at a sunset, just for a second you forget your separateness: you are the sunset. That is the moment when you feel the beauty of it. But the moment you say that it is a beautiful sunset, you are no longer feeling it; you have come back to your separate, enclosed entity of the ego. Now the mind is speaking. And this is one of the mysteries, that the mind can speak, and knows nothing; and the heart knows everything, and cannot speak.” ~ Rajneesh
- “When the sun has set, no candle can replace it.” ~ George R. R. Martin
- “Sunset is the opening music of the night.” ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
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“Sunsets are just little glimpses of the Golden streets of Heaven.” ~ Unknown
- “Simplify, slow down, be kind. And don’t forget to have art in your life – music, paintings, theater, dance, and sunsets.” ~ Eric Carle
- “No sun outlasts its sunset, but will rise again and bring the dawn.” ~ Maya Angelou
- “Clouds come floating into my life from other days no longer to shed rain or usher storm but to give color to my sunset sky.” ~ Rabindranath Tagore , Sunset quotes life
- “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
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“The water was glassy and calm, still candy-colored in the afterglow of sunset.” ~ Stephen King
- “God is always seeking you. Every sunset. Every clear blue sky. Each ocean wave. The starry hosts of night. He blankets each new day with the invitation, ‘I am here.’” ~ Louie Giglio
- “Every moment of life is unique-a kiss, a sunset, a dance, a joke. None will ever recur in quite the same way. Each happens only once in the history of the universe.” ~ Stephen Nachmanovitch
- “Bring me the sunset in a cup.” ~ Emily Dickinson
- “My soul is an empty carousel at sunset.” ~ Pablo Neruda
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“You want proof there’s a God? Look outside, watch a sunset.” ~ Frank Peretti
- “My joy is the golden sunset giving thanks for another day. Gratitude itself is a source of joy.” ~ Unknown
- “Sunset is still my favorite color, and rainbow is second.” ~ Mattie Stepanek
- “The biggest cliche in photography is Sunrise and Sunset.” ~ Catherine Opie
- “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
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“Every sunset is an opportunity to reset.” ~ Unknown
- “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
- “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
- “Sunsets, like childhood, are viewed with wonder not just because they are beautiful but because they are fleeting.” ~ Richard Paul Evans
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“Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.” ~ Henry Rollins
- “Through the sunset of hope,
Like the shapes of a dream,
What paradise islands of glory gleam!” ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley - “Softly the evening came. The sun from the western horizon Like a magician extended his golden want o’er the landscape; Trinkling vapors arose; and sky and water and forest Seemed all on fire at the touch, and melted and mingled together.” ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- “Hope is sweet. Hope is illumining. Hope is fulfilling. Hope can be everlasting. Therefore, do not give up hope, Even in the sunset of your life.” ~ Sri Chinmoy
- “It is the sky that makes the earth so lovely at sunrise, and so splendid at sunset. In the one it breathes over the earth the crystal-like ether, in the other the liquid gold.” ~ Thomas Cole
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“That a day spent with dreaming and sunsets and refreshing breezes cannot be bettered.” ~ Nicholas Sparks
- “A sunset is the sun’s fiery kiss to the night.” ~ Anonymous
- “Nature paints not; In oils, but frescoes the great dome of heaven; With sunsets, and the lovely forms of clouds; And flying vapors.” ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- “Cherish sunsets, wild creatures, and wild places. Have a love affair with the wonder and beauty of the earth!” ~ Stewart Udall
- “May I never miss a sunset or rainbow because I am looking down.” ~ Unknown
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“The sky broke like an egg into full sunset and the water caught fire.” ~ Pamela Hansford Johnson
- “Life is a miracle; walking is a miracle; watching the sunset is a miracle; everything is a miracle because existence is a miracle!” ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
- “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
- “I am very fond of sunsets. Come, let us go look at a sunset.” ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
- “The last taste of sweets is sweetest last.” ~ William Shakespeare
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“There’s a sunrise and a sunset every single day, and they’re absolutely free. Don’t miss so many of them.” ~ Jo Walton
- “There’s never one sunrise the same or one sunset the same.” ~ Carlos Santana
- “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
- “The death-bed of a day, how beautiful!” ~ Philip James Bailey
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“Peering from some high window; at the gold of November sunset
(and feeling that if day has to become night this is a beautiful way).” ~ e. e. cummings
- “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
- “The idea of seeing the sea – of being near it – watching its changes by sunrise, sunset, moonlight, and noonday – in calm, perhaps in storm – fills and satisfies my mind.” ~ Charlotte Bronte
