Ralph Waldo Emerson
Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
"Every sunset brings the promise of a new dawn"
Sunset quotes
Sunset
669 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
John Ruskin
Art Critic, Writer
"Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty."
Paulo Coelho
Writer
"Don't forget: Beautiful sunsets need cloudy Skies."
Bernard Williams
Philosopher
"It is almost impossible to watch a sunset and not dream."
George R. R. Martin
Novelist, Screenwriter
"When the sun has set, no candle can replace it."
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"Softly the evening came /with the sunset/."
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"No sun outlasts its sunset, but will rise again and bring the dawn."
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"Allow failure to teach you A supreme lesson: Each sunset is the beginning Of a very, very bright And powerful sunrise."
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"When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator."
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"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."
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"My soul is an empty carousel at sunset."
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"The water was glassy and calm, still candy-colored in the afterglow of sunset."
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"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."
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"A glass of absinthe is as poetical as anything in the world. What difference is there between a glass of absinthe and a sunset?"
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"Bring me the sunset in a cup."
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"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."
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"Through the sunset of hope, Like the shapes of a dream, What paradise islands of glory gleam!"
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"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."
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"Twilight fell: The sky turned to a light, dusky purple littered with tiny silver stars."
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"Your light is more magnificent than sunrise or sunset"
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"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."
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"The last taste of sweets is sweetest last."
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"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."
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"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?"
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"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."
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