Sunset Quotes

“Sunsets are loved because they vanish.”

“The death-bed of a day, how beautiful!”

“Long on the wave reflected lustres play.”

“When the sun sets, who doth not look for night?”

“The sacred lamp of day
Now dipt in western clouds his parting ray.”

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“When the sun sinks in the west
Die a million people of the Bangladesh.”

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“The setting sun, and music at the close,
At the last taste of sweets, is sweetest last.”

“And the gilded car of day,
His glowing axle doth allay
In the steep Atlantic stream.”

“When the sun is setting outside so that you cannot even recognise the hand in front of you, go indoors!”

“The sun was down,
And all the west was paved with sullen fire.
I cried, "Behold! the barren beach of hell
At ebb of tide."”

“Down sank the great red sun, and in golden, glimmering vapors
Veiled the light of his face, like the Prophet descending from Sinai.”

“The lonely sunsets flare forlorn
Down valleys dreadly desolate;
The lonely mountains soar in scorn
As still as death, as stern as fate.”

“Come watch with me the shaft of fire that glows
In yonder West: the fair, frail palaces,
The fading Alps and archipelagoes,
And great cloud-continents of sunset-seas.”

“Oft did I wonder why the setting sun
Should look upon us with a blushing face:
Is't not for shame of what he hath seen done,
Whilst in our hemisphere he ran his race?”

“Forming and breaking in the sky,
I fancy all shapes are there;
Temple, mountain, monument, spire;
Ships rigged out with sails of fire,
And blown by the evening air.”

“Utu, shepherd of the land, father of the black-headed, when you go to sleep, the people go to sleep with you; youth Utu, when you rise, the people rise with you.”

“See! he sinks
Without a word; and his ensanguined bier
Is vacant in the west, while far and near
Behold! each coward shadow eastward shrinks,
Thou dost not strive, O sun, nor dost thou cry
Amid thy cloud-built streets.”

“Softly the evening came. The sun from the western horizon
Like a magician extended his golden wand o'er the landscape;
Twinkling vapors arose; and sky and water and forest
Seemed all on fire at the touch, and melted and mingled together.”