Sun Set Quotes

• When the sun has set, no candle can replace it.

  George R. R. Martin

  Lost Love, Sunset, Dawn And Dusk

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.1601, Bantam

  765 Copy quote

  Show source

• Everyone should smile. Life really isn’t that serious. We make it hard. The sun rises. The sun sets. We just tend to complicate the process.

  Arian Foster

  Sun, Serious, Process

  "Arian Foster: The NFL's Unstoppable Vegan Philosopher" by Peter Schrager, www.gq.com. August 22, 2013.

  52 Copy quote

  Show source

• Must in death your daylight finish? My sun sets to rise again.

  Robert Browning

  Afterlife, Daylight, Sun

  Robert Browning (1830). “An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry”, p.42

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Rain, Sunset, Night

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1875). “The Hanging of the Crane”, p.43

  106 Copy quote

  Show source

• Death has nothing to do with going away.The sun sets
  The moon sets
  But they are not gone.

  Rumi

  Moon, Going Away, Gone

  32 Copy quote

• That is what is wrong with our age. You know full well you are not watching the sun set. You are watching the world turn.

  Jeremy Kagan

  Age, World, Sun

  "The Jewish Self: Recovering Spirituality in the Modern World". Book by Jeremy Kagan, 1998.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled. Each evening we see the sun set. We know that the earth is turning away from it. Yet the knowledge, the explanation, never quite fits the sight.

  John Berger

  Sight, Evening, Earth

  "Ways of Seeing". Book by John Berger, 1972.

  99 Copy quote

  Show source

• My sun sets to raise again.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Sun, Raises

  5 Copy quote

• ... But I'm annoying you to no purpose with my arguments. A person whose house is only open on the west can't see the sun rise at dawn; it's only seen when the sun sets at dusk. If one tries to compare the color and appearance of the two, one will go on arguing forever... ...The fault lies not with the vision but with the closed windows. If you look out of only one opening till the day you die, you'll ever see anything new.

  Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay

  Lying, Color, Two

  53 Copy quote

• When the sun sets, beautiful though it may be, billions of stars appear. The ego is but one sun. When that sun sets, there are endless suns, endless horizons beyond it.

  Frederick Lenz

  Beautiful, Stars, Ego

  4 Copy quote

• Life is like skiing. Just like skiing, the goal is not to get to the bottom of the hill. It's to have a bunch of good runs before the sun sets.

  Seth Godin

  Inspirational, Running, Goal

  29 Copy quote

• Bet you don't know why the sun sets red. You see, light is made up of lots of colors. And out of all those colors, red is the one that travels the farthest.

  Axel

  Light, Color, Red

  28 Copy quote

• When the Sun sets, shadows, that shew'd at Noon
  But small, appear most long and terrible;
  So, when we think Fate hovers o'er our Heads,
  Our apprehensions shoot beyond all bounds,
  Owls, Ravens, Crickets seem the watch of death,
  Nature's worst Vermine scare her God-like Sons.
  Ecchoes the very leavings of a Voice,
  Grow babling Ghosts, and call us to our Graves:
  Each Mole-hill thought swells to a huge Olympus,
  While we fantastick Dreamers heave and puff,
  And sweat with an Imagination's weight.

  John Dryden

  Fear, Fate, Son

  "Dramatik Works".

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• When the sun sets beautifully, other beauties rise. Nature is a theatre; when one great player leaves the scene, another great player immediately enters. The play always continues excellently.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Nature, Player, Theatre

  8 Copy quote

• Sometimes, the sun sets earlier. Days don’t last forever, you know. But I’ll fight as hard as I can. I can promise you that.

  Marie Lu

  Inspiration, Fighting, Bravery

  Marie Lu (2013). “Champion: A Legend Novel”, p.68, Penguin

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• When the sun sets, candle starts seeing itself like the sun!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Sun, Seeing, Candle

  40 Copy quote

• I was walking down the road with two friends when the sun set; suddenly, the sky turned as red as blood. I stopped and leaned against the fence, feeling unspeakably tired. Tongues of fire and blood stretched over the bluish black fjord. My friends went on walking, while I lagged behind, shivering with fear. Then I heard the enormous infinite scream of nature.

  Edvard Munch

  Tired, Fire, Blood

  Edvard Munch, José María Faerna (1996). “Munch”, Harry N. Abrams

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• When we have an experience -- hearing a particular sonata, making love with a particular person, watching the sun set from a particular window of a particular room -- on successive occasions, we quickly begin to adapt to it, and the experience yields less pleasure each time. Psychologists call this habituation, economists call it declining marginal utility, and the rest of us call it marriage

  Daniel Gilbert

  Yield, Making Love, Hearing

  Daniel Gilbert (2006). “Stumbling on Happiness”, Vintage

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• When you're a kid, if you watch 'The Jeffersons' with your family at seven o'clock, it seems like a natural phenomenon, like the sun setting. The universe is a strange, strange place when all of a sudden you can't use your glass with the Bionic Woman on it any more.

  Heather O'Neill

  Kids, Strange Places, Glasses

  Heather O'Neill (2009). “Lullabies for Little Criminals: A Novel”, p.27, Harper Collins

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• As a new day begins in New York, the sun sets in Hawaii.

  Tim McCarver

  New York, New Day, Hawaii

  6 Copy quote

• The sun must not set upon anger, much less will I let the sun set upon the anger of God towards me.

  John Donne

  Christian, Anger, Sun

  John Donne (1839). “The Works of John Donne, D.D., Dean of Saint Paul's, 1621-1631: With a Memoir of His Life”, p.218

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• The sun sets in the west (just about everyone knows that), but Sunset Towers faced east. Strange!

  Ellen Raskin

  Sunset, East, Towers

  Ellen Raskin (2014). “The Westing Game”, p.1, Obelix Books

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• I feel extraordinarily peaceful when I'm watching the sun set.

  Kiefer Sutherland

  Peaceful, Sun, Feels

  11 Copy quote

• Look at me. I was a warrior on this land where the sun rises, now I come from where the sun sets. Whose voice was first surrounded on this land - the red people with bows and arrows. The Great Father says he is good and kind to us. I can't see it.

  Red Cloud

  Father, Warrior, Land

  74 Copy quote

• Whatever form it takes, camping is earthy, soul enriching and character building, and there can be few such satisfying moments as having your tent pitched and the smoke rising from your campfire as the golden sun sets on the horizon--even if it's just for a fleeting moment before the rain spoils everything.

  Pippa Middleton

  Rain, Character, Soul

  83 Copy quote