Sunset Quotes - Page 18

• All you umpires, back to the bleachers. Referees, hit the showers. It's my game. I pitch, I hit, I catch. I run the bases. At sunset, I've won or lost. At sunrise, I'm out again, giving it the old try.

  Ray Bradbury

  Running, Games, Umpires

  Ray Bradbury (1990). “Fahrenheit 451: Curriculum Unit”

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• I've known rivers: I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins. My soul has grown deep like the rivers. I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young. I built my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to sleep. I looked upon the Nile and raised the pyramids above it. I heard the singing of the Mississippi when Abe Lincoln went down to New Orleans, and I've seen its muddy bosom turn all golden in the sunset. I've known rivers: Ancient, dusky rivers. My soul has grown deep like the rivers.

  Langston Hughes

  Sleep, New Orleans, Blood

  "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" l. 1 (1921)

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• In me thou see'st the twilight of such day As after sunset fadeth in the west, Which by and by black night doth take away Death's second self, that seals up all in rest. -Sonnet 73

  William Shakespeare

  Twilight, Night, Self

  Sonnet 73

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• This is a new point in my life, and things are totally changing. But like the sunsets I saw on Tybee Island, the miles I’ve already gone are going to stay with me.

  Miley Cyrus

  Islands, Gone, Saws

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• The Prophet introduced a system of prayer in that it was interwoven into man's daily work: a prayer in the morning when he arose from his bed; a prayer at lunch time, as an indication that if his body needed a diet, so did his spirit; a prayer in the afternoon when he retired from his daily work; a prayer at sunset and a prayer when going to bed.

  Muhammad Ali

  Morning, Prayer, Men

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• No one wants to quit when he's losing and no one wants to quit when he's winning.

  Richard Petty

  Positive, Attitude, Winning

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• Bright colours in the west, giant butterflies dancing as night crept like a cripple toward the east.

  Roberto Bolano

  Butterfly, Night, Dancing

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• I want to see your tailpipe fading off into the sunset." Good luck, I thought. My tailpipe was somewhere on Route 1, along with my muffler.

  Janet Evanovich

  Good Luck, Fading, Want

  Janet Evanovich (2011). “Stephanie Plum One, Two, Three: One for the Money, Two for the Dough, Three to Get Deadly”, p.45, Simon and Schuster

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• The pain comes from knowing that we have never been safe, and therefore will never be safe again. It comes from knowing we can never be so ignorant again. It comes from knowing we can never be children again. Losing innocence. Remembering heaven. That was the essence of hell.

  John Jakes

  Children, Pain, Essence

  FaceBook post by John Jakes from Dec 22, 2014

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• Men never cling to their dreams with such tenacity as at the moment when they are losing faith in them, and know it, but do not dare yet to confess it to themselves.

  William Graham Sumner

  Dream, Men, Losing

  William Graham Sumner (1924). “Selected Essays of William Graham Sumner”

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• Hope is the raw material of losers.

  Fernando Flores

  Raw Materials, Loser, Materials

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• Death does not simply end life. It steals away the sunsets you’ll never see, the children you’ll ever hold, the wife you’ll never love. It’s frightening to almost lose your future and it’s heartbreaking to witness death snuff out other people’s tomorrows.

  Robert Liparulo

  Children, People, Wife

  Robert Liparulo (2009). “Gatekeepers”, p.222, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• If your eyes are blinded with your worries, you cannot see the beauty of the sunset.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Eye, Worry, Blinded

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• In sum, do not insult me with the beheadings, finger choppings or the lung-deflations you plan for my works. I need my head to shake or nod, my hand to wave or make into a fist, my lungs to shout or whisper with. I will not go gently onto a shelf, degutted, to become a non-book. All you umpires, back to the bleachers. Referees, hit the showers. It's my game. I pitch, I hit, I catch. I run the bases. At sunset I've won or lost. At sunrise, I'm out again, giving it the old try. And no one can help me. Not even you.

  Ray Bradbury

  Running, Book, Hands

  Ray Bradbury (1990). “Fahrenheit 451: Curriculum Unit”

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• After the sunset on the prairie, there are only the stars

  Carl Sandburg

  Stars, Prairie

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.362, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We wanderers, ever seeking the lonelier way, begin no day where we have ended another, and no sunrise finds us where left by sunset. Even while the earth sleeps we travel. We are the seeds of that tenacious plant, and it is in our ripeness and our fullness of heart that we are given to the wind to be scattered.

  Khalil Gibran

  Spiritual, Heart, Sleep

  Khalil Gibran, “The Farewell XXVIIi”

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• Figures dark beneath their loads pass down the far bank of the river, rendered immortal by the streak of sunset upon their shoulders

  Peter Matthiessen

  Dark, Rivers, Figures

  Peter Matthiessen (2014). “The Snow Leopard”, p.283, Random House

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• Oscar Wilde said that sunsets were not valued because we could not pay for sunsets. But Oscar Wilde was wrong; we can pay for sunsets. We can pay for them by not being Oscar Wilde.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Oscars, Pay, Wilde

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

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• It's rewarding riding into the sunset. What better way to go? My teammates carried me off the field - it doesn't get any better than that. Now it's time to be a dad. To be as successful at that as I was at baseball would be nice.

  David Ross

  Baseball, Dad, Nice

  Source: espn.go.com

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• Come, Friend, you too must die. Why moan about it so? Even Patroclus died, a far, far better man than you. And look, you see how handsome and powerful I am? The son of a great man, the mother who gave me life-- A deathless goddess. But even for me, I tell you, Death and the strong force of fate are waiting. There will come a dawn or sunset or high noon When a man will take my life in battle too-- flinging a spear perhaps Or whipping a deadly arrow off his bow.

  Homer

  Mother, Strong, Powerful

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• Leave the problems of God to God and karma to karma. Today you're here and nothing you do will change that. Today you are alive and here and honored and blessed with good fortune. Look at this suset, it's beautiful, neh? This sunset exists. Tomorrow does not exist. There is only now. Please look. It is so beautiful and it will never happen ever again, never, not this sunset, never in all infinity. Lose yourself in it, make yourself one with nature and do not worry about karma, yours, mine, or that of the village.

  James Clavell

  Beautiful, Karma, Blessed

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• Like winds and sunsets, wild things were taken for granted until progress began to do away with them. Now we face the question whether a still higher 'standard of living' is worth its cost in things natural, wild and free. For us of the minority, the opportunity to see geese is more important than television.

  Aldo Leopold

  Nature, Taken, Opportunity

  Aldo Leopold (1989). “A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There”, p.7, Oxford University Press, USA

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• These days I love to take in the sunset because every time I do so I remember how lucky I am to be alive. That's a great relationship to have with the setting sun.

  Lincoln Hall

  Wisdom, Adventure, Lucky

  Lincoln Hall (2008). “Dead Lucky: Life After Death on Mount Everest”, p.240, Penguin

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• And would it have been worth it, after all, Would it have been worth while, After the sunsets and the dooryards and the sprinkled streets, After the novels, after the teacups, after the skirts that trail along the floor - And this, and so much more? -

  T. S. Eliot

  Skirts, Trails, Novel

  T. S. Eliot (2012). “The Waste Land, Prufrock and Other Poems”, p.10, Courier Corporation

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• The sunset caught me, turned the brush to copper,/ set the clouds/ to one great roof of flame/ above the earth.

  Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth

  Clouds, Flames, Earth

  Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth (1968). “Down Half the World”, New York : Macmillan

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