Sunset Quotes - Page 23

• Because I can count on my fingers the number of sunsets I have left, and I don't want to miss any of them.

  Suzanne Collins

  Numbers, Missing, Want

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire”, p.192, Scholastic

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• The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers.

  Lord Acton

  Long, Loser, Argument

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• Courage is as often the outcome of despair as of hope; in the one case we have nothing to lose, in the other everything to gain.

  Diane de Poitiers

  Courage, Despair, Gains

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• Do me a favor... Stand up, walk to wherever the nearest window is, and just look outside. You may not know this, but there's an entire planets-worth of summers, friends, sunsets, street lamps, songs, late nights, great films, and night skies waiting for you. Your life is as amazing as you want it to be, but first, you have to let it be that way.

  Backseat Goodbye

  Life, Summer, Song

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• I don't gamble, because winning a hundred dollars doesn't give me great pleasure. But losing a hundred dollars pisses me off.

  Alex Trebek

  Winning, Gambling, Giving

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• Our limitations serve, our wounds serve, even our darkness can serve.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Night, Darkness, Wounds

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• Defeat is a school in which truth always grows strong.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Strong, War, School

  henry ward beecher (1858). “life thoughts,”, p.35

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• The art of losing isn't hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster.

  Elizabeth Bishop

  Art, Loss, Cutting

  Elizabeth Bishop (2015). “Poems”, p.198, Macmillan

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• Ah! I need solitude. I have come forth to this hill at sunset to see the forms of the mountains in the horizon - to behold and commune with something grander than man. Their mere distance and unprofanedness is an infinite encouragement. it is with infinite yearning and aspiration that I seek solitude, more and more resolved and strong; but with a certain weakness that I seek society ever.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Encouragement, Strong, Distance

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.135, Courier Corporation

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• Learn to love the sunrise and sunset, the beating of rain on the roof and windows, and the gentle fall of snow on a winter day.

  Lowell L. Bennion

  Rain, Fall, Winter

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• The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer, the top of the live-long year, like the highest seat of a Ferris wheel when it pauses in its turning. The weeks that come before are only a climb from balmy spring, and those that follow a drop to the chill of autumn, but the first week of August is motionless, and hot. It is curiously silent, too, with blank white dawns and glaring noons, and sunsets smeared with too much color.

  Natalie Babbitt

  Summer, Spring, Autumn

  Natalie Babbitt (2015). “Tuck Everlasting”, p.3, Macmillan

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• So we down-to-earth, gutsy, tough, realistic, and practical types have just been squandering billions of dollars and unimaginable amounts of energy, nerve-work, and materials in whizzing off to the moon to discover, as astronomers knew before, that it was just a dreary slag heap. This is the true, original and scientifically etymological meaning of being lunatics. Crying for the moon.

  Alan Watts

  Moon, Night, Darkness

  Alan W. Watts (2011). “Cloud-hidden, Whereabouts Unknown: A Mountain Journal”, p.116, Vintage

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• The sky puts on the darkening blue coat held for it by a row of ancient trees; you watch: and the lands grow distant in your sight, one journeying to heaven, one that falls; and leave you, not at home in either one, not quite so still and dark as the darkened houses, not calling to eternity with the passion of what becomes a star each night, and rises; and leave you (inexpressibly to unravel) your life, with its immensity and fear, so that, now bounded, now immeasurable it is alternately stone in you and star.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Stars, Fall, Passion

  Rainer Maria Rilke, “Evening”

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• Houses - the dark side silhouetted on flashes of moonlight!

  William Carlos Williams

  Dark, Night, House

  William Carlos Williams (1991). “The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams”, p.58, New Directions Publishing

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• Stop what you are doing long enough to enjoy the sunset, listen to a special song that lifts you up, or pick up the phone and share some special thought with a caring friend.

  Barbara Johnson

  Song, Caring, Phones

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• The aesthete aims at harmony rather than beauty. If his hair does not match the mauve sunset against which he is standing, he hurriedly dyes his hair another shade of mauve. If his wife does not go with the wall-paper, he gets a divorce.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Wall, Divorce, Hair

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• All this knowledge of the objective world is of no value in comparison to having a little glimpse of the inner sky and its beauty - its sunrises and sunsets, its days and nights, its blue sky and its stars. The outer then looks only a pale reflection of the inner. The inner becomes more real and the outer becomes just a shadow.

  Rajneesh

  Life, Stars, Real

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• The taste of defeat has a richness of experience all its own.

  Bill Bradley

  Sports, Winning, Nba

  Bill Bradley (2010). “Life on the Run”, p.108, RosettaBooks

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• The night has a thousand eyes.

  John Lyly

  Eye, Night, Darkness

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• When stars are in the quiet skies, Then most I pine for thee; Bend on me, then, thy tender eyes, As stars look on the sea.

  Ernst Gottlieb Baron

  Stars, Eye, Night

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• And from the phlox and mignonette Rich attars drift on every hand; And when star-vestured twilight comes The pale moths weave a saraband. And crickets in the aisles of grass With their clear fifing pierce the hush; And somewhere you many hear anear The passion of the hermit thrush.

  Clinton Scollard

  Stars, Twilight, Passion

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• Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars.

  George Meredith

  Stars, Night, Fire

  George Meredith (2010). “The Egoist”, p.549, Broadview Press

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• In winter I go skiing on Saturdays and Sundays when the slopes are quieter due to changeover day for tourists, and in summer I hike up into the mountains at sunset, just as the village is settling down to dinner.

  Vanessa Mae

  Summer, Sunday, Winter

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• Practically any Western has a homesteader in trouble, and a mysterious rider shows up off the range, solves the problem over two or three days, and then rides off into the sunset.

  Lee Child

  Two, Three, Mysterious

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• I saw a sunset in Queretaro that seemed to reflect the color of a rose in Bengal.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Rose, Saws, Colour

  "Aleph and other stories".

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