Sunset Quotes - Page 28

• Just as a musician loves music and not nightingales, and a poet loves poetry and not sunsets, a painter is not primarily a person who responds to figures and landscapes. He is primarily one who loves pictures.

  Andre Malraux

  Love Picture, Musician, Landscape

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• Under the olive trees, from the ground Grows this flower, which is a wound. It is easier to ignore Than the heroes' sunset fire Of death plunged in their willed desire Raging with flags on the world's shore.

  Stephen Spender

  Flower, Hero, Fire

  Stephen Spender (2015). “Selected Poems of Stephen Spender”, p.54, Faber & Faber

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• One day you do meet a man who kisses you and you can’t breathe around it and you realize you don’t need air. Oxygen is trivial. Desire makes life happen. Makes it matter. Makes everything worth it. Desire is life. Hunger to see the next sunrise or sunset. To touch the one you love. To try again.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Kissing, Men, Air

  FaceBook post by Karen Marie Moning from Dec 03, 2015

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• One day, I watched the sun setting forty-four times......You know...when one is so terribly sad, one loves sunsets.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  One Day, Four, One Love

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• Nothing grows among its pinnacles; there is no shade except under great toadstools of sandstone whose bases have been eaten to the shape of wine glasses by the wind. Everything is flaking, cracking, disintegrating, wearing away in the long, inperceptible weather of time. The ash of ancient volcanic outbursts still sterilizes its soil, and its colors in that waste are the colors that flame in the lonely sunsets on dead planets.

  Loren Eiseley

  Lonely, Wine, Glasses

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• I've been thinking about it, and that poem, that guy that wrote it, he meant you're gold when you're a kid, like green. When you're a kid everything's new, dawn. It's just when you get used to everything that it's day. Like the way you dig sunsets, Pony. That's gold. Keep that way, it's a good way to be.

  S. E. Hinton

  Kids, Thinking, Guy

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• the redness had seeped from the day and night was arranging herself around us. Cooling things down, staining and dyeing the evening purple and blue black.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Night, Blue, Purple

  Sue Monk Kidd (2003). “The Secret Life of Bees”, p.225, Penguin

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• From a building right in front of my windows, I can observe the speed of the sunrises and sunsets. The voices of children playing, laughing, yelling, and crying on the playground crawl up to the eighth floor, where I write. Their voices sound so innocent from a distance.

  Andrea Hirata

  Children, Distance, Writing

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• A tranquil summer sunset shone upon him as he approached the end of his walk, and passed through the meadows by the river side. He had that sense of peace, and of being lightened of a weight of care, which country quiet awakens in the breasts of dwellers in towns.

  Charles Dickens

  Summer, Country, Nature

  Charles Dickens (1868). “Little Dorrit”, p.318, Kartindo.com

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• We recognize that we cannot survive on meditation, poems and sunsets. We are restless. We have an irresistible urge to dip our hands into the stuff of the earth and do something with it.

  Samuel Florman

  Hands, Meditation, Earth

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• Your mom is my sunset, and you are my dawn.

  Larissa Ione

  Mom, Dawn, Your Mom

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• During my eleven years as a New York City public school teacher, I saw firsthand the impact that poverty has on the classroom. In low-income neighborhoods like Sunset Park, where I taught, students as young as five years old enter school affected by the stresses often created by poverty: domestic violence, drug abuse, gang activity.

  Sal Albanese

  Teacher, New York, Stress

  "Education’s Elephant in the Room: Poverty" by Sal F. Albanese, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 10, 2013.

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• I have recently been told that I am one of the millions of Americans who will be afflicted with Alzheimer's Disease. . .. I now begin the journey that will lead me into the sunset of my life. I know that for America there will always be a bright dawn ahead.

  Ronald Reagan

  Journey, Alzheimer's, America

  Letter to the American people, 5 Nov. 1994

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• But here's the sunset of a tedious day,
  These two asleep are; I'll but be undrest,
  And so to bed. Pray wish us all good rest.

  Robert Herrick

  Two, Wish, Bed

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• When I turned the corner, I saw Toni waving at me from the elevator. I think I've already told you how it made me feel to see her smile and wave at me. You can have your sunsets and waterfalls. If a piano were to suddenly fall on my head, that's the image I'd want forever engraved in my mind. —Alton Richard

  Louis Sachar

  Fall, Thinking, Piano

  Louis Sachar (2010). “The Cardturner”, p.253, A&C Black

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• From MARS Volume 3 by Fuyumi Soryo: Kira: “Why do you go through all that just to race? I guess asking that is the same thing as asking why I draw….probably because I’m alive….that’s all there is to it. I sense colors in you. They’re strong and beautiful….and sad. I wondered what your colors were for a long time. They’re the colors of the sunset…the blazing shades of a sunset that burn just before the darkness sets in. You said it was nothing, but there’s no one as alive as you.

  Fuyumi Soryo

  Beautiful, Strong, Race

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• The look he gave me...My stomach quivered in that exact same way when I watched Before Sunset, yearning for a guy to know me so deeply and truly, we were only really complete when we were together. That I could talk, go on wild tangents, make obtuse references, and he would divine my meaning before I knew what I was trying to say myself. Erik had fallen asleep next to me on the couch, complaining later that the movie was "just people talking." He had no idea that this movie could have been a love letter written for me.

  Justina Chen

  Talking, Ideas, People

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• the most deeply moving element in the contemplation of beauty is the element of loss. We desire to hold; but the sunset melts into the night, and the secret of the painting on the wall can never be the secret of the buyer.

  Pamela Hansford Johnson

  Beauty, Wall, Moving

  Pamela Hansford Johnson (1952). “Catherine Carter: A Novel”, London Macmillan 1952.

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• A surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught but savage creatures, animated by vile passions and by the lust of vengeance and of hate. The hour, some little time before sunset, and the place, the West Barricade, at the very spot where, a decade later, a proud tyrant raised an undying monument to the nation's glory and his own vanity.

  Baroness Orczy

  Hate, Passion, Eye

  Baroness Orczy (2015). “The Scarlet Pimpernel”, p.5, Xist Publishing

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• 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. Often at night there is lightning, but it quivers all alone. There is no thunder, no relieving rain. These are strange and breathless days, the dog days, when people are led to do things they are sure to be sorry for.

  Natalie Babbitt

  Summer, Dog, Sorry

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• Every day, the sun; and, after sunset, night and her stars. Ever the winds blow; ever the grass grows. Every day, men and women, conversing, beholding and beholden. The scholar is he of all men whom this spectacle most engages. He must settle its value in his mind. What is nature to him?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Stars, Blow, Night

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.491

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• I like working until the morning, so I can see the day and then I like to go to sleep and then get up before sunset. But I love the energy of the morning.

  Grace Jones

  Morning, Sleep, Energy

  Source: thequietus.com

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• What deep and worthy love is so, whether of woman or child, or art or music. Our caresses, our tender words, our still rapture under the influence of autumn sunsets, or pillared vistas, or calm majestic statues, or Beethoven symphonies all bring with them the consciousness that they are mere waves and ripples in an unfathomable ocean of love and beauty; our emotion in its keenest moment passes from expression into silence, our love at its highest flood rushes beyond its object and loses itself in the sense of divine mystery.

  George Eliot

  Art, Children, Ocean

  George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot Collection: Middlemarch, Adam Bede, Silas Marner, The Lifted Veil, and The Mill on the Floss”, p.35, Xist Publishing

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• Art heightens the sense of humanity. It gives an elation to feeling which is supernatural...A million sunsets will not spur us on towards civilization. It requires Art to evoke into consciousness the finite perfections which lie ready for human achievement.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Art, Lying, Civilization

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• There is a sunrise or a sunset from space every 92 minutes so there is an incredible amount of beauty to see from up there.

  Chris Hadfield

  Space, Sunrise, Incredibles

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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