Sunset Quotes - Page 27

• Western funerals: black hearses, and black horses, and fast-fading flowers. Why should black be the colour of death? Why not the colours of a sunset?

  Daniele Vare

  Horse, Flower, Funeral

  Daniele Varè (1954). “Novels of Yen-Ching”

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• At the end of the world the sunset is like a child smashing a pack of crayons into God’s face.

  Craig Stone

  Children, End Of The World, Faces

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• How beautiful is sunset when the glow Of Heaven descends upon a land like thee, Thou Paradise of exiles, Italy!

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Beautiful, Land, Heaven

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, Geoffrey Matthews, Kelvin Everest (1989). “The Poems of Shelley: 1817-1819”, p.666, Pearson Education

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• You don't have the power to make rainbows or waterfalls, sunsets or roses, but you do have the power to bless people by your words and smiles You carry within you the power to make the world better.

  Sharon G. Larsen

  People, Rainbow, Rose

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• What does a river like the Vistula carry away with it? Everything that goes to pieces: wood, glass, pencils, pacts ... chairs, bones, and sunsets too. What had long been forgotten rose to memory, floating on its back or stomach, with the help of the Vistula.

  Gunter Grass

  Memories, Glasses, Rivers

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• The range in brightness from the purple glow [of the sunset] to the dark sky above is too great for most films, and naturally it is beyond the range of printed pictures.

  James Elkins

  Dark, Sky, Purple

  James Elkins (2007). “How to Use Your Eyes”, p.215, Routledge

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• The purple light or glow, which appears roughly fifteen or twenty minutes after sunset... looks like an isolated bright spot fairly high in the sky over the place the sun has set, and then it quickly expands and sinks until it blends with the colors underneath.

  James Elkins

  Color, Sky, Purple

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• We are apt to imagine that this hubbub of Philosophy, Literature, and Religion, which is heard in pulpits, lyceums, and parlors, vibrates through the universe, and is as catholic a sound as the creaking of the earth's axle. But if a man sleeps soundly, he will forget it all between sunset and dawn.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Philosophy, Sleep, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (1973). “Winter: From the Journal of Henry David Thoreau”

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• Thus departed Hiawatha, Hiawatha the Beloved, In the glory of the sunset, In the purple mists of evening, To the regions of the home-wind, Of the Northwest-Wind, Keewaydin, To the Islands of the Blessed, To the Kingdom of Ponemah, To the Land of the Hereafter!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Blessed, Home, Wind

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, George Housman Thomas (1860). “The Song of Hiawatha ... Illustrated by John Gilbert”, p.211

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• By unseen hands uplifted in the light Of sunset, yonder solitary cloud Floats, with its white apparel blown abroad, And wafted up to heaven.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Clouds, Light, Hands

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “My Complete Poetical Works (Annotated Edition)”, p.1492, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The soul, at peace, reflects the peace without, Forgetting grief as sunset skies forget The morning's transient shower.

  Emma Lazarus

  Morning, Peace, Grief

  Emma Lazarus (2015). “The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume I: Narrative, Lyric, and Dramatic”, p.142, Courier Corporation

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• The ploughman knows how many acres he shall upturn from dawn to sunset: but the thinker knows not what a day may bring forth.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  May, Dawn, Acres

  John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

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• Far, far away, there is a beautiful Country which no human eye has ever seen in waking hours. Under the Sunset it lies, where the distant horizon bounds the day, and where the clouds, splendid with light and colour, give a promise of the glory and beauty which encompass it. Sometimes it is given to us to see it in dreams.

  Bram Stoker

  Beautiful, Dream, Country

  Bram Stoker (2016). “Under the Sunset: And Other Stories”, p.4, The Floating Press

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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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• A pink sunset - one of the reasons I moved to the seaside in Margate.

  Gemma Cairney

  Reason, Moved

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• Even though it was January, in Los Angeles it was beautiful and sunny and the blue skies were out and it was hot everyday, so I think it was just a product of our environment. And California to me as a concept or as an idea always seems like endless optimism and endless opportunity - when people think of California they think of palm trees and blue skies and gorgeous sunsets and beaches and everything else. But there's also this weirdness to California, this darkness, it's a place where people come to follow their dreams and sometimes don't make it.

  Mark Hoppus

  Beautiful, Dream, Beach

  "Interview: Mark Hoppus On Blink-182's New Album, 'California'". Coup De Main Interview, www.coupdemainmagazine.com. June 27, 2016.

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• I remember having my own apartment and a little used white Mustang car and $3000 in the bank, driving down Sunset Boulevard thinking, 'Wow, it doesn't get any better than this!'

  Cheryl Ladd

  Thinking, White, Car

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• What the English like to do is to face reality with a glass of port and a tear and fade off like Basil Rathbone into the sunset.

  Pete Townshend

  Reality, Glasses, Tears

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• Ireland is a small but insuppressible island half an hour nearer the sunset than Great Britain.

  Tom Kettle

  Islands, Half, Hours

  Tom Kettle (1918). “The day's burden: studies, literary & political and miscellaneous essays”

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• Those circumstances, which to the dim eye of Jacob's faith wore a hue so somber, were at that very moment developing and perfecting the events which were to shed around the evening of his life the halo of a glorious and cloudless sunset.

  Arthur W. Pink

  Christian, Eye, Events

  Arthur W. Pink (2007). “Comfort for Christians”, p.15, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• The fact is that purification and austerity are even more necessary for the appreciation of life and laughter than for anything else. To let no bird fly past unnoticed, to spell the stones and weeds, to have the mind a storehouse of sunset, requires a discipline in pleasure and an education in gratitude.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Weed, Gratitude, Appreciation

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• Around the time of the Terran Caesar Augustus, a Martian artist had been composing a work of art. It could have been called a poem, a musical opus, or a philosophical treatise; it was a series of emotions arranged in tragic, logical necessity. Since it could be experienced by a human only in the sense in which a man blind from birth might have a sunset explained to him, it does not matter which category it be assigned.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Art, Philosophical, Men

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.93, Penguin

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• The glories and the beauties of form, color and sound unite in the Grand Canyon - forms unrivaled even by the mountains, colors that vie with sunsets, and sounds that span the diapason from tempest to tinkling raindrop; from cataract to bubbling fountain.

  John Wesley

  Color, Mountain, Sound

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• To leave out beautiful sunsets is the secret of good taste.

  Dejan Stojanovic

  Beautiful, Secret, Taste

  "Simplicity". Poem by Dejan Stojanovic, www.poemhunter.com.

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• I like, you may say, the glitter and colour that comes from the mouth, and I've always hoped in a sense to be able to paint the mouth like Monet painted a sunset.

  Francis Bacon

  I Like You, Glitter, Mouths

  David Sylvester, Francis Bacon (1975). “Francis Bacon”, Pantheon

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