Sunset Quotes - Page 29

• Deprived of human intercourse, I inevitably overvalue the imagination and expect it to make the mundane glow with an aura of self-transcendence. Yet why these glorious sunsets, I ask myself, if nature does not speak to us with tongues of fire.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Fire, Self, Imagination

  J. M. Coetzee (2017). “In the Heart of the Country: A Novel”, p.14, Penguin

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• Faith has its price. When misfortune strikes the true believer, he assumes he has done something to deserve punishment, but isn't quite certain what. The realist, recognizing that he lives in a Darwinian universe, is simply grateful to have made it to another sunset.

  Jack McDevitt

  Grateful, Punishment, Done

  "Deepsix". Book by Jack McDevitt, 2000.

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• Like many people, I consider myself an incurable romantic, and there is a part of me that will always believe in walking off into the sunset to live happily ever after. When I was younger, like many children, I assumed I would get married, live in a nice house, and have a couple of kids. I also assumed this very traditional achievement would bring me endless happiness and romance. So much so, that during my college years I considered girls engaged by graduation to be the epitome of success. Perhaps needless to say, I was not one of those girls.

  Robi Ludwig

  Girl, Children, Couple

  Robi Ludwig, Matt Birkbeck (2006). “'Till Death Do Us Part: Love, Marriage, and the Mind of the Killer Spouse”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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• Reminiscent of the radiant shadings of a sunset, Tangerine Tango marries the vivaciousness and adrenaline rush of red with the friendliness and warmth of yellow, to form a high-visibility, magnetic hue that emanates heat and energy.

  Leatrice Eiseman

  Yellow, Hue, Red

  "Pantone Announces "Tangerine Tango" Is The Official Color Of 2012" by Tracey Lomrantz Lester, www.glamour.com. December 09, 2011.

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• In early June the world of leaf and blade and flowers explodes, and every sunset is different.

  John Steinbeck

  Summer, Flower, June

  John Steinbeck (2008). “The Winter of Our Discontent”, p.156, Penguin

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• The Divide is like two rivers merging, at the point of merging there is a great deal of activity. The sunset, it's neither dark nor light, and the sunrises are the moments of transition.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Dark, Light

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• There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect. Men do not quarrel about the meaning of sunsets; they never dispute that the hawthorn says the best and wittiest thing about the spring.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Spring, Eye, Heart

  "The Defendant". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1901.

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• Seek to make life henceforth a consecrated thing; that so, when the sunset is nearing, with its murky vapors and lowering skies, the very clouds of sorrow may be fringed with golden light. Thus will the song in the house of your pilgrimage be always the truest harmony. It will be composed of no jarring, discordant notes; but with all its varied tones will form one sustained, life-long melody; dropped for a moment in death, only to be resumed with the angels, and blended with the everlasting cadences of your Father's house.

  John Ross Macduff

  Song, Father, Angel

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 159, 1895.

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• I have seen dawn and sunset on moors and windy hills Coming in solemn beauty like slow old tunes of Spain.

  John Masefield

  Dawn, Spain, Tunes

  John Masefield (1925). “Poems by John Masefield”

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• Religion is a wizard, a sibyl . . . She faces the wreck of worlds, and prophesies restoration. She faces a sky blood-red with sunset colours that deepen into darkness, and prophesies dawn. She faces death, and prophesies life.

  Felix Adler

  Religious, Blood, Sky

  Felix Adler (1956). “Life and destiny”

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• What is Death, so it be but glorious? 'Tis a sunset; And mortals may be happy to resemble The Gods but in decay.

  Lord Byron

  Death, Decay, May

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.1317, Delphi Classics

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• I was never into hanging out on the Sunset Strip. When it came to Guns N' Roses and the scene that was going on then, that was something we pretty much hated. That was what we had to scratch and claw through, and as soon as we got established enough to leave, we never went back.

  Slash

  Gun, Rose, Scratches

  Interview with Trevor Kelley, music.avclub.com. September 19, 2007.

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• READ! Books can be as delicious as hot-fudge sundaes, as funny as clowns, as exciting as a baseball game that's tied in the 9th inning, and as beautiful as the best sunset you ever saw.

  Judith Viorst

  Beautiful, Baseball, Book

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• Africa - You can see a sunset and believe you have witnessed the Hand of God. You watch the slope lope of a lioness and forget to breathe. You marvel at the tripod of a giraffe bent to water. In Africa, there are iridescent blues on the wings of birds that you do not see anywhere else in nature. In Africa, in the midday heart, you can see blisters in the atmosphere. When you are in Africa, you feel primordial, rocked in the cradle of the world.

  Jodi Picoult

  Believe, Heart, Hands

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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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• 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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• A pessimist doesn't see the sunset outside, he sees the dirt on the window.

  Jim Rohn

  Dirt, Window, Pessimist

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• You know how Van Nuys got its name? Well, one day my little old Jewish mother was visiting me, and I took her to the top of the Hollywood Hills and had her view the valley below just at sunset. Well, mama, what would you call that? And she said, Ver nize.

  Joey Bishop

  Mother, Names, Hollywood Hills

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• I don't shoot kittens with balls of wool. I don't shoot sunsets. What draws me? Ironic, surreal, unexplained, timely moments.

  Graham Nash

  Ironic, Wool, Balls

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• In terms of the fantasy wedding thing, I can kind of cross off the island beach thing. Maybe at sunset or something.

  Mandy Moore

  Beach, Islands, Kind

  "Mandy Moore and John Krasinski Interview - LICENSE TO WED". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. July 2, 2007.

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• Every sunset I witness inspires me with the desire to go to West as distant and as fair as that which the sun goes down. Eastward I go only by force; but westward I go free.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspire, Desire, West

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• Sunsets and death; death and therefore kisses, kisses and consequently birth and then death for yet another generation of sunset watchers.

  Aldous Huxley

  Kissing, Generations, Birth

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• Most of us sleepwalk through our lives. We take all its glories, its wine, food, love, and friendship, its sunsets and its stars, its poetry and fireplaces and laughter, for granted. We forget that experience is not, or should not be, a casual encounter, but rather an embrace. Consequently, for too many of us, when we come to the end, we wonder where the years have gone. And we suspect we have not lived.

  Jack McDevitt

  Stars, Laughter, Wine

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• We [Corbis] make it so easy to call up images, whether art or people or beaches or sunsets or Nobel Prize winners.

  Bill Gates

  Beach, Art, People

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