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On top of a hill, or in a meadow, in a skyscraper, or from a cottage window, the crimson flames of a sunset are always the same kind of breathtaking. And as with anything as ethereal and as beautiful, the sunset, since forever, has been associated with many things - romance, a new beginning, and even death. Inspired by its incomparable beauty, many poets, writers, and intelligent people have given this phenomenon new meanings with their wise words. Wise words that have turned into popular quotes you can read in our list dedicated to sunset quotes.

From blazing red to mellow golden, a sunset is never precisely the same, yet it always shares the quality of a fleeting moment slipping away in front of your eyes. You want to capture it somehow, to commemorate each shade of royal golds and blushes, each shadow appearing, slowly submerging the world into the night. Your memory might fail you in remembering such extraordinary views, and photography could never capture its true ethereal beauty. But words can, and when put right, words embody the true colors and secret meanings of the exquisiteness before your eyes. These beautiful quotes, we hope, will reveal the magnificence of the sun settling down, evoking private feelings that you might’ve felt looking at the most breathtaking sunset in your life, the image of which you still cherish.

Now, if you’re curious what famous people had to say about sunsets, our picks of the most inspiring quotes on this natural phenomenon await you down below. Some of these words do quite an excellent job of describing the feelings a sunset might arouse in you; other wise quotes give it a whole new meaning, one that you might remember the next time you’re watching the sun setting down. After you’re done reading these motivational quotes, be sure to vote for the ones that you liked the best, and then share this article with anyone who also finds sunsets irresistibly beautiful.

#1

121 Inspirational Sunset Quotes “There is nothing more musical than a sunset.” – Claude Debussy

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Zophra
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

well, except for music, i would take a chance to guess.

#2

“Sunsets, like childhood, are viewed with wonder not just because they are beautiful but because they are fleeting.” – Richard Paul Evans

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#3

“Sunset is so marvellous that even the sun itself watches it every day in the reflections of the infinite oceans!” – Mehmet Murat Ildan

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#4

121 Inspirational Sunset Quotes “The evening sky was awash with peach, apricot, cream: tender little ice-cream clouds in a wide orange sky.” – Philip Pullman

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Zophra
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Ooooooh... you had me at "ice-cream" - forget the sunset.

#5

“They ran to the museums for paintings. I ran to the roof for sunsets.” – Darnell Lamont Walker

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#6

“You want proof there’s a God? Look outside, watch a sunset.” – Frank E. Peretti

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#7

“If you can look at the sunset and smile, then you still have hope.”

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#8

121 Inspirational Sunset Quotes "You know, when one is that sad, one can get to love the sunset.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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#9

“A slight breeze cooled the Hawaiian spring air, swaying the branches of palm trees, which cast black silhouettes against the purple and orange colours of the twilight sky.” – Victoria Kahler

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#10

“The sun is setting in a burnt orange sky; the cliffs are black silhouettes; the sea, liquid silver.” – Laura Treacy Bentley

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#11

“Don’t forget: beautiful sunsets need cloudy skies…” – Paulo Coelho

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#12

“Sunsets are my escape into the reality I want to continuously live.” – Rachel Roy

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#13

121 Inspirational Sunset Quotes “When the sun has set, no candle can replace it.” – George R. R. Martin

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#14

“I think sunrises are rarer for me, but sunset is my favourite time of day.” – Jon Foreman

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Zophra
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Rarer for me too - I would like to be sleeping more than getting up early to see the sunrise.

#15

“The sunset is life’s way of saying “Good job, you survived today, here’s something pretty.”

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#16

“A sunset paints the sky as if there were no tomorrow.” – Anthony T. Hincks

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#17

121 Inspirational Sunset Quotes “The sky broke like an egg into full sunset and the water caught fire.” – Pamela Hansford Johnson

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#18

“The more clouds you have in your sky, the more colourful sunset it will be.” – Sajal Sazzad

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#19

“Sunsets are like God’s paintings in the sky.”

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#20

“Whenever you want to see me, always look at the sunset; I will be there.” –
Grace Ogot

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#21

“Life does not come with instructions on how to live, but it does come with trees, sunsets, smiles and laughter, so enjoy your day.” – Debbie Shapiro

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#22

121 Inspirational Sunset Quotes “When the sun is setting, leave whatever you are doing and watch it.” – Mehmet Murat Ildan

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#23

“Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do every day what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer the goal.” – Elbert Hubbard

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#24

“Softly the evening came with the sunset.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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#25

“A sunrise or sunset can be ablaze with brilliance and arouse all the passion, all the yearning, in the soul of the beholder.” – Mary Balogh

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#26

“When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.” – Mahatma Gandhi

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#27

121 Inspirational Sunset Quotes “The water was glassy and calm, still candy-colored in the afterglow of sunset.” – Stephen King

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#28

"She remembered watching a summer sunset from this very spot. Not so long ago; just a lifetime." – Sharon Kay Penman

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#29

“I can’t give you the sunset, but I can give you the night.” – Erin McCarthy

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#30

“The first stab of love is like a sunset, a blaze of color — oranges, pearly pinks, vibrant purples…” – Anna Godbersen

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#31

121 Inspirational Sunset Quotes “Twilight fell: The sky turned to a light, dusky purple littered with tiny silver stars.” – J.K. Rowling

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#32

“Even the most beautiful days eventually have their sunsets”

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#33

“Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty if only we have the eyes to see them.” – John Ruskin

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#34

“It is almost impossible to watch a sunset and not dream.” – Bern Williams

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#35

121 Inspirational Sunset Quotes “Never waste any amount of time doing anything important when there is a sunset outside that you should be sitting under.” – C. JoyBell C

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#36

“When your world moves too fast and you lose yourself in the chaos, introduce yourself to each color of the sunset.” – Christy Ann Martine

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#37

“People are just as wonderful as sunsets if you let them be. When I look at a sunset, I don’t find myself saying, “Soften the orange a bit on the right hand corner.” I don’t try to control a sunset. I watch with awe as it unfolds.” – Carl Rogers

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#38

“May every sunrise hold more promise and every sunset hold more peace.” – Umair Siddiqui

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#39

“Sunset on the water ought to be a quiet and easy time, but I guess some people can’t stand a little silence.” – Carl Hiaasen

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#40

121 Inspirational Sunset Quotes “Sunset is still my favorite color, and rainbow is second.” – Mattie Stepanek

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#41

“Sunrise is the start of something beautiful: the day. Sunset is the start of something beautiful: the night.” – Juansen Dizon

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#42

“Every sunset is an opportunity to reset.” – Richie Norton

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#43

“Just don’t forget that some of us watch the sunset too.” – S.E. Hinton

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#44

121 Inspirational Sunset Quotes “You don’t need beautiful weather to enjoy the evening. You only need a beautiful heart.” – Biju Karakkonam

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#45

“Never turn your back to the sunset, because you owe the sun a thanking for lighting you all day.” – Mehmet Murat İldan

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#46

“To capture a California sunset in South Pasadena is to hold an angel’s wings with bated breath.” – Ace Antonio Hall

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#47

“We wanderers, ever seeking the lonelier way, begin no day where we have ended another day; and no sunrise finds us where sunset left us.” – Khalil Gibran

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#48

121 Inspirational Sunset Quotes “Nightfall was approaching, the light pouring away past the world’s horizon in a gradually darkening cascade.” – Obie Williams

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#49

“The clouds had dispersed and for a change, the sun was visible in the west, a sinking ball of vodka and cranberry juice.” – Saurbh Katyal

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#50

“The sky was a bruised red shot with black, almost exactly the colours of a tattoo. Sunset had two minutes left to live.” – Denis Johnson

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#51

“The stark evening sun at the far edge of the town had just unzipped the sky and finally gone down.” – Jack Bunbury

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#52

121 Inspirational Sunset Quotes “Soon it got dusk, a grapey dusk, a purple dusk over tangerine groves and long melon fields; the sun the colour of pressed grapes, slashed with burgundy red, the fields the colour of love and Spanish mysteries.” – Jack Kerouac

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#53

“I don’t know how long we stay that way, but we watch the sun go down together. The giant, burnt-orange sphere sinks towards the horizon, colouring the rock layers until it’s gone and the canyon is covered in shadow.” – Jennifer Salvato Doktorski

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#54

“People are just as wonderful as sunsets if you let them be. When I look at a sunset, I don’t find myself saying, ‘Soften the orange a bit on the right hand corner’. I don’t try to control a sunset. I watch with awe as it unfolds.” – Carl R. Rogers

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#55

“It seems there is more interest in sunsets than sunrises. Perhaps because innately we fear the dark.” – Richelle E. Goodrich

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#56

121 Inspirational Sunset Quotes “When your shadow becomes more popular than you, then you know that the sun is setting!” – Mehmet Murat İldan

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#57

“Not everyone has to ride off into the sunset with a man. Some of us just want a tan.” – Mandy Hale

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#58

“This is my favorite time of day. When the sun is setting and the last of its fiery fingers caress the water line before relinquishing their hold to the darkness of the night. And I can watch as the stars pop out, one by one, to pinprick the sky with their silvery light.” – J.A. Souders

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#59

“Sunsets. The illusion either above the horizon or below it. When day and night are linked in a way that cannot be one without the other, yet they cannot exist at the same time.” – Ebelsain Villegas

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#60

121 Inspirational Sunset Quotes “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

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#61

“At the end of the world the sunset is like a child smashing a pack of crayons into God’s face.” – Craig Stone

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#62

“A large drop of sun lingered on the horizon and then dripped over and was gone, and the sky was brilliant over the spot where it had gone, and a torn cloud, like a bloody rag, hung over the spot of its going. And dusk crept over the sky from the eastern horizon, and darkness crept over the land from the east.” – John Steinbeck

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#63

“A sunset is the sun’s fiery kiss to the night.” – Crystal Woods

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#64

121 Inspirational Sunset Quotes “When your world moves too fast and you lose yourself in the chaos, introduce yourself to each colour of the sunset.” – Christy Ann Martine

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#65

“A time when sky blue love bids farewell to the day and before dusk falls, the sunset ignites the smouldering embers of the moonlit soul…” – Virginia Alison

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#66

“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

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#67

“The sun was a fiery furnace of gold, but finally it set in the west and the cosmos glittered like a million burning embers, briefly reminding Awa of poetry readings under starry skies in Timbuktu.” – Rehan Khan

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#68

“Listen to the sunset, see its pretty hue. When you see it, think of me, and I’ll think of you…” – Oksana Rus

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#69

121 Inspirational Sunset Quotes “The sun still lives his silent vows to the moon, by bowing to kiss her feet whenever she walks in the room.” – Curtis Tyrone Jones

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#70

“Dusk is just an illusion because the sun is either above the horizon or below it. And that means that day and night are linked in a way that few things are there cannot be one without the other yet they cannot exist at the same time. How would it feel, I remember wondering, to be always together yet forever apart?” – Nicholas Sparks

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#71

“The nights did not come gently but seemed to slam down angrily upon the Earth, and starlight transformed the golden brown of the wheat to the colour of polished silver.” – Rick Yancey

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#72

“No sun outlasts its sunset, but will rise again and bring the dawn.” – Maya Angelou

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#73

“Dusk is just an illusion because the sun is either above the horizon or below it. And that means that day and night are linked in a way that few things are there cannot be one without the other yet they cannot exist at the same time.” – Nicholas Sparks

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#74

121 Inspirational Sunset Quotes “O, Sunlight! The most precious gold to be found on Earth.” – Roman Payne

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#75

“It’s that time between day and night when the sky looks like it’s on fire and mosquitoes are on the hunt.” – Angie Thomas

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#76

“As the saturating colours of sun-life fade from sight, the ominous moon reaches out its long arm and applies the dark dyes of night.” – Daniel J. Rice

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#77

“I am not the rising star. I am the drowning sun.” – Pravin Gupta

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#78

“Moon in the sky, stars out, the wide-open expanse of nothing: it made him feel free and alive as the daytime never did.” – Chuck Wendig

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#79

121 Inspirational Sunset Quotes “I love sunrises and sunsets. But what I really love is the space that I have in-between them to do something incredible.” – Craig D. Lounsbrough

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#80

“I’ve got sunsets on the insides of my eyelids.” – Pete Wentz

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#81

“Watching the day slowly bloom into night. That’s how it always seemed to me: not the fading of a withered flower, but the opening of some dark, rich blossom, with unexpected hues and heavy scents.” – Patricia A. McKillip

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#82

"Sunsets are just little glimpses of the golden streets of heaven."

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#83

“Allow failure to teach you a supreme lesson: Each sunset is the beginning of a very, very bright and powerful sunrise.” – Sri Chinmoy

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#84

121 Inspirational Sunset Quotes “Every sunset brings the promise of a new dawn.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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#85

“It’s not just a sunset; it’s a moonrise too.” – P. C. Cast

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#86

“Enjoy the beauty of a sunset nature’s farewell kiss for the night.” – Sharon Rene

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#87

“Sunsets are not a rare commodity they come and go every night, so I compare you not to a sunset for you come once in a life.” – Daniel Cook

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#88

“Sunsets are proof that no matter what happens, every day can end beautifully.” – Kristen Butler

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#89

121 Inspirational Sunset Quotes “Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.” – John Lubbock

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#90

“May there be just enough clouds in your life to create a glorious sunset.”

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#91

“If you are in a beautiful place where you can enjoy sunrise and sunset, then you are living like a lord.” – Nathan Phillips

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#92

“Are you dreaming? Stop dreaming; come and watch the sunset, it is better than all the dreams!” – Mehmet Murat ildan

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#93

“When ballet takes to the sea, even the sunset comes to take a sneak peek.” – Anthony T. Hincks

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#94

121 Inspirational Sunset Quotes “Every sunset is also a sunrise. It all depends on where you stand.” – Karl Schmidt

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#95

“The sun set, which is everyday magic…” – Terry Pratchett

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#96

“Meanwhile the sunsets are mad orange fools raging in the gloom….” – Jack Kerouac

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#97

“Can you see the sunset real good on the West side? You can see it on the East side too.” – S.E. Hinton

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#98

“…the warm orange spreading from the horizon as not-quite-day, becomes not-quite-night.” – David Levithan

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#99

121 Inspirational Sunset Quotes “Sometimes the sunset is so beautiful, I think it might be the very last one.” – Nitya Prakash

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#100

“A beautiful sunset that was mistaken for a dawn…” – Claude Debussy

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#101

“They sipped until the sun, as golden as syrupy as the bourbon, slipped into the sea.” – Delia Owens

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#102

“Dawn and dusk are mutual friends of the sun; one opens the door for him to a brand new day and the other one has to shut it to embrace the darkness of night.” – Munia Khan

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#103

“And like tea dissolving in hot water, the sun dissolved in the sky…creating a velvet horizon, announcing for the stars’ night dance with the moon, the awaited joy for the wounded souls.” – Abeer Allan

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#104

121 Inspirational Sunset Quotes “The sun had set, but a faint pastel haze lingered in the mid-summer sky.” – R.J. Lawrence

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#105

“The sky, at sunset, looked like a carnivorous flower.” – Roberto Bolaño

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#106

“Outside, the air filled with cricket noise, as the sun reddened in its descent.” – R.J. Lawrence

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#107

“Bursts of gold on lavender melting into saffron. It’s the time of day when the sky looks like it has been spray-painted by a graffiti artist.” – Mia Kirshner

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#108

“Sunset angles through the heavy curtains, drawn against the light. Dust motes dance in the red beams, ash above a dying fire. I feel like I am inside a heart, surrounded by bloody red.” – Victoria Aveyard

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#109

121 Inspirational Sunset Quotes “Enjoy the beauty of a sunset, nature’s farewell kiss for the night.” – Sharon Rene

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#110

“Every moment of life is unique – a kiss, a sunset, a dance, a joke. None will ever recur in quite the same way. Each happens only once in the history of the universe.” – Stephen Nachmanovitch

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#111

“There’s a sunrise and a sunset every single day, and they’re absolutely free. Don’t miss so many of them.” – Jo Walton

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#112

“The strange thing about the sunset is that we actually don’t want the sun to set, we want it to stay right on the horizon, not below it, not above it, just right on it.” – Mehmet Murat Ildan

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#113

“Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add colour to my sunset sky.” – Rabindranath Tagore

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#114

121 Inspirational Sunset Quotes “A beautiful sunset is your reward for surviving another day. Enjoy as many as you can.”

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#115

“The sky takes on shades of orange during sunrise and sunset, the colour that gives you hope that the sun will set only to rise again.” – Ram Charan

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#116

“Keep looking up! I learn from the past, dream about the future and look up. There’s nothing like a beautiful sunset to end a healthy day.” – Rachel Boston

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#117

“But even the longest day wears to sunset.” – Marion Zimmer Bradley

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#118

“An intense copper calm, like a universal yellow lotus, was more and more unfolding its noiseless measureless leaves upon the sea.” – Herman Melville

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#119

121 Inspirational Sunset Quotes “Tea is just an excuse. I am drinking this sunset, this evening. And you.” – Sanober Khan

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#120

“Every sunrise is a blessing, it’s an opportunity to learn something new and to create something that can benefit others. It also gives a chance to make amends. Use it wisely before sunset.” – Euginia Herlihy

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#121

“A day spent with dreaming and sunsets and refreshing breezes cannot be bettered.” – Nicholas Sparks

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