Yahoo Sports 21 Beautiful Sunset Quotes to Caption Your Pics of Brilliant Summer Evenings
Is there anything more mesmerizing than watching a glowing ball of fire descend into the horizon, the sky ablaze with brilliant pinks, oranges, and purple in its wake? Talk about beauty! The longer you can sit and behold the view of a sunset the better, perhaps with a cocktail or frozen drink in hand. It's hard to put into words just how magical a sunset is, but "the sun’s fiery kiss to the night" (words penned by Crystal Woods) comes close to perfection. We rounded up that one and 20 more sunset quotes to inspire you.
These quotes make great captions for the pretty sunset pics you post to Instagram (and for your sunrise posts, check out these good morning quotes). They are all short enough to easily write in a card for a friend or to add to a list inspirational quotes.
Reading these words might transport you to an evening vista in your memory, inspire you to wax philosophical about what sunsets can teach us about life and love, or send you off to daydream of technicolor skies. How can you not when John Steinbeck talks about how “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"? Now for those sunset sayings!
Richie Norton
“Every sunset is an opportunity to reset. Every sunrise begins with new eyes.”
Claude Debussy
“There is nothing more musical than a sunset.”
Debbie Shapiro
“Life does not come with instructions on how to live, but it does come with trees, sunsets, smiles and laughter, so enjoy your day.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Every sunset brings the promise of a new dawn.”
Paulo Coelho
“Don’t forget: Beautiful sunsets need cloudy skies…”
Rachel Boston
“There’s nothing like a beautiful sunset to end a healthy day."
Mehmet Murat Ildan
“When the sun is setting, leave whatever you are doing and watch it."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“Softly the evening came with the sunset.”
George R. R. Martin
“When the sun has set, no candle can replace it.”
Mehmet Murat Ildan
“Sunset is so marvelous that even the sun itself watches it every day in the reflections of the infinite oceans!”
Mary Balogh
“A sunrise or sunset can be ablaze with brilliance and arouse all the passion, all the yearning, in the soul of the beholder.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.”
Stephen King
“The water was glassy and calm, still candy-colored in the afterglow of sunset.”
Crystal Woods
“A sunset is the sun’s fiery kiss to the night."
John Steinbeck
“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.”
Jo Walton
“There’s a sunrise and a sunset every single day, and they’re absolutely free. Don’t miss so many of them.”
Anna Godbersen
“The first stab of love is like a sunset, a blaze of color—oranges, pearly pinks, vibrant purples…”
Bernard Williams
“It is almost impossible to watch a sunset and not dream.”
Mehmet Murat Ildan
“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.”
Kristen Butler
“Sunsets are proof that no matter what happens, every day can end beautifully.”
C. Joybell C.
“Never waste any amount of time doing anything important when there is a sunset outside that you should be sitting under.”
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