Meaningful Quotes about Sunsets
Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.
-Rabindranath Tagore
Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.
-Langston Hughes
I don't know what you could say about a day in which you have seen four beautiful sunsets.
-John Glenn
Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.
-John Lubbock
It was the cooling hour, just when the rounded Red sun sinks down behind the azure hill, Which then seems as if the whole earth is bounded, Circling all nature, hush'd, and dim, and still, With the far mountain-crescent half surrounded On one side, and the deep sea calm and chill Upon the other, and the rosy sky With one star sparkling through it like an eye.
-Lord Byron
The lonely sunsets flare forlorn Down valleys dreadly desolate; The lonely mountains soar in scorn As still as death, as stern as fate.
-Robert William Service
Down sank the great red sun, and in golden, glimmering vapors Veiled the light of his face, like the Prophet descending from Sinai.
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
After a day of cloud and wind and rain Sometimes the setting sun breaks out again, And touching all the darksome woods with light, Smiles on the fields until they laugh and sing, Then like a ruby from the horizon's ring, Drops down into the night.
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
How fine has the day been! how bright was the sun, How lovely and joyful the course that he run! Though he rose in a mist when his race he begun, And there followed some droppings of rain: But now the fair traveller's come to the west, His rays are all gold, and his beauties are best; He paints the skies gay as he sinks to his rest, And foretells a bright rising again.
-Isaac Watts
About Sunset:
I've always loved sunsets, how the sun changes hues from lightly sparkling yellow to deeply molten red, the light slowly giving way to the darkness all the while, and strange romantic thoughts suddenly striking the mind, seemingly from nowhere. Whenever I really sit down and look at a sunset, I feel a strange contradiction of emotions - a deep sense of wellbeing washing up with the last of the fading beams, yet on the other hand, a sense of missing potential as though life was meant for something more than what I've yet lived.
Whenever I watch the sun slowly descend upon the world, I'm always struck by a strange and timeless notion that the world is still full of possibility. I feel a connection to the grand, elusive scheme intertwining all of humankind, and am struck by something indefinable, that though I cannot define, still compels me to want to do better with my life than what I have done so far. Those of you who know me know that I love to quote my favorite authors. This quote is one of the best from Rabindranath Tagore "Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky."
