Quotes of Sunset - somelinesforyou

“ There is an evening twilight of the heart, When its wild passion-waves are lulled to rest. ”

- Fitz Greene Halleck

“ When clouds are seen wise men put on their cloaks; When great leaves fall then winter is at hand. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there's a twilight where everything remains seemingly unchanged, and it is in such twilight that we must be aware of change in the air, however slight, lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness. ”

- William Orville Douglas

“ I venerate old age; and I love not the man who can look without emotion upon the sunset of life, when the dusk of evening begins to gather over the watery eye, and the shadows of twilight grow broader and deeper upon the understanding. ”

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“ Science will never be able to reduce the value of a sunset to arithmetic. Nor can it reduce friendship or statesmanship to a formula. ”

- Louis Orr

“ What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night… the breath of a buffalo in the winter time… a little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset. ”

- Crowfoot

“ Born after sunset, dead by daybreak, his 11-hour scrap of existence was little more than a shuttle down fluorescent hallways, a tour of wards and laboratories. ”

- Tim Page

“ What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset. ”

- Crowfoot

“ The dust of exploded beliefs may make a fine sunset. ”

- Geoffrey Madan

“ We will put no impediment in your way and we will be at dockside bidding you a farewell as you set off into the sunset. ”

- Charles M. Lichenstein

“ Once I saw a chimpanzee gaze at a particularly beautiful sunset for a full 15 minutes, watching the changing colors and then retire to the forest without picking a pawpaw for supper. ”

- Adriaan Kortlandt

“ 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

“ 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

“ The true purpose of education is to teach a man to carry himself triumphant to the sunset. ”

- Liberty Hyde Bailey

“ There's nothing great Nor small," has said a poet of our day, Whose voice will ring beyond the curfew of eve And not be thrown out by the matin's bell. ”

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“ For promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south. ”

- Bible

“ Come watch with me the shaft of fire that glows In yonder West: the fair, frail palaces, The fading Alps and archipelagoes, And great cloud-continents of sunset-seas. ”

- Thomas Bailey Aldrich

“ The sun was down, And all the west was paved with sullen fire. I cried, "Behold! the barren beach of hell At ebb of tide. ”

- Alexander Smith

“ The death-bed of a day, how beautiful! ”

- Philip James Bailey

“ And the gilded car of day, His glowing axle doth allay In the steep Atlantic stream. ”

- John Milton

“ Long on the wave reflected lustres play. ”

- Samuel Rogers

“ The sacred lamp of day Now dipt in western clouds his parting day. ”

- William Falconer

“ The setting sun, and music at the close, As the last taste of sweets, is sweetest last, Writ in remembrance more than things long past. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ 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

“ If you want to go somewhere, it is best to find someone who has already been there. ”

- Robert Kiyosaki

“ How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset. ”

- George MacDonald

“ Happiness is a Swedish sunset; it is there for all, but most of us look the other way and lose it. ”

- Mark Twain

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

- Rabindranath Tagore

“ At some glad moment was it nature's choice to dower a scrap of sunset with a voice? ”

- Edgar Fawcett
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