I love sunsets! As you can see from the photos in this post, I sit down to watch sunsets whenever I see one, and capture the details I can in my memory and through the camera too. I have countless memories and snaps of sunsets across the globe, though today’s pics are all of glorious sunsets in the golden state of California! And I can, after all these sunsets, attest to the truth in the words of the quote below:

“I never met a sunset I didn’t like.” – Unknown

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Sunsets Inspire Us

Finding Hope in Sunsets: Quotes

“But even the longest day wears to sunset.” – Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Mists of Avalon

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

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

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

“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

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

“Sunsets are proof that endings can often be beautiful too.” – Beau Taplin

“That was her magic—she could still see the sunset, even on the darkest days.” – Atticus

“The sun set, which is everyday magic…” – Terry Pratchett,  A Hat Full of Sky

”You know, when one is that sad, one can get to love the sunset.” ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

Infinite Infinitesimal Delights of Sunsets

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

“Perfect happiness is a beautiful sunset, the giggle of a grandchild, the first snowfall. It’s the little things that make happy moments, not the grand events. Joy comes in sips, not gulps.” – Sharon Draper

“Sunsets are loved because they vanish.” – Ray Bradbury, From the Dust Returned

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

“There’s always a sunrise and always a sunset and it’s up to you to choose to be there for it.” – Cheryl Strayed,  Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

“This is my favourite time of the day. Light and dark touch for a few moments… I used to wish dusk would last longer, but it’s quickness seems to add to making it special.” – Regina McBride, The Nature of Water and Air

Quotes About the Beauty of Sunsets

“A sunset is the sun’s fiery kiss to the night.” – Crystal Woods, Write like no one is reading 3

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

“I find it incredibly amazing how at every sunset, the sky is a different shade. No cloud is ever in the same place. Each day is a new masterpiece. A new wonder. A new memory.” – Sanober Khan

“There is nothing more musical than a sunset.” – Claude Debussy

“This is my favourite 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

“When the sun went down, and touches of blue filtered into the fading afterglow, an orange lamp would light up in the knob of the bell and slowly begin to revolve. The beacon always pinpointed the onset of nightfall exactly. Against the most gorgeous sunsets or in dim drizzling mist, the beacon was ever true to its appointed moment: that precise instant in the alchemy of light and dark when darkness tipped the scales.” – Haruki Murakami, Pinball, 1973

And then the Colors!

“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, I Live Here

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

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

“It was a glorious evening, the sun seeming to hesitate in the process of setting, as if it couldn’t bear to end the day. It was teetering on the horizon, throwing ribbons of pink and mauve across the sky like life ropes, and the air was sweet with jasmine.” – Kate Morton, The Lake House

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

”Soon it got dusk, a grapy dusk, a purple dusk over tangerine groves and long melon fields; the sun the color of pressed grapes, slashed with burgundy red, the fields the color of love and Spanish mysteries.” ― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

And Some More Colors

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

“The sun was low, and the heavens glowed with the splendor of an autumn sunset. Gold and purple clouds lay on the hilltops, and rising high into the ruddy light were silvery white peaks that shone like the airy spires of some Celestial City” – Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“The sunrise paints the sky with pinks and the sunset with peaches.” – Vera Nazarian

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

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

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

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

More Beautiful Sunsets!

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

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

“Get outside. Watch the sunrise. Watch the sunset. How does that make you feel? Does it make you feel big or tiny? Because there’s something good about feeling both.” – Amy Grant

“He glanced at the sun which, old professional that it was, chose that moment to drop below the horizon.” – Terry Pratchett, Pyramids

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

“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.” – John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

“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, A Way of Being

“The stark evening sun at the far edge of the town had just unzipped the sky and finally gone down.” – Jack Bunbury, He/She Smells a Hoo-Hoo

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

And Now, the End of This Post

Dear reader, what is your favorite sunset quote? Among the ones here, or any other personal favorite? Do let me know.