Sometimes it seems that there can be nothing more beautiful than a sunset. There is something so enjoyable about stopping and taking the time to watch the sun go down. But it can be difficult to put that feeling into words. We have collected the best short beautiful sunset quotes that do a great job of describing how amazing sunsets can be.
Short Beautiful Sunset Quotes for Instagram
“Sunset is the opening music of the night.” – Mehmet Murat ildan
“Don’t forget – beautiful sunsets need cloudy skies.” – Paulo Coelho
“Sunsets are proof that no matter what happens, every day can end beautifully.” – Kristen Butler
“Sunsets are proof that endings can often be beautiful too.” – Beau Taplin
“To leave out beautiful sunsets is the secret of good taste.” ― Dejan Stojanovic
“Sunsets are just little glimpses of the Golden streets of Heaven.”
“If you can look at the sunset and smile, then you still have hope.”
“Enjoy the beauty of a sunset nature’s farewell kiss for the night.” – Sharon Rene
“My joy is the golden sunset giving thanks for another day.” – Jonathan Lockwood
“With every sunset a new hope is born, and an old expectation dies.” – Noor Unnahar
If you like these, you might also want to check out our other lists of Inspirational Sunset Quotes, Sunset Quotes About Life, Romantic Sunset Quotes and Sunset Captions.
Quotes on the Beauty of a Sunset
“When your world moves too fast, and you lose yourself in the chaos, introduce yourself to each color of the sunset.” – Christy Ann Martine
“Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of heaven.” – John Lubbock
“Call for the grandest of all earthly spectacles, what is that? It is the sun going to his rest.”― Thomas de Quincey
“The most beautiful sunset is the one which suddenly appears in front of you while you are walking pensively!”― Mehmet Murat ildan
“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
“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
“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
“Now she’s lit by the warm orange spreading from the horizon as not-quite-day, becomes not-quite-night.” – David Levithan
“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
“You have to travel far and wide to see a lot of the world’s wonders, but sunsets can be appreciated in every corner of the earth.” – Kimmie Conner
“Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty if only we have the eyes to see them.” – John Ruskin
“Scattered with poppies, the golden-green waves of the cornfields faded. The red sun seemed to tip one end of a pair of scales below the horizon, and simultaneously to lift an orange moon at the other. Only two days off the full, it rose behind a wood, swiftly losing its flush as it floated up, until the wheat loomed out of the twilight like a metallic and prickly sea.” – Patrick Leigh Fermor
“Never waste any amount of time doing anything important when there is a sunset outside that you should be sitting under!” – C. JoyBell C.
“Sunset shows that LIFE is too beautiful to hold on to the past so Move on to the Present.” – Jennifer Aquillo
“The sun is setting in a burnt orange sky; the cliffs are black silhouettes; the sea, liquid silver.” – Laura Treacy Bentley
“Sometimes the sunset is so beautiful, I think it might be the very last one.”― Nitya Prakash
“Whenever you want to see me, always look at the sunset; I will be there.” – Grace Ogot
“I am inspired by anything beautiful. Sometimes it’s a pair of eyes or flowing gorgeous hair, other times it’s the sky or a sunset.” – Nadine Velazquez
“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
“Sunsets, like childhood, are viewed with wonder not just because they are beautiful but because they are fleeting.” – Richard Paul Evans
“Call for the grandest of all earthly spectacles, what is that? It is the sun going to his rest.” ― Thomas de Quincey
“Twilight fell: The sky turned to a light, dusky purple littered with tiny silver stars.” – J.K. Rowling
“I notice simple things. The way your hands hold the book you are reading, expressions of your face and eagerness in your eyes while you watch the sunset.” – Nitya Prakash
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
“The sky broke like an egg into full sunset, and the water caught fire.” – Pamela Hansford Johnson
“Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.” – Rabindranath Tagore
“There’s always a sunrise and always a sunset and it’s up to you to choose to be there for it…Put yourself in the way of beauty.” – Cheryl Strayed
“A beautiful sunset that was mistaken for a dawn.” – Claude Debussy
“From sunrise to sunset to sunrise, there is a lifetime of beauty, charm and elegance.”― Sandeep N. Tripathi
“Sunrise is the start of something beautiful: the day. Sunset is the start of something beautiful: the night.” – Juansen Dizon
“It was sunsets that taught me that beauty sometimes only lasts for a couple of moments, and it was sunrises that showed me that all it takes is patience to experience it all over again.” — A.J. Lawless
“May every sunrise hold more promise and every sunset hold more peace.” – Umair Siddiqui
“Bursts of gold on lavender melting into saffron. It’s the time of day when the sky looks like it has been spray-pained by a graffiti artist.” – Mia Kirshner
“A large drop of sun lingered on the horizon and then dripped over and was gone, and the sky was brilliant over the sport where it had gone, and a told 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
“…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
“We were made to enjoy music, to enjoy beautiful sunsets, to enjoy looking at the billows of the sea.” — Desmond Tutu
“Every sunset brings the promise of a new dawn.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Today was about chasing sun-rays, beach waves, & sunsets. All things beautiful that give you peace are worth chasing. Everything else isn’t.” – April Mae Monterrosa
“Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them lead to magical sunsets at the beach.”
“The sky has changed from orange to a hundred shades of pink to a dark navy blue, and here I am still loving you.” – A.Y.
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Laynni Locke
I am Laynni Locke, a Canadian writer, reader and traveller with a passion for sharing life’s moments on social media. Keeping friends and family in the loop of our lives though photos and videos has become an essential activity for most.
And it doesn’t matter if you are travelling, celebrating a special occasion or just appreciating day-to-day life, when you take that perfect photo you are going to need the perfect caption or quote before you share it. Which is why we started Routinely Shares, providing comprehensive lists of quotes and captions to cover every occasion, adventure or loved one.
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