80 Best Quotes About the Sunset That Sum Up Sunset Perfectly

Why are quotes about the sunset important? When the sun is setting, and the sky is on fire. Take a moment, stop and think about this powerful and beautiful event. Take in the colors and the mood, and think about what it means to you. Use your imagination, and try to think of a quote that captures the beauty and sentiment of this event.

I’ve been lucky enough to see sunsets in over 80 countries around the world. I try to see a sunset in every country I visit. I’ve seen some beautiful ones on the islands in Greece to camping in Yosemite National Park. 

Golden hour sunsets are my favorite. But almost any sunset can inspire calm feelings and warm emotions. 

Quotes About the Sunset

We all can’t be talented writers. Or have coherent words, to sum up, our feelings about things. Whether it is things like beliefs or what we are feeling. That is why having access to what great people thought and said is important. As we see in our stoicism quotes. 

Below are the best sunset quotes. There are also short sunset quotes, and sunset quotes for Instagram – to make that picture pop. 

Best Sunset Quotes of All Time

“A mind-boggling, awe-inspiring, spine-tingling sunset.” – Unknown

“All my life, I have been in love with the sky. Even when everything was falling apart around me, the sky was always there for me.” – Yoko Ono.

“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

“When the sun is setting, leave whatever you are doing and watch it.” – Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Sunset is so marvelous that even the sun itself watches it every day in the reflections of the infinite oceans!” – Mehmet Murat Ildan

“A sunrise or sunset can be ablaze with brilliance and arouse all the passion, all the yearning, in the soul of the beholder.” – Mary Balogh

“There’s a sunrise and a sunset every single day, and they’re absolutely free. Don’t miss so many of them.” – Jo Walton

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

“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 first stab of love is like a sunset, a blaze of color-oranges, pearly pinks, vibrant purple…” – Anna Godbersen

“Orange? Like Effie’s hair?” I say. “A bit more muted,” he says. “More like a sunset.” – Suzanne Collins

Because I can count on my fingers the number of sunsets I have left, and I don’t want to miss any of them. – Suzanne Collins

“The whole place seemed to have been stricken with a kind of creeping paralysis-out of beat with the rest of the world, crumbling apart in slow motion.” – Joe Gillis, Sunset Boulevard

“The sun goes down long and red. All the magic names of the valley unrolled – Manteca, Madera, all the rest. Soon it got dusk, a grapy dusk, a purple dusk over tangerine groves and long melon field; the sun the color of pressed grapes slashed with burgundy red, the fields the color of love and Spanish mysteries. I stuck my head out the window and took deep breaths of the fragrant air. It was the most beautiful of all moments.” – Jack Kerouac

“Some days, a beautiful sunset with your best friend can be one of the most peaceful and relaxing mediations of the day.” – Charles Schulz

“Made to enjoy music, to enjoy beautiful sunsets, to enjoy looking at the billows of the sea.” – Desmond Tutu

“Enjoy the beauty of a sunset nature’s farewell kiss for the night.” – Sharon Rene

“There can be many different views of what Heaven is like because Heaven is whatever makes each person eternally and fully happy.” – Mattie Stepanek

“My mom said there’s a sunrise and a sunset every day and you can choose to be there or not. You can put yourself in the way of beauty.” – Cheryl Strayed

“It was late afternoon and the last remnants of the day were fading. The sky was slowly changing color, and as I watched the sun go down I remember thinking about that brief, flickering moment when the day suddenly turns into night. Dusk, I realized, is just an illusion, because the sun is either above the horizon or below it. And that means that day and night are linked in a way that few things are; there cannot be one without the other, yet they cannot exist at the same time. How would it feel, I remember wondering, to always be together, yet forever apart? I know the answer now. I know what it’s like to be day and night now; always together, forever apart.” – Nicholas Sparks

Best Short Sunset Quotes

These are the great short sunset captions. These short sunset and dusk quotes are great for capturing that special sunset. 

“The sky was on fire.” – Vincent van Gogh

“A sunset will color your dreams.” – Anthony Hincks

“There’s nothing like a beautiful sunset to end a healthy day.” – Rachel Boston

Softly the evening came /with the sunset/. -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 

“Twilight fell: The sky turned to a light, dusky purple littered with tiny silver stars.” – J. K. Rowling

“Are you dreaming? Stop dreaming; come and watch the sunset, it is better than all the dreams!” – Mehmet Murat ildan

“A beautiful sunset is your reward for surviving another day. Enjoy as many as you can.” – Unknown

“Sunsets we always liked because they only happen once and go away.” – Ray Bradbury

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

“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.” – Mehmet Murat Ildan

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

“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

“May every sunrise hold more promise and every sunset hold more peace…” – Umair Siddiqui

“As I gaze on the Waterloo Sunset I am in paradise” – Waterloo Sunset Lyrics

Foam is white and waves are grey; Beyond the sunset leads my way. – J. R. R. Tolkien (This is also one of the best beach quotes)

“Not everyone has to ride off into the sunset with a man. Some of us just want a tan.” – Mandy Hale

Sunset Quotes for Instagram

Here are the best sunset Instagram captions. Feel free to post them and make that sunset photo even better. 

“The sky was on fire. Orange and red and purple, all the colors I loved mixed together in a beautiful, deadly way. I couldn’t look away.” – Veronica Rossi, After the Red Rain

“At sunset everything is pink.” – Paulo Coelho

“The sun sets, not to rise again.” – William Shakespeare

“And the sun went down, and the sky was on fire.” – Francis Scott Key

“The sun sets, and the night comes.” – J. M. Barrie 

“The sky was on fire. The sun was setting in a blaze of glory, and the colors were so intense they almost hurt my eyes.” – Sarah J. Mass

“As the sun sets, it paints the sky with its last rays of light, turning the sky into a canvas of colors.” – Unknown

“And as I watched, I thought of how often we look at life as if it is a dark and stormy night when in reality it is a glorious sunset.” – Unknown

“The sun is setting and the world is spinning, but I don’t care, because with you by my side, I can conquer anything.” – Unknown 

“Don’t forget: Beautiful sunsets need cloudy skies…” – Paulo Coelho

“When the sun has set, no candle can replace it.” – George R. R. Martin

“A sunset is the sun’s fiery kiss to the night” – Crystal Woods

“It is almost impossible to watch a sunset and not dream.” – Bernard Williams

“Sunsets are proof that no matter what happens, every day can end beautifully.” – Kristen Butler

“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

“I choose to live until death, not spend the time dying until death occurs.” – Mattie Stepanek

“I will show you the sunset if you will sit by me, but I cannot bring it there, for so much gold is heavy.” – Emily Dickinson

“My joy is the golden sunset giving thanks for another day.” – Jonathan Lockwood

“Perfect happiness is a beautiful sunset, the giggle of a grandchild, the first snowfall” – Sharon Draper

“Mother Nature is a master sculptor and in no place is that more evident than at Arches National Park.” -Stefanie Payne.

(Not a direct sunset caption, but the sun set in Arches National Park are some of the best in America.)

Quick Sunset Captions

Even those are quick sunshine quotes don’t mean they are not great. These sunset sayings are perfect for that wonderful golden hour sunset. Or that lovely sunset that makes us feel the infinite beauty of our planet.

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

“Softly the evening came with the sunset.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“The water was glassy and calm, still candy-colored in the afterglow of sunset.” – Stephen King

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

“Sunsets, like childhood, are viewed with wonder not just because they are beautiful but because they are fleeting.” -Richard paul Evans

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

“A beautiful sunset that was mistaken for a dawn.” – Claude Debussy

“Count how many days you have lived! It’s easy Math. You will soon realize the worth of living.” – Umair Siddiqui

“There’s always a sunrise and always a sunset and it’s up to you to choose to be there for it,” – Cheryl Strayed

“The darkness that follows a sunset is never so dark that it can change the inevitability of a sunrise.” – Craig D Lounsbrough

Now she’s lit by the warm orange spreading from the horizon as not-quite-day, becomes not-quite-night’ – David Levithan

“Her heart was made of liquid sunsets.” – Virginia Woolf

“Proof that few things in life are as beautiful as a setting sun.” – Unknown

“You were right about the stars, each one is a setting sun.”- Jeff Tweedy

Best Sunset God Quotes

These quotes about the sunset reference god. And while I am non-religious, I can appreciate these great Sunset God Quotes. 

These quotes are great for both sunrises. But personally, I think the caption works better with a beautiful sunset. 

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

Nature paints not; In oils, but frescoes the great dome of heaven; With sunsets, and the lovely forms of clouds; And flying vapors. -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 

By unseen hands uplifted in the light Of sunset, yonder solitary cloud Floats, with its white apparel blown abroad, And wafted up to heaven. -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 

There are two angels that attend unseen Each one of us, and in great books record Our good and evil deeds. He who writes down The good ones, after every action closes His volume, and ascends with it to God. The other keeps his dreadful day-book open Till sunset, that we may repent; which doing, The record of the action fades away, And leaves a line of white across the page. Now if my act be good, as I believe it, It cannot be recalled. It is already Sealed up in heaven, as a good deed accomplished. The rest is yours. -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 

“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

“And the sun went down, and the skies were on fire.” – The Bible, Mark 9:1-2

If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.” ― G. K. Chesterton

Your Thoughts on Quotes About the Sunset

Sunrise or sunset It doesn’t matter, these quotes sum up a lot of the beauty that these wonders of Mother Nature. And that is why I love these quotes about the sunset. They remind me of how special sunsets are. Instead of taking them for granted. There are also some great quotes about the sunrise to check out as well. 

What was your favorite sunset quote? And what do you prefer sunset or sunrise? 

And I hope you enjoyed these quotes about the sunset.