Setting Sun Quotes

48 quotes by 44 authors

I know not whether, in the eyes of the world, a brilliant death is not preferred to an obscure life of rectitude. Most men are… — Davy Crockett
From the sons of Ith, the first of the Gael to get his death in Ireland, there came in the after time Fathadh Canaan, that… — Lady Gregory
Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life. — Jean de La Fontaine
To go out with the setting sun on an empty beach is to truly embrace your solitude. — Jeanne Moreau
Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close. — John Ruskin
Men shut their doors against a setting sun. — William Shakespeare
Faith is an island in the setting sun, But proof is the bottom line for everyone. — Paul Simon
Just as the setting sun turned the clouds to liquid gold. — Michael Ende
After all, reading is arguably a far more creative and imaginative process than writing; when the reader creates emotion in their head, or the colors… — Jasper Fforde
EVERYONE suddenly burst out singing; And I was filled with such delight As prisoned birds must find in freedom, Winging wildly across the white Orchards… — Siegfried Sassoon
I scarcely remember counting upon happinessâ€”I look not for it if it be not in the present hourâ€”nothing startles me beyond the moment. The setting… — John Keats
Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that's the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply. Let him not… — Alan Paton
The fault-finder will find faults even in paradise. Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even… — Henry David Thoreau
O, but they say, the tongues of dying men enforce attention, like deep harmony: where words are scarce, they are seldom spent in vain: for… — William Shakespeare
I see America, not in the setting sun of a black night of despair ahead of us, I see America in the crimson light of… — Carl Sandburg
Stand by the grey stone when the thrush knocks, and the setting sun with the last light of Durinâ€™s Day will shine upon the key-hole. — J.R.R. Tolkien
As before the collapse, the setting sun brushed the tiles, brought out the warm brown glow on the wallpaper, and hung the shadow of the… — Boris Pasternak
Give me strength, not to be better than my enemies, but to defeat my greatest enemy, the doubts within myself. Give me strength for a… — P. C. Cast
Diana: "I wish I were rich, and I could spend the whole summer at a hotel, eating ice cream and chicken salad." Anne: "You know… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
Because I could not stop for Death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves And Immortality. We slowly drove, he knew… — Emily Dickinson

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