Age Quote by Li Shangyin

I know not whether, in the eyes of the world, a brilliant death is not preferred to an obscure life of rectitude. Most men…

— Davy Crockett

Pompey bade Sylla recollect that more worshipped the rising than the setting sun.

— Plutarch

It sometimes strikes me how immensely fortunate I am that each day should take its place in my life, either reddened with the rising…

— Rabindranath Tagore

After a day of cloud and wind and rain Sometimes the setting sun breaks out again, And touching all the darksome woods with light,…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The clouds that gather round the setting sun, Do take a sober colouring from an eye, That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality.

— William Wordsworth

Dandyism is the last flicker of heroism in decadent ages… Dandyism is a setting sun; like the declining star, it is magnificent, without heat…

— Charles Baudelaire

Ah! happy is the man whose early lot Hath made him master of a furnish'd cot; Who trains the vine that round his window…

— Joanna Baillie

One can make a day of any size and regulate the rising and setting of his own sun and the brightness of its shining.

— John Muir

This is why true beauty never strikes us directly. The setting sun is beautiful because of all it makes us lose.

— Antonin Artaud

The time must come to all of us, who live long, when memory is more than prospect. An angler who has reached this stage…

— Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon

There's a stone I had made for Luke at the top of the hill road, where the pasture opens wide and the setting sun…

— Patricia McConnell

The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the alms-house as brightly as from the rich man's abode.

— Henry David Thoreau