“A pair of lovers are like sunset and sunrise: there are such things every day but we very seldom see them.”
Source: The Way of All Flesh (1903), Ch. 11
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“I see foreboding and foreshadowing… Sunrise to sunset in your eyes.”
Source: SHADES OF VANITY: Shades and Shadows of Eroticism

“It is man's consolation that the future is to be a sunrise instead of a sunset.”
Que l'avenir soit un orient au lieu d'être un couchant, c'est la consolation de l'homme.
Part I, Book II, Chapter II, Section V
William Shakespeare (1864)
Source: Les Misérables

“Power brings a man many luxuries, but a clean pair of hands is seldom among them.”
Source: Imperium: A Novel of Ancient Rome

“Remember that each light between sunrise and sunset is worth dying for at least once.”
Source: Shadowrise

“For a sunrise or a sunset, you're manic or you’re depressed.
Will you ever feel ok?”
Sunrise, Sunset
Fevers and Mirrors (2000)


“The scattered tea goes with the leaves and every day a sunset dies.”