“Sunsets in pictures are so tiresome, but only boors and half-wits are not stirred by real sunsets.”

“After the sunset on the prairie, there are only the stars”

Carl Sandburg (1878–1967) American writer and editor

“Sunset is the saddest light there is.”

Sue Monk Kidd book The Secret Life of Bees

“So all the colours run
See what they have become
A wonderful sunset”

Kate Bush (1958) British recording artist; singer, songwriter, musician and record producer

“What concerns me when I work, is not whether the picture is a landscape, or whether it's pastoral, or whether somebody will see a sunset in it. What concerns me is - did I make a beautiful picture?”

Helen Frankenthaler (1928–2011) American artist

“Bring me the sunset in a cup.”

Emily Dickinson (1830–1886) American poet

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

Claude Debussy (1862–1918) French composer

“My soul is an empty carousel at sunset.”

Pablo Neruda (1904–1973) Chilean poet

“Her heart was made of liquid sunsets.”

Virginia Woolf (1882–1941) English writer

“I have suffered the atrocity of sunsets.”

Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer