#sunset

When the ship approached the equator, I stopped going out on deck in the daytime. The sun burned like a flame. The days had shortened and night came swiftly. One moment it was light, the next it was dark. The sun did not set but fell into the water like a meteor. Late in the evening, when I went out briefly, a hot wind slapped my face. From the ocean came a roar of passions that seemed to have broken through all barriers:'We mus procreate and multiply! We must exhaust all the powers of lust!' The waves glowed like lava, and I imagined I could see multitudes of living beings - algae, whales, sea monsters - reveling in an orgy, from the surface to the bottom of the sea. Immortality was the law here. The whole planet raged with animation. At times, I heard my name in the clamor: the spirit of the abyss calling me to join them in their nocturnal dance. ("Hanka") ↗

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

#equator #ocean #orgy #sea #sea-monsters

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

— William Faulkner

#life #sunsets #tea #life

the redness had seeped from the day and night was arranging herself around us. Cooling things down, staining and dyeing the evening purple and blue black. ↗

— Sue Monk Kidd

#life

The afternoon slipped away while we talked -- she talked brightly when any subject came up that interested her -- and it was the last hour of day -- that grave, still hour when the movement of life seems to droop and falter for a few precious minutes -- that brought us the thing I had dreaded silently since my first night in the house. ↗

— Ellen Glasgow

#dusk #sunset #life

I am the sunrise of sunsets, and I make love like noon at midnight.
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— Jarod Kintz

#midnight #noon #sunrise #sunsets #love

I cry very easily. It can be a movie, a phone conversation, a sunset - tears are words waiting to be written. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#cry #easily #i #movie #phone

For the first time, I lived alone... in a luxury apartment on Sunset Strip. For a few days I loved the idea, but I got lonely and restless. ↗

— Patty Duke

#apartment #days #few #first #first time

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

— Rabindranath Tagore

#add #carry #clouds #color #come

Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying. ↗

— Langston Hughes

#ape #autumn #beauty #dying #escape

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

#katniss #life-and-death #sunsets #death