#sunset

Once I saw a chimpanzee gaze at a particularly beautiful sunset for a full 15 minutes, watching the changing colors [and then] retire to the forest without picking a pawpaw for supper. ↗

— Adriaan Kortlandt

#nature #sunset #beauty

Harry looked down and saw deep green mountains and lakes, coppery in the sunset. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#death

This unlikely story begins on a sea that was a blue dream, as colorful as blue-silk stockings, and beneath a sky as blue as the irises of children's eyes. From the western half of the sky the sun was shying little golden disks at the sea--if you gazed intently enough you could see them skip from wave tip to wave tip until they joined a broad collar of golden coin that was collecting half a mile out and would eventually be a dazzling sunset. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#ocean #sea #sky #sunset #dreams

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

I watched the sunset from the comfort of my bathtub, which has a clear bottom so I had an unobstructed view. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#bathtub #sunset #life

When the sun has set, no candle can replace it. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#lost-love #sunset #love

The sun was now in its death throes, bruising the sky a coiling purple and orange. ↗

— Harlan Coben

#death

Twilight fell: The sky turned to a light, dusky purple littered with tiny silver stars. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#sunset #light

I always say that the times in my life when I've been happiest are the times when I've seen, like, a sunset. ↗

— Chris Evans

#been #happiest #i #i always #life