180+ Dreamy Sunset Captions for Your Next Travel Adventure

📅 6 June 2021 | Travel Quotes, Blog| ⌛ 25 mins

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Sunsets are probably the best part of each and every day. These fiery endings of a day are always bringing the hope for the next day and are inspiring us to dream… 💭

To inspire you even more, I have gathered some of the best captions about sunsets, sunset love quotes, sunset captions for Insta, short sunset quotes and some beach sunset quotes. Pick the best ones and share them on your social media account to make sure you stand out from the crowd ✨

Inspiring Sunset Captions

Sunsets are always inspiring to watch. As the sun is setting, it is leaving us with the hope that a better day is coming 😊That’s why I have gathered some of the best sunset quotes to get you inspired on your next trip around the globe!

 

1.“A large drop of sun lingered on the horizon and then dripped over and was gone, and the sky was brilliant over the spot where it had gone, and a torn cloud, like a bloody rag, hung over the spot of its going. And dusk crept over the sky from the eastern horizon, and darkness crept over the land from the east.” — John Steinbeck

 

2.“Dawn and dusk are mutual friends of the sun; one opens the door for him to a brand new day and the other one has to shut it to embrace the darkness of night.” – Munia Khan

 

3.“She was not perfect. She was just stuck. In that pretty little zone between sunsets and moonlight.” — Unknown

 

4.“As the saturating colours of sun-life fade from sight, the ominous moon reaches out its long arm and applies the dark dyes of night.” – Daniel J. Rice

 

5.“The horizon changes but the sun does not.” – Joyce Rachelle

 

6.“Every one of a hundred thousand cities around the world had its own special sunset, and it was worth going there, just once, if only to see the sun go down.” – Ryū Murakami

 

7.“Sunsets, like childhood, are viewed with wonder not just because they are beautiful but because they are fleeting.” – Richard Paul Evans

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8.“Age is irrelevant. Ask me how many sunsets I’ve seen, hearts I’ve loved, trips I’ve taken, or concerts I’ve been to. That’s how old I am.” — Joëlle

 

9.“The water was glassy and calm, still candy-colored in the afterglow of sunset.” – Stephen King

 

10.“The sun still lives his silent vows to the moon, by bowing to kiss her feet whenever she walks in the room.” — Curtis Tyrone Jones

 

11.“Sunlight dripping below the horizon is like silence between musical notes. Magic.” — Unknown

 

12.”This is my favourite time of the day. Light and dark touch for a few moments. […] I used to wish dusk would last longer, but its quickness seems to add to making it special.” – Regina McBride

 

13.“If you are in a beautiful place where you can enjoy sunrise and sunset, then you are living like a lord.” – Nathan Philips

 

14.“Sunsets are one of our simplest and most profound gifts [..] they remind us that we are blessed to have enjoyed a perfect day, and they provide hope that tomorrow will be even better.” – Viola Shipman

 

15.“Sunrise is the start of something beautiful: the day. Sunset is the start of something beautiful: the night.” – Juansen Dizon

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16.“Sunset angles through the heavy curtains, drawn against the light. Dust motes dance in the red beams, ash above a dying fire. I feel like I am inside a heart, surrounded by bloody red.” — Unknown

 

17.“You have to travel far and wide to see a lot of the world’s wonders, but sunsets can be appreciated in every corner of the earth.” — Kimmie Conner

 

18.“My dream date would be a hike through the woods followed by an outdoor picnic followed by a glass of wine at sunset. Heaven!” – Nina Agdal

 

19.“I don’t know how long we stay that way, but we watch the sun go down together. The giant, burnt-orange sphere sinks towards the horizon, coloring the rock layers until it’s gone and the canyon is covered in shadow.” — Jennifer Salvato Doktorski

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20.“Time does not stop in the world as the sun sets, but time stops in your mind and you remain motionless just like a statue.” ― Mehmet Murat ildan

 

21.“The best way to live your life is this: At sunset, just think of the beauty of the sunset, because life is nothing but what the present moment offers you!” ― Mehmet Murat ildan

 

22.“Sunset is a moment where all emotions are experienced: melancholy, amazement, intoxication, casuistry, admiration, love, sadness…” ― Mehmet Murat ildan

 

23.“Are you dreaming? Stop dreaming; come and watch the sunset, it is better than all the dreams!” — Mehmet Murat Ildan

 

24.“When the sun is setting, leave whatever you are doing and watch it.” — Mehmet Murat İldan

 

25.“Sunset is so marvellous that even the sun itself watches it every day in the reflections of the infinite oceans!” – Mehmet Murat Ildan

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26.“Never go too long without watching a sunset.” — Atticus

 

27.“That was her magic – she could still see the sunset, even on the darkest days.” — Atticus

 

28.“Every sunset brings the promise of a new dawn.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

29.“Never waste any amount of time doing anything important when there is a sunset outside that you should be sitting under!” — C. JoyBell

 

30.“When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.” — Mahatma Gandhi

 

31.“Another day, another setting sun. How fortunate am I that there’s more to come?” — Unknown

 

32.“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

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33.“Sometimes the sunset is so beautiful, I think it might be the very last one.” ― Nitya Prakash

 

34.“People are just as wonderful as sunsets if you let them be. When I look at a sunset, I don’t find myself saying, ‘soften the orange a bit on the right-hand corner.’ I don’t try to control a sunset. I watch with awe as it unfolds.” — Carl R. Rogers

 

35.“Let the sea breeze blow your hair, let the sunset bring tranquillity to your heart, let the distant places you travel allow you to explore yourself.” — Somya Kedia

 

36.“With every sunset a new hope is born, and an old expectation dies.” — Noor Unnahar

 

37.“She was a sunset type of girl and he was a sunrise kind of guy. They lived on opposite ends of the day but together made up a whole sky.” — Unknown

 

38.“Pour me a sunset, kill the night, and I promise to drink with you forever.” — William C. Hannan

 

39.“The first stab of love is like a sunset, a blaze of color — oranges, pearly pinks, vibrant purples.” — Anna Godbersen

 

40.“We wanderers, ever seeking the lonelier way, begin no day where we have ended another day; and no sunrise finds us where sunset left us.” – Khalil Gibran

 

41.“Don’t waste sunrises on people who will escape by dusk.” — Unknown

 

42.“Sunset is still my favorite color and rainbow is second.” — Mattie Stepanek

 

43.“I watched the sunset last night. And given the utter brilliance of it, I likely sat in the company of thousands who found themselves awash in its blaze of colors as well. But sadly, it is just as likely that I was surrounded by thousands of others who never saw the colors because they were awash in lesser things. And I realized that far too often I am in the company of those people. Therefore, I’ll be sitting outside tonight.” ― Craig D. Lounsbrough

 

44.“The sun rises, the sun falls, the wind blows and the birds sing no matter where you are. These are experiences that unite us all… something we can all enjoy together.” — Melanie Charlene

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45.“To watch a sunset is to connect with the Divine.” — Gina De Gorna

 

46.“Sunsets are just little glimpses of the golden streets of heaven.” — Unknown

 

47.“The red sun seemed to tip one end of a pair of scales below the horizon, and simultaneously to lift an orange moon at the other.” — Patrick Leigh Fermor

 

48.“And like tea dissolving in hot water, the sun dissolved in the sky…creating a velvet horizon, announcing for the stars’ night dance with the moon, the awaited joy for the wounded souls.” – Abeer Allan

 

49.“When I consider how, after sunset, the stars come out gradually in troops from behind the hills and woods, I confess that I could not have contrived a more curious and inspiring sight.” — Unknown

 

50.“Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty if only we have the eyes to see them.” — John Ruskin

 

51.“Soon it got dusk, a grapy dusk, a purple dusk over tangerine groves and long melon fields; the sun the colour of pressed grapes, slashed with burgundy red, the fields the colour of love and Spanish mysteries.” – Jack Kerouac

 

52.“I find it incredibly amazing how at every sunset, the sky is a different shade. No cloud is ever in the same place. Each day is a new masterpiece. A new wonder. A new memory.” — Unknown

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53.“Sunsets. The illusion either above the horizon or below it. When day and night are linked in a way that cannot be one without the other, yet they cannot exist at the same time.” – Ebelsain Villegas

 

54.“Sunsets are proof that no matter what happens, every day can end beautifully.” — Unknown

 

55.“Bursts of gold on lavender melting into saffron. It’s the time of day when the sky looks like it has been spray-painted by a graffiti artist.” — Mia Kirshner

 

56.“Watch the sunset. How does that make you feel? Does it make you feel big or tiny? Because there’s something good about feeling both.” — Amy Grant

 

57.“The sun has collapsed against the vast expanse of the darkening ocean. Soon the turquoise sea will be completely black like a void. I hate the ocean at night. It has me thinking about hopelessness and loss. The red sky a watercolour as the thickening clouds leak together.” – Ilse Rensburg

 

58.“An intense copper calm, like a universal yellow lotus, was more and more unfolding its noiseless measureless leaves upon the sea.” – Herman Melville

 

59.“Weddings like golden hours. The romance of the moment. Marriage is the sea in which the red sun sets.” — Unknown

 

60.“As the sun sets, the beauties of the sky compete with the beauties of the earth, and at that moment the spirit of human beings is overflowed with these visual perfections!” – Unknown

 

61.“There’s a sunrise and a sunset every single day, and they’re absolutely free. Don’t miss so many of them.” — Jo Walton

 

62.“It was a glorious evening, the sun seeming to hesitate in the process of setting, as if it couldn’t bear to end the day. It was teetering on the horizon, throwing ribbons of pink and mauve across the sky like life ropes, and the air was sweet with jasmine.” – Kate Morton

 

63.“If you can look at the sunset and smile, then you still have hope.” — Unknown

Sunset Captions for Instagram

That is probably the most searched section on this blog post 📸 However, we can never miss on some Instagram captions for sunsets! It is inevitable 🌄 That is why I have gathered the best sunset quotes for Instagram that you can find below:

 

64.“Sunsets are my escape into the reality I want to continuously live.” – Rachel Roy

 

65.“Every sunset is an opportunity to reset.” – Richie Norton

 

66.“Whenever you want to see me, always look at the sunset; I will be there.” — Grace Ogot

 

67.“The setting sun kindled the sky.” — Unknown

 

These are some of the best Instagram sunset captions! 😍

 

68.“My joy is the golden sunset giving thanks for another day.” — Jonathan Lockwood

69.“Setting suns — a clarion call for peace, presence, and perspective.” — Unknown

 

70.“Autumn is a sunset around every corner.” — Unknown

 

71.“The sun has gone to bed and so must I.” — The Sound of Music

 

72.“I can’t give you the sunset, but I can give you the night.” – Erin McCarthy

 

73.“The sun sets and my heart expands. Hope. For now, nothing else matters.” — Unknown

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74.“Sunsets are the best kind of gold, that can’t be sold.” — Unknown

 

75.“Endless horizons and blood-red skies.” — Unknown

 

76.“The only kinds of sunsets that I don’t like are the ones that I missed.”— Unknown

 

77.“When someone asks me what my favorite colors is, I should just say, ‘sunset.’” — Unknown

 

78.“Fiery colors and the ocean are breathtaking together.”— Unknown

 

79.“She was in love with the sunset. No one else ever even stood a chance.” — Unknown

 

80.“Softly the evening came with the sunset.” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

 

These sunset Instagram captions are some of the most inspiring to use for your next post!

 

81.“Sunsets we always liked because they only happen once and go away” – Ray Bradbury

 

82.“It is almost impossible to watch a sunset and not dream.” – Bernard Williams

 

83.“There is nothing more musical than a sunset.” – Claude Debussy

 

84.“Sunset is still my favourite colour, and rainbow is second.” – Mattie Stepanek

 

85.“Sunsets are always better shared.” – Wayne Gerard Trotman

 

86.“Live for the moments you can’t put into words.”— Unknown

 

87.“I want to see how sunset decorates your hair.” — Tyler Knott Gregson

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88.“Sunset state of mind.”— Unknown

 

89.“You can never watch too many sunsets.”— Unknown

 

90.“Everything gets hotter when the sun goes down.”— Unknown

 

91.“The ocean and the sunset. The most relaxing way to end your evening.”— Unknown

 

92.“I live for sunsets with you.” – Unknown

 

93.“Sun-kissed sun of a beach!”— Unknown

 

94.“I love you to the sunset and back.”— Unknown

 

95.“All you need is love and“There’s nothing like a beautiful sunset to end a healthy day.” — Rachel Boston sunsets.”

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Short Sunset Captions for Instagram

Short sunset captions for Instagram always come in handy when we have to come up with a quick caption. So, below you can find some of the best short sunset quotes to use for your next beautiful travel story or post 😻

 

96.“When the sun dips below the horizon, something in my soul awakens.” — Unknown

 

97.“Cloudy days make gorgeous reds.”— Unknown

 

98.“Serenity while the sky is on fire.”— Unknown

 

99.“A setting sun setting fire to the sea and sand.”— Unknown

 

100.“A beautiful sunset is your reward for surviving another day. Enjoy as many as you can.”— Unknown

 

101.“Don’t forget: beautiful sunsets need cloudy skies.” – Paulo Coelho

 

102.“Sunsets are proof that endings can often be beautiful too.” – Beau Taplin

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103.“When the sun has set, no candle can replace it.” — George R.R. Martin

 

104.“Sunset is the opening music of the night.” – Mehmet Murat Ildan

 

105.“Foam is white and waves are grey. Beyond sunset leads my way.” – J.R.R. Tolkien

 

106.“Sunsets are loved because they vanish.” — Ray Bradbury

 

107.“A sunset will color your dreams.” — Anthony Hincks

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Romantic Sunset Quotes

We can’t go without a bit of romance while watching the sunset! The sunsets themselves are probably the most romantic times of each day we get to live on this beautiful planet 💌 So enjoy those romantic sunset quotes below…

 

108.“All I ever wanted was to dream another sunset with you.” — Mayday Parade

 

109.“When you look at the beautiful sunset, you feel as if you are falling in love. Maybe all over again.” – Avijeet Das

 

110.“A day spent with dreaming and sunsets and refreshing breezes cannot be bettered.” – Nicholas Sparks

 

111.“A sunset is the sun’s fiery kiss to the night.” – Crystal Woods

 

112.“A perfect end to a perfect day with a perfect you.”— Unknown

 

113.“I live for these golden evenings with you.”— Unknown

 

114.“You add colors to my sunset sky.”— Unknown

 

115.“As angry as the sky looks, it’s still full of colors of love.” – Anthony T. Hincks

 

116.“You know, one loves the sunset, when one is so sad.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

 

117.“The sun loves the moon so much that he dies every night to let her breathe.” — Jeffrey Fry

 

118.“A sunrise or sunset can be ablaze with brilliance and arouse all the passion, all the yearning, in the soul of the beholder.” – Mary Balogh

 

119.“She was a sunset type of girl, and he was a sunrise kind of guy. They lived on opposite ends of the day but together made up a whole sky.”— Unknown

 

120.“The most beautiful sunset is when you have it with your beloved one and the most beautiful sunrise is quite the same.” – Galina Nelson

 

121.“Some days, a beautiful sunset with your best friend can be one of the most peaceful and relaxing mediations of the day.” — Charles Schulz

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122.“Toes tingle in the sand. Eyes glint under golden skies. And I know I love you.”— Unknown

 

123.“In this moment the sun wasn’t shining on us. It was shining in us.”— Unknown

 

124.“I love spending every sunset right next to you.”— Unknown

 

125.“I want to spend the rest of my sunsets with you.”— Unknown

 

126.“The sky has changed from orange to a hundred shades of pink to a dark navy blue, and here I am still loving you.” — A.Y.

 

127.“Kiss me like the glistening red sun kisses the sky.”— Unknown

 

128.“I want to see a whole world of different color-soaked skies with you.”— Unknown

 

129.“In ten minutes things could look so different, like the color of a sunset and the world after meeting you.” — Unknown

 

130.“A view of the ocean, mountains, and the sunset. But yet, he was still looking at me.”— Unknown

 

131.“A perfect end to a perfect day with a perfect you.”— Unknown

 

132.“Live by the sun. Love by the moon.”— Unknown

 

133.“I just need you and some sunsets.” – Atticus

 

134.“All that beauty, but I can’t stop looking at you.”— Unknown

 

135.“The most beautiful sunsets are the ones we share.”— Unknown

 

136.“Loving the sunset. Loving life. Loving you.”— Unknown

 

137.“The sun’s going down now, but my love for you burns brighter than ever” — Unknown

Funny Sunset Captions

Well, we can’t simply skip the funny sunset captions as they will bring some joy into this sun setting moment… Grab some funny sunset captions below 😹

 

138.“Golden hour is my happy hour!”— Unknown

 

139.“Race to the sunset? Bet I’ll beach you there.”— Unknown

 

140.“Girls just wanna have sun.”— Unknown

 

141.“If I could lick the sunset, I’ll bet it would taste like Neapolitan ice cream.” ― Jarod Kintz

 

142.“I stayed up all night to see where the sun went. Then it dawned on me.”— Unknown

 

143.“Reading while sunbathing makes you well-red.”— Unknown

 

144.“It’s all sun and games until somebody gets hurt…or burnt.”— Unknown

 

145.“When the sky turns pink, it’s time for a drink!”— Unknown

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146.“Today I saw a red and yellow sunset and thought, how insignificant I am! Of course, I thought that yesterday too, and it rained.” ― Woody Allen

 

147.“Sunrise and sunset are two important moments. But people usually yawn…”— Unknown

 

148.“Sun of a beach that’s a nice sunset!”— Unknown

 

149.“Not everyone has to ride off into the sunset with a man. Some of us just want a tan.” — Mandy Hale

 

150.“I tried to see the sunset but there was dusk in my eyes.”— Unknown

 

151.“Life’s a beach. Sunsets make it better.”— Unknown

Beach Sunset Quotes

The best sunsets and a beach always go hand in hand! That is why you need to go over these quotes about sunsets on the beach and pick the best sunset captions for you 🌴

 

152.“There can’t possibly be anything more beautiful than seaside beach at sunset.”– Bryn McCarren

 

153.“Her heart was made of liquid sunsets.” — Virginia Woolf

 

154.“Made to enjoy music, to enjoy beautiful sunsets, to enjoy looking at the billows of the sea.”— Unknown

 

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155.“Watching the sun’s final rays ride the waves into tomorrow.“— Unknown

 

156. “Can anything beat a sun-kissed ocean?“— Unknown

 

157.“The sun sets fire to the sea and sky and we sit back to watch.“— Unknown

 

158.“Sand, sea, and sunsets.“— Unknown

 

159.“That crazy little sun of a beach.“— Unknown

 

160.“Sun kissing ocean. Beach touching bum.“— Unknown

 

161.“Let’s go somewhere where the sun kisses the beach”— Unknown

 

161.”Sunsets and wistful waves.“— Unknown

 

162.“One day, all your worries will set like the sun does and deserved happiness will come gushing like waves at the beach do. All you need to make sure is that your trips to the beach never end.” ― Jasleen Kaur Gumber

 

163.“Sunset is so marvelous that even the sun itself watches it every day in the reflections of the infinite oceans.” — Mehmet Murat Ildan

 

164.“They sipped until the sun, as golden as syrupy as the bourbon, slipped into the sea.”

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165.”Sunsets and oceans. It’s what I do.”— Unknown

 

166.”Beach bums and setting suns.”— Unknown

 

167.”Dreams are made of sand and sunsets.”— Unknown

 

168.“The sun is setting in a burnt orange sky; the cliffs are black silhouettes; the sea, liquid silver.” ― Laura Treacy Bentley

 

169.”Happiness is the sun setting over a beach.”— Unknown

 

170.”Sunset beers, beach-side cheers, and dreamy days.”— Unknown

 

171.“The sky broke like an egg into full sunset and the water caught fire.” ― Pamela Johnson

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Quotes About Sunsets and Life

These captions for sunsets and life might teach you a thing or two about our existence! Sunsets can be quite beautiful, but they don’t last long. And even when they are gone… another one is going to show up at some point!

 

171.“Sunset shows that life is too beautiful to hold on to the past, so move on to the present.”— Unknown

 

172.“…She remembered watching a summer sunset from this very spot. Not so long ago; just a lifetime.” — Sharon Kay Penman

 

173.“Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.” – Rabindranath Tagore

 

174.“I like people who get excited about the change of seasons, the sound of the ocean, the sun, drowning in the horizon, the smell of rain, and starry nights.” – Brooke Hampton”

 

175.“A sunset is life’s way of saying: ‘Good job, you survived today. Here’s something pretty!”— Unknown

 

176.“Life does not come with instructions on how to live, but it does come with trees, sunsets, smiles, and laughter, so enjoy your day.” — Debbie Shapiro

177.“Someday, you will find the one who will watch every sunrise with you until the sunset of your life.” — Unknown

 

178.“Every moment of life is unique — a kiss, a sunset, a dance, a joke. None will ever recur in quite the same way. Each happens only once in the history of the universe.” — S. Nachmanovitch

 

179.“Why is sunset more colorful than sunrise? It’s an irony of life saying ‘sometimes, good things happen in goodbyes.” — Unknown

 

180.“Sunsets are one thing in life that won’t wait.”— Unknown

 

181.“Many things in life can wait, but the sunset won’t, watch it.”— Unknown

 

182.“Let the warm glow of the setting sun kiss life’s hurts away.” — Unknown

 

183.“Here’s to a lifetime of golden sunsets spent together.”— Unknown

 

184.“All you need in life is love, friends and sunsets.”— Unknown

 

185.“It’s the simple things in life, like sunsets, that are the most beautiful.”— Unknown

 

186.“See the beauty of sunset to enjoy the passion of life.” — Debasish Mridha

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