181 Golden Hour Captions and Quotes Celebrating the Magical Time

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

2. “You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by, but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.” — James M. Barrie

3. “Invest the first hour of the day, the ‘Golden Hour,’ in yourself.” — Brian Tracy

4. “Golden hour, magic hour, l’heure bleue. Evenings when the beauty of the changing sky made us both go still and dreamy. Sunlight falling at an angle across the lawn so that it touched our elevated feet, then moved up our bodies like a long slow blessing.” — Sigrid Nunez

5. “Mother Nature doesn’t need a filter.”

6. “The golden hour (is) that hour of sunshine where the world looks the way it looks in your dreams.” — Danny Wallace

7. “I love the golden hour in the evening. Just as the sun is about to set and you get those lovely shadows and everything looks gold and yellow.” — Stacy London

8. “Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.” — Horace Mann

9. “It was dusk and the light had an ultra-violet quality to it, a final burst of pigmentation as night and day rushed at each other in a clash of colour prisms before darkness finally, inevitably won out.” — Karen Swan

10. “In the golden hour of magical light, the sky is alive.”

11. “The golden hour didn’t disappoint last night! It was a lovely walk home from work. A true Colorado sunset. Much love and magic.” — Devin

12. “Golden hour of magical light the sky is alive.” — Tanish Kherotia

13. “Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of heaven.” — John Lubbock

14. “The golden trail was blazed and I was reminded of the eternal, of Mozart, of the stars. For an hour, I could breathe again and live and face existence.” —  Hermann Hesse

15. “A kind of golden hour one remembers for a lifetime… Everything was touched with magic.” — Margaret Bourke-White

16. “In the golden hour, you can see magic in everything.”

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

18. “Golden hours inspire us to live another day.”

19. “It’s so hard to find words for how beautiful this world is.”

20. “Mother Nature says goodnight.”

21. “Once in a golden hour, I cast to earth a seed, And up there grew a flower, That others called a weed.” — Alfred Tennyson

22. “The horizon is the fine line between the golden hour and blue hour.” — Destin Sparks

23. “Golden hour of twilight, sets the stage. It’s time for the silhouettes – the shadow puppets. A calmness in its clarity, all hued in orange and black. Masking the unwanted, the ethereal silhouettes.” — Sumathi

24. “If you don’t look before the dusk and beyond the dawn, you won’t be able to see the sun.” — Soar

25. “A kind of golden hour one remembers for a lifetime.” — Margaret Bourke-White

26. “We all live under the same sky, but we don’t all have the same horizon.”

27. “You know that great pause that comes upon things before the dusk, even the breeze stops in the trees. To me there is always an air of expectation about that evening stillness.” — H.G. Wells

28. “There is a flower, a little flower With silver crest and golden eye that welcomes every changing hour, And weathers every sky.” — James Montgomery

29. “History teaches us these lessons for the interveners: leave your prejudices at home, keep your ambitions low, have enough resources to do the job, do not lose the golden hour, make security your first priority, involve the neighbours.” — Paddy Ashdown

30. “Don’t forget, beautiful sunsets need cloudy skies.” — Paulo Coelho

31. “There is no eleventh hour with Cosmic Ordering, only the golden hour.” — Stephen Richards

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

33. “They always stayed at the beach to enjoy the golden hour, that hour when the sun sank low enough to spangle the water.” — Elin Hilderbrand

34. “Baby, don’t you know, that you’re my golden hour.”

35. “When everything looks dreamy, it’s the golden hour.”

36. “I’ve got sunsets on the insides of my eyelids.” — Pete Wentz

37. “Chasing the sun.”

38. “Golden hour = Perfect hour.”

39. “Golden hours set the tone for the rest of the day.”

40. “My favorite color is sunset.

41. “Live life in warm yellows.”

42. “The sunlight paints us gold.”

43. “The golden magic.”

44. “Golden hours inspire us to live another day.”

45. “Born to chase sunsets.”

46. “Golden hour is the best time of day.”

47. “Meet me where the sky touches the sea.”

48. “When everything looks dreamy, it’s the golden hour.”

49. “In the golden hour of magical light, the sky is alive.”

50. “Take time to appreciate the beauty around you.”

51. “Golden hours can be best enjoyed at the beach.”

52. “Golden hour glow.”

53. “Mother Nature working her magic.”

54. “Golden hours make everything feel magical.”

55. “I’m at my best during the golden hour.”

56. “The world is more beautiful during the golden hour.”

57. “There’s nothing quite as magical as the golden hour.”

58. “Feeling golden.”

59. “Soaking up this special time of day.”

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

61. “Every sunset brings the promise of a new dawn.”

62. “Sunsets make me realize that beauty is all around us. We just have to stop and look for it.”

63. “The sun was a fiery furnace of gold, but finally it set in the west and the cosmos glittered like a million burning embers…” — Rehan Khan

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

65. “Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of heaven.” — John Lubbock

66. “They hike almost three miles without incident, and it’s amazing to watch the colors leach back into the desert after the day’s blanching. There’s a moment, Lydia realizes, or no, more than a moment – a span of perhaps fifteen minutes just at twilight – when the desert is the most perfect place that exists. The temperature, the light, the colors, all hang and linger at some unflawed precipice, like the cars of a roller coaster ticking ever so slowly over their apex before the crash. The light droops ever farther from the sky, and Lydia can smell the heat of the day wicking away from her skin.” — Jeanine Cummins

67. “Beautiful day for a beautiful sunset.”

68. “I’ll never get tired of watching the sunset.”

69. “I love the golden hour in the evening. Just as the sun is about to set and you get those lovely shadows and everything looks gold and yellow.” — Stacy London

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

71. “When you look at a sunset, it’s like looking into forever.”

72. “Sunsets are just little glimpses of the Golden streets of Heaven.”

73. “It is the quietening of the day that most appeals.” — Fennel Hudson

74. “Today’s forecast: sunny with a chance of sunset.”

75. “Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, Two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.” — Horace Mann

76. “Outside, the air filled with cricket noise, as the sun reddened in its descent.” — R.J. Lawrence

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

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

79. “Nothing is more beautiful than a sunset that’s meant for you.”

80. “Sunsets are proof that endings can be beautiful too.” — Beau Taplin

81. “They sipped until the sun, as golden as syrupy as the bourbon, slipped into the sea.” — Delia Owens

82. “My joy is the golden sunset giving thanks for another day.”

83. “Golden hour reminds me that no matter how bad things might seem, there’s always something beautiful waiting for me.”

84. “The sunrise, of course, doesn’t care if we watch it or not. It will keep on being beautiful, even if no one bothers to look at it.” — Gena Amole

85. “There’s never one sunrise the same or one sunset the same.” — Carlos Santana

86. “Her smiles are like the morning sun that illuminates my world.” — Debasish Mridha

87. “The first fresh hour of every morning should be dedicated to the Lord, whose mercy gladens it with golden light.” — Charles Spurgeon

88. “We can only appreciate the miracle of a sunrise if we have waited in the darkness.” — Sapna Reddy

89. “Nature unfolds her treasure at the first ray of sunrise.” — Kishore Bansal

90. “Sunrise is the reminder that we can start new beginning all over again.” — Rupal Asodaria

91. “The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don’t go back to sleep.” — Rumi

92. “Welcome every morning with a smile. Look on the new day as another special gift from your Creator, another golden opportunity to complete what you were unable to finish yesterday.” — Og Mandino

93. “We need to be reminded sometimes that a sunrise last but a few minutes. But its beauty can burn in our hearts eternally.” — R. A. Salvatore

94. “Invest the first hour of the day, the ‘Golden Hour,’ in yourself.” — Brian Tracy

95. “Every morning I wake up with an unknown, unexplainable joy of life. Then I get lost in the beauty of the morning sun and all of the magnificence that surrounds me.” — Debasish Mridha

96. “The secret to a good morning is to watch the sunrise with an open heart.” —  Anthony T. Hincks

97. “Every morning you are handed 24 golden hours.”

98. “Lost – yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered, for they are gone forever.” — Horace Mann

99. “The sunrise paints the sky with pinks and the sunset with peaches.” — Vera Nazarian

100. “Every morning you are handed twenty-four golden hours. They are one of the few things in this world that you get free of charge. If you had all the money in the world, you couldn’t buy an extra hour. What will you do with your priceless treasure? Remember, you must use it, as it is given only once. Once wasted, you cannot get it back.” — Billy Mills

101. “Dance when the sun comes up.” — A.D. Posey

102. “Let your first hour set the theme of success and positive action that is certain to echo through your entire day. Today will never happen again.” — Og Mandino

103. “Every day a million miracles begin at sunrise.” — Eric Jerome Dickey

104. “Someone bring me the sun.”

105. “Sunsets and selfies are my two favorite things!”

106. “I’m killing it during golden hour.”

107. “Golden hour selfies will never go out of style.”

108. “I’m watching more sunsets than Netflix.”

109. “My favorite thing about the golden hour? All of the other hours are in competition with it.”

110. “Caressed by gold.”

111. “Thank you, golden hour, for making me look this good!”

112. “My glow is more real than ever in the golden hour.”

113. “It’s all in the lighting.”

114. “This is my kind of light show.”

115. “It’s that time between day and night when the sky looks like it’s on fire and mosquitoes are on the hunt.” — Angie Thomas

116. “Some people grow up, I glow up.”

117. “I’m a golden girl from head to toe.”

118. “Golden Hour, you’ve done it again! Capturing my good side perfectly.”

119. “I can take about an hour on the tower of power, as long as I get a little golden shower.” — Frank Zappa

120. “When you take a selfie so good, you can’t believe it’s you.”

121. “You are like golden hour, it all glows different when you’re here.” — Butterflies Rising

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

123. “A wonderful sunset with a wonderful person.”

124. “The golden hours on angel wings Flew o’er me and my dearie, For dear to me as light and life Was my sweet Highland Mary.” — Robert Burns

125. “I really look forward to that insane hour that we spend together. I really do.” — Colin Farrell

126. “You are the sunset to my day.”

127. “And please don’t tell me that I’m dreaming; When all I ever wanted was to dream another sunset with you.” — Mayday Parad

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

129. “I felt the colors enter my veins: warm light-pink shining golden rays; if there was a hue for happiness, I’m sure I saw it with you then.” — Aditi Babel

130. “There’s nothing more special than feeling loved in the golden hour.”

131. “When I’m with you, time doesn’t exist.”

132. “Love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.” — Kahlil Gibran

133. “In every sunset, I’m falling in love all over again.”

134. “Love at first light.”

135. “Neither the sunrise nor the sunset, you are the golden hour that would soon evanescent.” — Abhipsa Kanungo

136. “We are all just a little lost in the light of the sun.”

137. “Invest the golden hour in your selfie.”

138. “My favorite color is sunset.”

139. “A picture-perfect moment.”

140. “A little bit of heaven right here on Earth.”

141. “Everything looks better in the golden light.”

142. “Red skies at night, sailor’s delight.”

143. “In the golden hour, anything is possible.”

144. “In moments like this, I’m reminded of how much beauty still exists in this world.”

145. “I’m in love with the world.”

146. “I never met a sunset I didn’t like.”

147. “Sunset walk? Yes, please.”

148. “I will never stop loving this beautiful time of day.”

149. “Nature’s way of saying, ‘I love you’.”

150. “Golden hour selfies are always a good idea.”

151. “Magical moments happen during golden hour.”

152. “Find beauty in everything you see.”

153. “There’s magic in the air at the blue hour.”

154. “The horizon is the fine line between the golden hour and blue hour.” — Destin Sparks

155. “The light is amber, the air still; the daylilies have folded in on themselves. Soon, the hooded blue of dusk will fall, followed by the darkness of night and the sky writing of the stars, indecipherable to us mortals, despite our attempts to force narrative upon them.” — Elizabeth Berg

156. “Because it’s getting to be the blue hour, and that’s the time when everything is revealed.” — John Rechy

157. “The Lord is at His most merciful during the golden hours.”

158. “In a world full of darkness, there is always one time of day that brings light.”

159. “Don’t do small stuff early in your energy cycle or you’ll blow your ‘golden hours,’ but occasionally you have to do the ‘possible’ to develop the momentum for the killer task.” – Helen Gurley Brown

160. “Life is a journey, and the golden hour is where we meet along the way.”

161. “Every sunset is a reminder that no matter what might be happening in my life, I’m still here, and I still have time to make things right.

162. “What golden hour of life, what glittering moment will ever equal the pain its loss can cause?” — Paul Valery

163. “The years, the months, the days, and the hours have flown by my open window. Here and there an incident, a towering moment, a naked memory, an etched countenance, a whisper in the dark, a golden glow these and much more are the woven fabric of the time I have lived.” — Howard Thurman

164. “Nature has a way of reminding us that we’re connected to something bigger.”

165. “The golden hour is when everything feels possible.”

166. “I’m grateful for this moment of peace before night falls and the world starts spinning again.”

167. “You can’t tell me the sky is the limit when there are footprints on the moon.”

168. “There’s something about a sunset that always makes me feel grateful for life.”

169. “I can spend hours watching and listening to Mother Nature. She is a dear friend.” — Anthony D. Williams

170. “The most peaceful moments are often those spent alone with your thoughts and nature’s beauty all around you.”

171. “Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.” — Maya Angelou

172. “Once in a golden hour, I cast to earth a seed, And up there grew a flower, That others called a weed.”

173. “Today will never happen again. Don’t waste it with a false start or no start at all.” — Og Mandino

174. “It’s an old, established rule, but “golden hour” lighting is ideal because the first and last hours of sunlight are diffuse and warm. For that reason, women with photos taken outside during those hours tended to look great.” — Amy Webb

175. “The best stories happen when someone captures an unexpected moment of beauty.”

176. “Mother Nature doesn’t need a filter.”

177. “When the magic hour arrives, my thoughts center on light rather than on the landscape. I search for perfect light, then hunt for something earthbound to match with it.” — Galen Rowell

178. “Except those images weren’t exact captures of reality. No, the Camera Eye was also suffused with what photographers called the Golden Hour—the gilt-tinted hour following sunrise and preceding sunset, when the world was awash with russet rays and even the meanest streets were aglow as if in an Arthurian legend. Every moment spent with John was like that, reality beyond reality. Richer, realer, rawer than reality. These were the moments she remembered most.” — Ray Smith

179. “At this sunset hour, the canyon walls are indescribably beautiful and I fear the magic of photography can never record what I see now. The tall spires near the canyon’s top and the walls of the canyon up there look as if God had reached out and swiped a brush of golden paint across them, gilding these rocks in the bright glow of the setting sun.” — Barry Goldwater  

180. “It was the Magic Hour, the moment in time when every leaf and blade of grass seemed to separate, when sunlight, burnished by the rain and softened by the coming night, gave the world an impossibly beautiful glow.” — Kristin Hannah

181. “When the magic hour arrives, my thoughts center on light rather than on the landscape. I search for perfect light, then hunt for something earthbound to match with it.” — Galen Rowell