120 Golden Hour Quotes About The Magical Time Of The Day

Do you enjoy a golden hour glow? That stunning golden magic of mother nature? I love it!

Here are the best golden hour quotes to capture the beauty of this most beautiful time of the day.

There are so many awesome golden hour pictures to be seen on the web.

People post their photos of this magical moment in the sky and often accompany it with a good golden hour caption.

But I think inspirational quotes are more beautiful than Instagram captions.

For that reason, I rounded up the best golden hour quotes I could find online to share with you in this article.

I hope you’ll like them as much as I do!

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Top 20 Golden Hour Quotes

1. “Once in a golden hour, I cast to earth a seed, and up there grew a flower, that others called a weed.” — Alfred Lord Tennyson

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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. “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

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

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

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

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

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

9. “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

10. “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

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

12. “Golden hours of vision come to us in this present life, when we are at our best, and our faculties work together in harmony.” — Charles Fletcher Dole

13. “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

14. “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

15. “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

16. “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

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

18. “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

19. “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

20. “The best is yet to come, and won’t that be fine? You think you’ve seen the sun, but you ain’t seen it shine.” — Frank Sinatra

Inspirational Quotes About Golden Hour

1. “Golden hours inspire us to live another day.” — Unknown

2. “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

3. “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. Be a self-starter.” — Og Mandino

4. “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

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

6. “It was deep afternoon when shadows begin to grow, light becomes gold, and you realize that this particular day has reached its destiny. Like old age, it’s not yet over, but there’s no denying the time of day.” ― Vicki Covington

7. “Let us drink together, fellows, as we did in days of yore. And still enjoy the golden hours that fortune has in store; The absent friends remembered be, in all that’s sung or said, and love immortal consecrate the memory of the dead.” — Albert Pike

8. “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 neighbors.” — Paddy Ashdown

9. “I sing your restless longing for the statue, your fear of the feelings that await you in the street. I sing the small sea siren who sings to you, riding her bicycle of corals and conches. But above all, I sing a common thought that joins us in the dark and golden hours. The light that blinds our eyes is not art. Rather it is love, friendship, crossed swords.” — Federico Garcia Lorca

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

11. “Why I wonder, do people who at one time or another have all been young themselves, and who ought, therefore, to know better, generalize so suavely and so mendaciously about the golden hours of youth-that period of life when every sorrow seems permanent, and every setback insuperable?” — Vera Brittain

12. “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

13. “All the wild sweetness of the flower tangled against the wall. It was that magic, silent hour…. The branches grew so tall they twined themselves into a bower. The sun shown … and the fall of yellow blossom on the grass! You feel that golden rain? Both of you could not hold, alas, (both of you tried, in vain) a memory, stranger. So I pass…. It will not come again.” — Katherine Mansfield

14. “The golden hour of invention must terminate like other hours, and when the man of genius returns to the cares, the duties, the vexations, and the amusements of life, his companions behold him as one of themselves – the creature of habits and infirmities.” — Isaac D’Israeli

15. “You can’t just sit there and wait for the people to give you that golden dream. You’ve got to get out there and make it happen for yourself.” — Diana Ross

16. “I grow ominously tired of official confinement. Thirty years have I served the Philistines, and my neck is not subdued to the yoke. You don’t know how wearisome it is to breathe the air of four pent walls without relief day after day, all the golden hours of the day between ten and four without ease or interposition … these pestilential clerk faces always in one’s dish. O for a few years between the grave and the desk!” — Charles Lamb

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

18. “Every morning, you are handed 24 golden hours.” — Unknown

19. “There is a certain quality of light to be found only in midsummer in the South, as day, slipping into dusk, acquiesces to the filament, the bulb, the porch light; this seductive light is beautiful when it washes across dry cement, the sidewalk and stoop. The light spilling from the phone booth softens and cleanses all that it touches. It’s a forgiving and almost protective light.” ― Steven Sherrill

20. “And let these altars, wreathed with flowers and piled with fruits, awake again Thanksgivings for the golden hours, the early and the latter rain!” — John Greenleaf Whittier

Short Golden Hour Quotes

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

2. “When everything looks dreamy, it’s the golden hour.” — Unknown

3. “Gold runs in our blood.” — Virginia Woolf

4. “Baby, don’t you know that you’re my golden hour.” — Unknown

5. “It is the quietening of the day that most appeals.” ― Fennel Hudson

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6. “You have a heart of gold. “ — Unknown

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

8. “Life is a golden ride.” — Unknown

9. “These are the golden days.” — Unknown

10. “The morning sun is out and bright, forcing night sneak away without a fight” ― Richard L. Ratliff

11. “Less bitter more glitter.” — Meghan Rhodes

12. “I’m watching more sunsets than Netflix.” — Unknown

13. “The sunlight paints us gold.” — Unknown

14. “Outside, daylight was bleeding slowly toward dusk.” ― Stephen King

15. “Golden hour is the best time of the day.” — Unknown

16. “Shine bright like the tip of my nose.” — Unknown

17. “Watching the perfect hour fills my soul.” — Unknown

18. “This is my kind of light show.” — Unknown

19. “Live life in warm yellows.” — Unknown

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

Sunset Golden Hour Quotes

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

2. “The sun was a fiery furnace of gold, but finally it set in the west, and the cosmos glittered like a million burning embers, briefly reminding Awa of poetry readings under starry skies in Timbuktu.” ― Rehan Khan

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

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

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

6. “I’m not one of those people who wakes up and thinks, ‘Bring on the day!’ I have to have about 7 pints of coffee before I’m even remotely awake. But I love the golden hour in the evening, as hokey as that sounds. Just as the sun is about to set and you get those lovely shadows, and everything looks gold and yellow.” — Stacy London

7. “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

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

9. “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

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

11. “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

12. “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 color prisms before darkness finally, inevitably won out.” ― Karen Swan

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

14. “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

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

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

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

18. “Every sunset brings the promise of a new dawn.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

19. “Sunset is the opening music of the night.” — Mehmet Murat ildan

20. “Beautiful sunsets need cloudy skies” — Paulo Coelho

Golden Hour Sunrise Quotes

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

2. “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

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

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

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

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

7. “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

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

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

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

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

12. “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

13. “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

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

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

16. “There’s always a story. It’s all stories, really. The sun coming up every day is a story. Everything’s got a story in it. Change the story, change the world.” ― Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky

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

18. “Love feels like morning’s sunrays warming your whole being.” — Unknown

19. “The charm of golden sunrise and sunset does not depend on you, it reflects on you…only if you allow it. So does fleeting moments of joy”. ― Val Uchendu

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

Golden Hour Quotes For Instagram

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

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

3. “There is no eleventh hour with cosmic ordering, only the golden hour.” — Stephen Richards

4. “In the golden hour, you can see magic in everything.” — Unknown

5. “All roads lead to a golden hour. But only one makes you feel alive.” — Unknown

6. “I would like to have a workshop attached to every school and one hour a day given up to the teaching of simple decorative arts. It would be a golden hour for the children.” — Oscar Wilde

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

8. “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

9. “It is all about nature’s perfect lighting.” — Unknown

10. “In the era of sun-kissed mornings. I want you to kiss me while the sun will blush and kiss our love.” — Uzma Akhtar Ashrafi

Golden Hour Selfie Quotes

1. “Invest the golden hour in your selfie.” — Unknown

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2. “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

3. “I own this time of day – the golden hour belongs to me.” — Unknown

4. “Thank you, golden hour, for making me look this good!” — Unknown

5. “I’m a golden girl from head to toe.” — Unknown

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

7. “Bliss needs to be shared. It exists only in sharing.” — Rajneesh

8. “Glitter and shine like the rays of the sun.” — Unknown

9. “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

10. “Mother Nature doesn’t need a filter.” — Unknown

To Conclude

What an inspiring collection of golden hour quotes, right?

I bet you are now inspired to take a few snaps of the golden scenery yourself and post them along with some of the quotes you just read.

Until next time!