100+ Sunrise Captions for Instagram Photos

I’m more of a night person than a morning person – unless it means skipping the snooze button so I can head somewhere nice to watch the sunrise and capture the beauty with my camera. 

If you’re also a sucker for sunrise photos, I’ve got tons of Instagram caption ideas for you.

In this post, I have over 100 sunrise captions for Instagram, including sunrise quotes, literary quotes about the sunrise, romantic quotes about the sunrise, and sunrise song lyrics.

Sunrise captions for Instagram

Pair these sunrise captions with your best photos of the sun rising.

1. Good morning!
2. I love waking up with the sun.
3. I’m only a morning person for sunrises like this.
4. Today is a new day.
5. Smile! A brand new day awaits you.
6. Up before the sun.
7. Rise & Shine
8. Greeting the sun
9. Just another sunrise picture
10. There she is, the sun in all her glory.
11. At the break of dawn
12. Breaking dawn
13. Softly as in a morning sunrise.
14. Beat the sunrise.
15. S is for Sunrise.
16. Today is brought to you by this sunrise.
17. Today is brought to you by sunrises and [fill-in-the-blank]. Ex. Today is brought to you by sunrises and mimosas.
18. Dreaming of this [insert location here] sunrise.
19. Good morning, Beautiful.
20. Ain’t no sunrise when she’s gone.
21. Like father, like sun
22. Sun more time
23. What can you say about such a beautiful sunrise?

23. Can you believe this show is FREE?
24. Sunrises & [fill-in-the-blank] are my favorite part of the morning.
25. This is your sign to wake up with the sun.
26. Got that sunrise glow.
27. Sunrise vibes.
28. Welcome, Sun.
29. Oh, you know, just another boring sunrise.
30. Obligatory sunrise pic.
31. Morning sky
32. Proof perfection exists.
33. Look at the sun blessing the sky. – Meg Frost
34. Good morning, Sunshine.
35. Goodbye, Moon. Hello, Sun.
36. The biggest star in the sky.
37. Look how bright she shines.
38. Man, I feel bad for vampires. 
39. Tell me, what is the best sunset of your life?
40. Life is short. Don’t sleep through another beautiful sunrise.
41. If today is anything like this sunrise, it’s gonna be a good day.
42. Start your day off right: with [fill-in-the-blank] and the sunrise.
43. I’ve never regretted waking up early to watch the sun rise up into the sky. – Meg Frost
44. It’s a new day, brother. – Don Cheadle as James Rhodes, The Falcon & the Winter Soldier
45. Oh, look! Another glorious morning. Makes me sick! – Bette Midler as Winifred Sanderson, Hocus Pocus

Song lyrics about the sunrise

These song lyrics about the sunrise are perfect for Instagram captions.

45. Here comes the sun and I say, it’s alright. – Here Comes the Sun, The Beatles
46. I woke up like this. – Flawless, Beyoncé
47. Sunrise. Sunburn. Sunset. Repeat. – Sunrise, Sunburn, Sunset, Luke Bryan
48. It’s another tequila sunrise. – Tequila Sunrise, Eagles
49. On this perfect day, nothing’s standing in my way, on this perfect day, nothing can go wrong. – Perfect Day, Hoku
50. Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end. – Closing Time, Semisonic
51. It’s a new dawn, a new day, and I’m feelin’ good. – Feeling Good, Nina Simone
52. It’s a beautiful day. Don’t let it get away. – Beautiful Day, U2
53. I look at you and the world’s alright with me. Just one look at you and I know it’s gonna be a lovely day, a lovely day. – Lovely Day, Bill Withers

Sunrise quotes

Borrow these sunrise quotes when you don’t have the words in you to craft the perfect sunrise caption.

54. The newness of this day is divine. – Lailah Gifty Akita
55. Rest but never quit. Even the sun has a sinking spell each evening. But it always rises the next morning. At sunrise, every soul is born again. – Muhammed Ali
56. My sun sets to rise again. – Robert Browning
57. Every day a million miracles begin at sunrise. – Eric Jerome Dickey
58. With this sunrise somehow I felt I was exactly where I was supposed to be. Have faith, the light seemed to announce. – Ethan Hawke
59. The secret to a good morning is to watch the sunrise with an open heart. – Anthony T. Hincks
60. It is man’s consolation that the future is to be a sunrise instead of a sunset. – Victor Hugo
61. In the twilight of the morning, all life silently waits for the sunrise. The sun must rise for the darkness to sink! – Mehmet Murat Ildan
62. Our eternal message of hope is that dawn will come. – Martin Luther King, Jr.
63. There is always a way and always hope in the next sunrise, and in the next second, and in the next minute. – Ziggy Marley
64. The grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere. – John Muir

63. Today is a blank page in your story. What will you write in it? – Sonya Parker
64. With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts. – Eleanor Roosevelt
65. Morning will come, it has no choice. – Marty Rubin
66. The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don’t go back to sleep. – Rumi
67. The darkness is at its deepest just before the sunrise. – Voltaire
68. There’s a sunrise and a sunset every single day, and they’re absolutely free. Don’t miss so many of them. – Jo Walton
69. Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them. – William Arthur Ward
70. There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope. – Bernard Williams
71. What I know for sure is that every sunrise is like a new page, a chance to right ourselves and receive each day in all its glory. Each day is a wonder. – Oprah Winfrey

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Literary quotes about the sunrise

If books are more your thing, borrow one a literary quote for your sunrise captions.

72. The next morning dawned bright and sweet, like ribbon candy. – Garden Spells, Sarah Addison Allen
73. The sunrise, of course, doesn’t care if we watch or not. It will keep on being beautiful even if no one bothers to look at it. – The Last Chapter, Gene Amole
74. What breaks in daybreak? Is it the night? Is it the sun, cracked in two by the horizon like an egg, spilling out light? – The Year of the Flood, Margaret Atwood
75. There were hints of sunrise on the rim of the sky, yet it was still dark, and the traces of morning color were like goldfish swimming in ink. – The Muses Are Heard, Truman Capote
76. The morning was full of sunlight and hope. – The Awakening, Kate Chopin
77. Just Sunrise — Lest Day — Day’s Great Progenitor — – Renunciation — is a piercing Virtue — , Emily Dickinson
78. Fortunately, the sun has a wonderfully glorious habit of rising every morning. My Side of the Mountain, Jean Craighead George
79. Morning is an important time of day, because how you spend your morning can often tell you what kind of day you are going to have. – Lemony Snicket, Daniel Handler
80. Just like the days, no two sunrises are ever the same. – Out on My Own, Jonathan P. Lamas

78. The nearer the dawn the darker the night. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
79. The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
80. At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear. – A River Runs Through It, Norman Maclean
81. For a girl with such a dark mind, you’re a little too in love with the sunrise. – Sherry Namdeo
82. O sky above me, you modest, glowing sky! O you, my happiness before sunrise! Day is coming: so let us part! – Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Friedrich Nietzsche
83. Dawn seemed to follow midnight with indecent haste. – Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, J.K. Rowling
84. The morning steals upon the night, / Melting the darkness. – William Shakespeare
85. An early morning walk is a blessing for the whole day. – Henry David Thoreau

Romantic quotes about the sunrise

For a little something sweet or for couples photos, these romantic quotes about the sunrise are perfect.

87. Another beautiful sunrise with this one. 
88. Greeting the day with my love and the Sun.
89. He who kisses joy as it flies by will live in eternity’s sunrise. – William Blake
90. Morning without you is a dwindled dawn. – Emily Dickinson
91. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
92. Sunrise, sunrise. Looks like morning in your eyes. – Sunrise, Norah Jones
93. Romance makes a radiant sunrise out of every moment. – Thomas Kinkade
94. The smile broke across his face the way the sunrise set the clouds on fire. – New Moon, Stephanie Meyer
95. Your light is more magnificent than sunrise or sunset. – Rumi

Instagram prompts for sunrise captions

If you prefer a longer caption, here are a few writing prompts about sunrises to help get you started.

96. # best sunrises I’ve ever witnessed.
97. # photography tips for capturing the sunrise.
98. Are you team sunrise or sunset? I’ll go first in the comments.
99.  # best places in [insert location] to watch the sunrise.
100. # reasons why I prefer watching sunrises over sunsets.
101. Why I love waking before sunrise. [Inspire your followers by explaining why you’re an early riser.]
102. When was the last time you woke up early to watch the sunrise? [Tell a story about the last sunrise you witnessed.

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This post was originally published on June 19, 2021. It was last updated on January 12, 2022.