Why do we love the rain?
Although rain brings dark clouds, it gives life and a fresh start.
Rain shows how all storms must pass and that the sun will shine again.
Whatever storms you’re going through, read these rain quotes to find joy on those dark and rainy days.
Inspirational Rain Quotes
“Look at the rain long enough, with no thoughts in your head, and you gradually feel your body falling loose, shaking free of the world of reality. Rain has the power to hypnotize.”
∼Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun
“From where we stand the rain seems random. If we could stand somewhere else, we would see the order in it.”
∼Tony Hillerman, Coyote Waits
“Rain makes me feel less alone. All rain is, is a cloud- falling apart, and pouring its shattered pieces down on top of you. It makes me feel good to know I’m not the only thing that falls apart . It makes me feel better to know other things in nature can shatter.”
∼Lone Alaskan Gypsy
“The only noise now was the rain, pattering softly with the magnificent indifference of nature for the tangled passions of humans.”
∼Sherwood Smith
“The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.”
∼Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“Sometimes we should express our gratitude for the small and simple things like the scent of the rain, the taste of your favorite food, or the sound of a loved one’s voice.”
∼Joseph B. Wirthlin
“The rain began again. It fell heavily, easily, with no meaning or intention but the fulfilment of its own nature, which was to fall and fall.”
∼Helen Garner
“Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.”
∼Langston Hughes
“I’m continually inspired by nature, and the rainbow is one of nature’s greatest optical phenomenons. The sighting of a rainbow never fails to bring a smile to people’s faces. They signify optimism and positivity: with them comes the sunshine after the rain.”
∼Matthew Williamson
“Without rain, there is no life.”.∼Jerry Yang
“Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.”
∼John Updike
“If you truly get in touch with a piece of carrot, you get in touch with the soil, the rain, the sunshine. You get in touch with Mother Earth and eating in such a way, you feel in touch with true life, your roots, and that is meditation. If we chew every morsel of our food in that way we become grateful and when you are grateful, you are happy.”
∼Thich Nhat Hanh
“I need the seasons to live to the rhythm of rain and sun.”
∼Sophie Marceau
“Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man’s growth without destroying his roots.”Frank A. Clark”Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.”
∼Hosea Ballou
“The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.”
∼Dolly Parton
“Healing rain is a real touch from God. It could be physical healing or emotional or whatever.”
∼Michael W. Smith
“Into each life some rain must fall.”
∼Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“Being alone on the moors is scary; as the rain clouds settle in, it makes you realise your place in nature.”
∼Dave Davies
“Certain emotions just take you to the notes – being furious, heroic, sad, erotic, when rain comes.”
∼Jeff Buckley
“The drops of rain make a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling.”
∼Lucretius
“Let a smile be your umbrella on a rainy day.” ∼Perry Como
“The sound of the rain needs no translation.” ∼Alan Watts
“Rain! whose soft architectural hands have power to cut stones, and chisel to shapes of grandeur the very mountains.”
Henry Ward Beecher
“A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener.” ∼Henry David Thoreau
“Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the hunger.”
∼Saint Basil
“The nicest thing about the rain is that it always stops. Eventually.” ∼Eeyore
“Rain showers my spirit and waters my soul.”
∼Emily Logan Decens
“A rainy day is the perfect time for a walk in the woods.”
∼Rachel Carson
“Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet.” ∼Bob Marley
“If the rain spoils our picnic, but saves a farmer’s crop, who are we to say it shouldn’t rain?”
∼Tom Barrett
“The summer sun was not meant for boys like me. Boys like me belonged to the rain.”
∼Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
“October extinguished itself in a rush of howling winds and driving rain and November arrived, cold as frozen iron, with hard frosts every morning and icy drafts that bit at exposed hands and faces.”
∼J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
“Being soaked alone is cold. Being soaked with your best friend is an adventure.”
∼Emily Wing Smith, Back When You Were Easier to Love
“After the rain, the sun will reappear. There is life. After the pain, the joy will still be here.”
∼Walt Disney Company
Petrichor
noun
a pleasant scent that accompanies fresh rain falling on dry soil.
Dancing in the Rain Quotes
“You can dance in the storm. Don’t wait for the rain to be over before because it might take too long. You can can do it now. Wherever you are, right now, you can start, right now; this very moment.”
∼Israelmore Ayivor
“Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass. It’s about learning to dance in the rain.”
∼Vivian Greene
“Life isn’t how you survive the thunderstorm, but how you dance in the rain.”
∼Adam Young
“Anyone who thinks that sunshine is pure happiness, has never danced in the rain.”
∼Anonymous
“Learn to dance in the storm so when life hands you a stormy weather, you just glide through it.”
∼Ikechukwu Izuakor
“Life is just learning to dance in the rain – enjoy every drop and enjoy every pain!”
∼Mary Rose Magnaye
“It is better to dance in the rain than to sit under a leaking roof.”
∼Vikrant Parsai
“When the rain falls you just let it fall and you grin like a madman and you dance with it, because if you can make yourself happy in the rain then you’re doing pretty alright in life.”
∼Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist
“You are totally wet because, you are dancing in the rain.”
∼Edward Kofi Louis
“Individuals who have learned to endure and persevere through the storms of hardships are those who can dance in the rain during a storm.”
∼Ellen J. Barrier
“Weather is a great metaphor for life sometimes it’s good, sometimes it’s bad, and there’s nothing much you can do about it but carry an umbrella or choose to dance in the rain!”
∼Terri Guillemets
“I have lived pain, and my life can tell: I only deepen the wound of the world when I neglect to give thanks the heavy perfume of wild roses in early July and the song of crickets on summer humid nights and the rivers that run and the stars that rise and the rain that falls and all the good things that a good God gives.”
∼Ann Voskamp
Funny Rain Quotes
“Thank you, dear God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough. Thank you for the rain. And for the chance to wake up in three hours and go fishing: I thank you for that now, because I won’t feel so thankful then.”
∼Garrison Keillor
“Rain hangs about the place, like a friendly ghost. if it’s not coming down in delicate droplets, then it’s in buckets; and if neither, it tends to lurk suspiciously in the atmosphere.”
∼Barbara Acton-Bond
“Do not be angry with the rain; it simply does not know how to fall upwards.”
∼Vladimir Nabokov
“When life gives you a rainy day… Play in the puddles.”
∼Anonymous
“… millions long for immortality who don’t know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.”
∼Susan Ertz
“The English play hockey in any weather. Thunder, lightening, plague of locusts…nothing can stop the hockey. Do not fight the hockey, for the hockey will win.”
∼Maureen Johnson
“Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet.”
∼Roger Miller
The “Singing in the Rain” Scene From the movie What About Bob?
Enjoying The Rain Quotes
“Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.”
∼Langston Hughes
“Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.”
∼Ashley Smith
“There are many things I do for amusement, but for happiness I like to gather up my memories and go for a walk in the rain.”
∼Robert Brault
“I like it when it rains hard. It sounds like white noise everywhere, which is like silence but not empty.”
∼Mark Haddo
“Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.”
∼Rabindranath Tagore
“I love the smell of rain, and I love the sound of the ocean waves.”
∼Amy Purdy
“Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.”
∼John Ruskin
“And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.”
∼Gilbert K. Chesterton
“I’m singing in the rain, just singing in the rain; What a wonderful feeling, I’m happy again.”
∼Arthur Freed
“I love the rain. It’s my favorite weather.” ∼Kristen Wiig
“Tears fall in my heart like the rain on the town.”∼Paul Verlaine
“I don’t know why, but rain comes into my head the minute I think of my childhood.”
∼Dhanush
…Raindrops keep falling on my head
But that doesn’t mean my eyes will soon be turning red
Crying’s not for me
‘Cause I’m never gonna stop the rain by complaining
Because I’m free
Nothing’s worrying me…∼Songwriters: Burt Bacharach / Hal David
Romantic Rain Quotes
“Because falling in love is like rain. You can’t always predict it and when you do it might never appear, but you can always see the signs of it before it falls.”
∼K. Bromberg, Sweet Ache
“Love like rain can nourish from above, drenching couples with a soaking joy. But sometimes under the angry heat of life, love dries on the surface and must nourish from below, tending to its roots keeping itself alive.”
∼Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
“At night I dream that you and I are two plants
that grew together, roots entwined,
and that you know the earth and the rain like my mouth,
since we are made of earth and rain.”∼Pablo Neruda, Regalo de un Poeta
“I love you because no two snowflakes are alike, and it is possible, if you stand tippy-toe, to walk between the raindrops.”
∼Nikki Giovanni
“Let us get wet in the rain, and get drenched in love.”
∼Anonymous
“First love, like rain, is ever fresh.”
∼Anonymous
“You can call me rain for all I seem to do is always fall or you.”
∼Anonymous
“Love softly, Love quietly, Love like the heart is a flower and you are morning rain.”
∼Anonymous
“I yearn for flowers that bend with the wind and rain.”
∼Tso Ssu
“If I were rain,
That joins sky and earth that otherwise never touch,
Could I join two hearts as well?”∼Tite Kubo, Bleach, Volume 01
“Don’t threaten me with love, baby. Let’s just go walking in the rain.”
∼Billie Holiday
“I wished it was raining,” he said.
“I don’t need the rain,” I said. “I need you.”∼Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
“There are a hundred things she has tried to chase away the things she won’t remember and that she can’t even let herself think about because that’s when the birds scream and the worms crawl and somewhere in her mind it’s always raining a slow and endless drizzle.
You will hear that she has left the country, that there was a gift she wanted you to have, but it is lost before it reaches you. Late one night the telephone will sign, and a voice that might be hers will say something that you cannot interpret before the connection crackles and is broken.
Several years later, from a taxi, you will see someone in a doorway who looks like her, but she will be gone by the time you persuade the driver to stop. You will never see her again.
Whenever it rains you will think of her. ”
∼Neil Gaiman
llover (yoh-behr), the Spanish word for “to rain”
“…I don’t just wish you rain, Beloved – I wish you the beauty of storms…”
∼John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
“Valentine Weather
Kiss me with rain on your eyelashes,
come on, let us sway together,
under the trees, and to hell with thunder.”∼Edwin Morgan, A Book of Lives
“sometimes i don’t know, which moment
which cool gust of wind will come,
and enchant me
tousling my hair
and my heart,stirring…that familiar ache of poetry,
which drop will kiss
the old wrench in my soul
reminding me, all over againi miss you better in the rain.”
∼Sanober Khan, A Thousand Flamingos
“When you go,
if you go,
And I should want to die,
there’s nothing I’d be saved by
more than the time
you fell asleep in my arms
in a trust so gentle
I let the darkening room
drink up the evening, till
rest, or the new rain
lightly roused you awake.
I asked if you heard the rain in your dream
and half dreaming still you only said, I love you.”∼Edwin Morgan, New Selected Poems
“Behave like the rain and fall for me.”
Sad Rain Quotes
“I always like walking in the rain, so no one can see me crying.” ∼Charlie Chaplin
“The rain to the wind said,You push and I’ll pelt.’They so smote the garden bedThat the flowers actually knelt,And lay lodged–though not dead.I know how the flowers felt.”
∼Robert Frost
“Poetry is just so emo.” he said. “Oh, the pain. The pain. It always rains. In my soul.”
∼John Green, Paper Towns
“Are the days of winter sunshine just as sad for you, too? When it is misty, in the evenings, and I am out walking by myself, it seems to me that the rain is falling through my heart and causing it to crumble into ruins.”
∼Gustave Flaubert, November
“I went to bed and woke in the middle of the night thinking I heard someone cry, thinking I myself was weeping, and I felt my face and it was dry.
Then I looked at the window and thought: Why, yes, it’s just the rain, the rain, always the rain, and turned over, sadder still, and fumbled about for my dripping sleep and tried to slip it back on.”
∼Ray Bradbury, Green Shadows, White Whale: A Novel of Ray Bradbury’s Adventures Making Moby Dick with John Huston in Ireland
“Waiting for you is like waiting for rain in this drought. Useless and disappointing.”
∼Sam (Hilary Duff), A Cinderella Story
“It didn’t rain for you, maybe, but it always rains for me. The sky shatters and rains shards of glass.”
∼Tablo, Pieces of You
“The sun did not shine. It was too wet to play. So we sat in the house. All that cold, cold, wet day.”
∼Dr. Seuss, The Cat in the Hat
“The unwelcome November rain had perversely stolen the day’s last hour and pawned it with that ancient fence, the night.”
∼F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
“The rain fluctuates between drizzle and torrential. It messes with your mind. It makes you think things will always be like this, never getting better, always letting you down right when you though the worst was over.”
∼Susane Colasanti, Waiting for You
“I love walking in the rain because no one can see me crying”
∼Rowan Atkinson
Relaxing and Calming Rain Quotes
“I’ve always found the rain very calming.”
∼Venus Williams
“It’s a relief to hear the rain. It’s the sound of billions of drops, all equal, all equally committed to falling, like a sudden outbreak of democracy. Water, when it hits the ground, instantly becomes a puddle or rivulet or flood.”
∼Alice Oswald
“Rainy days should be spent at home with a cup of tea and a good book.”
∼Bill Watterson, The Calvin and Hobbes Tenth Anniversary Book
“The richness of the rain made me feel safe and protected; I have always considered the rain to be healing — a blanket — the comfort of a friend.”
∼Douglas Coupland
“The rain cools the air, calms the soul and replenishes life.” ∼Mike Dolan
“The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the sound of outer ocean on a beach.”
∼Henry Beston
Relaxing Rain Sounds
Love these! One of my favorites is about needed rain to get the rainbow – I find it very applicable in many situations!
Thank you, Marta! I like looking for inspiration from different people and things. All life seems to have inherent wisdom waiting to be understood and appreciated.
So many great quotes. And so many rainy days when we have to look for a deeper meaning with a smile on our face. Great post
Thank you, Loren! Yes, we can’t avoid dark and stormy times, that is when we grow.