250 Best Rain Quotes To Help You Wait For The Rainbow

Rain is a natural phenomenon that has extreme importance in human society.

In life, many people depend on rain for their livelihood and more. As much as rain can cause happiness, there are times when this phenomenon can cause distress.

However, we can all agree that sometimes happiness is simply taking a walk or dancing in the rain. We all have gone through that part of our life when rain has come to us as a body of relief.

Our mind, soul, and body have all been refreshed by rain at some point. We all know that on earth without rain, there really would be no life.

Without it, there would be major problems for all of us. So, let us celebrate the rain by reading these rain quotes that also include some rain phrases and one or two cold weather quotes.

For more quotes, take a look at dancing in the rain quotes and weather quotes.

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Famous Rain Quotes

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These are some of the most well-known rain quotes which tell us about the importance of this phenomenon to human life. You may just find your favorite quote about the rain here.

1. "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.

2. "Do not be angry with the rain; it simply does not know how to fall upwards." - Vladimir Nabokov.

3. "Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life." - John Updike.

4. "Rainy days should be spent at home with a cup of tea and a good book." - Bill Watterson.

5. "I like it when it rains hard. It sounds like white noise everywhere, which is like silence but not empty." - Mark Haddon.

6. "Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet." - Roger Miller.

7. "Into each life some rain must fall,

Some days must be dark and dreary."

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

Funny Rain Quotes

While others might talk about the significance of rain, let's not forget about the humorous side of it.

31. "Rain didn't make things messy. People did that all on their own." - Barbara Delinsky.

32. "Do not, on a rainy day, ask your child what he feels like doing, because I assure you that what he feels like doing, you won’t feel like watching." - Fran Lebowitz.

33. "If people were rain, then I was a drizzle and she was a hurricane." - Unknown.*

34. "Being soaked alone is cold. Being soaked with your best friend is an adventure." – Emily Wing Smith.

35. "A rainy day at the beach is better than a sunny day at the office." - Unknown.*

36. "Save a boyfriend for a rainy day – and another, in case it doesn’t rain." - Mae West.

37. "Rain, rain, go away. Come again another day." - Bobby Vinton.

38. "In Scotland, beautiful as it is, it was always raining. Even when it wasn't raining, it was about to rain, or had just rained." - Colin Hay

39. "So it’s raining? You’re not sugar you won’t melt… enjoy it!" - Unknown.*

40. "Let a smile be your umbrella, and you'll end up with a face full of rain." - George Carlin

Top Rainy Day Quotes

Quotes about rainy days have been around for a long time and here are some others that we like. We hope you do to.

41. "The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn't know how to read." - Benjamin Franklin.

42. "I want to know, have you ever seen the rain

Coming down on a sunny day?" - John Fogerty.

43. "Don't threaten me with love, baby. Let's just go walking in the rain." - Billie Holiday.

44. "Rain makes bars of light and dark down her face and mine, as if we're inside the jail of it." - Niall Williams.

45. "A rainy day is the perfect time for a walk in the woods." - Rachel Carson.

46. "Oh rainy day, come 'round

Sometimes I just want it to slow down." - Coldplay, 'Rainy Day'.

47. "I want trees and I want frequent rain." - Murray Morgan

48. "You pray for rain, you gotta deal with the mud too. That's a part of it." - Denzel Washington.

49. "A rainy day is a special gift to readers." - Amy Miles.

50. "One can find so many pains when the rain is falling." - John Steinbeck.

51. "The rain is ever falling, drip, drip, drip, by day and night, upon the broad flagged terrace-pavement." - Charles Dickens.

52. "Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon." - Susan Ertz.

Awesome Raining Quotes

We love to watch the rain pour. Here are some quotes about raining.

53. "If you want to see a rainbow you have to learn to see the rain." - Paulo Coelho.

54. "It always rains on tents. Rainstorms will travel thousands of miles, against prevailing winds for the opportunity to rain on a tent." - Dave Barry.

55. "Nature looks more beautiful in the rain." - Melissa Harrison.

56. "It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark." - Howard Ruff.

57. "Sometimes we rain on our own parade just by failing to rein in our emotions." - Curtis Tyrone Jones.

58. "There is nothing quite like the smell of rain on a grass field after a sunny spell." - Fuad Alakbarov

59. "No umbrella’s color matters under torrential rain!" - Mehmet Murat Ildan.

60. "I believe in running through the rain and crashing into the person you love." - Billy Bob Thornton.

61."I'm singin' in the rain, just singin' in the rain

What a glorious feeling I'm happy again." - Arthur Freed, 'Singing In The Rain'.

62. "Heaven opened and the water hammered down, reviving the reluctant old well, greenmossing the pigless pigsty, carpet bombing still, tea-colored puddles the way memory bombs still, tea-colored minds." - Arundhati Roy.

63. "I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge?" - Douglas Adams.

Quotes About Rain

Rain has been used for comparison in literature, philosophy, and other fields of life. Check out these quotes about rain.

76. "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.

77. "If you are a good student of life, wisdom becomes your rain, falling heavily on your mind!" - Mehmet Murat Ildan.

78. "There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather." - John Ruskin.

79. "Rain has the power to hypnotize." - Haruki Murakami.

80. "Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man's growth without destroying his roots." - Frank A. Clark.

81. "A light rain touches my cheek like an angel's butterfly kisses." - Amanda Mosher.

82. "Every storm runs out of rain." - Maya Angelou.

83. "I am like the rain: I go where I'm needed." - Alejandro Jodorowsky.

84. "Rain is as romantic as roses, and as easily overdone." - Cynthia Barnett.

85. "Worrying is stupid. It's like walking around with an umbrella waiting for it to rain." - Wiz Khalifa.

86. "If there is one righteous person the rain falls for his sake." - Gautama Buddha.

87. "Those who hate rain hate life." - Dejan Stojanovic.

88. "I love the smell of rain and growing things." - Serina Hernandez.

89. "No person has the right to rain on your dreams." - Marian Wright Edelman.

90. "Love like rain, can nourish from above, drenching couples with a soaking joy." - Paulo Coelho.

Rain And Cloud Quotes

Rain and clouds are always connected with each other and these quotes are a testament to that:

91. "Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky." - Rabindranath Tagore.

92. "Without the frown of clouds and lightning, the vines would be burned by the smiling sun." - Rumi.

93. "God is a cloud from which rain fell." - Dejan Stojanovic.

94. "All birds find shelter during a rain. But eagle avoids rain by flying above the clouds. Problems are common, but attitude makes the difference." - A. P. J. Abdul Kalam.

95. "I embraced a cloud, but when I soared it rained." - Frank O'Hara.

96. "Rain is a lullaby heard through a thick, isolating blanket of clouds." - Richelle E. Goodrich.

97. "I felt the dampness on my garments, But saw no spot, and heard no sound of rain." - Bai Juyi.

98. "Clouds send rain only to quench the parched earth. In such giving, there is little space for selfishness." - Munshi Premchand

99. "Raindrops are not the ones who bring the clouds." - Sorin Cerin.

100. "Complaints are like the clouds that produce no rain no matter how thick they gather." - Israelmore Ayivor.

101. "We're as ephemeral as raindrops. We all fall, and we all land somewhere." - Robert Charles Wilson

102. "Raindrops are my only reminder that clouds have a heartbeat. That I have one, too." - Tahereh Mafi

103. "A window covered with raindrops interests me more than a photograph of a famous person." - Saul Leiter

104. "Into each life some rain must fall." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

105. "Everybody wants happiness, and nobody wants pain, but you can't have a rainbow without a little rain." - Zion Lee

106. "I see pictures all the time. I could stay for hours and watch a raindrop." - Alfred Eisenstaedt

107. "Every raindrop that falls is accompanied by an angel, for even a raindrop is a manifestation of being." - Muhammad

108. "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

109. "Let the rain sing you a lullaby." - Langston Hughes

110. "The single raindrop never feels responsible for the flood." - Douglas Adams

111. "The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

112. "Around us, life bursts with miracles, a glass of water, a ray of sunshine, a leaf, a caterpillar, a flower, laughter, raindrops." - Nhat Hanh

113. "I want your sun to reach my raindrops, so your heat can raise my soul upward like a cloud." - Rumi

114. "Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet." - Roger Miller

115. "Your actions are like a raindrop; it falls into the pond making ripples and then it's over." - Sarah Dessen

116. "Every human being is a raindrop. And when enough of the raindrops become clear and coherent they then become the power of the storm." - John Trudell

117. "Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life." - John Updike

118. "Tears are the body's raindrops of emotion." - Robert M. Hensel

119. "When the raindrop touches the ocean, can it tell a story?" - Mooji

120. "Just think of any negativity that comes to you as a raindrop falling into the ocean of your bliss." - Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

121. "I knew every raindrop by its name." - Denis Johnson

122. "A man agrees with god as a raindrop agrees with the storm." - George R. R. Martin

123. "Let unexpected incidents roll off you like raindrops dancing down your bedroom window." - Mod Sun

124. "Do not disregard the accumulation of goodness, saying, 'This will come to nothing.' By the gradual falling of raindrops, a jar is filled." - Gautama Buddha

125. "A good rain is a reset for the world." – Unknown

126. "A raindrop landing on your cheek is a kiss from someone that lives in heaven and is watching over you." – Unknown

127. "Be like raindrops; embrace freedom and fall wherever, without thinking about it." – Unknown

128. "Behind the somber rain clouds is the sun still burning brightly." – Unknown

129. "Celebrate the rain, for when it ends, the sun shall shine even brighter." – Unknown

130. "Curse not the rain for it brings abundance that drives away thirst and hunger." – Unknown

131. "Don’t waste time waiting for the tempest to pass. Dance along with it." – Unknown

132. "Even on a rainy day, you can be someone’s sunshine." – Unknown

133. "Every drop of rain is exactly how many times the soil thanks the heavens." – Unknown

134. "Far from being synchronized, raindrops still create melodies worth listening to." – Unknown

135. "For rain is a chance to be touched, which is especially true for lonely people." – Unknown

136. "Gentle rain showers make the grass many shades greener." – Unknown

137. "Inner peace will calm any storm." – Unknown

138. "Just because it’s raining along the way doesn’t sunshine is absent in your destination." – Unknown

139. "Like the sky after rain, open yourself up and let everyone see you shine." – Unknown

140. "Many long for longevity; yet, on their own, they find it difficult to find something to do on a rainy day." – Unknown

141. "More often than not, people who are willing to dance with you in the rain would also be willing to walk with you in the storm." – Unknown

142. "No translation is needed for the music created by raindrops." – Unknown

143. "One way to purify your soul is to soak in the rain." – Unknown

144. "People, not the rain, cause a mess." – Unknown

145. "Raindrops are capable of poking holes in the stone. They do it not through violence, but by gently falling." – Unknown

146. "Regretfully, not every rain shower holds the promise of a rainbow." – Unknown

147. "Someone who loves you will walk with you in the rain. Perhaps they will even play with you in the puddles." – Unknown

148. "The best thing to do when it is raining is to just let it rain." – Unknown

149. "Without rain, there would be no life in this world." – Unknown

150. "Anyone who says sunshine brings happiness has never danced in the rain." – Unknown

151. "If you want the rainbow you have to deal with the rain." – Augustus

152. "The sound of the rain needs no translation." – Alan Watts

153. "Happiness is a rainy night balcony, a cup of coffee and your favourite music." – Unknown

154. "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

153. "The rain plays a little sleep song on our roof at night And I love the rain." – Langston Hughes

154. "The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain." – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

155. "Raise your words, not your voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder." – Rumi

156. "I feel most at peace when it is raining for it reminds me that the sky is alive." – Taylor Ashley

157. "Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air, and you." – Langston Hughes

158. "Rainy days should be spent at home with a cup of tea and a good book." – Bill Watterson

159. "I cry in the rain, so nobody will notice my tears." – Caroline

160. "Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass. It’s about learning to dance in the rain." – Unknown

161. "Tears fall in my heart like the rain on the town." – Paul Verlaine

162. "Things change. And friends leave. Rain doesn’t stop for anybody." – Unknown

163. "I love the smell of rain, and I love the sound of the ocean waves." – Amy Purdy

165. "Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storms but to add color to my sunset sky." – Rabindranath Tagore

166. "The rain didn’t make things messy. People did that all on their own." – Barbara Delinsky

167. "Rain is nature’s way of washing the world clean." – William Shakespeare

168. "Rain is the voice of heaven." – Japanese Proverb

169. "I love the rain. Somehow, it just makes me happy." – John Travolta

170. "I never saw a raincloud I didn’t want to dance with." – Dolly Parton

171. "I yearn for flowers that bend with the wind and rain." – Tso Ssu

172. "Rain is like life, it can be both refreshing and overwhelming, but we always appreciate it when it’s gone." – Anonymous

173. "I love rain. It makes me feel like it’s not just me – that other people are feeling it too." – John Green

174. "Rain is the language of flowers." – Emily Dickinson

175. "Rain is liquid sunshine." – Unknown

176. "Do not fear the rain is only here to help you grow." – Jennae Cecelia

177. "I need to be in the rain, where I can feel my body again. I need to be in the rain, where I can taste and smell and touch." – Haruki Murakami

178. "The sound of rain on a tin roof is to me one of the most soothing sounds in the world." – Unknown

179. "It is not the greatness or smallness of a man’s deed, but the greatness or smallness of the man that determines its value." – Unknown

180. "I like the rain. It washes away the dirt and leaves the soul as clean as a new day." – Unknown

181. "I love the rain. It cleanses the earth and fills the rivers." – Frank Lloyd Wright

182. "The rain is a beautiful thing, It makes trees and plants very happy, It makes animals very happy, It makes people very happy too. – Linda Ronstadt

183. "Rain is always an emotion. An emotional love." – Anonymous

184. "May the sound of rain remind you that growth can be painful yet beautiful." – Unknown

185. "No rain no flowers." – Unknown

186. "Rain is just confetti from the sky." – Anonymous

187. "I saw you in the middle of the rain now how can I say that I don’t fall in love with the season?" – Unknown

188. "All birds find shelter during a rain. but the eagle avoids rain by flying above the clouds. problems are common attitudes that make the difference." – Apj Abdul Kalam

189. "Pitter Patter of the raindrops to their beat my heartthrobs." – Unknown

190. "The rain could turn to gold and still your thirst would not be slaked. Desire is unquenchable or it ends in tears, even in heaven." – Gautama Buddha

191. "Everyone wants happiness, and nobody wants pain, but you can’t make a rainbow without a little rain." – Unknown

192. "A true friend is not like the rain which pours and goes away. A true friend is like the air sometimes silent but always around you." – Unknown

193. "Life isn’t finding shelter in the storm. It’s about learning to dance in the rain." – Sherrilyn Kenyon

194. "Sometimes sunshine turns to rain and the same ones you love to bring you pain." – J. Cole

195. "When it rains in the morning I want to be a kid again and bunk my day." – Dr. Akanksha Sinha

196. "The mountain to whom I can strike and shedd all the tears that I carry in the front of rains." – Anonymous

197. "You came in spring for a new flower and you left me in the rain. Was I a broken umbrella or you had built another home?" – Lora  Lipsa

198. "Accept both compliments and criticism. It takes both sun and rain for a flower to grow." – Katie Murch

199. "A rainy day is an equalizer. You don’t know what’s going to happen. You just take what you can get." – Charlie Harvey

200. "Do not, on a rainy day, ask your child what he feels like doing because I assure you that what he feels like doing, you won’t feel like watching." – Fran Lebowitz

201. "In what language does rain fall over tormented cities?" – Pablo Neruda

202. "From where we stand the rain seems random. If we could stand somewhere else, we would see the order in it." – Tony Hillerman

203. "I like it when it rains hard. It sounds like white noise everywhere, which is like silence but not empty." – Mark Haddon

204. "Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass. It’s about learning to dance in the rain." – Vivian Greene

205. "The rain began again. It fell heavily, easily, with no meaning or intention but the fulfillment of its own nature, which was to fall and fall." – Helen Garner

206. "If you think it’s going to rain, it will." – Clint Eastwood

207. "I know how the flowers felt." – Robert Frost.

208. "Rain showers my spirit and waters my soul." – Emily Logan Decens

209. "I always like walking in the rain, so no one can see me crying." – Charlie Chaplin

210. "They so smote the garden bed, that the flowers actually knelt, And lay lodged – though not dead.

The rain to the wind said, You push and I’ll pelt." - Unknown

212. "Darling, you’ll never see me complain I’ll do my crying in the rain." – Howard Greenfield

213. "Rain! whose soft architectural hands have the power to cut stones and chisel to shapes of grandeur the very mountains." – Henry Ward Beecher

214. "Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life." – John Updike

215. "Into each life, some rain must fall, Some days must be dark and dreary." – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

216. "Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet." – Roger Miller

217. "Rain is not only drops of water. It’s the love of the sky for the earth. They never meet each other but send love this way." – Unknown

218. "Every time it rains, the soil counts every drop to know exactly how many times to thank God!" – Mehmet Murat Ildan

219. "In time of silver rain the butterflies lift silken wings to catch a rainbow cry." – Langston Hughes.

220. "The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain." – Dolly Parton

221. "Do not be angry with the rain; it simply does not know how to fall upwards." – Vladimir Nabokov

222. "The rain falls gently down, and slowly fills my cup. This never would have happened, If raindrops all fell up." – Tom Batiuk

223. "Falling on my head like a memory." – Eurythmics

224. "The rain fell alike upon the just and upon the unjust, and for nothing was there a why and a wherefore." – W. Somerset Maugham

225. "I have always considered the rain to be healing—a blanket—the comfort of a friend." – Douglas Coupland

226. "After the rain cometh the fair weather." – Aesop

227. "You’ll see what I mean if you’re still here when the rains come. You’ll see them overnight turn the fields, the gardens, and the jungles from a parched and burning desert, into a mass of green that seems to live, to writhe, and to devour the walls, the trees, and the houses." – George Brent

228. "To feel this way and say nothing is the worst pain of all have you ever stood beneath grey clouds and later the clouds raindrops splash your skin and soothe your soul slowly drop by drop and then drench you completely, and it feels like a part of your pain washes away with it." – Unknown

229. "But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust." – Gilbert K. Chesterton’s

230. "I think rain is as necessary to the mind as to vegetation. My very thoughts become thirsty and crave moisture." – John Burroughs

231. "Life has many changes. Tomorrow it may rain, and it’s supposed to be sunshine, ’cause it’s summertime. But God’s got a funny soul, he plays like Charlie Parker." – Charles Mingus

232. "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

233. "I want to believe that life isn’t full of darkness. Even if storms come to pass, the sun will shine again. No matter how painful and hard the rain may beat down on me." – Akito Sohma

234. "The rain could turn to gold and still your thirst would not be slaked. Desire is unquenchable or it ends in tears — even in heaven." – Unknown*

235. "I am sure it is a great mistake always to know enough to go in when it rains. One may keep snug and dry by such knowledge, but one misses a world of loveliness." – Adeline Knapp

236. "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

237. "Rain is almost like a lover sound that pours earth’s first melody in your ears, freshness that loads life into your monotony catharsis better than a church confession trouble draining down your body like a rebirth, heavenly raw smell that reaches the soul, almost like a lover." – Unknown

238. "If the rain spoils our picnic but saves a farmer’s crop, who are we to say it shouldn’t rain?" – Tom Barrett

239. "Greet the sun every morning as though it’s your best friend. Dance in the rain as though you are dancing with a lover." – Sara Strain

240. "Positive thinking is powerful thinking. If you want happiness, fulfillment, success, and inner peace, start thinking you have the power to achieve those things. Focus on the bright side of life and expect positive results." – Germany Kent

241. "Being soaked alone is cold. Being soaked with your best friend is an adventure." – Emily Wing Smith

242. "Do not, on a rainy day, ask your child what he feels like doing because I assure you that what he feels like doing, you won’t feel like watching." – Fran Lebowitz

243. "A rainy day is an equalizer. You don’t know what’s going to happen. You just take what you can get." – Charlie Harvey

244. "Accept both compliments and criticism. It takes both sun and rain for a flower to grow." – Katie Murch

245. “Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest.” – Epicurus

246. “Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet.” – Roger Miller

247. “I always like walking in the rain, so no one can see me crying.” – Charles Chaplin

248. “True, the sun and the wind inspire. But the rain has an edge. Who, after all, dreams of dancing in the dust? Or kissing in the bright sun?” -Cynthia Barnett

249. “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

250. “I think rain is as necessary to the mind as to vegetation. My very thoughts become thirsty and crave moisture.”  -John Burroughs

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