100 Best Rainbow Quotes To Celebrate After The Storm

A rainbow is a stunning meteorological phenomenon caused by three processes: reflection, refraction, and dispersion.

It is a continuous spectrum of vivid colors formed in a circular arc when water droplets are viewed from a certain angle in relation to a light source, usually the sun. The human eye most commonly sees rainbow in Isaac Newton's sevenfold sequence ranging from red to violet.

Rainbows hold a notable place in art and mythology owning to their natural beauty and complexity. One of the earliest recorded occurrences in literature is in the 'Book Of Genesis' as a part of Noah’s flood story.

In Norse Mythology, a bridge of rainbow, Bifrost, is said to connect the world of men (Midgard) and the realm of the Gods (Asgard). According to Irish folklore, leprechauns are said to hide their pot of gold at the end of a rainbow.

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Beautiful Rainbow Quotes

Great rainbow quotes and sayings that portray the beauty of a rainbow.

1. “A person may only touch one person’s heart. A rainbow touches many.”

― Anthony T. Hincks.

2. “That arc of light, born of the shower and colored by the sun, which spans the heavens!”

― Jean Charles Prince.

3. “Just look at the sky when the rainbow appears and all the richness of colors will fascinate you completely.”

― Eraldo Banovac.

4. “The sky itself is the eighth color of the rainbow, spread over the whole sky for us, all the time.”

― Kim Stanley Robinson.

5. “Let me, O let me bathe my soul in colors; let me swallow the sunset and drink the rainbow.”

― Khalil Gibran.

6. “Happiness doesn’t always come in pink. Learn to appreciate the rainbow.”

― Richelle E. Goodrich.

7. “All the best things in life are free: love, smiles, friends, family, pets and companions, thoughts, sunsets and sunrises and especially rainbows.”

― Anthony T. Hincks.

8. “All these seven colors are part of one rainbow, yet they are all different.”

― Sri Sri Ravi Shankar.

9. “You're saying thank-you because you know that even in the eye of the storm, God has put a rainbow in the clouds.”

― Oprah Winfrey.

10. “Have you ever seen the world upside down the rainbows seem to smile.”

― Kamu Auroville.

11. “It’s when a rainbow smiles that sadness is banished from the land.”

― Anthony T. Hincks.

12. “Sunset is still my favorite color, and rainbow is second.”

― Mattie Stepanek.

13. “After a debauch of thunder-shower, the weather takes the pledge and signs it with a rainbow.”

―  Thomas Bailey Aldrich.

14. “It was the rainbow gave thee birth, and left thee all her lovely hues.”

― W. H. Davies.

15. “The horns came riding in like the rainbow masts of silver ships.”

― Peter S. Beagle.

16. “The soul would have no rainbow… had the eyes no tears.”

— John Vance Cheney.

17. “Rainbows: The gift from heaven to us all.”

― Anthony T. Hincks.

18. “Only rainbows after rain… The sun will always come again.”

― Andy Grammer.

19. “The rainbow bursts like magic on mine eyes! In hues of ancient promise there imprest…”

― Charles Tennyson Turner.

20. “Triumphant arch, that fill'st the sky when storms prepare to part!”

― Thomas Campbell.

21. “The rainbow is a part of nature, and you have to be in the right place to see it. It’s beautiful, all of the colors, even the colors you can’t see.”

― Gilbert Baker.

22. “When I hold you in my arms, I live inside your rainbow and you live inside mine.”

― Anthony T. Hincks.

Famous Rainbow Quotes

Some of the very best well-known rainbow sayings and quotes.

23. “The rainbow, 'the bridge of the gods', proved to be the bridge to our understanding of light—much more important.”

— Isaac Asimov.

24. “Today's teardrops are tomorrow's rainbows.”

― Ricky Nelson, Song: Today's Teardrops.

25. “Gratitude is the real treasure God wants us to find, because it isn’t the pot of gold but the rainbow that colors our world.”

― Richelle E. Goodrich.

26. “When it looked like the sun wasn’t going to shine any more, there’s a rainbow in the clouds.”

― Maya Angelou.

27. “I've had rainbows in my clouds.”

― Maya Angelou.

28. “Rainbows apologize for angry skies.”

― Sylvia A. Voirol.

29. “My two favorite colors of the rainbow are gold and leprechaun.”

― Jarod Kintz.

30. “We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that the savage has, because we know how it is made.”

― Mark Twain.

31. “A rainbow is the product of physics working for your appreciation of beauty.”

― Kyle Hill.

32. “Count your rainbows, not your thunderstorms.”

― Alyssa Knight.

33. “One can enjoy a rainbow without necessarily forgetting the forces that made it.”

― Mark Twain.

34. “It's a good thing that when God created the rainbow he didn't consult a decorator or he would still be picking colors.”

― Sam Levenson.

35. “If happy little bluebirds fly beyond the rainbow, why oh why can’t I?”

― Yip Harburg.

36. “When it rains look for rainbows, when it’s dark look for stars.”

― Oscar Wilde.

37.  "For poems are like rainbows; they escape you quickly."

― Langston Hughes.

38. “Once upon a time, the rainbow visible in the sky after a storm represented all the colors there were. Our earth was designed that way.”

― Arthur Firstenberg, ‘The Invisible Rainbow’.

39. “A rainbow which lasts for a quarter of an hour is looked at no longer.”

― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

40. “I always felt the world cannot fall apart as long as free men see the rainbow, feel the rain and hear the laugh of a child.”

― Frank Capra.

Rainbow Life Quotes

Great quotes about rainbows and the hypothetical significance on human life.

41. “Life's a choice: you can live in black and white, or you can live in color. I'll take every shade of the rainbow and the gazillion in between!”

― Karen Marie Moning.

42. “When beauty is seen through the windows of the soul - rainbows appear and everything is magical. It feels simply divine.”

― Angie Karan.

43. “There comes a point in your life when you realize your hardest times are your best times, too - you will see the rainbow of your life.”

― Roy Bennett.

44. “The work will wait while you show the child the rainbow, but the rainbow won't wait while you do the work.”

― Patricia Clafford.

45. “Rainbows reminds us that even after the darkest clouds and the fiercest winds there is still beauty.”

― Katrina Mayer.

46. “Life without dreams is like a rainbow without colors.”

― Greyson Chance.

47. “What the rainbow has given our people is a thing that connects us.”

― Gilbert Baker.

48. “Don’t seek to be happy; let everyone else chase after that rainbow. Seek to be kind, and you’ll find the rainbow follows you.”

― Richelle E. Goodrich.

49. “To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. Or the climbing, falling colors of a rainbow.”

― Maya Angelou.

50.  "View everybody like a rainbow. Everybody on the planet has all the colors of the rainbow inside."

― Alexia Fast.

51. "My dream is to fly. Oh, my rainbow it is too high."

― Ruslana Korshunova.

52. “If you want to enjoy the rainbow, be prepared to endure the storm.”

― Warren Wendel Wiersbe.

53. “There is no envy, jealousy, or hatred between the different colors of the rainbow. And no fear either. Because each one exists to make the others’ love more beautiful.”

― Aberjhani

54. “When the morning gathers the rainbow, want you to know I’m a rainbow too.”

― Bob Marley.

55. “If you want to see a rainbow you have to learn to see the rain.”

― Paulo Coelho.

56. “Life is not always fair. Sometimes you get a splinter sliding down a rainbow.”

― Terri Guillemets.

57.  “Rainbows are made of small raindrops. Happy lives are made from acts of kindness.”

― Amit Ray.

58. “Capture a shadow, dance with the wind, stand in a rainbow, begin at the end.”

― Mary Anne Radmacher.

59. “How much of life do we miss by waiting to see the rainbow before thanking God there is rain?”

― Dieter F. Uchtdorf.

Motivational Rainbow Quotes

Motivating quotes about rainbows alongside some great color quotes and storm quotes.

60. “Stay positive! Rainbows often appear when you least expect them and need them most.”

― Jamie Worthington.

61. “God puts rainbows in the clouds so that each of us - in the dreariest and most dreaded moments - can see a possibility of hope.”

― Maya Angelou.

62. “If you want the rainbow, you have to deal with the rain.”

— John Green.

63. “Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.”

― Lord Byron.

64. “In life, you either choose to sing a rainbow, or you don’t. Keep singing.”

― Kathleen Long, ‘Chasing Rainbows’.

65. “Don’t turn around. Don’t look back. Keep moving forward. Keep pushing. The pot of gold is at the end of the rainbow, not the beginning.”

―Ziad K. Abdelnour.

66. “Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.”

― Maya Angelou.

67. “Teach them that rainbows appear after a storm to remind them that light begins and ends with all colors.”

― Frederic M. Perrin.

68. “Every sacrifice is another color of your Rainbow!”

― Cass Van Krah.

69. “The way I see it, you gotta put up with the rain if you want the rainbow.”

― Dolly Parton.

70. “There’s always a rainbow at the end of every rain.”

— Prince.

71. “Somewhere over the rainbow, skies are blue, and the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true.”

― Judy Garland.

72. “There can be no rainbow without a cloud and a storm.”

― John H. Vincent.

73. “Have faith in your dreams and someday your rainbow will come shining through. No matter how your heart is grieving, if you keep believing, the dream that you wish will come true.”

― Gilbert K. Chesterton.

74. “Rainbows are people whose lives are bright, shining examples for others.”

― Maya Angelou.

Inspirational Rainbow Quotes

Get inspired with these great rainbow quotes that inspirational to the core!

75. “It takes sunshine and rain to make a rainbow. There would be no rainbows without sunshine and rain.”

― Roy T. Bennett.

76. “At the end of the dream, on the other side of the rainbow, there’s only light.”

― Frederick Lenz.

77. “And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.”

― G. K. Chesterton.

78. “You’ll never find a rainbow if you’re looking down.”

― Charlie Chaplin.

79. "Birds fly over the rainbow. Why then, oh why can't I? If happy little bluebirds fly beyond the rainbow, why oh why can't I?

― L. Frank Baum.

80. "Here, awful Newton, the dissolving clouds Form, fronting on the sun, thy showery prism."

― - James Thomson, ‘The Rainbow’.

81. “Everybody wants happiness, and nobody wants pain, but you can't have a rainbow without a little rain.”

― Zion Lee.

82. “Life throws challenges and every challenge comes with rainbows and lights to conquer it.”

― Amit Ray.

83. “Remember, to make rainbows you need sun and rain.”

― Catherine Pulsifer, ‘To Make Rainbows You Need’.

84. “It’s when you follow the rain clouds that you find out where the rainbows are hiding.”

― Anthony T. Hincks.

Rainbow Love Quotes

Cute and romantic love quotes based on rainbows.

85. “When there is love in the heart, there are rainbows in the eyes, which cover every black cloud with gorgeous hues.”

― Henry Ward Beecher, ‘Life Thoughts’.

86. “Let no one who loves be unhappy, even love unreturned has its rainbow.”

― James M. Barrie.

87. “Where love resides you'll find a rainbow too soft colors that enhance and hope renew”

― John McLeod, ‘Where Love Resides’.

88. “When I see a rainbow, I know that someone, somewhere loves me.”

― Anthony T. Hincks.

89. “Dare to love yourself as if you were a rainbow with gold at both ends.”

―Aberjhani.

90. “What we call 'white' is a rainbow of colored rays packed into a small space. The prism sets them free. Love is the white light of emotion.”

― Diane Ackerman.

91. “Shine your soul with the same egoless humility as the rainbow and no matter where you go in this world or the next, love will find you, attend you, and bless you.”

―Aberjhani.

92. “When there is love in the heart, there are rainbows in the eyes, which cover every black cloud with gorgeous hues.”

― Henry Ward Beecher.

Rainbow Quotes From The Bible

Great rainbow quotes and sayings from the bible.

93. “When I see the rainbow in the clouds, I will remember the eternal covenant between God and every living creature on earth.”

― Genesis 9:15-17.

94. “All around him was a glowing halo, like a rainbow shining in the clouds on a rainy day. This is what the glory of the Lord looked like to me.”

― Ezekiel 1:26-28.

95. “Then I saw another mighty angel coming down from heaven, wrapped in a cloud, with a rainbow over his head, and his face was like the sun, and his legs like pillars of fire.”

― Revelation 10:1.

96. “And he who sat there had the appearance of jasper and carnelian, and around the throne was a rainbow that had the appearance of an emerald.”

― Revelation 4:3.

97. “I saw another mighty angel coming down from heaven, surrounded by a cloud, with a rainbow over his head.”

― Revelation 10:1-2.

98. “I set My rainbow in the cloud, and it shall be for the sign of the covenant between Me and the earth. “It shall be, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the rainbow shall be seen in the cloud.”

― Genesis 9:11-16.

99. “Like the appearance of a rainbow in a cloud on a rainy day, so [was] the appearance of the brightness all around it. This [was] the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the LORD.”

― Ezekiel 1:28.

100. “When I send clouds over the earth, the rainbow will appear in the clouds.”

― Genesis 9:9-14.

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