201 Storm Quotes To Help You Through The Wind And Rain

Luca Demetriou
Dec 12, 2023 By Luca Demetriou
Originally Published on Mar 04, 2021
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As with nature, we experience wind, rain, storm, and thunder; human life is full of unexpected events too.

The aftermath of a storm is more devastating than the storm itself. One should put in the best efforts to get back to normal.

Wait for your day, and don't forget to keep the faith. A person can lead a happy life if they have the courage to face situations, be it small or big. Here we bring a collection of storm quotes. You can get more inspiration from our latest collection of articles on rain quotes and after the storm quotes.

Weather The Storm Quotes

Success is not an easy path. One has to weather the storm (deal with difficult times without being affected) and lead a determined life.

1."If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm."

-Mahatma Gandhi.

2."Sometimes the greatest storms bring out the greatest beauty...Life can be a storm, but your hope is a rainbow and your friends and family are the gold."

-Steve Maraboli.

3."He in his madness prays for storms, and dreams that storms will bring him peace."

-Mikhail Lermontov.

4."I’m thankful for my struggle, because without it I wouldn’t have stumbled across my strength."

-Alex Elle.

5."When trouble comes, focus on God’s ability to care for you."

-Charles Stanley.

6.“Clouds, leaves, soil, and wind all offer themselves as signals of changes in the weather. However, not all the storms of life can be predicted.”
― David Petersen

7."They sicken of the calm who know the storm."

-Dorothy Parker.

8."She is a storm, untamed she is a river, untouched"

-Avijeet Das.

9."His world looked like a storm. I was going to be its center."

-Kiera Cass, 'Happily Ever After.'

10."Storm? Shine your light and make a rainbow."

-Richie Norton.

11."After a storm comes a calm."

-Matthew Henry.

12."Snowstorms, rainstorms, windstorms, sandstorms, and firestorms. Some are fierce and others are small. You have to deal with each one separately, but you need to keep an eye on whats brewing for tomorrow.”

- Maria V. Snyder.

13."This world to me is like a lasting storm,Whirring me from my friends."

-William Shakespeare.

14."Rise above the storm and you will find the sunshine."

-Mario Fernandez.

15."Rides in the whirlwind, and directs the storm."

-Joseph Addison.

16."Here's to the pilot that weathered the storm."

-George Canning.

17."The storms grew vast, surging as the spring melt river, the air in tight eddies, its playful vortices unaware of their own strength."

-Angela Abraham.

18."You can find peace amidst the storms that threaten you."

-Joseph VB. Wirthlin.

19."Even in the midst of the storm the sun is still shining."

-Dayna Lovely.

20."After every storm there is a rainbow."

-Shannon Adler.

21."But woman's grief is like a summer storm, short as it violent is."

-Joanna Baillie.

22."The only safe ship in a storm is leadership.

-Faye Wattleton.

23."After every storm the sun will smile; for every problem there is a solution, and the soul's indefeasible duty is to be of good cheer."

-William R. Alger.

24."If you are caught on a golf course during a storm and are afraid of lightning, hold up a 1-iron. Not even God can hit a 1-iron."

-Lee Trevino.

25."Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them?"

-Rose Kennedy.

26."No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm."

-Charles Kettering.

27."I've always said, 'Before you see the rainbow, it has to storm.'"

- Marcus Smart.

28."In the storm’s of life, you can survive by grace, faith and hope."

-Lailah Gifty Akita.

29."Clouds, leaves, soil, and wind all offer themselves as signals of changes in the weather. However, not all the storms of life can be predicted."

-David Petersen.

30."No way out but through the storm now."

-Lisa Wingate

31."Sometimes a storm in your life is what will blow you to the place you are longing to be."

-Beth Moore.

32."Every storm runs out of rain, just like every dark night turns into day."

-Gary Allan.

33."In the midst of the storm, your life boat appears. A psalm, a hymn, a word... calming the fiercest winds of the soul."

-Roderick L. Evans.

34."I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship."

-Louisa May Alcott.

35."It often takes the darkness of a storm to show us the light of God's presence."

-Tony Evans.

36."When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about."

-Haruki Murakami.

37."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.

38."There's always another storm. It's the way the world works."

-Maria V. Snyder.

39."Are we about to get it on? Because I'm as hard as a diamond in an ice storm right now."

-Will Ferrell.

40."For us, there is no spring. Just the wind that smells fresh before the storm."

-Arnold Schwarzenegger.

41."The crystal wind is the storm, and the storm is data, and the data is life."

-Daniel Keys Moran.

42."You cannot tame the wind, stop the rain, nor calm a storm."

-Edward Buchanan.

43."They's a time for sitting still and praying the wind blow over you, and they's a time to rise up and face the storm."

-Lalita Tademy.

44."As anger is a passing storm, so it comes not gradually and with signs, but like a sudden sweep of wind or black squall."

-James Vila Blake.

45."We begin to fight. The wind and I. Horns locked. Battling each other with elements."

-Laura Dockrill.

46."We can outrun the wind and the storm, but we cannot outrun the demon of hurry."

-John Burroughs

47."The flocks fear the wolf, the crops the storm, and the trees the wind."

- Virgil

48."Imagination is a storm of emotions that has the power to sweep citadels into the wind."

-Saim .A. Cheeda.

49."Do not be dust in the wind, but the wind that creates the dust storm."

-E.W. Greenlee

50."The city is the nerve center of our civilization. It is also the storm center."

-Josiah Strong.

51."There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm."

- Willa Cather

52."Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come."

-Robert H. Schuller.

Storm Quotes And Sayings

A storm sometimes cleanses our lives and to helps restart that fresh. When you need a little help to overcome storms, here are some motivational quotes for you.

53."My boy, one small breeze doesn't make a wind storm."

-John McGraw.

54."Let me but make a beginning, let me but strike the world in a vulnerable spot, and I can take it by storm."

-Mary MacLane.

55."Storms draw something out of us that calm seas don't."

-Bill Hybels.

56."Storms make trees take deeper roots."

-Dolly Parton.

57."Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do."

-Golda Meir.

58."The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but deliverance from fear."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson.

59."No storm can last forever. It will never rain 365 days consecutively. Keep in mind that trouble comes to pass, not to stay. Don’t worry! No storm, not even the one in your life, can last forever."

-Iyanla Vanzant.

60."Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest."

-Epicurus.

61."When the storm has passed, put your energy into rebuilding your life, don’t waste time looking back."

-Leon Brown.

62."If you want to see the sunshine, you have to weather the storm."

-Frank Lane.

63."You cannot forever escape from the storm; you must learn to stand up to it!"

-Mehmet Murat ildan.

64."If by your art, my dearest father, you have Put the wild waters in this roar, allay them."

-Shakespeare.

65."If clouds are blocking the sun, there will always be a silver lining that reminds me to keep on trying."

-Matthew Quick.

66."There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man."

-Patrick Rothfuss.

67."Fall in love with someone who tastes like adventure but looks like the calm, beautiful morning after a terrible storm"

-Nikita Gill.

68."You fell in love with a storm. Did you really think you would get out unscathed?"

-Nikita Gill.

69."Her stillness defeated his storm."

-Chris Gardner.

70."If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you'll never enjoy the sunshine."

-Morris West.

71."You learn to know a pilot in a storm."

-Lucius Annaeus Seneca.

72."Some men storm imaginary Alps all their lives and die in the foothills cursing difficulties which do not exist."

-Edgar Watson Howe.

73."The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over."

-Aesop.

74.“Whoever sows the wind reaps the storm.”

-Indonesian Proverb.

75."Remember to play after every storm."

-Mattie Stepanek.

76."He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm."

-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

77."The storm came. Lives were washed away. Ancient pains resurfaced. Now it is time for a sea of change."

-Tavis Smiley.

78."Identity was just a box people liked to put themselves in, a mast to tether to in a storm, a security blanket."

-Leonardo Donofrio.

79."When the storm rips you to pieces, you have to decide how to put yourself back together again."

-Bryant McGill.

80."It takes a real storm in the average person's life to make him realize how much worrying he has done over the squalls."

-Bruce Barton.

81."The more violent the storm, the quicker it passes."

- Paulo Coelho.

82."Then the storm broke, and the dragons danced."

-George R.R. Martin.

83."Don’t let people pull you into their storm. Pull them into your peace."

-Kimberly Jones

84."You don’t know what kind of storms someone has just walked through."

-Kristen Butler

85."Keep walking through the storm. Your rainbow is waiting on the other side."

-Heather Stillufsen

86."The storm is out there and every one of us must eventually face the storm."

-Bryant McGill.

87."Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me."

- Psalm 23:4.

88."Sometimes the storm winds blow so strong a man has no choice but to furl his sails."

-George R.R. Martin , 'A Storm of Swords.'

89."We are facing a storm that most of us have long feared."

-Ray Nagin.

90."Joy weathers any storm: Happiness rides the waves."

-Todd Stocker.

91."They say that the storm awaits the opening blossoms."

-Shigeyoshi Takagi.

92."When the storm comes, pray that it will shake you to your roots and break you wide-open. Being broken open by the storm is your only hope. When you are broken open you get to discover for the first time what is inside you."

-Bryant McGill.

93."Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace."

-Bertolt Brecht.

94."A storm's always coming," I state. "Some don't have rain."

-Katie McGarry

95."Sometimes when you're in the storm, it's harder and maybe when it's over, then you can look back on."

-Brad Gilbert.

96."There is always a storm. There is always rain. Some experience it. Some live through it. And others are made from it."

-Shannon L. Alder.

97."You are the gull, Jo, strong and wild, fond of the storm and the wind, flying far out to sea, and happy all alone."

-Louisa May Alcott.

98."One friend in a storm is worth more than a thousand friends in sunshine."

-Matshona Dhliwayo.

99."You can look at my palm and see the storm coming."

-Mary J. Blige.

100."All the ways of this world are as fickle and unstable as a sudden storm at sea."

-Venerable Bede.

101."You can be in the storm, but don't let the storm get in you. "

-Joel Osteen.

102."Storms don't come to teach us painful lessons, rather they were meant to wash us clean.

-Shannon L. Alder.

103.“You are lightning made flesh. Colder than falling snow. Unstoppable as the desert sands riding the wind. You are Stormling, Aurora Pavan. Believe it.”
― Cora Carmack.

104."Facing the storms of life:'New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings.'"

-Lao Tzu.

105.“Reading is not life. Reading is creating life in your head. And that can only help you so much in a storm.”
― David Levithan

106.“I have both the violent turbulence of the storm and the quiet promises of God in the storm. And what I must work to remember is that something is not necessarily stronger simply because it’s louder.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

107."What matters most is how well you walk through the fire."

-Charles Bukowski.

108.“It’s not a bad lesson to learn in the bleaker months: how you view a storm is a question of perspective; provided you find the right rock to watch it from, it could be the most incredible thing you’ll ever witness.”
― Dan Stevens

109."Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions."

-Haruki Murakami.

110."Now that you've said hello, I'm afraid we move right into farewells. Hello, goodbye. Like flowers scattered in a storm, man's life is one long farewell, as they say."

-Haruki Murakami.

111."What if tomorrow vanished in the storm? What if time stood still? And yesterday--if once we lost our way, blundered in the storm--would we find yesterday again ahead of us, where we had thought tomorrow's sun would rise?”
― Robert Nathan

112."A positive attitude can turn a storm into a sprinkle."

-Robert M. Hensel.

113."Dignity of human nature requires that we must face the storms of life."

-Mahatma Gandhi.

114."This storm will pass. Although, it has tested our strength, our foundations, our roots, we will arise stronger, wiser, and smarter. The best is yet to come."

-Charles F Glassman.

115."All day long, one storm then another and I take your hands like gentle flowers that blossom into awareness."

-John Geddes.

116.“She imagined she could taste the storm in him, the battering winds of desperation and frustration that met her own, blow for blow.”
― Alexandra Bracken

117."I have always been comfortable weathering the storm. I’d like to get more comfortable weathering the sunny day."

-Andrea Gibson.

118."Never lose hope. Storms make people stronger and never last forever."

-Roy T. Bennett.

120.“A woman of God is never afraid of any storm. She understands that the God she serves will calm the storm.”
― Gift Gugu Mona.

121."If you are strong enough, you can enjoy even in the middle of a storm!"

-Mehmet Murat ildan.

122."With inner strength, the soul can be still in the storm."

-Lailah Gifty Akita.

123."Be the light in the dark, be the calm in the storm and be at peace while at war."

— Mike Dolan.

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

— Rabindranath Tagore.

125.“A storm can be stronger than you, but it can never be smarter than you! And the most valid way to defeat someone stronger than you is to be smarter than him!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

126."It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us; in joy we face the storm and defy it."

-Amelia Barr.

Positive Quotes And Deep Quotes

Positive quotes can work wonders in your life. Here are some deep quotes to enlighten your life and start taking control of your thoughts.

127."Because this storm isn't something that has nothing to do with you, This storm is you. Something inside you."

-Haruki Murakami.

128."My favourite British spots are any of the beautiful parks, especially on a sunny day such as this, after a long stretch of cold, cloudy and rainy days."

-Richard Schiff.

129."Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?"

-Evelyn Waugh.

130."I once dated a weather girl, we talked up a storm."

-Jay London.

131."...I don't just wish you rain, Beloved - I wish you the beauty of storms..."

-John Geddes.

132."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.

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

-Dave Barry.

134."So let the storm rage. Let the storm rage."

- Ahmed Toufiq.

135."Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer."

- Alfred Lord Tennyson.

136."Kindness is the only service that will stand the storm of life and not wash out."

- Abraham Lincoln.

137."Every lover is a storm chaser. Every good heart has lost its roof."

- Andrea Gibson.

138."I was born for a storm and a calm does not suit me."

- Andrew Jackson.

139."I have heard a greater storm in a boiling pot."

- Athenaeus.

140."What avails a storm cloud accurate in form and color if the storm is not therein?"

-Albert Pinkham Ryder.

141."Financial storm definitely passed."

-Bernard Baruch.

142."I hate storms, but calms undermine my spirits."

-Bernard Moitessier.

143."It was a dark and stormy night."

-Madeleine L'Engle.

144."Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions."

-Haruki Murakami.

145."A woman friend! He that believes that weakness, Steers in a stormy night without a compass."

-John Fletcher.

146."No one is in charge of this process, this is what makes history so interesting, it's a runaway freight train on a dark and stormy night."

-Terence McKenna.

147."Happiness doesn’t always come in pink. Learn to appreciate the rainbow."

-Richelle E. Goodrich.

148."An optimist sees rainbows when there is rain."

-Debasish Mridha.

Thunder Quotes

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Thunders are often accompanied by storms. Different people perceive thunders in different ways. Here are a few sayings about thunders.

149."Thunder and lightning, it's like the end of the world."

-Carlos Ruiz Zafon.

150."You will hear thunder and remember me, and think: she wanted storms..."

-Anna Akhmatova.

151."Lightning hides the colour of night. "

-Munia Khan.

152."Thunderstorms are as much our friends as the sunshine. "

-Criss Jami.

153.“Thunder is nature's paradox makes us feel both threatened and protected at the same time.”

― Meeta Ahluwalia.

154."No struggle, no success. The stronger the thunder, the heavier the rainfall."

-Israelmore Ayivor.

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

-Jalal ad-Din Rumi.

156."Thunder makes a loud noise but it's the quiet sky that lasts."

-Marty Rubin.

157."I love to feel the temperature drop and the wind increase just before a thunderstorm. Then I climb in bed with the thunder."

― Amanda Mosher.

158."I am Thunder and Thunder is me, we are one beast, we are joined, we are one."

-George R.R. Martin.

Dance In The Rain Quotes

One has to learn to dance in the rain because nothing is permanent in this world. Find some quotes that help us give the courage to be strong.

159. "Look forward to when the storm is over. Stay close to God. Find a way to dance in the rain."

-Kyle Jessen.

160."The storms took Earth into an onward night, regardless of neither time nor sun, yet came the booming exclamations of heaven and lightning to restart her heart."

-Angela Abraham.

161."She took to the storms as the wind were rocket fuel and the rain her beloved companion. For some are born to shelter, or to shelter others, she was born to tame what others never could."

-Angela Abraham.

162."In these storms I cannot fight the wind, nor keep the rain from filling rivers fast, yet I can move one and all to higher ground. I can keep as many safe as I can."

-Angela Abraham.

163."The storms separates the hiders from the heroes and villains, washing the stage clean for the last battle."

-Angela Abraham.

164."Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass...It's about learning to dance in the rain."

-Vivian Greene.

165."Don't wait for the storms of your life to pass. Learn to dance in the rain."

-Steve Rizzo.

166."For many years I was self-appointed inspector of snowstorms and rain-storms and did my duty faithfully."

-Henry David Thoreau.

167."Some people dance with singing rain; some people get wet with misery and pain."

-Debashis Mridha.

168."Whatever it is you’re seeking won’t come in the form you’re expecting."

-Haruki Murakami.

169."You can grow like a tall tree, when you enjoy the sun, wind, rain, storms and the stars in the dark nights."

-Amit Ray

170."While parents should always provide shelter from a storm, they should sometimes allow children to play in the rain."

-Wes Fesler.

171."Lies are like paper-Mache in a rain storm."

-Craig D. Lounsbrough.

172."Every storm runs out of rain. Every storm runs out of rain."

-Gary Allan.

173."Isn't about how you survive the storm, but rather how you dance in the rain."

-K. Bromberg.

174."Sun and snow is an Angel's glow, but storm and rain? That's a Demon's bane."

-S.R. Crawford.

175."He made the storm be still, and the waves of the sea were hushed."

- Psalm 107:29.

176."For he commanded and raised the stormy wind, which lifted up the waves of the sea."

- Psalm 107:25.

177. "Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet."

-Roger Miller.

178."The Lord is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; he knows those who take refuge in him."

- Nahum 1:7.

179."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.

180."Nana always said the rain was Nature’s way of adding sparkle to the outdoors."

-Evangeline Duran Fuentes.

181."Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life."

-John Updike.

182."I think rain is as necessary to the mind as to vegetation. My very thoughts become thirsty, and crave the moisture."

-John Burroughs.

183. "Life is just learning to dance in the rain - enjoy every drop and enjoy every pain! "

-Mary Rose Magnaye.

184."It is better to dance in the rain than to sit under a leaking roof."

-Vikrant Parsai.

Inspirational Quotes From Influential Figures

Find some inspirational quotes from influential figures who guide us to pass any difficult situation. Here are some quotes by the likes of Matshona Dhliwayo, Vincent Van Gogh and more.

185."You can dance through any storm if thunder is music to your ears."

-Matshona Dhliwayo.

186."It is only during a storm that a tree knows how strong it is."

-Matshona Dhliwayo.

187."Beautiful rainbows are formed in ugly storms."

-Matshona Dhliwayo.

188."The heart of man is very much like the sea, it has its storms, it has its tides and in its depths it has its pearls too."

-Vincent Van Gogh.

189.“Another secret of the universe: Sometimes pain was like a storm that came out of nowhere. The clearest summer could end in a downpour. Could end in lightning and thunder.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz.

190."We have very beautiful bad weather here at present – rain, wind, thunder – but with splendid effects; that’s why I like it."

-Vincent Van Gogh.

191."There is peace even in the storm"

-Vincent van Gogh.

192."It is in the storm, not the calm, that a rainbow is born."

- Matshona Dhliwayo.

193."A great storm is like a sunny day to a person of great faith. A gentle wind is like a great storm to a person of great fear."

-Matshona Dhliwayo.

194."A leaf has no power to resist when the wind blows, but when life’s storms rage, you do."

-Matshona Dhliwayo.

195.“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

196."If you love rainbows, you have to love storms too."

-Matshona Dhliwayo.

197."Fear brings the rain, despair brings the storm, hope brings the sunshine."

-Matshona Dhliwayo.

198."A storm may bring its darkness, but you can bring your own sunshine. "

-Matshona Dhliwayo.

199."The storm is an artist; the rainbow is its masterpiece."

-Matshona Dhliwayo.

200."The darkness of the storm determines the brightness of the rainbow."

-Matshona Dhliwayo.

201."It is better to dance in the rain than to freeze in the storm."

-Matshona Dhliwayo.

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Written by Luca Demetriou

Bachelor of Arts specializing in English and Drama, Master of Arts specializing in Performance: Design and Practice

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Luca DemetriouBachelor of Arts specializing in English and Drama, Master of Arts specializing in Performance: Design and Practice

Experienced in writing and sub-editing, Luca holds a Bachelor's in English Literature and Drama from the University of Birmingham, where he served as the culture editor at Redbrick Paper. He is currently pursuing a Master's in Performance: Design and Practice at the University of the Arts in London, showcasing his passion for the arts, performance, and history. With a keen interest in traveling, Luca enjoys exploring new cultures and experiencing diverse perspectives.

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