Top 40 Rain Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “After the rain, the sun will reappear. There is life. After the pain, the joy will still be here.”

— Walt Disney

Also featured in: Pain Quotes, Joy Quotes

2. “All birds find shelter during a rain. But eagle avoids rain by flying above the clouds. Problems are common, but attitude makes the difference.”

— Abdul Kalam

Also featured in: Attitude Quotes

3. “Rainy days should be spent at home with a cup of tea and a good book.”

— Bill Watterson

Also featured in: Reading Quotes

4. “The rain will stop, the night will end, the hurt will fade. Hope is never so lost that it can’t be found.”

— Ernest Hemingway

Also featured in: Broken Heart Quotes, Hurt Quotes

5. “Don’t be sad! Because God sends hope in the most desperate moments. Don’t forget, the heaviest rain comes out of the darkest clouds.”

— Rumi

6. “Tomorrow may rain, so I’ll follow the sun.”

— Paul McCartney

7. “Wisdom is like the rain. Its source is limitless, but it comes down according to the season.”

— Rumi

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

— Prince

9. “It can’t rain all the time.”

— James O'Barr

10. “The Noah rule: Predicting rain doesn’t count; building arks does.”

— Warren Buffett

11. “Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before – more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle.”

— Charles Dickens

12. “August rain: the best of the summer gone, and the new fall not yet born. The odd uneven time.”

— Sylvia Plath

Also featured in: Summer Quotes

13. “My sorrow, when she’s here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane.”

— Robert Frost

14. “You can hide beneath the covers and study your pain, make crosses from your lovers, throw roses in the rain. Waste your summer praying in vain, for a savior to rise from these streets.”

— Bruce Springsteen

Also featured in: Summer Quotes

15. “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

Also featured in: Quotes About Ocean

16. “The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain. When I’m inspired, I get excited because I can’t wait to see what I’ll come up with next. Find out who you are and do it on purpose.”

— Dolly Parton

17. “If it’s raining you can’t fix the roof, if it’s not raining it doesn’t need to be fixed.”

— Jim Rohn

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

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

19. “That’s a waste of time. If you really understand Zen. You can use any book. You could use the Bible. You could use Alice in Wonderland. You could use the dictionary, because... the sound of the rain needs no translation.”

— Alan Watts

Also featured in: Book Quotes

20. “The common people pray for rain, healthy children and a summer that never ends. It is no matter to them if the high lords play their game of thrones, so long as they are left in peace.”

— George R.R. Martin

Also featured in: Summer Quotes

21. “One can find so many pains when the rain is falling.”

— John Steinbeck

22. “We inter-breath with the rain forests, we drink from the oceans. They are part of our own body.”

— Nhat Hanh

23. “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

Also featured in: Quotes About Night

24. “And you’ll always love me won’t you? Yes And the rain won’t make any difference? No.”

— Ernest Hemingway

25. “No individual rain drop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.”

— John Ruskin

26. “When we look deeply into the heart of a flower, we see clouds, sunshine, minerals, time, the earth, and everything else in the cosmos in it. Without clouds there could be no rain, and without rain there would be no flower.”

— Nhat Hanh

Also featured in: Flower Quotes

27. “I woke to the sound of rain.”

— Sylvia Plath

28. “It was night, and the rain fell; and falling, it was rain, but, having fallen, it was blood.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

29. “Never duck responsibility, its like running from the rain only to fall into the river.”

— Farrah Gray

30. “And to tell the truth I don’t want to let go of the wrists of idleness, I don’t want to sell my life for money, I don’t even want to come in out of the rain.”

— Mary Oliver

31. “I am suddenly left alone again on the sunny path, with a memory of the rain.”

— Azar Nafisi

Also featured in: Path Quotes

32. “Exhaustion pays no mind to age or beauty. Like rain and earthquakes and hail and floods.”

— Haruki Murakami

33. “Thanks to the long days of rain, the blades of grass glowed with a deep-green luster, and they gave off the smell of wildness unique to things that sink their roots into the earth.”

— Haruki Murakami

34. “You’re not supposed to have iron bars around you – no one is supposed to have that. You’re supposed to fall down hills and get lonely, and find your own food and get wet when it rains. That’s what happens when you’re alive.”

— Sonya Hartnett

Also featured in: Lonely Quotes

35. “Cautiously, I allowed myself to feel good at times. I found moments of peace in cheap rooms just staring at the knobs of some dresser or listening to the rain in the dark. The less I needed the better I felt.”

— Charles Bukowski

36. “There may be a time when we’ll attend Weather Theatres to recall the sensation of rain.”

— Jim Morrison

37. “I don’t consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.”

— Leonard Cohen

Also featured in: Quotes About Thinking, Quotes About Reality

38. “No person has the right to rain on your dreams.”

— Marian Wright Edelman

39. “There will be a rain dance Friday night, weather permitting!”

— George Carlin

40. “Let there be sunshine, let there be rain, let the broken hearted love again.”

— Bruce Springsteen

Also featured in: Sadness Quotes