60 Positive Rainy Day Quotes to Match the Mood
Some people love rainy days. Others just tolerate them until the sun comes back.
Either way, there’s no shortage of things to say about the weather outside.*
This collection covers both sides, the quiet appreciation and the mild complaining, so you can pick whatever actually matches how you feel today.
Positive Rainy Day Quotes
“Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass. It’s about learning to dance in the rain.” — Vivian Greene
“And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton
“The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.” — Dolly Parton
“Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet.” — Bob Marley
“Rain is grace; rain is the sky condescending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.” — John Updike
“A rainy day is the perfect time for a walk in the woods.” — Rachel Carson
“There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.” — John Ruskin
“I’m singing in the rain, just singing in the rain; What a wonderful feeling, I’m happy again.” — Arthur Freed
“Storms make trees take deeper roots.” — Dolly Parton
“A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener.” — Henry David Thoreau
Short Rainy Day Quotes
“Rainy days should be spent at home with a cup of tea and a good book.” — Bill Watterson
“Do not be angry with the rain; it simply does not know how to fall upwards.” — Vladimir Nabokov
“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
“I’ve learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way (s)he handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights.” — Maya Angelou
“And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton
“Be still, sad heart! and cease repining; Behind the clouds is the sun still shining; Thy fate is the common fate of all, Into each life some rain must fall.” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet.” — Bob Marley
“The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“Rain is grace; rain is the sky condescending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.” — John Updike
“A rainy day is the perfect time for a walk in the woods.” — Rachel Carson
“Colors shone with exceptional clarity in the rain. The ground was a deep black, the pine branches a brilliant green, the people wrapped in yellow looking like special spirits that were allowed to wander over the earth on rainy mornings only.” — Haruki Murakami
“I like it when it rains hard. It sounds like white noise everywhere, which is like silence but not empty.” — Mark Haddon
“Being soaked alone is cold. Being soaked with your best friend is an adventure.” — Emily Wing Smith
“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
“Clouds come floating into my life from other days no longer to shed rain or usher storm but to give colour to my sunset sky.” — Rabindranath Tagore
“Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass. It’s about learning to dance in the rain.” — Vivian Greene
“The sound of the rain needs no translation.” — Alan Watts
“I think that the world should be full of cats and full of rain, that’s all, just cats and rain, rain and cats, very nice, goodnight.” — Charles Bukowski
“Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man’s growth without destroying his roots.” — Frank A. Clark
“A rainy day is like a lovely gift — you can sleep late and not feel guilty.” — Elizabeth Jane Howard
“My idea of absolute happiness is to be in bed on a rainy day, with my blankie, my cat, and my dog.” — Anne Lamott
“There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.” — John Ruskin
“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
“Into each life some rain must fall.” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“Rain showers my spirit and waters my soul.” — Emily Logan Decens
“If the rain spoils our picnic, but saves a farmer’s crop, who are we to say it shouldn’t rain?” — Tom Barrett
“Without rain, there is no life.” — Jerry Yang
“The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.” — Dolly Parton
“Storms make trees take deeper roots.” — Dolly Parton
“I love rain. It makes me feel like it’s not just me – that other people are feeling it too.” — John Green
“A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.” — Robert Frost
“I have always considered the rain to be healing—a blanket—the comfort of a friend.” — Douglas Coupland
“When the clouds roll in, I get filled with this giddy expectation … Everything is more beautiful in the rain.” — Penelope Douglas
“Tape the sound of friends laughing together. Save it for a rainy day.” — Yoko Ono
“A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener.” — Henry David Thoreau
“The rain plays a little sleep song on our roof at night and I love the rain.” — Langston Hughes
“I’m singing in the rain, just singing in the rain; What a wonderful feeling, I’m happy again.” — Arthur Freed
“Rain didn’t make things messy. People did that all on their own.” — Barbara Delinsky
“From where we stand the rain seems random. If we could stand somewhere else, we would see the order in it.” — Tony Hillerman
“The only noise now was the rain, pattering softly with the magnificent indifference of nature for the tangled passions of humans.” — Sherwood Smith
“Some people are making such thorough preparation for rainy days that they aren’t enjoying today’s sunshine.” — William Feather
“Predicting rain doesn’t count. Building arks does.” — Warren Buffett
“Everybody wants happiness, and nobody wants pain, but you can’t have a rainbow without a little rain.” — Zion Lee
“How beautiful is the rain! After the dust and the heat, in the broad and fiery street, in the narrow lane, how beautiful is the rain!” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“Raise your words, not your voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.” — Rumi
“I am like the rain: I go where I’m needed.” — Alejandro Jodorowsky
“A smooth sea never made a skillful sailor.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt
“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.” — Ashley Smith
“For after all, the best thing one can do when it is raining is to let it rain.” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“Rain is not only drops of water. It’s the love of the sky for the earth.” — Unknown
