Phrases about rain: the most poetic and fun from the pen of artists, writers and philosophers

Water is an extremely powerful natural element: in particular in summer storms it manages to amaze us with its strength. In the form of rain, it exerts a strong attraction on all of us, both negative and positive; perhaps because it is able to reconnect with the evolution of things? Whatever its effect on you it is important to face rainy days with a charge; check out some tricks to wake up in a good mood in the video below!

Meaningful phrases about rain

Life on earth began thanks to water and without it none of us would be here now. Since the dawn of time it has always been seen as an extremely prolific element, but at the same time destructive in that it is capable of wiping out villages and destroy our homes. Water takes many forms and the most common is rain.
Not many people love it, but it has certainly always fascinated man. Many philosophers of the past, as well as contemporary ones, have stopped to reflect on its beauty and on what its arrival entails, perhaps observing it during a gloomy day. which makes it extremely romantic.
Here then is a selection of famous phrases about rain that try to grasp its meaning and the message it carries with it. Ideal to share via Whatsapp or Facebook when it's raining outside, or to post on Instagram when you don't have an umbrella!

It rains on the just and it also rains on the unjust; but more on the just, because the unjust steals his umbrella.
(Lord Bowen)

The wind is a friend of gossip, the rain is a friend of feelings, the fog is a friend of conspiracies.
(Ma Changsan)

Happiness is caressing a warm warm puppy, it is staying in bed while it is raining outside, it is walking on the grass with bare feet, it is the sob after it has passed.
(Charlie Brown)

And it rains on your eyelashes, Ermione. It rains on your black eyelashes so that you seem to cry but with pleasure.
(Gabriele D'annunzio)

The next time it starts to rain ... lie on your stomach, sink your chin into the grass, and see how the rain falls from the frog's point of view ... The vision of hundreds of blades of grass bowing and rising like keys of a piano strikes me as one of the most beautiful shows in the world.
(Malcolm Margolin)

In the long rainy days, even the moments seem tired, they flow slowly as if to whisper their sadness to the world.
(Stephen Littleword)

There are those who wait for the rain so as not to cry alone.
(Fabrizio De André)

Sun and rain are equally necessary to ripen grapes and talent.
(Friedrich Nietzsche)

There are some who feel the rain; others can only get wet.
(Roger Miller)

A downpour imparts its teachings. If the rain catches you halfway, and you walk faster to find shelter, you will still get wet when you pass under the gutters or in the uncovered spots. If, on the other hand, you admit the possibility of getting wet right from the start, you won't mind, even if you get wet anyway. The same disposition of mind, by analogy, is valid on other occasions.
(Yamamoto Tsunetomo)

phrases about rain: Lord Bowen

There are days when rain seems to have been invented to accompany the notes played slowly by a sax.
(Francis Dannemark)

You raise your body towards the rain clouds, your breath fills with water. You look at the shape of the drops, yourself, reflected as an image.
(Tiina Lehikoinen)

Has anyone ever stopped the rain because a lawn was rotting?
(Sorin Cerin)

In the rain we were all closer. Now everyone has their own shadow.
(Eero Suvilehto)

The rain writes like a child lying on his page, with oblique and slow, diligent lines.
(Christian Bobin)

Who can distinguish the sea from what is reflected in it? Or say where the rain ends and the melancholy begins?
(Haruki Murakami)

In a drop I talked about you.
She didn't keep the secret.
Now all the rain, repeat your name.
(Giancarla Gallo)

When they got out of the car it was raining again and again the rain, in the light of the car headlights, looked like thousands of glowing needles.
(Emine Sevgi Özdamar)

You cannot say "more sun" to the sun, or "less rain" to rain.
(Sayuri Nitta)

So many pains can be found when the rain falls.
(John Steinbeck)

When we wake up the morning rain will wash away our pain, because for us it never started and it will never end.
(Elisa Toffoli)

Good words are like rain that wets the ground.
(African proverb)

In a shower of gold many things are penetrable.
(Thomas Carlyle)

Let the rain in his shoes be sweet to him, even the loneliness.
(Francesco De Gregori)

Rain for lovers is honey, but for lonely hearts it is gall.
(Luciano Sante Manara)

What solidarity that of these raindrops on the glass. They never let any of them commit suicide by themselves
(Lorenzo Olivan)

It is Autumn and it is raining. I walk under the trees in the park and it drips like in spring, but with another noise, another density, another smell, another melancholy.
(Fabrizio Caramagna)

When I am sad I wear the rain, so that it can keep me company; for an instant even the sky is part of me.
(Stephen Littleword)

The rain slips through your fingers as easily as words are blown by the wind, but it has the power to destroy your whole world.
(Karen Maitland)

phrases about rain: Tiina Lehikoinen

Aphorisms to dedicate to those who love rain

Do you know someone who particularly likes rain, or maybe you really appreciate it more than the sun? People who love rain are defined rain-loving and perhaps they are melancholy souls, but certainly very romantic because they can find joy and serenity in dark days. Below you will find some aphorisms in agreement on the fact that it is not possible to define a rainy day as "bad weather", because it is one of the best moments to live! Dedicate it to someone special who loves showers and gloomy days.

Rain is life; rain is the descent of heaven to earth; without rain, there could be no life.
(John Updike)

I love the rain, wash away the memories from the sidewalks of life.
(Woody Allen)

Rain was invented so that man feels happy under a roof ...
(Sylvain Tesson)

People like sunny days, they scare me. The worst things are done under a clear sky. When it hurts, one prefers to postpone a bad action. With the sun anything can happen ...
(Erri De Luca)

Fantasy is a place where it rains inside ...
(Italo Calvino)

In a drop of rain you can see the colors of the sun.
(Lewis Bernstein Namier)

Some say the rain is bad, but they don't know that it allows you to turn your head up high with your face covered in tears.
(Jim Morrison)

So it rains, you are not sugar and you will not melt, so enjoy it.
(Anonymous)

Sleeping while it's raining outside should be considered the eighth wonder of the world.

Those rainy days when you hang out with her for a whole afternoon in bed and it seems so strange that the world is happening out there. As if the whole world was in that space between you and his eyes.

There is this gray, and it rains a little. And to make sense of all this, love should be made. Or draw smilies on the fogged glass.

Of the rain, it would be enough to grasp the rhythm and not the noise.

The rain in the autumn evenings is deceptive, it seems only water and instead it is a memory.

When I am with you the roar of the rain becomes music.

Let a smile be your umbrella on a rainy day.

At night I dream that you and I are two plants that have grown together with intertwined roots ... and that you know the earth and the rain as my mouth, because we are made of earth and rain.
(Pablo Neruda)

Today it's raining, all the trees are happy.
(Aleksandr Aleksandrovič Blok)

phrases about rain: Woody Allen

Quotes about spring and summer drizzle

If you are not particularly fond of rain it does not mean that you do not know how to appreciate a pleasant drizzle; specifically the one that comes down from the sky when it is spring or summer. It turns out to be refreshing and friendly, precisely in those situations where it is necessary to have a respite from the sultry heat or from too many hours of sunshine. Below you will find some sentences dedicated to spring and summer showers.

Then, just as the tears, which are sometimes round, abundant and compassionate, leave behind a long beach washed by discord, so the summer rain, sweeping away the motionless dust, is for the soul of beings like an infinite breath.
(Muriel Burbery)

A summer is always exceptional, be it hot or cold, dry or humid.
(Gustave Flaubert)

It was raining behind the window, but it was not a noisy winter rain, it was a rustling, soft, almost spring rain. He murmured, sighed, told something sliding on the glass, dripping from the ledges, merging with the wind. It was like a rubbing, like the sound of a leaf being crumpled.
(Nina Berberova)

Summer rain falls inside me without refreshing my sadness.
(Nazim Hikmet)

There are delightful spring rains in which the sky seems to cry with joy.
(Paul-Jean Toulet)

The first water of August is the beginning of winter.
(Proverb)

The rainy summer is worse than the autumn.
(Proverb)

Spring rain is exciting. Summer is stimulating. The autumn rain is quiet and restful. While the November rain is nothing!
(Charles Schulz)

Tears are the summer showers on the soul.
(Alfred Austin)

Breathing in the damp coolness and bread-like smell of the earth that had long awaited rain, he watched the gardens and woods rush by, the yellow fields of rye, the still green streaks of oats, and the black furrows with the dark green patches of flowering potatoes. Everything seemed to be covered with a varnish: the green became greener, the yellow more yellow, the black more black. - Again and again! Said Nechljudov, delighted with the fields, gardens and orchards that were reviving in the beneficial rain.
(Lev Tolstoy)

The first April rain that you hear beating on the roof gives you refreshment and relaxation, you find a lovely sleep and then, in the morning, the desire to go, to go out and walk freely and aimlessly because spring has no boundaries.
(Mario Rigoni Stern)

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Phrases about thunderstorms and the rainbow

Rain and sun are indisputably connected; without one there is not the other and as it happens they are the two elements of nature that have given us life. After a storm, an incredible magic also manifests itself, a colorful rainbow, to be admired wherever you are. The phrases about rain, thunderstorms and rainbows are very suggestive because they lend themselves perfectly to being used as metaphors to describe life: happiness always comes after a difficulty. Read the most beautiful quotes about rain and the rainbow and post on Instagram with your most beautiful pictures of the colored arches seen from the window of your house or car window.

If you want to see the rainbow, you have to endure the rain.
(Hazel Grace Lancaster)

To ward off the storm, one can commit all cowardice: pray to God, or pretend to work, or save the fly that was about to burn in the flame of the candle.
(Jules Renard)

Those who want to see the rainbow must learn to love the rain.
(Paulo Coehlo)

It can not rain forever!
(The Raven)

Like a white waterfall, the storm passed over the Wakashio VII, a deep-sea fishing boat loaded with tuna, and then moved away southwards, leaving behind it a rainbow that, like an arch of triumph, seemed to welcome the returning boat. towards the port of departure.
(Kōji Suzuki)

We define a rainbow as the reflection of the sun in the clouds. It is therefore a sign of a storm, since the water pouring from the cloud produces wind all around or causes rain to fall.
(Anaxagoras)

And if the sun can give the sky its most beautiful rainbow only after a storm, perhaps even life mistreats us a little in order to offer us something precious.
(Laura Tangorra)

But the point is, even if things seem to go wrong, there is always a rainbow behind every cloud and smooth sailing ahead.
(Ice Age 4 - Continents adrift)

But when the sun shines as the rain falls, a bittersweet rainbow can appear.
(Gossip Girl)

If you want the rainbow, you have to resign yourself to enduring the rain.
(Dolly Parton)

Love is like a rainbow after the rain. Let's kiss in the rain and you'll see that you won't be able to do without me anymore. Without you the rain just falls. If you have to leave me do it on a rainy day so you won't see that I'm crying.

I deserve a rainbow after all the rain I've taken.
(Antares)

Be the rainbow in the storms of life; the ray that in the evening, like a smile, the clouds scatter.
(George Gordon Byron)

Everyone wants happiness, nobody wants pain, but you can't make a rainbow without a little rain.
(K. Gibran)

phrases about rain: Paolo Coehlo

Poems about rain

Could they be missing some touching poems about the saddest element par excellence? Poets get married with those gloomy feelings that rain can unleash; and with good reason! Some of the poems below are extremely famous and have been written by illustrious characters such as D "Annunzio, Alda Merini and Paul Verlain. Find the one you like best and share their words with friends and family.


And who are you? I asked the water, which was gently raining,
and she, strange to say, gave me this answer, which I now translate:
of the Earth I am the Poem, replied the water,
eternal I rise impalpable from the earth and the unfathomable sea,
up towards the sky, whence, in a vague form, totally changed and yet always the same,
descending to wash the dryness, the debris, the layers of dust of the world,
and how much in them, without my help, would be a latent seed, not born;
perennial by day, by night, I return life to my origin, I embellish and purify it.
(Walt Whitman)

Shut up. Up the thresholds
I do not hear of the forest
words you say
human; but I hear
newer words
that speak drops and leaves / distant
Listen. It is raining
from the scattered clouds.
It rains on the tamarisks
brackish and burnt,
it rains on the pines
scaly and bristly,
it rains on the myrtles
divine,
on the shining gorse
of flowers welcomed,
on the thick junipers
of aulent cuddles,
it rains on our faces
silvani,
it rains on our hands
naked,
on our light clothing,
on the fresh thoughts
that the soul opens
short story,
on the beautiful fairy tale
than yesterday
t "deluded, which today deludes me,
or Hermione.
(Gabriele D "Annunzio)

Rain has a vague secret of tenderness
a resigned and lovable drowsiness,
humble music wakes up with her
and makes the sleeping soul of the landscape vibrate.
(Federico Garcìa Lorca)

I listened to the rain
ask the silence
what fragile ardor
he spelled and died.
Infinity tended
gold and fragments of red perfuming the stones
of distant roads.
Dreams lived in me
smelling of musk
when the rushing river
ruffled the ocean.
I listened to the rain
ask the silence
how many strips of streets
they tied the heart.
And the rain was crying
drying in the wind
over sloping roofs
of desolate countries.
(Alda Merini)

It cries in my heart
how it rains on the city ...
(Paul Verlaine)

What crazy clouds
they joke up in the sky
in a moment they weave
around the sun a veil.
Then four quick drops
of rain sprinkle down
and fleeing to the sun they cry out:
"Now you dry!"
(L. Schwarz)

I have seen spring.
It is green
like a wild apple,
she is cheerful
like a squirrel's tail.
Speak out
with words of wind.
When you think she is crying
it's just a drop of rain
(Finnish poem)

phrases about rain: poetry by Federico Garcia Lorca

Let it rain: phrases about rain in English

The charm of the rain could not go unnoticed in English-speaking countries, especially in England where the fine fine drizzle is at home! The British are much more used to rain than we are and live with it every day by equipping themselves with umbrellas, waterproof shoes and windproof capes. Here you will find some ironic or emotional reflections on rain, expressed in English.


Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet.
Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet.
(Roger Miller)

Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.
Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray even when the sun is shining.
(Satchel Paige)

Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass. Its about learning to dance in the rain.
Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass, but about learning to dance in the rain.
(Anonymous)

When it is misty, in the evenings, and I am out walking by myself, it seems to me that the rain is falling through my heart and causing it to crumble into ruins.
When it is foggy, in the evening, and I go out to walk alone, it seems to me that the rain falls into my heart, breaking it into a thousand pieces.
(Gustave Flaubert)

Do not be angry with the rain; it simply does not know how to fall upwards.
Don't hate in the rain; he simply does not know how to fall upwards.
(Vladimir Nabokov)

The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.
The best thing you can do when it rains is to let it rain.
(Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)

Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain patter on your head with silvery liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
(Langston Hughes)

You can tell a lot about a person by the way he / she handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights.
You can tell a lot about a person from how they handle these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas lights.
(Maya Angelou)

Anyone who says sunshine bring happiness has never danced in the rain.
Whoever says that the sun brings happiness has never danced in the rain.
(Anonymous)

It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.
It is not the light that we need, but the fire. It is not light rain, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind and the earthquake.
(Frederick Douglass)

phrases about rain: in English

Let a smile be your umbrella, and you’ll end up with a face full of rain.
Let a smile be your umbrella and you will end up with a face full of rain.
(George Carlin)

I love falling asleep to the sound of the rain.
I love falling asleep to the sound of rain.
(Anonymous)

I always like walking in the rain, so no one can see me crying.
I like walking in the rain so no one can see me cry.
(Charlie Chaplin)

Learn how to read the love letters sent by the wind and rain, the snow and moon.
Learn to read love letters sent by the wind and rain, snow and the moon.
(Ikkyū Sōjun)

The unwelcome November rain had perversely stolen the day's last hour and pawned it with that ancient fence, the night.
The unwelcome November rain had perversely stolen the last hour of the day and pledged it with that ancient obstacle, the night.
(Francis Scott Fitzgerald)

I woke to the sound of rain.
I woke up to the sound of rain.
(Sylvia Plath)

The drops of rain make a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling.
As it falls, the drop digs the stone, not for its strength, but for its constancy.
(Lucretius)

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.
Clouds float in my life, they no longer bring rain or storm, but add color to the sunset sky.
(Rabindranath Tagore)

The rain will stop, the night will end, the hurt will fade. Hope is never so lost that it can't be found.
The rain will stop, the night will end, the pain will fade. Hope is never so lost that it cannot be found.
(Ernest Hemingway)

There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.
There is no bad weather, only different types of good weather.
(John Ruskin)

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
Roses will never rain: when we want to have more roses we have to plant more plants.
(George Eliot)

I wonder what ants do on rainy days?
But what will ants ever do on rainy days?
(Haruki Murakami)

When life gives you a rainy day, play in the puddles.
When life gives you a rainy day, play in the puddles.
(Anonymous)

I believe in the sun, even when it rains.
I believe in the sun, even when it rains.
(Anne Frank)

Rain! Whose soft architectural hands have power to cut stones, and chisel to shapes of grandeur the very mountains.
Rain! Whose soft architectural hands have the power to cut stones and chisel the great shapes of the mountains.
(Henry Ward Beecher)

phrases about rain: Ikkyū Sōjun

Funny thoughts to smile on gloomy days

All the aphorisms, quotes and funny phrases with the subject of rain are aimed at defusing a moment that can be annoying, especially if the water has ruined our plans for the weekend, for a dinner under the stars by candlelight or for the summer holidays. Rain can however also be seen as a pretext to create complicity between two people, why not laugh when you forget your umbrella at home? You could lend it to that person you really like ...
Here are some quotes and jokes capable of capturing the funniest aspect of rain!

The rain in Milan has an almost magical effect on traffic: nothing works anymore.
(Sandrone Dazieri)

When they were born, there was no more "rain" like when we were born: it was already "acid." It really is a world of the other world.
(Aldo Busi)

Whoever takes shelter under the branch has the one that rains and the one that falls.

Sheep in the sky, water in puddles.

When it rains and it's windy, close the door and stay inside.

It never rains, it just pours, we say in Bree.
(J. R. R. Tolkien)

When the flood threatens us, don't be afraid to get your feet wet.
(Anton Chekhov)

All the wicked are water drinkers, and the flood proves it.
(Louis Philippe de Ségur)

Thunderstorm: the clouds, frightened by thunder, burst into tears.
(Roberto Gervaso)

Today is rainy Thursday.

Rain is expected on the weekend. Luckily there is a bridge, so we have something to shelter under.

Let a smile be your umbrella and you will end up with a face full of rain.

Stop blaming the weather if it announces rain. It doesn't happen every year that you can organize a picnic in the living room near the lit fireplace.

It rains so hard that a poet reads the Weather today.

I'm not saying that the weather forecast for the week is tragic, I'm just saying that in order not to get wet you have to go out on Saturday from 16.34 to 16.52.

When I read "modest" rainfall on the weather, I imagine the drops of water saying "how beautiful you are". "It's not true, you silly you are more beautiful".

Read the forecast: low rainfall. Leave your umbrella at home "as much as it does two drops". You come back in the evening when you are an expert diver.

I'm afraid it will rain soon. [Weather forecast].

It's not bad weather: it's just that I had to empty the dehumidifier tray.
We apologize for the inconvenience..
(God, Twitter)

phrases about rain: Aldo Busi

And on the sixth day he got up and said "this thing called weekend here, let's make it perpetually set on the forecast of the deluge."
(saraturchina, Twitter)

The next wave of bad weather will be called "Mobbastaperò".

The Devil is the raindrop that falls between your collar and jacket. The one that makes you curse as it slowly goes down on your back.

To find out when it will be bad weather and it will end I'm hot I don't need to see the weather forecast: I just need to consult my vacation plan.
(sempreciro, Twitter)

If the rain didn't have a first drop, it wouldn't exist. But if the first drop didn't follow, it would be a spit.

Don't worry, it will stop raining sooner or later, as soon as the water bill arrives up there.

You understand that it's time to ask yourself questions about your social life when it's raining outside and you hear about it from Facebook instead of the window.

I think the weather is finally getting better: I saw the animals come out of the ark.
(maxmangione, Twitter)

You can like rain only if: you are a moss, you are a lichen, you are D'Annunzio.

Reflecting on the firmament, we can therefore consider the rain as splashes of others diving into the boundless celestial ocean.

If the weather continues to announce rain, city pigeons could end up evolving and being born with webbed paws.
(Fragmentarius)

It is raining. The first gesture of the week is that of the umbrella.

I love the rain until it really starts raining.

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