Rainbows Sayings and Quotes

Rainbows are beautiful, but it’s easy to forget they often appear after an ugly storm. It’s the perfect metaphor for life. Sometimes you have to go through the bad to get to the good at the end. Below you’ll find a collection of wise and insightful rainbow quotes.

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain. Dolly Parton
It was the rainbow gave thee birth, and left thee all her lovely hues. W. H. Davies
Rainbows introduce us to reflections of different beautiful possibilities so we never forget that pain and grief are not the final options in life. Aberjhani
I don't want a rainbow... Rainbows have too many colors and none of them receive the appreciation they deserve... I'd prefer a fading red or a striking golden, a shimmery silver or a sober blue... Ruling the sunset sky alone! Debalina Haldar
One can enjoy a rainbow without necessarily forgetting the forces that made it. Mark Twain
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
If you want to see a rainbow you have to learn to see the rain. Paulo Coelho
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
After a debauch of thunder-shower, the weather takes the pledge and signs it with a rainbow. Thomas Bailey Aldrich
We will continue to chase rainbows unless we recognize that they are rainbows and there is no pot of gold at the end of them. Diane Ravitch
All these seven colors are part of one rainbow, yet they are all different. They have their own quality, their own identity, their own flavor to it. So it is a rainbow. The Divine loves diversity, that is why he made us all different. Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Somewhere, over the rainbow, Way up tall, There's a land where they've never heard of cholesterol. Allan Sherman
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
The rainbow bursts like magic on mine eyes! In hues of ancient promise there imprest... Charles Tennyson Turner
And, lo! in the dark east, expanded high, The rainbow brightens to the setting Sun. James Beattie
That arc of light, born of the shower and colored by the sun, which spans the heavens! Jean Charles Prince
God's illumined promise. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Rainbows apologize for angry skies. Sylvia Voirol
When it looked like the sun wasn't going to shine any more, there's a rainbow in the clouds. Maya Angelou
And as he spoke of understanding, I looked up and saw the rainbow leap with flames of many colors over me. Black Elk
The smiling daughter of the storm. Charles Caleb Colton
And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow. G. K. Chesterton
After fifteen minutes nobody looks at a rainbow. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Look up to the sky You'll never find rainbows If you're looking down. Charlie Chaplin
There can be no rainbow without a cloud and a storm. John H. Vincent
If you disturb the colors of the rainbow, the rainbow is no longer beautiful. Denis Diderot
If a rainbow makes a sound, or a flower as it grows, that was the sound of her laughter. William P. Young
If you want to enjoy the rainbow, be prepared to endure the storm. Warren Wendel Wiersbe
Only rainbows after rain the sun will always come again. Tahlia Chi
Rainbows reminds us that even after the darkest clouds and the fiercest winds there is still beauty. Katrina Mayer