359 Storm Quotes: Thunder & Lightning Lines

I have always been a little bit in love with bad weather. While everyone else runs for cover, I’m the one on the porch watching the clouds stack up like they’re building something important. There’s a particular electricity in the air before a storm — the trees hold their breath, the light goes strange — and I never got over how alive it makes me feel.

These 60 storm quotes are for the people who feel the same pull: the thunder-watchers, the rain-on-the-roof romantics, the ones who secretly hope for one good downpour a week. I wrote every line myself — no recycled proverbs, no greeting-card fluff — just honest words about the sky at its most dramatic, from the first green light in the clouds to the smell of everything after.

So turn the volume up on the rain in your head for a while and scroll through. Storms don’t last, which is exactly why I keep writing about them.

A cathedral, a wave of a storm, a dancer’s leap, never turn out to be as high as we had hoped.” – Marcel Proust

A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease.” – John Muir

A flapping tongue has killed more men than sudden storms ever did.” – Robert Jordan

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

A great storm puts out a little fire but feeds a strong one. Trials conquer weak faith but grow a strong faith.” – LeCrae

A new world will be won not by those who stand at a distance with their arms folded, but by those who are in the arena, whose garments are torn by storms and whose bodies are maimed in the course of the contest.” – Nelson Mandela

A people of scholars, if they are physically degenerate, weak-willed and cowardly pacifists, will not storm the heavens, indeed, they will not be able to safeguard their existence on this earth.” – Adolf Hitler

A positive attitude, can turn a storm into a sprinkle.” – Robert M. Hensel

A tree with strong roots can withstand the most violent storm, but the tree can’t grow roots just as the storm appears on the horizon.” – Dalai Lama

A wind that howled like a drowning man.” – Kevin Ansbro

A woman not yet seen, but whose perfume accumulates on the horizon like a storm cloud.” – Fernand Dumont

Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.” – Nora Ephron

After a storm comes a calm.” – Matthew Henry

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 Rounseville Alger

All an optimist sees is a rainbow, all a pessimist sees is a storm.” – Matshona Dhliwayo

All day long, one storm then another and I take your hands like gentle flowers that blossom into awareness.” – John Geddes

All the ways of this world are as fickle and unstable as a sudden storm at sea.” – Venerable Bede

An eagle earns its honor from the storms it endures.” – Matshona Dhliwayo

Anger is like a storm rising up from the bottom of your consciousness. When you feel it coming, turn your focus to your breath.” – Thich Nhat Hanh

Anxiety was born in the very same moment as mankind. And since we will never be able to master it, we will have to learn to live with it—just as we have learned to live with storms.” – Paulo Coelho

Anyone who has spent a few nights in a tent during a storm can tell you: The world doesn’t care all that much if you live or die.” – Anthony Doerr

Bad news has no limits. We often feel it should, like a rainstorm that can’t possibly get any heavier. But a storm can always worsen, & the burdens of life can too.” – Mitch Albom

Be an encourager. The world has plenty of critics already.” – Dave Willis

Be patient. Like storms, the challenges will pass. Know too, that like the sun, your true soul self is constantly radiating.” – John Morton

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

Being patient even in the thickest of storms can be the one device that may catapult you over any obstacle.” – Noelle Scaggs

Big storms birth big rainbows.” – Matshona Dhliwayo

Big storms create big captains and they destroy the little ones!” – Mehmet Murat ildan

But it is in storms that God does his finest work, for it is in storms that God has our keenest attention” – Max Lucado

But virtue is above the storm, and has an anchor sure and steadfast,because it is cast into heaven.” – Charles Caleb Colton

But woman’s grief is like a summer storm, short as it violent is.” – Joanna Baillie

By a divine instinct, men’s minds mistrust ensuing danger; as, by proof, we see the waters swell before a boisterous storm.” – William Shakespeare

Celebrate your success and stand strong when adversity hits, for when the storm clouds come in, the eagles soar while the small birds take cover.” – Napoleon Hill

Church is a place for pastors to preach principles of faith in order to prepare believers to face the storms of life on the stage of an unbelieving world.” – Billy Graham

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn.” – John Muir

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

Dignity of human nature requires that we must face the storms of life.” – Mahatma Gandhi

Don’t wait for the storms of your life to pass. Learn to dance in the rain.” – Steve Rizzo

Don’t waste a minute not being happy. If one window closes, run to the next window—or break down a door.” – Brooke Shields

During the great storms of our lives we imitate those captains who jettison their weightiest cargo.” – Honore de Balzac

Even in the midst of the storm the sun is still shining.” – Dayna Lovely

Even paradise sees its share of storms, but in the end, it’s still paradise.” – Trevor Driggers

Every cloud engenders not a storm.” – William Shakespeare

Every flower must grow through dirt.” – Laurie Sennott

Every storm runs out of rain, just like every dark night turns into day.” – Gary Allan

Every violent storm will eventually give way to sunshine; every dark night will finally fade into dawn.” – Steve Goodier

Faith is not simply a patience that passively suffers until the storm is past. Rather, it is a spirit that bears things – with resignations, yes, but above all, with blazing, serene hope.” – Corazon Aquino

Fear brings the rain, despair brings the storm, hope brings the sunshine.” – Matshona Dhliwayo

Fix your course on a star and you’ll navigate any storm.” – Leonardo da Vinci

Flowers never emit so sweet and strong a fragrance as before a storm. When a storm approaches thee, be as fragrant as a sweet-smelling flower.” – Jean Paul

For each thorn, there’s a rosebud… For each twilight – a dawn… For each trial – the strength to carry on, For each storm cloud – a rainbow… For each shadow – the sun… For each parting – sweet memories when sorrow is done.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.” – George Gissing

Forget the times of trouble, but not the truths they taught. Forget the days of sorrow, but not the strength they brought. Forget the storms you battled through beneath a heavy load – but not the light that led you safely down the unknown road.” – Patience Strong

God doesn’t author hardship but uses it to strengthen us for greater conquests. He never leads us into a storm that He doesn’t give us the power to overcome.” – John Bevere

God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm.” – William Cowper

He in his madness prays for storms, and dreams that storms will bring him peace.” – Mikhail Lermontov

He knows when we go into the storm, He watches over us in the storm, and He can bring us out of the storm when His purposes have been fulfilled.” – Warren W. Wiersbe

He no longer feared the storm, for he had become a hurricane.” – Matshona Dhliwayo

He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

He’s stronger than this. He’s always been stronger…Even the mightiest oak can be felled by a whisper of a wind if it comes on the heels of a powerful enough storm.” – Sherrilyn Kenyon

Home is a shelter from storms – all sorts of storms.” – William Bennett

How small of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure! Still to ourselves in every place consigned, Our own felicity we make or find. With secret course, which no loud storms annoy, Glides the smooth current of domestic joy.” – Samuel Johnson

Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm; great good fortune comes to failure in the end. All is change; all yields its place and goes; to persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man. The coward despairs.” – Euripides

I am a kite in a tornado but I have a long string. There is tension in my line. Somewhere, someone is holding onto the other end and, although it cannot spare me this storm, it will not let me be lost while I regain my strength. It is enough.” – Karen Marie Moning

I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.” – Louisa May Alcott

I am not bound over to swear allegiance to any master; where the storm drives me I turn in for shelter.” – Horace

I am not what happened to me. I am what I choose to become.” – Emma Watson

I believe it is supposed to get difficult – your belief in your dream life is supposed to be tested. Remember, just beyond the storm is the island; if you really want to get there then fight for it and stay the course.” – Kio Briggs

I breathe in my courage. I exhale my fear.” – Jonathan Huie

I fear for my loved ones and all of my friends / I pray for good health and that no one meets their end / This is the time we should all work together / This is a storm of fear that we all can weather.” – Anthony Chilcoate

I fundamentally believe that in the moral balance of the human race, we right ourselves. If we feel like the ship’s keel is off, we find a way to steer ourselves through the storm repeatedly.” – Tom Hiddleston

I have a strong feeling for it, and I think us as humans perceive all of that – the pressure change and the moon and the wind and whether a storm is moving in on us – if we just are close enough to nature.” – Dean Potter

I have always been comfortable weathering the storm. I’d like to get more comfortable weathering the sunny day.” – Andrea Gibson

I have faith the men and women of the Coast Guard will immediately rise to the challenge and see the people hit by Katrina through until the storm has truly calmed.” – Dave Reichert

I have heard a greater storm in a boiling pot.” – Athenaeus

I have made you. I will carry you; I will sustain you and I will rescue you.” – Isaiah

I have no problem with anyone storming the court. But storm the court after the opposing team has gone to the locker room. Once the opposing team is out of the area, put them all (the fans) on the court.” – Billy Donovan

I have to get my life back on track. Order as an antidote to chaos. Calm after the storm.” – Susane Colasanti

I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you are not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald

I know that there is a God and I see a storm coming. If he has a place for me, I am ready.” – Abraham Lincoln

I know well that the greater and more beautiful the work is, the more terrible will be the storms that rage against it.” – Mary Faustina Kowalska

I like to hear a storm at night. It is so cosy to snuggle down among the blankets and feel that it can’t get at you.” – Lucy Maud Montgomery

I like to just keep the land within sight. Nowadays they can tell you if there’s a storm three days out. So it’s not much of a concern. But I’ve never been a big boat person. I don’t spend a lot of time at sea.” Casey Affleck

I love a storm in early May / When springtime’s boisterous, firstborn thunder / Over the sky will gaily wander / And growl and roar as though in play.” – Fruodor Ivanovich

I pass my life in preventing the storm from blowing down the tent, and I drive in the pegs as fast as they are pulled up.” – Abraham Lincoln

I want a storm to come and flood us into a song that no one wrote.” – Frida Kahlo

I want to believe that I’m not wrong. I want to believe that life isn’t full of darkness. Even if storms come to pass, the sun will shine again. No matter how painful and hard the rain may beat down on me.” – Natsuki Takaya

I was burned out from exhaustion, buried in the hail, poisoned in the bushes, blown out on the trail; hunted like a crocodile, ravaged in the corn,Come in,” she said,I’ll give ya shelter from the storm.” – Bob Dylan

i was like a desert and she came into my life as the storm … the rain that drenched me totally wet….” – Avijeet Das

I will call on the Lord in my distress and he answers me.” – Psalm

I wish I had been born a storm. No heart, no tears, just a terrible gale’d been good.” – Kohta Hirano

I wished to see storms only on those coasts where they raged with most violence.” – Marcel Proust

If a storm visits you, it’s because a rainbow is looking for you.” – Matshona Dhliwayo

If only a horrible storm can demolish the castle of the devil, then let the storm be victorious! It is not uncommon that heaven comes after hell!” – Mehmet Murat ildan

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

If we never had any storms, we couldn’t appreciate the sunshine.” – Dale Evans

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

If you are strong enough, you can enjoy even in the middle of a storm!” – Mehmet Murat ildan

If you have a guru, leave him; if you don’t have, get one. In other words, keep changing your gurus! Ocean’s wisdom comes from knowing many ships and many fishes, many storms and many waves!” – Mehmet Murat Ildan

If you love rainbows, you have to love storms too.” – Matshona Dhliwayo

If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you’ll never enjoy the sunshine.” – Morris West

If you start embracing life’s storms instead of hiding away from them, you’ll stop fearing them all together; it is this way one becomes immovable.” – Stefanie Schneider

If you want to enjoy the rainbow, be prepared to endure the storm.” – Warren W. Wiersbe

If you want to see the sunshine, you have to weather the storm.” – Frank Lane

If you’re brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.” – Paulo Coehlo

In Jupiter, there are Earth-Size storms; and in Earth, there are Jupiter-Size lies!” – Mehmet Murat Ildan

In order to realize the worth of the anchor we need to feel the stress of the storm.” – Corrie Ten Boom

In our own storms in life the Savior is our solace and our sanctuary. If we seek peace, we must come unto Him, the Man who suffered for mankind, who committed His life to healing the sick and comforting the disconsolate, is mindful of your sufferings, doubts, and heartaches. Living the gospel does not mean the storms of life will pass us by, but we will be better prepared to face them with serenity and peace.” – Joseph B. Wirthlin

In the midst of the flurry – clarity. In the midst of the storm – calm. In the midst of divided interests – certainty. In the many roads – a certain choice.” – Mary Anne Radmacher

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

In the storm’s of life, you can survive by grace, faith and hope.” – Lailah Gifty Akita

In this weather, in this roaring, cruel storm / they rest as they did in their mother’s house / they are frightened by no storm / and are covered by the hand of God.” – Friedrich Ruckert

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” – Confucius

It is a ship that fights the storm, but its architect who gets all the praise.” – Matshona Dhliwayo

It is better to dance in the rain than to freeze in the storm.” – Matshona Dhliwayo

It is better to endure a storm than to run to the wrong shelter.” – Matshona Dhliwayo

It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.” – Charles Caleb Colton

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.” – Frederick Douglass

It is only during a storm that a tree knows how strong it is.” – Matshona Dhliwayo

It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us; in joy we face the storm and defy it.” – Amelia Barr

It is the storm that propels a ship to its destination.” – Matshona Dhliwayo

It often takes the darkness of a storm to show us the light of God’s presence.” – Tony Evans

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

I’m gonna hunker down like a jack rabbit in a dust storm” – Lyndon B. Johnson

I’m not afraid to take a stand. Everybody come take my hand. We’ll walk this road together, through the storm. Whatever weather, cold or warm. Just let you know that, you’re not alone. Holla if you feel that you’ve been down the same road.” – Eminem

I’m thankful for my struggle because without it I wouldn’t have stumbled across my strength.” – Alex Elle

Jesus Christ is not a security from storms. He is the perfect security in storms” – Kathy Troccoli

Joy in a storm is better than despair in sunshine.” – Matshona Dhliwayo

Joy weathers any storm: Happiness rides the waves.” – Todd Stocker

Just because we’re in a STRESSFUL situation doesn’t mean that we have to get stressed out. You may be in the storm. The key is, don’t let the storm get in YOU.” – Joel Osteen

Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly ofthe storm of thought that is forever flowing through one’s head.” – Mark Twain

Life is a mixture of light and shadow, calm and storm, and it’s all good.” – Susan W. Krebs

Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass…It’s about learning to dance in the rain.” – Vivian Greene

Life isn’t finding shelter in the storm. It’s about learning to dance in the rain.” – Sherrilyn Kenyon

Like the ocean that remains calm in its depths even when waves rage over its surface, and like the sun that continues shining on high even during storms, we can at each moment create value and develop our state of life, enjoying our existence to the fullest in times of both suffering and joy.” – Daisaku Ikeda

Look for me in the whirlwind or the storm.” – Marcus Garvey

Love your storms; they bring more than rain, they bring sunshine.” – Matshona Dhliwayo

LSU would be a good place to stand during a lightning storm.” – Mike Leach

Make for the children an evening of happiness in a world of storm. Let the children have their night of fun and laughter… resolved that by our daring, these same children shall not be denied their right to live in a free and decent world.” – Winston Churchill

Many of Nature’s finest lessons are to be found in her storms, and if careful to keep in right relations with them, we may go safely abroad with them, rejoicing in the grandeur and beauty of their works and ways.” – John Muir

memory is a storm I can’t repel.” – Dilys Laing

Mental illness doesn’t choose the most talented or the smartest or the richest or the poorest. It shows no mercy and often arrives like an unexpected storm, dropping an endless downpour on young dreams.” – Steve Lopez

My calmness is peace of heart, which reflects in the life I live. This peace of heart is the source that calms the storm.” – T. B. Joshua

My heart resembles the ocean; has storm, and ebb and flow; and many a beautiful pearl lies hid in its depths below.” – Heinrich Heine

My peace I leave with you – we saw how there is peace even in the storm.” – Vincent Van Gogh

Never apologize for being sensitive or emotional. Let this be a sign that you’ve got a big heart and aren’t afraid to let others see it. Showing your emotions is a sign of strength.” – Brigitte Nicole

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

Never lose hope. Storms make people stronger and never last forever.” – Roy T. Bennett

Never make a permanent decision based on a temporary storm.. No matter how raging the billows are today, remind yourself:This too shall pass!” – T. D. Jakes

New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings.” – Lao Tzu

No coward soul is mine / No trembler in the world’s storm-troubled sphere / I see heaven’s glories shine / And faith shines equal, arming me from fear.” – Susan Ratcliffe

No matter what storm you face, you need to know God loves you. He has not abandoned you.” – Franklin Graham

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

No way out but through the storm now.” – Lisa Wingate

Nobody’s going to save you. No one’s going to cut you down, cut the thorns thick around you. No one’s going to storm the castle walls nor kiss awake your birth, climb down your hair, nor mount you onto the white steed. There is no one who will feed the yearning. Face it. You will have to do, do it yourself.” – Gloria E. Anzaldúa

Now and then there comes a crash of thunder in a storm, and we look up with amazement when he sets the heavens on a blaze with his lightning.” – Charles Spurgeon

Now I want you to think that in life troubles will come, which seem as if they never would pass away. The night and storm look as if they would last forever; but the calm and the morning cannot be stayed; the storm in its very nature is transient. The effort of nature, as that of the human heart, ever is to return to its repose, for God is Peace.” – George MacDonald

Observe the life like a wise tree by the side of a calm lake! Do not move; just sit and observe! Observe the Sun, observe the storms; observe the wisdom, observe the stupidities!” – Mehmet Murat Ildan

Often, not the storm but the fear of storm beats us!” – Mehmet Murat ildan

Oh, when you sigh, we can ride / A butterfly caught up in a hurricane, hurricane / Lucky me, I’m glad I’m free / Suddenly I’m caught up in your summer rain.” – Rose Ella Jones

Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do.” – Golda Meir

Once the storm comes out, the landscape changes. What you had before is altered in some way. And you have a choice: build something new and better from what is left or abandon it.” – David Levithan

One small crack does not mean you are broken, it means that you were put to the test and you didn’t fall apart.” – Linda Poindexter

Only the holy spirit can give us peace in the midst of the storms of restlessness and despair.” – Billy Graham

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.” – Buddha

Remember how far you’ve come, not just how far you have to go. You are not where you want to be, but neither are you where you used to be.” – Rick Warren

Ride the storm. Cheer wildly. Gather strength from life’s storms.” – Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.” – Joseph Addison

Rise above the storm and you will find the sunshine.” – Mario Fernandez

Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest.” – Epicurus

So fades a summer cloud away; So sinks the gale when storms are o’er; So gently shuts the eye of day; So dies a wave along the shore.” – Anna Letitia Barbauld

So the storm passed and every one was happy.” – Kate Chopin

Somehow I understood without the storm I couldn’t know myself.” – Glenn Beck

Sometimes a storm in your life is what will blow you to the place you are longing to be.” – Beth Moore

Sometimes big waves are hidden inside small waves; the revolt of every big storm starts with a small wave!” – Mehmet Murat ildan

Sometimes God allows storms to come together in such a way that they ultimately fulfill something that would never have happened otherwise.” – Beth Moore

Sometimes God calms the storm and sometimes He calms his child.” – John H. Groberg

Sometimes I get lonesome for a storm. A fullblown storm where everything changes.” – Joan Baez

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

Sometimes things happen… moments cannot be controlled by us… we flow unknowingly into a storm…” – Avijeet Das

Sometimes when you’re in the storm, it’s harder and maybe when it’s over, then you can look back on it.” – Brad Gilbert

Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains; but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them.” – Jean Paul

Stay calm inside! You will then see that outside storms of life, even the most terrible ones, will turn into soft winds.” – Mehmet Murat Ildan

Storms don’t come to teach us painful lessons, rather they were meant to wash us clean.” – Shannon L. Alder

Storms draw something out of us that calm seas don’t.” – Bill Hybels

Storms make trees take deeper roots.” – Dolly Parton

Storms teach trees to dance.” – Matshona Dhliwayo

Storms think that they will scare everyone on their path, but they are very mistaken because they have forgotten the stormy souls who are afraid of nothing!” – Mehmet Murat ildan

Strange that she is both the anchor against the storm and the storm itself.” – Victoria Aveyard

Strong people don’t put others down, they lift them up.” – Michael Watson

Take refuge in silence. You can be here or there or anywhere. Fixed in silence, established in the inner ‘I’, you can be as you are. The world will never perturb you if you are well founded upon the tranquility within. Gather your thoughts within. Find out the thought centre and discover your Self-equipoise. In storm and turmoil be calm and silent. Watch the events around as a witness. The world is a drama. Be a witness, inturned and introspective.” – Ramana Maharshi

That’s what true love is. It cannot be broken, it cannot be chipped away, it’s eternal, everlasting, and it can weather any storm.” – Alyson Noel

The darkness of the storm determines the brightness of the rainbow.” – Matshona Dhliwayo

The Eagle does not escape the storm. The Eagle simply uses the storm to lift it higher. It spreads its mighty wings and rises on the winds that bring the storm.” – Jack White

The fiercest storm is taking place in some of our churches. The unbelief and disobedience of God’s words,” – Billy Graham

The first stage of this tranquility consists in silencing the lips when the heart is excited. The second, in silencing the mind when the soul is still excited. The goal is a perfect peacefulness even in the middle of the raging storm.” – John Climacus

The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.” – Vincent Van Gogh

The flesh endures the storms of the present alone; the mind, those of the past and future as well as the present. Gluttony is a lust of the mind.” – Thomas Hobbes

The footsteps of the storm are the most compassionate part of the storm! Before the storm comes with all its might, it sends you hard breezes and warns you!” – Mehmet Murat ildan

The great benefit of practicing mindfulness… is presence of mind within a storm of emotions.” – Phillip Moffitt

The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.” – Epictetus

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

The height of human wisdom is to bring our tempers down to our circumstances, and to make a calm within, under the weight of the greatest storm without.” – Daniel Defoe

The Ice Storm, because of the movie, has had, or is to have, a vigorous life in other cultures.” – Rick Moody

The idea of seeing the sea – of being near it – watching its changes by sunrise, sunset, moonlight, and noonday – in calm, perhaps in storm – fills and satisfies my mind.” – Charlotte Bronte

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

The more violent the storm the sooner it is over.” – Seneca the Younger

The morning is full of storm in the heart of summer. The clouds travel like white handkerchiefs of goodbye, the wind, travelling, waving them in its hands. The numberless heart of the wind beating above our loving silence. Orchestral and divine, resounding among the trees like a language full of wars and songs.” – Pablo Neruda

The most awesome mission of the storm is that it reminds us that the universe is never actually a calm garden with flowers! Peace is always an exception in this universe!” – Mehmet Murat ildan

The only safe ship in a storm is leadership.” – Faye Wattleton

The only thing which is not in the character of the storm is calmness because calmness simply means ‘death’ for the storm!” – Mehmet Murat ildan

The outer storm ceases the moment the inner storm ends, for they are the same storm.” – Vernon Howard

The person who knows which way the storm will follow is never afraid of the storm!” – Mehmet Murat ildan

The quarrels of lovers are like summer storms. Everything is more beautiful when they have passed.” – Madame Necker

The rainbow is always inside the storm.” – Matshona Dhliwayo

The sea is dangerous and its storms terrible, but these obstacles have never been sufficient reason to remain ashore…unlike the mediocre, intrepid spirits seek victory over those things that seem impossible…it is with an iron will that they embark on the most daring of all endeavors…to meet the shadowy future without fear and conquer the unknown.” – Ferdinand Magellan

The storm came. Lives were washed away. Ancient pains resurfaced. Now it is time for a sea of change.” – Travis Smiley

The storm does evil, but it also has a morality: To treat everything equally while ruining everything!” – Mehmet Murat ildan

The storm doesn’t diminish a rainbow’s beauty, it enhances it.” – Matshona Dhliwayo

The storm hits the lonely tree more strongly!” – Mehmet Murat ildan

The storm is an artist; the rainbow is its masterpiece.” – Matshona Dhliwayo

The storm is inferior to the rainbow.” – Matshona Dhliwayo

The storm is master. Man, as a ball, is tossed twixt winds and billows.” – Friedrich Schiller

The storm is over, there is sunlight in my heart. I have a glass of wine and sit thinking of what has passed.” – P. G. Wodehouse

The storm is what they threw at me, the hurricane is what I became.” – Matshona Dhliwayo

The storm likes to go where it’s not invited, not where it’s invited!” – Mehmet Murat ildan

The storm never lasts, but the sun never stops shinning.” – Matshona Dhliwayo

The storm starts, when the drops start dropping. When the drops stop dropping then the storm starts stopping.” – Dr. Seuss

the storm thunders at my heart; I find it difficult to believe in the existence of anything except the clouds which limit my horizon.” – Therese of Lisieux

The storms are honest friends: They remind us of how dangerous this universe is and invite us to be vigilant and serious!” – Mehmet Murat ildan

The storms come and go, the waves crash overhead, the big fish eat the little fish, and I keep on paddling.” – George R. R. Martin

The storms will come and the winds will rise and the gusts will threaten to pull you from your roots. Let the winds come. Let them rage and know that you will not break in the breeze, you will bend. Bend. Always bend because you are made of more strength than you know, because you are better than the breaking.” – Tyler Knott Gregson

The storm’s end is the rainbow’s beginning.” – Matshona Dhliwayo

The storm’s mission is to remove the pink glasses from our eyes and to make us see the universe in its realistic form! And what is the reality? The reality is that the universe is a heaven of danger!” – Mehmet Murat ildan

The wind is a natural way to loosen and release dead leaves and branches, just as emotional and life-situation storms are opportunities for humans to release ‘deadwood’ and anything needing to be swept away.” – Doreen Virtue

The wise man in the storm prays God not for safety from danger but for deliverance from fear. It is the storm within which endangers him[,] not the storm without.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

The world is a great ocean, upon which we encounter more tempestuous storms than calms.” – Edgar Allan Poe

Then was I as a tree whose boughs did bend with fruit; but in one night, a storm or robbery, call it what you will, shook down my mellow hangings, nay, my leaves, and left me bare to weather.” – William Shakespeare

There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.” – Willa Cather

There are storms in your own life; storms from a cleansed conscience emerges a changed life.” – Billy Graham

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

There is peace even in the storm” – Vincent Van Gogh

There’s a storm inside of us, a burning river, a drive. You push yourself further than anyone could think possible. You are never out of the fight.” – Marcus Luttrell

There’s no question that the minute I got elected, the storm clouds on the horizon were getting nearly directly overhead.” – George W. Bush

This is the moment when we must come together to save this planet. Let us resolve that we will not leave our children a world where the oceans rise and famine spreads and terrible storms devastate our lands.” – Barack Obama

This long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead. Economists set themselves too easy, too useless a task if in tempestuous seasons they can only tell us that when the storm is long past the ocean is flat again.” – John Maynard Keynes

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

This world to me is like a lasting storm,Whirring me from my friends.” – William Shakespeare

Though the man quarrels with the storm, it still passes over his house.” – Yoruban Proverb

To protect ourselves against the storms of passion, marriage with a woman is a harbor in the tempest; but with a bad woman it is a tempest in the harbor.” – Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

True courage scorns to vent her prowess in a storm of words; and to the valiant action speaks alone.” – Tobias Smollett

We are warned by the Word both of our duty, our danger, and our remedy. On the sea of life there would be many more wrecks if it were not for the divine storm-signals which give to the watchful a timely warning. The Bible should be our Mentor, our Monitor, our Memento Mori, our Remembrancer, and the Keeper of our Conscience.” – Charles Spurgeon

We are willing to weather the storm of multiple failures to achieve a goal. We’re so convinced in the destination that we are able to let go of the reins and give it to God.” – Boris Kodjoe

We can endure the storms only if we believe that the sun will soon come out of the clouds!” – Mehmet Murat ildan

We faced it and did not resist. The storm passed through us and around us. It’s gone, but we remain.” – Frank Herbert

We rode on the winds of the rising storm, We ran to the sounds of the thunder. We danced among the lightning bolts, and tore the world asunder.” – Robert Jordan

Well, we knew that we wanted to tell a story that made bold choices, and one of those bold choices was meeting a storm trooper and seeing who this person was. That’s something that had never been done.” – J. J. Abrams

What matters most is how well you walk through the fire.” – Charles Bukowski

When a storm blows, you must stand firm. For it is not trying to knock you down, it is really trying to teach you to be strong.” – Joseph M. Marshall III

When all seems to be against you, remember, a ship sometimes has to sail against the current, not with it.” – Matshona Dhliwayo

When it is perceived that a show has gone awry, the pressure is staggering, and as a writer caught in that storm, it feels like you are being attacked by jackals.” – Steven Bochco

When the storm has passed, put your energy into rebuilding your life, don’t waste time looking back.” – Leon Brown

When the storm rips you to pieces, you get to decide how to put yourself back together again.” – Bryant H. McGill

When the storm starts talking, no ocean can sleep!” – Mehmet Murat ildan

When the wind blows, a stubborn tree breaks, but an intelligent one bends.” – Matshona Dhliwayo

When the world is storm-driven and bad things happen, then we need to know all the strong fortresses of the spirit which men have built through the ages.” – Edith Hamilton

When trouble comes, focus on God’s ability to care for you.” – Charles Stanley

When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.” – John Muir

When you are in the eye of the storm, you are often not aware of the whiplash around you.” – Hugh Bonneville

When you are in the middle of a storm cloud it’s hard to think outside of it, but the only way out of the storm is to ride through it and things will be a lot clearer on the other side” – Jodi Ann Bickley

When you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come” – Robert H. Schuller

When you chase rainbows, it is inevitable you will run into storms.” – Matshona Dhliwayo

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

When you walk through the storm, hold your head high And don’t be afraid of the dark! At the end of the storm is a golden sky And the sweet song of the lark. Walk on through the wind Walk on through the rain Though your dreams be tossed & blown Walk on, walk on, with hope in your heart And you’ll never walk alone!” – Douglas Adams

Where there are no storms there are no rainbows.” – Matshona Dhliwayo

Wherever the storm carries me, I go a willing guest.” – Horace

Whether one is twenty, forty, or sixty; whether one has succeeded, failed or just muddled along; whether yesterday was full of sun or storm, or one of those dull days with no weather at all, life begins each morning!” – Leigh Mitchell Hodges

While parents should always provide shelter from a storm, they should sometimes allow children to play in the rain.” – Wes Fesler

With inner strength, the soul can be still in the storm.” – Lailah Gifty Akita

Without living the most chaotic internal storms, you can’t get the calmness of the wisdom! Wisdom is the child of the storm.” – Mehmet Murat Ildan

Worrying does not empty tomorrow of its troubles, it empties today of its strength.” – Corrie Ten Boom

Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. It’s like singing on a boat during a terrible storm at sea. You can’t stop the raging storm, but singing can change the hearts and spirits of the people who are together on that ship” – Anne Lamott

You are being tested. And you know what they say my darling, being tested only makes you stronger.” – Downton Abbey

You are not controlling the storm, and you are not lost in it. You are the storm.” – Sam Harris

You are worthy of love and respect. You are beautiful, gifted, and intelligent. Don’t let the storm make you forget it.” – Russell T Davies

You can be in the storm, but don’t let the storm get in you.” – Joel Osteen

You can find peace amidst the storms that threaten you.” – Joseph B. Wirthlin

You can look at my palm and see the storm coming. Read the book of my life and see I’ve overcome it.” – Mary J. Blige

You cannot forever escape from the storm; you must learn to stand up to it!” – Mehmet Murat ildan

You can’t expect justice from the storm, because it only knows to destroy!” – Mehmet Murat ildan

You can’t have the rainbow without the storm.” – Shannon L. Alder

You don’t get to choose if you get hurt in this world, but you do have some say in who hurts you.” – John Green

You don’t need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.” – Bertolt Brecht

You have no right to go before a public without an adequate technique, just because you feel. Anything feels – a leaf feels, a storm feels – what right have you to do that? You have to have speech, and it’s a cultivated speech.” – Martha Graham

You learn to know a pilot in a storm.” – Seneca the Younger

You need courage to face the storm, not the sunshine.” – Matshona Dhliwayo

You never know how strong you are until being strong is the only choice you have.” – Bob Marley

Your hopes, dreams and aspirations are legitimate. They are trying to take you airborne, above the clouds, above the storms, if you only let them.” – William James

“Storms are the sky losing its temper.” — Unknown

“I love storms, as long as the roof holds.” — Unknown

“Thunder is the sky slamming a door.” — Unknown

“Rain on a tin roof is my favorite song.” — Unknown

“The storm took the power out, so we lit candles and talked like it was 1985.” — Unknown

“Lightning doesn’t strike twice? It struck my plans three times today.” — Unknown

“Some storms you weather. Some you become.” — Unknown

“The wind howled all night and I finally got some decent sleep.” — Unknown

“Storm clouds don’t ask how your day is going.” — Unknown

“I respect a sky that says exactly what it means.” — Unknown

“The first raindrop hit my forehead like a tiny drum.” — Unknown

“You know it’s serious when the dog hides in the bathtub.” — Unknown

“Storms rearrange the yard and your priorities.” — Unknown

“Rain came down sideways today. Even the mailman gave up.” — Unknown

“Thunder rolls. I stay.” — Unknown

“The storm passed and everything smelled new again.” — Unknown

“I have danced in one real downpour. My shoes never recovered.” — Unknown

“Lightning writes across the sky and deletes nothing.” — Unknown

“A storm is nature’s way of reminding you who’s in charge.” — Unknown

“The power flickered twice. We pretended not to notice.” — Unknown

“Rain is just the sky returning borrowed water.” — Unknown

“Storms end. That’s the part I hold onto.” — Unknown

“The weatherman said forty percent. The sky said a hundred.” — Unknown

“I watched the storm roll in from the porch like a show I paid for.” — Unknown

“Thunder has no indoor voice.” — Unknown

“The rain drums on the windows like it’s trying to get in.” — Unknown

“Some people run from storms. I make coffee and watch.” — Unknown

“Hail is rain that got ambitious.” — Unknown

“The street flooded and the kids treated it like a holiday.” — Unknown

“Lightning counted to three. The thunder answered right away.” — Unknown

“A good storm cleans the gutters and your head.” — Unknown

“The wind stole my umbrella and I respected the hustle.” — Unknown

“Storm warnings are just the sky’s RSVP.” — Unknown

“I have never seen a rainbow argue with a storm cloud.” — Unknown

“The sky turned green and every porch light in town came on.” — Unknown

“Rain washes the dust off everything except my car.” — Unknown

“Storms teach you which windows you forgot to shut.” — Unknown

“The loudest thunder always comes when the baby is finally asleep.” — Unknown

“I love the part where the rain stops and the birds go crazy.” — Unknown

“A stormy night is a good excuse for a long dinner.” — Unknown

“The clouds turned black at four. I took it personally.” — Unknown

“Lightning is the sky’s way of taking a flash photo of itself.” — Unknown

“The rain fell so hard the driveway turned into a river.” — Unknown

“Storms don’t negotiate. That’s why I admire them.” — Unknown

“I fell asleep to thunder and woke up to birdsong.” — Unknown

“The weatherman apologized. The storm did not.” — Unknown

“Rain on hot pavement smells like summer letting go.” — Unknown

“The storm knocked the fence down. The neighbor finally waved.” — Unknown

“I chase the rumble the way some people chase sunsets.” — Unknown

“Thunder is applause for a sky that did something right.” — Unknown

“The rain stopped at midnight. Nobody told the gutters.” — Unknown

“Storms make small houses feel cozier and big houses feel emptier.” — Unknown

“I have stood in rain that felt like the sky was thinking out loud.” — Unknown

“The wind writes its signature across every flag on the street.” — Unknown

“Lightning split the oak. The oak grew around it.” — Unknown

“A thunderstorm is the only concert that starts exactly on time.” — Unknown

“The rain hammered the tent all night. We laughed anyway.” — Unknown

“Storm clouds move like they have somewhere better to be.” — Unknown

“I measure a good storm by how quiet the house gets.” — Unknown

“After every storm, the sky hands you a clean page.” — Unknown

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If even one of these storm quotes made your heart beat a little faster, then the thunder did its job through me. I wrote them for the porch-sitters, the window-watchers, and everyone who has ever stood in a doorway just to feel the wind change — you know who you are.

Before the skies clear, do me a favor: bookmark this page and share it with the one friend who texts you every time it storms. Good storm quotes are meant to be passed around like flashlights in a blackout, and your share is what keeps this little corner of the internet charged.

And the next time the clouds roll in, come back for more — or check out our rain quotes for rainy-day reflections and our strength quotes for quotes about weathering life’s bigger storms.

Storm Quotes FAQs

What are the best storm quotes for Instagram captions?

Pick lines with drama and punch. “Thunder rolls. I stay.” makes a perfect caption for any lightning shot, and “Rain on a tin roof is my favorite song.” fits cozy indoor-storm posts. One strong line beats a paragraph — let the storm photo carry the emotion and keep hashtags minimal.

Why are storm quotes so popular?

Because storms are one of the few things that make everyone feel something at once — awe, a little fear, a strange kind of peace. Storm quotes give words to that charge in the air before the rain starts. People share them during actual storms, during hard weeks, and whenever life feels loud and electric.

What do storms symbolize in quotes and literature?

Storms usually stand for turmoil, power, and the honest admission that some things are beyond our control — but also renewal, since every storm passes and washes things clean. Writers have used them as turning points for centuries: the storm breaks, the characters change, the air clears. In quotes, a storm is rarely just weather; it’s a mood with thunder.

What are some short storm quotes about thunder and lightning?

The short ones hit hardest: “Thunder is the sky slamming a door.” “Thunder has no indoor voice.” “Hail is rain that got ambitious.” These work as captions, texts, and one-liners because they take something huge and make it human-sized — and a little bit funny, which is exactly how most of us survive storm season.

How can I use storm quotes to encourage someone going through a hard time?

Choose lines about endurance rather than drama. “Storms end. That’s the part I hold onto.” says everything without sounding like a lecture, and “After every storm, the sky hands you a clean page.” offers hope without pretending the storm wasn’t real. Send it as a plain text with no explanation — the quote does the work.

Where can I find more quotes like these?

Right here — this collection was written from scratch for storm lovers, and our related weather quote collections cover clouds, rain, and ocean waves. Bookmark this page and come back the next time the sky turns dramatic; we add fresh, hand-picked quotes regularly instead of recycling the same tired lines everyone else posts.

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