30 Inspiring Weather Quotes

Weather has long been a source of inspiration, wonder, and reflection. From the gentle caress of a spring breeze to the awe-inspiring ferocity of a thunderstorm, the elements around us provide endless metaphorical richness and poetic musings. In our busy, digital world, pausing to appreciate the beauty and unpredictability of weather can ground us and offer profound insights. Join us as we explore a curated collection of the top 30 weather quotes that capture the essence of nature's mood swings and inspire us to see the extraordinary in the everyday.

1. “April is the cruelest month, breedinglilacs out of the dead land, mixingmemory and desire, stirringdull roots with spring rain.” - T.S. Eliot

2. “Precipitate as weather, she appeared from somewhere, then evaporated, leaving only memory.” - Haruki Murakami

3. “A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.” - Carl Reiner

4. “There is no weather in malls.” - Charles Baxter

5. “My mom says that when it rains you never feel like you should be anywhere but home.” - Elise Broach

6. “The storm starts, when the drops start droppingWhen the drops stop dropping then the storm starts stopping.” - Dr. Seuss

7. “In Ohio seasons are theatrical. Each one enters like a prima donna, convinced its performance is the reason the world has people in it.” - Toni Morrison

8. “Tut, Tut, looks like rain” - A.A. Milne

9. “Love is like the weather in Nevada--you don't know what the freak happens!” - Selina

10. “There was something horribly depressing, she felt, about watching the weather report. That life could be planned like the perfect summer picnic drained it of spontaneity.” - Galt Niederhoffer

11. “(Wallace) Stevens turns to the idea of the weather precisely as the religious idea turns to the idea of God.” - Harold Bloom

12. “Solitude is the soil in which genius is planted, creativity grows, and legends bloom; faith in oneself is the rain that cultivates a hero to endure the storm, and bare the genesis of a new world, a new forest.” - Mike Norton

13. “The captain would...turn off the conversation, like a consummate man of the world, to some topic of general interest, such as the Opera, the Prince's last ball at Carlton House, or the weather - that blessing to society.” - William Makepeace Thackeray

14. “It reminded me of what Dad said after every snail’s crawl home fromAlbany when snow hit.“It’s New York, people. It’s winter. We get snow. If you aren’t preparedto deal with it, move to Miami.” - Kelley Armstrong

15. “Winter and SummerWhile it's summer people sayWinter is the better season. Such is human reason. Kamijima Onitsura” - Reiko Chiba

16. “No wonder, he thought, that the panhandle people were a godly lot, for they lived in sudden, violent atmospheres. Weather kept them humble.... it was real muggy earlier, hot enough to cook a bear. Anyway, you get used a rapid weather change.” - Annie Proulx

17. “By early evening all the sky to the north had darkened and the spare terrain they trod had turned a neuter gray as far as the eye could see. They grouped in the road at the top of a rise and looked back. The storm front towered above them and the wind was cool on their sweating faces. They slumped bleary-eyed in their saddles and looked at one another. Shrouded in the black thunderheads the distant lightning glowed mutely like welding seen through foundry smoke. As if repairs were under way at some flawed place n the iron dark of the world.” - Cormac McCarthy

18. “Too much sun after a Syracuse winter does strange things to your head, makes you feel strong, even if you aren't.” - Laurie Halse Anderson

19. “There is no way that we can predict the weather six months ahead beyond giving the seasonal average” - Stephen Hawking

20. “Weatherman says," Kev scoffed. "I wouldn't trust that silly bugger to know it's raining now.” - Ransom Riggs

21. “A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.” - Marcel Proust

22. “... everything seemed to him a uniform shade of gray- even the people! He had been unable to believe it could rain so much in one place, and so unceasingly. The damp had seemed to come up from the floors and into his bones, so that he'd thought he would eventually sprout mold, in the manner of a tree. "You do get used to it," he said "Even if sometimes you feel as if you out to be able to be wrung out like a washrag." p 311” - Cassandra Clare

23. “I knew by the signs it would be a hard winter. The hollies bore a heavy crop of berries and birds stripped them bare. Crows quarreled in reaped fields and owls cried in the mountains, mournful as widows. Fur and moss grew thicker than usual. Cold rains came, driven sideways through the trees by north winds, and snows followed.” - Sarah Micklem

24. “I loved weather, all weather, not just the good kind. I loved balmy days, fearsome storms, blizzards, and spring showers. And the colors! Everyday brought something to be admired: the soft feathery patterns of cirrus clouds, the deep, dark grays of thunderheads, the lacy gold and peach of the early morning sunrise. The sky and its moods called to me.” - L. Jagi Lamplighter

25. “Flurries early, pristine and pearly. Winter's come calling! Can we endure so premature a falling? Some may find this trend distressing- others bend to say a blessing over sage and onion dressing.” - Old Farmer's Almanac

26. “I have discovered that the world over, unusual weather prevails at all times of the year.” - Edgar Rice Burroughs

27. “Imagine a rotating sphere that is 8,000 miles in diameter, with a bumpy surface, surrounded by a 25-mile-deep mixture of different gases whose concentrations vary both spatially and over time, and heated, along with its surrounding gases, by a nuclear reactor 93 million miles away. Imagine also that this sphere is revolving around the nuclear reactor and that some locations are heated more during parts of the revolution. And imagine that this mixture of gases receives continually inputs from the surface below, generally calmly but sometimes through violent and highly localized injections. Then, imagine that after watching the gaseous mixture you are expected to predict its state at one location on the sphere one, two, or more days into the future. This is essentially the task encountered day by day by a weather forecaster.” - Robert T. Ryan

28. “In heated rooms, he often felt the outlines of his body, the border between him and the external world, grow disturbingly fuzzy.” - Ryu Murakami

29. “If you don't like the weather in southern Ohio, just wait fifteen minutes!!!". ~R. Alan Woods [2013]” - R. Alan Woods

30. “August in Mississippi is different from July. As to heat, it is not a question of degree but of kind. July heat is furious, but in August the heat has killed even itself and lies dead over us.” - Elizabeth Spencer