Two lovers in the rain have no need of an umbrella.
About This Quote
Interpretation
The proverb suggests that intimacy and mutual devotion can make practical discomforts feel irrelevant. “Rain” stands for adversity, inconvenience, or social exposure; the “umbrella” symbolizes protection, distance, or a barrier between two people. If lovers are truly united, they can share hardship directly rather than insulating themselves from it, and the shared experience itself becomes part of the bond. The line also carries a romantic idealism: love creates a private world in which ordinary precautions are unnecessary. Read more skeptically, it can be a warning about passion’s tendency to ignore prudence—an image of love’s warmth overriding common sense.
Variations
1) “Two lovers in the rain don’t need an umbrella.”
2) “Lovers in the rain have no need of umbrellas.”
3) “When two people are in love, they don’t need an umbrella in the rain.”




