If you say that every cloud has a silver lining, you mean that every sad or unpleasant situation has a positive side to it.

What is the meaning of every cloud there is a silver lining?

—used to say that every bad situation holds the possibility of something good.

Who said that every cloud has a silver lining?

The origin of the idiom “every cloud has a silver lining” is most likely traceable to the year 1634, when John Milton Penned his masque Comus. In it, the quote appears as “Was I deceived or did a sable cloud Turn forth her silver lining on the night?”