Top 50 Long Distance Relationship Quotes of All Time
Long distance relationships are notorious for having a high degree of difficulty. On the surface, it would seem that the Internet would make it easier to cope with being away from the one you love. But while video chats and instant messages are indeed essential links to a faraway sweetheart, they’re also a painful reminder of what’s missing.
Simply put, if you’re in a long distance relationship, you can use all the support and inspiration you can get. So, without further ado, here’s a collection of the best long distance relationship quotes of all time. Whether you’re sad about saying goodbye (again) or frustrated about the time spent apart, these famous sayings will give you and your distant love a much-needed boost.
- “The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.”
Charles Dickens
- “Love will travel as far as you let it. It has no limits.”
Dee King
- “Absence makes the heart grow fonder, but it sure makes the rest of you lonely.”
Charles M. Schulz
- “That farewell kiss which resembles greeting, that last glance of love which becomes the sharpest pang of sorrow.”
George Eliot
- “I exist in two places, here and where you are.”
Margaret Atwood
- “I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart).”
E.E. Cummings
- “Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it inflames the great.”
Roger de Bussy-Rabutin
- “You don’t develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.”
Epicurus
- “My heart is your home, wherever in the world you are – you will always have a place to stay.”
K.A. Hill
- “Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches.”
Miguel de Cervantes
- “Distance is not for the fearful, it’s for the bold. It’s for those who are willing to spend a lot of time alone in exchange for a little time with the one they love. It’s for those who know a good thing when they see it, even if they don’t see it nearly enough.”
Meghan Daum
- “Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.”
Kahlil Gibran
- “I fell in love with her when we were together, then fell deeper in love with her in the years we were apart.”
Nicholas Sparks
- “If you think missing me is hard, you should try missing you.”
Unknown
- “In true love the smallest distance is too great and the greatest distance can be bridged.”
Hans Nouwens
- “But nothing makes a room feel emptier than wanting someone in it.”
Calla Quinn
- “Your absence has not taught me how to be alone; it has merely shown me that when together we cast a single shadow on the wall.”
Doug Fetherling
- “Love is what you’ve been through with somebody.”
James Thurber
- “There are no goodbyes for us. Wherever you are, you will always be in my heart.”
Mahatma Gandhi
- “The art of love is largely the art of persistence.”
Albert Ellis
- “Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.”
John Dryden
- “Distance unites missing beats of two hearts in love.”
Munia Khan
- “I believe in the immeasurable power of love; that true love can endure any circumstance and reach across any distance.”
Steve Maraboli
- “Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.”
Thomas Fuller
- “Love knows not distance; it hath no continent; its eyes are for the stars.”
Gilbert Parker
- “We were together even when we were apart.”
Shannon A. Thompson
- “As contraries are known by contraries, so is the delights of presence best known by the torments of absence.”
Alcibiades
- “If you listen to the wind very carefully, you’ll be able to hear me whisper my love for you.”
Andrew Davidson
- “Missing someone is a part of loving them. If you’re never apart, you’ll never really know how strong your love is.”
Unknown
- “Distance between two people is inconsequential when their souls are united.”
Matshona Dhliwayo
- “When we miss someone, often, what we really miss is the part of us that this someone awakens.”
Luigina Sgarro
- “Distance means so little, when someone means so much.”
Tom McNeal
- “Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.”
Aristotle
- “The simple lack of her is more to me than others’ presence.”
Edward Thomas
- “Love is missing someone whenever you’re apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you’re close in heart.”
Kay Knudsen
- “If ever there is tomorrow when we’re not together… there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we’re apart… I’ll always be with you.”
Carter Crocker
- “Just in case you ever foolishly forget; I’m never not thinking of you.”
Virginia Woolf
- “Life is so short, so fast the lone hours fly,
We ought to be together, you and I.”Henry Alford - “It’s hard when you miss people. But you know if you miss them, that means you’re lucky. It means you had someone special in your life, someone worth missing.”
Nikki Schiefelbein
- “Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.”
Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
- “I don’t cry because we’ve been separated by distance, and for a matter of years. Why? Because for as long as we share the same sky and breathe the same air, we’re still together.”
Donna Lynn Hope
- “For when the cold winds blow, I will close my eyes calmly, knowing I am anchored to you.”
Tyler Knott Gregson
- “I keep myself busy with the things I do, but every time I pause, I still think of you.”
Cecelia Ahern
- “When two hearts are meant for each other, no distance is too far, no time is too long, and no other love can break them apart.”
Jaime Lichauco
- “Ocean separates lands, not souls.”
Munia Khan
- “Distance sometimes lets you know who is worth keeping, and who is worth letting go.”
Lana Del Rey
- “My dear, I think of you always and at night I build myself a warm nest of things I remember and float in your sweetness till morning.”
Zelda Fitzgerald
- “It seemed that we loved each other better when there were large swaths of two continents between us.”
Aleksandar Hemon
- “I miss you even more than I could have believed; and I was prepared to miss you a good deal.”
Vita Sackville-West
- “I’ll hold you in my heart, until I can hold you in my arms.”
J.M. Barrie