If you’ve been in a long distance relationship or are in one now, you know that it can be tough. But it’s also worth it. When two people are in a long-distance relationship, it’s important to maintain communication and keep the love alive. It’s also important to remember that as long as you have each other, you’ll never be too far apart. Enter long distance relationship quotes…
The following 121 long distance relationship quotes will remind you of that. They’ll remind you (and your partner) of how strong your love is, and that the miles between you only make your bond stronger. So don’t give up on your long distance love, it’s worth fighting for! Enjoy!
Let the long distance relationship quotes begin!
1) “Distance is just a test of how far love can travel.” – Unknown
2) “I hate waiting. But if waiting means being able to be with you, I’ll wait for as long as forever to be with you.” – Unknown
3) “Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.” – Thomas Fuller
4) “It’s true. We don’t have it as easy as ordinary couples. But this is no ordinary love.” – Unknown
5) “I don’t miss you and you alone, I miss you and me together.” – Unknown
6) “As contraries are known by contraries, so is the delights of presence best known by the torments of absence.” – Alcibiades
7) “Just because things are not at their best right now does not mean that we should give up. Gold is tested in fire and something precious like love needs distance to be tested.” – Olga Peters
8) “Love is what you’ve been through with somebody.” – James Thurber
9) “Being apart teaches us how to be together.” – Unknown
Short long distance relationship quotes for him and her.
10) “Distance between two people is inconsequential when their souls are united.” – Matshona Dhliwayo
11) “But I must admit, I miss you quite terribly. The world is too quiet without you nearby.” – Lemony Snicket
12) “I can bear the distance but cannot imagine a life without you. For you I will go through the distance and the heartaches. You are my one and only.” – Montana Lee
13) “I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart)” – E.E. Cummings
14) “Certain things catch your eye, but pursue only those that capture the heart.” – Ancient Indian Proverb
15) “I close my eyes, thinking that there is nothing like an embrace after an absence, nothing like fitting my face into the curve of his shoulder and filling my lungs with the scent of him.” – Jodi Picoult
16) “I have late-night conversations with the moon; he tells me about the sun, and I tell him about you.” – S.L. Gray
Long Distance Relationship Quotes by Donna Lynn Hope
17) “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
18) “I missed him the more he was absent from my life, and the more I missed him, the more I loved him.” – Donna Lynn Hope
19) “Every day is a countdown to the next time I see you” – Unknown
Be courageous and challenge adversity!
20) “You don’t develop courage by being happy in your relationships every day. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.” – Epicurus
21) “Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire.” – Unknown
22) “Distance teaches us to appreciate the days that we are able to spend together and distance teaches us the definition of patience. It is a reminder that every moment together is special, and every second should be cherished.” – Unknown
23) “Distance does not break off the friendship absolutely, but only the activity of it.” – Aristotle
24) “Does distance really matter? You love your favorite actor, drool for your favorite singer and await patiently for the next art from your favorite artist or writer. Why not the one you love?” – Jane Morsel
25) “I dropped a tear in the ocean. The day you find it is the day I will stop missing you.” – Unknown
26) “Each goodbye is a reminder of how precious every minute is with you.” – Unknown
27) “It’s not the distance that’s the enemy, but the endless time I have to wait until I hold you in my arms.” – Besski Levius
28) “And ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.” – Kahlil Gibran
29) “Every day I miss you is another day I fall harder.” – Unknown
Long Distance Relationship Quotes by Erica Jong
30) “Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.” – Erica Jong
31) “This is the sad bed of chosen chastity because you are miles and mountains away.” – Erica Jong
32) “I exist in two places, here and where you are.” – Margaret Atwood
Long Distance Relationship Quotes by Nicholas Sparks
33) “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, Dear John
34) “The scary thing about distance is you don’t know whether they’ll miss you or forget you.” – Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
35) “While I sleep, I dream of you, and when I wake, I long to hold you in my arms. If anything, our time apart has only made me more certain that I want to spend my nights by your side, and my days with your heart.” – Nicholas Sparks, Nights in Rodanthe
36) “Sometimes you have to be apart from the people you love but that doesn’t make you love them any less. Sometimes you love them more.” – Nicholas Sparks
Long Distance Relationship Quotes by Michael Bassey Johnson
37) “When your absence is felt, your presence is the essence and it makes a difference.” – Michael Bassey Johnson
38) “If you truly want to be respected by people you love, you must prove to them that you can survive without them.” – Michael Bassey Johnson
39) “Love finds a way.” – Unknown
40) “Long distance is not for daydreamers, it’s for believers like us, we believe.” – Unknown
41) “If you found that one person who is really worth the sacrifices, pain, and hardships, then your efforts will not go to waste.” – Anna Agoncillo
42) “Together forever, never apart. Sometimes in distance, but never in heart.” – Unknown
43) “Distance gives us a reason to love harder.” – Unknown
44) “Distance makes the heart grow fonder.” – Thomas Haynes Bayly
45) “The distance is nothing when one has a motive.” – Jane Austen
46) “I hate the stars because I look at the same ones as you do, without you.” – Unknown
47) “I have made new friends and have many new people that I know. But hey, you will always be a special part of my heart because no one has been able to replace the space you left in it.” – Stephen Lob
48) “Having you hold me in your arms makes all my doubts disappear.” – Unknown
49) “He touched my soul long before I knew what his hands felt like.” – Nikki Rowe
Home is where the heart is…
50) “My heart is your home, wherever in the world you are – you will always have a place to stay.” – K.A. Hill
51) “Home is not where you are from, it is where you belong. Some of us travel the whole world to find it. Others find it in a person.” – Beau Taplin
52) “How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.” – A.A. Milne, Winnie The Poo
53) “I don’t miss you and you alone – I miss you and me together.” – Unknown
54) “If love cannot stand the test of time, then it has failed the test of love.” – Bernard Byer
55) “In true love the smallest distance is too great and the greatest distance can be bridged.” – Hans Nouwens
56) “True love doesn’t mean being inseparable; it means being separated and nothing changes.” – Unknown
57) “Distance is not for the fearful, it is 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 knowing a good thing when they see it, even if they don’t see it nearly enough.” – Meghan Daum
58) “It seemed that we loved each other better when there were large swaths of two continents between us. The daily work of love was often hard to perform at home.” – Aleksandar Hemon
59) “Love is not just being with someone. Love is feeling someone even if miles separate you.” – Wordions
Long distance relationship quotes for a husband or wife.
60) “Every kiss is a smile waiting to happen.” – Unknown
61) “You know you’ve found true love when you catch yourself falling in love with the same person over and over again despite them being miles away from you.” – Unknown
62) “Love knows no distance; it hath no continent; its eyes are for the stars.” – Gilbert Parker
63) “Distance sometimes lets you know who is worth keeping and who is worth letting go.” – Lana Del Rey
64) “Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.” – Saint-Exupery
65) “Our lives were now worlds apart, separated by time, circumstance, and the unbridgeable chasm of money.” – Travis Luedke
66) “I long for the day I’ll dream of your kiss no more, when your lips will caress mine for real, when your touch makes me alive again, and the sight of you arouses all my senses.” – Unknown
67) “The longer you wait, the better it gets.” – Unknown
Long Distance Relationship Quotes by Dee King
68) “Love will travel as far as you let it. It has no limits.” – Dee King
69) “Be the success story you’re looking for. Be the ones to survive your long distance relationship. Be the inspiration for others to follow.” – Dee King
70) “Loving someone you don’t see every day is not a bad thing. It’s just proof that love is not in sight but in the heart.” – Unknown
71) “Absence makes the heart grow fonder, but it sure makes the rest of you lonely.” – Charles M. Schulz
72) “In many ways, the art of love is largely the art of persistence.” – Unknown
73) “No matter how far you are, I will wait for you until we can finally be together.” – Unknown
74) “Distance means so little, when someone means so much.” – Tom McNeal
75) “I might not be there with you. But I’m always there for you.” – Unknown
76) “Miles between us will never keep us far apart. For love doesn’t count miles, It is measured by the warmth of our hearts.” – Unknown
77) “I miss you even more than I could have believed; and I was prepared to miss you a good deal.” – Vita Sackville-West
78) “Love is missing someone whenever you’re apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you’re close in heart.” – Kay Knudsen
79) “Morning without you is dwindled dawn.” – Emily Dickinson
Long distance relationship quotes for him.
80) “I close my eyes, thinking that there is nothing like an embrace after an absence, nothing like fitting my face into the curve of his shoulder and filling my lungs with the scent of him.” – Jodi Picoult
81) “Distance never separates two hearts that really care.” – Cheryl Ott
82) “No matter how far you manage to go, distance will never be able to erase those beautiful memories. There is so much goodness that we shared together.” – Lucy Aims
83) “Love is not finding someone to live with. It’s finding someone you can’t live without.” – Rafael Ortiz
84) “Distance means nothing when someone means everything.” – Unknown
85) “The ocean separates lands, not souls.” – Munia Khan
86) “Odd how much it hurts when a friend moves away – and leaves behind only silence.” – Pam Brown
87) “Once trust is built, distance cannot kill it. Time and space alone cannot destroy authentic connection.” – Veronika Tugaleva
88) “One day the plane ticket will be one way” – Unknown
89) “Only they understood the truth, distance could never separate them for long, a whole bright future awaits.” – Unknown
Relatable quotes for a loving relationship…
90) “Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches.” – Miguel de Cervantes
91) “The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.” – Charles Dickens
92) “Sometimes the people who are thousands of miles away from you can make you feel better than those right beside you.” – Unknown
93) “Missing you reminds me how much you’re worth it.” – Unknown
94) “It is a risk to love. What if it doesn’t work out? Ah, but what if it does.” – Peter McWilliams
95) “She affected me, even when she was absent.” – Shannon A. Thompson
96) “The simple lack of her is more to me than others’ presence.” – Edward Thomas
97) “Sometimes I just sit in front of the computer dreaming. I have food in front of me but no appetite to eat it. All because my heart misses you and my mind is dreaming about you.” – Sandra Toms
98) “Distance is temporary, but our love is permanent.” – Unknown
99) “That farewell kiss which resembles greeting, that last glance of love which becomes the sharpest pang of sorrow.” – George Eliot
Follow your heart…
100) “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.” – Helen Keller
101) “This may be the last time I see you, but if you keep me in your heart, together we shall be eternal; if you believe, we shall never part.” – Ben Harper
102) “Time and distance don’t mean anything when I know we will embrace and hold each other again.” – Unknown
103) “Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it inflames the great.” – Roger de Bussy-Rabutin
104) “Close together or far apart, you’re forever in my heart.” – Unknown
105) “You’re too far for my hands to hold you, but too near for my heart to love you.” – Heraline
106) “Tonight I can write the saddest lines. To think that I do not have her. To feel that I have lost her. To hear the immense night, still more immense without her.” – Pablo Neruda
107) “The tough part of having a long distance relationship is the fight. Normal people can fight and make up by talking face to face. That gets a lot more difficult in a long distance relationship.” – Darren Klee
108) “True love doesn’t ask you to sacrifice yourself. You can love someone from a distance and still live in the moment.” – Unknown
109) “When two hearts are meant for each other, no distance is too far, no time too long, and no other love can break them apart.” – Unknown
Quotes for two hearts in love.
110) “Distance unites missing beats of two hearts in love.” – Munia Khan
111) “The value of love is slowly lost when we have way too much. There is just no time to appreciate it. It is in times of separation and distance that you truly understand the meaning of love.” – Tiffany Health
112) “The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance, but live right in it, under its roof.” – Barbara Kingsolver
113) “Waiting does not bother me, nor does the distance that is cropping up between us. All I want is a true commitment and to know that your heat will never change.” – Ting Stores
114) “I want to be with you. It’s as simple and as complicated as that.” – Charles Bukowski
115) “We are the perfect couple, we’re just not in the perfect situation.” – Unknown
116) “What comes easy, won’t last. What lasts won’t come easy.” – Unknown
117) “When you feel alone, just look at the spaces between your fingers, remember that in those spaces you can see my fingers locked with yours forever.” – Unknown
118) “Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.” – Edna St. Vincent Millay
119) “You’re worth every mile between us.” – Unknown
120) “I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.” – Elizabeth Barrett Browning
121) “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
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