A classic selection of beautiful long distance relationship quotes to comfort you, inspire you, and fill you with hope and determination. A roundup of the 100 best long distance relationship quotes ever. These inspiring sayings capture what it means to be away from the one you love.
1. “The harder the fight, the greater the victory.” -Chris Burkmenn
2. “How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.” -A.A. Milne
3. “I love no one but you, I have discovered, but you are far away and I am here alone. Then this is my life and maybe, however unlikely, I’ll find my way back there. Or maybe, one day, I’ll settle for second best. And on that same day, hell will freeze over, the sun will burn out and the stars will fall from the sky.” -Lemony Snicket
4. “Growth in love comes from a place of absence, where the imagination is left to its own devices and creates you to be much more than reality would ever allow.” -Coco J. Ginger
5. “I missed talking to you, and playing with you, and touching you, and seeing your smile. I missed just… sitting next to you. I’ve never missed anyone or anything that much.” -Mila Ferrera
6. “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
7. “Distance does not break off the friendship absolutely, but only the activity of it.” -Aristotle
8. “We have to recognize that there cannot be relationships unless there is commitment, unless there is loyalty, unless there is love, patience, persistence.” -Cornel West
9. “In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.” -Albert Einstein
10. “And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.” -Khalil Gibran
11. “When your absence is felt, your presence is the essence and it makes a difference.” -Michael Bassey Johnson
12. “Distance means so little when someone means so much.” -Tom McNeal
13. “Absence makes the heart grow fonder, but it sure makes the rest of you lonely.” -Charles M. Schulz
14. “I’d rather regret the risks that didn’t work out than the chances I didn’t take at all.” -Simone Biles
15. “The simple lack of her is more to me than others’ presence.” -Edward Thomas
16. “So it’s not gonna be easy. It’s going to be really hard; we’re gonna have to work at this every day, but I want to do that because I want you. I want all of you, forever, every day. You and me… every day.” -Nicholas Sparks
17. “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
18. “We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.” -Joseph Campbell
19. “I’m not telling you it is going to be easy- I am telling you it is going to be worth it.” -Art Williams
20. “His eyes missed her as much as the rest of him.” -Rainbow Rowell
21. “Can miles truly separate? If you want to be with someone you love, aren’t you already there?” -Richard Bach
22. “You know, all that really matters is that the people you love are happy and healthy. Everything else is just sprinkles on the sundae.” -Paul Walker
23. “In many ways, the art of love is largely the art of persistence.” -Albert Ellis
24. “The road to a friend’s house is never too long.” -Danish Proverb
25. “Happiness comes as the result of conflict, resolution, and growth— as the result of having to work at something.” -Chrissy Stockton
26. “Our lives were now worlds apart, separated by time, circumstance, and the unbridgeable chasm of money.” -Travis Luedke
27. “This is the sad bed of chosen chastity because you are miles and mountains away.” -Erica Jong
28. “You’re my closest friend and you’re thousands of miles away.” -Anthony Horowitz
29. “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 heart will never change.” -Ting Stores
30. “Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated.” -Lamartine
31. “Maybe, it’s not the distance that’s the problem, but how you handle it.” -David Leviathan
32. “What is the opposite of two? A lonely me, a lonely you.” -Richard Wilbur
33. “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
34. “Laughter is the closest distance between two people.” -Victor Borge
35. “There is magic in long-distance friendships. They let you relate to other human beings in a way that goes beyond being physically together and is often more profound.” -Diana Cortes
36. “That’s how you know you love someone, I guess, when you can’t experience anything without wishing the other person were there to see it too.” -Kaui Hart
37. “I exist in two places, here and where you are.” -Margaret Atwood
38. “There are friendships imprinted in our hearts that will never be diminished by time and distance.” -Dodinsky
39. “Distance makes the heart grow fonder.” -Thomas Haynes Bayly
40. “But I think of you. Sometimes. In the way that one might think of the summer sunshine on a winter night.”-Sreesha Divakaran
41. “Missing someone can hurt. But when you know they are yours forever, negativity it helps avert.” -Trishna Damodar
42. “We were together even when we were apart.” -Shannon A. Thompson
43. “There are no goodbyes for us. Wherever you are, you will always be in my heart.” -Mahatma Gandhi
44. “When something is missing in your life, it usually turns out to be someone.” -Robert Brault
45. “I knew when I met you an adventure was going to happen.” -A.A. Milne
46. “For anything worth having one must pay the price; the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice.” -John Burroughs
47. “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
48. “I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.” -Elizabeth Barrett Browning
49. “Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.” -Emily Bronte
50. “All the while, believe me, I prayed our night would last twice as long.” -Sappho
51. “That farewell kiss which resembles greeting, that last glance of love which becomes the sharpest pang of sorrow.” -George Eliot
52. “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.” -Helen Keller
53. “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
54. “Love isn’t something you find. Love is something that finds you.” -Loretta Young
55. “True love will triumph in the end— which may or may not be a lie, but if it is a lie, it’s the most beautiful lie we have.” -John Green
56. “Your absence has not taught me how to be alone, it merely has shown that when together we cast a single shadow on the wall.” -Doug Fetherling
57. “Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.” -Thich Nhat Hanh
58. “If need be, you can live in my heart…rent-free…all utilities included.” -Grace Nagar
59. “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
60. “Morning without you is dwindled dawn.” -Emily Dicksonson
61. “Love knows no distance; it hath no continent; its eyes are for the stars.” -Gilbert Parker
62. “Certain things catch your eye, but pursue only those that capture the heart.” -Indian Proverb
63. “I miss him in so many ways, but right now I miss him in the way you always miss someone… when you’re single among a room full of couples.” -Emily Giffin
64. “We only part to meet again.” -John Gay
65. “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
66. “I believe that two people are connected at the heart, and it doesn’t matter what you do or who you are or where you live; there are no boundaries or barriers if two people are destined to be together.” -Julia Roberts
67. “Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.” -Washington Irving
68. “A love that lasts a lifetime requires work for a lifetime.” -Rosie Ravenstein
69. “I wonder why people still underestimate the authenticity of long-distance relationships. I fell in love with her soul before I could even touch her skin. If that isn’t true love, then please tell me what is.” -Unknown
70. “When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.” -Henry Ford
71. “Sorrow comes in great waves but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us. And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.” -Henry James
72. “I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.” -Unknown
73. “The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.” -Chinese Proverb
74. “Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.” -Helen Keller
75. “Come what sorrow can / It cannot countervail the exchange of joy / That one short minute gives me in her sight.” -Shakespeare
76. “No matter how painful distance can be, not having you in my life would be worse.” -Unknown
77. “The scariest thing about distance is you don’t know if they’ll miss you or forget about you.” -Nicholas Sparks
78. “That is when time stands still— when you watch the one you love, walk away.” -Mallika Nawal
79. “In human relationships, distance is not measured in miles but in affection. Two people can be right next to each other, yet miles apart.” -Unknown
80. “Being close is the first and last desire of lovers, but being far and loving each other without an inch’s difference is the characteristic of real love.” -Seneca Roy
81. “Love is begun by time / And time qualifies the spark and fire of it.” -Shakespeare
82. “Missing someone is the worst form of torture because it never goes away no matter where you are or what you do with your life.” -Caroline George
83. “Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.” -Robert H. Schuller
84. “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
85. “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
86. “If you love deeply, you’re going to get hurt badly. But it’s still worth it.” -C.S. Lewis
87. “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
88. “We may have started as individuals, but now we are as one.” -Bryon Pulsifer
89. “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.” -A.A. Milne
90. “To love at all is to be vulnerable.” -C.S. Lewis
91. “Missing you gets easier every day because even though I am one day further from the last time I saw you, I am one day closer to the next time I will see you.” -Unknown
92. “I know we loved each other, but distance can do strange things to people and before I was willing to tell you about it, I wanted to be certain that it would last.” -Nicholas Sparks
93. “I want to be with you. It’s as simple and as complicated as that.” -Charles Bukowski
94. “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
95. “Some people can be so close to you even if physically far, they walk with you and stay near in every moment of your life.” -Senora Roy
96. “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
97. “Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.” -John Dryden
98. “Ocean separates lands, not souls.” -Munia Khan
99. “But nothing makes a room feel emptier than wanting someone in it.” -Calla Quinn
