Being apart from the person that means the most to you is incredibly challenging. After all, being in a happy relationship is closely related to spending time with your partner and doing things together. But these long-distance relationship quotes can help you show your love just how much you miss them.
You would be wrong to think that with today’s technology, long-distance relationships aren’t that difficult anymore. It’s quite tough to maintain a long-distance relationship, even with calling or even seeing your partner through various apps. But while those video chats and messages are helpful, they’re also a painful reminder of what’s missing.
When in a long-distance relationship, you need all the inspiration and help you can get. So take a page out of others’ books – those who have been where you are and can tell you firsthand how harsh it is to be separated from your loved one.
Despite everything that life throws at them, they’ve managed to succeed. They’ve proven to themselves and to others that long-distance relationships can work.
Mind you, a long-distance relationship can in many ways also be rewarding. It helps you develop personal strength and consistency, and Lord knows it tests your patience. You get to experience what it’s like to really commit to someone, even when things aren’t in your favor.
These long-distance relationship quotes will help you to see the light at the end of the tunnel when you’re really struggling and can’t wait a second longer to see your loved one again. They’ll also remind you how lucky you are to have someone in your life who loves you as much as you love them, even if you don’t get to see them as nearly as you want to.
Romantic long-distance relationship quotes
1. “If you listen to the wind very carefully, you’ll be able to hear me whisper my love for you.”
– Andrew Davidson
2. “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
3. “The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out.”
– Elizabeth Bowen
4. “All the while, believe me, I prayed our night would last twice as long.”
– Sappho
5. “The distance may be far and wide but my heart can cover them all. The space between us is so much more but you should know that I love you so!”
– Linda Roy
6. “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
7. “Distance between two people is inconsequential when their souls are united.”
– Matshona Dhliwayo
8. “I miss you all the time, but I miss you the most when I lay awake at night, thinking of all the wonderful times we’ve spent with each other. Those are some of the most memorable moments of my life.”
– Unknown
9. “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
10. “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
11. “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.”
– Helen Keller
12. “And as days go by, the memories remain. I wait for you. As days go by, I swear I’ll try. Until I die. Anything for you.”
– Unknown
13. “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
14. “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
15. “Missing someone gets easier every day, because even though you’re one day further from the last time you saw them, you’re one day closer to the next time you will.”
– Unknown
16. “The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected.”
– Unknown
17. “In true love the smallest distance is too great and the greatest distance can be bridged.”
– Hans Nouwens
18. “That farewell kiss which resembles greeting, that last glance of love which becomes the sharpest pang of sorrow.”
– George Eliot
19. “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
20. “Distance unites missing beats of two hearts in love.”
– Munia Khan
21. “My heart is your home, wherever in the world you are – you will always have a place to stay.”
– K. A. Hill
22. “The simple lack of her is more to me than others’ presence.”
– Edward Thomas
23. “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
24. “I guess that missing you is just my heart’s way of reminding me how much I love you.”
– Unknown
25. “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
26. “True love doesn’t mean being inseparable; it means being separated and nothing changes.”
– Unknown
27. “Distance is to love like wind is to fire… It extinguishes the small and kindles the great!”
– Roger de Bussy-Rabutin
28. “There are no goodbyes for us. Wherever you are, you will always be in my heart.”
– Mahatma Gandhi
29. “The longer you have to wait for something, the more you will appreciate it when it finally arrives. The harder you have to fight for something, the more priceless it will become once you achieve it. And the more pain you have to endure on your journey, the sweeter your arrival at your destination. All good things are worth waiting for and worth fighting for.”
– Susan Gale
30. “No matter how painful distance can be, not having you in my life would be worse.”
– Unknown
31. “I exist in two places, here and where you are.”
– Margaret Atwood
32. “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.”
– Senora Ray
33. “The only way you’ll realize how broken I am without you is to put your hand on my heart and feel it limping along in pain.”
– Unknown
34. “I think we dream so we don’t have to be apart for so long. If we’re in each other’s dreams, we can be together all the time.”
– A. A. Milne
35. “It feels good to think about you when I’m warm in bed. I feel as if you’re curled up there beside me, fast asleep. And I think how great it would be if it were true.”
– Haruki Muramaki
Quotes for LDR couples
36. “I gaze up at the sun, and I’m comforted because I know that the same sun’s light is lighting your face.”
– Unknown
37. “Love knows no distance; it hath no continent; its eyes are for the stars.”
– Gilbert Parker
38. “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
39. “I’m not telling you it is going to be easy – I am telling you it is going to be worth it.”
– Art Williams
40. “If the only place where I could see you was in my dreams, I’d sleep forever.”
– Unknown
41. “We are the perfect couple, we’re just not in the perfect situation.”
– Unknown
42. “Missing someone is a part of loving them. If you’re never apart, you’ll never really know how strong your love is.”
– Unknown
43. “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
44. “To truly love something, you must first give it a chance to fail. If it survives, it is going to be stronger than ever. Distance is pure proof of this, and forever we will love if we survive.”
– Unknown
45. “And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.”
– Khalil Gibran
46. “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
47. “The few hours I spend with you are worth the thousand hours I spend without you.”
– Unknown
48. “Distance never separates two hearts that really care, for our memories span the miles and in seconds we are there. But whenever I start feeling sad, because I miss you, I remind myself how lucky I am to have someone so special to miss.”
– Henri Nouwen
49. “Love is missing someone when you’re apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you’re close in the heart.”
– Kay Knudsen
50. “Morning without you is dwindled dawn.”
– Emily Dickinson
51. “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
52. “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
53. “Maybe it’s a good idea to write something about you in my book… At least then, there will be a place where we will meet every day… and be together forever!”
– Anamika Mishra
54. “I found that 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
55. “Missing someone can hurt. But when you know they are yours forever, negativity it helps avert.”
– Trishna Damodar
56. “You’re too far for my hands to hold you, but too near for my heart to love you.”
– Heraline
57. “Distance doesn’t matter if you really love the person, what matters most is your honesty and trust for that relationship to work out.”
– Unknown
58. “I will wait for you because honestly, I don’t want anyone else.”
– Unknown
59. “Our lives were now worlds apart, separated by time, circumstance, and the unbridgeable chasm of money.”
– Travis Luedke
60. “Some of the toughest things in this world are to really want someone and not have them around you. Those are the times when you don’t know what to do. All you can do is wait.”
– Tamara Louis
61. “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
62. “I’m missing you. It means you’re missing from me. I need you here to feel complete. It feels as though I’m missing my other half. Without you, I’m not whole.”
– Unknown
63. “I hate the stars because I look at the same ones as you do, without you.”
– Unknown
64. “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
65. “She affected me, even when she was absent.”
– Shannon A. Thompson
Long-distance relationship quotes that tug at the heartstrings
66. “Distance means so little when someone means so much.”
– Tom McNeal
67. “Though time and distance separate us, our hearts are fused together, inseparable.”
– Unknown
68. “A thousand miles between you and me. So many months apart, and still I love you with all my heart.”
– Unknown
69. “If distance were measured in terms of the heart, we’d never be more than a minute apart.”
– Unknown
70. “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
71. “Close together or far apart; you’re forever in my heart.”
– Harry Styles
72. “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
73. “Can’t eat, can’t sleep and can’t smile without you. Please come back soon so I can have my life back too!”
– Unknown
74. “I hope there is a medicine for missing someone because I need it now. And I think my only medicine is you. I need you now.”
– Unknown
75. “His eyes missed her as much as the rest of him.”
– Rainbow Rowell
76. “No matter where I am, no matter where I go, your heart is my northern light, I will always find my way home.”
– Michael Kilby
77. “Missing you is a state of my mind that I love and hate. Hate because you aren’t here. Love because it reminds me of all the romantic memories that we share.”
– Unknown
78. “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
79. “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
80. “I may not get to see you as often as I like, worse than that, I long to hold you in my arms all night, but deep down there I truly know, you’re the one for whom I live my life!”
– Unknown
Sweet long-distance relationship quotes
81. “Forget the miles, forget them. You’ll be there and I’ll be here, and it’ll just be long distance. And that’ll be okay, because quite frankly, I’m crazy about you.”
– Unknown
82. “I never knew what love was until I met you, then when distance pulled us apart, I found out what true love is.”
– Unknown
83. “I didn’t want to kiss you goodbye, that was the trouble. I wanted to kiss you goodnight. And there’s a lot of difference.”
– Ernest Hemingway
84. “Some mornings still feel like the night before. I’m just waiting for the days I don’t miss you anymore.”
– Unknown
85. “This is the sad bed of chosen chastity because you are miles and mountains away.”
– Erica Jong
86. “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
87. “Loving someone more than anything, means that distance only matters to the mind, not the heart.”
– Unknown
88. “How do you know if something is real? That’s easy. Does it change you? Does it form you? And does it give you wings? Does it give you roots? Does it make you look back at a month ago and say, ‘I am a whole different person right now’? If yes, then it’s real. The evidence of truth and reality, lies in how much something can touch you, can change you, even if it’s from very far away. Distance is only the evidence of what can be surpassed.”
– C. Joybell C.
89. “What I have with you is worth it. It is worth every lonely night, every tear I cry from missing you, and the pain I feel from not having you close. It is worth it because you are my one and only. When I picture myself years from now, I see only you. No matter how painful distance is, not having you in my life would be worse.”
– Unknown
90. “I believe in the immeasurable power of love; that true love can endure any circumstance and reach across any distance.”
– Steve Maraboli
91. “The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.”
– Audrey Hepburn
92. “If you think missing me is hard, you should try missing you.”
– Unknown
93. “Absence makes the heart grow fonder, but it sure makes the rest of you lonely.”
– Charles M. Schulz
94. “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
95. “Being in a long-distance relationship is like being in school all over again: Distance teaches us to appreciate the days that we get to spend together and how to define patience. It reminds us that every moment together is special, and every second together should be cherished… And just like when I was in school, I’d rather skip class and kiss you in the stairwell.”
– Lisa McKay
96. “May the moon kiss you to sleep until I can.”
– Unknown
97. “We learn how to be patient with each other because of the miles of road between the two of us.”
– Unknown
98. “Separation is not the end of love; it creates love.”
– Unknown
99. “In a sea of people, my eyes will always search for you.”
– Unknown
100. “I have to be honest with you. I think about you a lot. All the time, actually. In the morning, at night, in the middle of my day. It’s you. It’s just always you.”
– Unknown
101. “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
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