50 long distance quotes for when you’re missing your love

When physical distance separates you from your loved one, it’s tough. Long distance quotes can be a powerful means to convey your feelings when you struggle to put them into words.

Long distance relationships can be very challenging.

My husband and I were living in different cities when we were first introduced by a mutual friend, and even though we were barely more than an hour’s drive apart, I still remember how wonderful it was when we closed the distance and moved in together. No longer did we have to rely on hours of messages and phone calls. We’ve hardly been apart since!

If you’re in a long distance relationship, you’ll know what I’m talking about.

You may also have those moments when you wonder if it is all worth it, if you can cope with the pain of missing each other, if you’ll survive this time until you are reunited again.

If that’s the case, these long distance quotes can help put your feelings into words.

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Inspirational long distance quotes

These inspirational long distance quotes serve as a reminder as to why you’re doing this – because your love is worth it.

How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard. – A.A. Milne

Absence is to love as wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small and kindles the great. – Roger de Bussy-Rabutin 

Come what sorrow can
It cannot countervail the exchange of joy
That one short minute gives me in her sight. – William Shakespeare

How do you know if something is real? That’s easy. Does it change you? Does it form you? 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

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

I fell in love with her when we were together, then fell deeper in love in the years we were apart. – Nicholas Sparks

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

I’m not telling you it is going to be easy. I am telling you it is going to be worth it. – Art Williams

It’s been a year and three months since we’ve kissed, and I rather have the ghost of his mouth on my lips than kiss anyone else. – Alishah Khan

Thank God for men who manage to hold from afar, wipe tears away with tender words and dish out the life force that is hope. She has never felt so alone but out there, across an ocean, and in a foreign land, there is a man who loves her and would lay down his life just so she could feel the light once again. – Donna Lynn Hope

The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again. – Charles Dickens

The simple lack of her is more to me than others’ presence. – Edward Thomas

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

Missing you long distance quotes

It’s a sweet agony when we long to be connected to our partners but they seem so far away. These long distance quotes help put these feelings of sadness into words.

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

As contraries are known by contraries, so is the delights of presence best known by the torments of absence. – Alcibiades

But nothing makes a room feel emptier than wanting someone in it. – Calla Quinn

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. – Cheryl Ott

Oh! my dearest love, why are our pleasures so short and so interrupted? How long is this to last? …. Praise my forbearance–oh! beloved one–that I do not rashly fly to you, and at least secure a moment’s bliss. Wherefore should I delay; do you not long to meet me? All that is exalted and buoyant in my nature urges me towards you, reproaches me with the cold delay, laughs at all fear and spurns to dream of prudence. Why am I not with you? – Michael Kelahan

Seasons of the heart. To get through what I must I’m often encased in ice and for months he chips away until he can see my face and after a while, I begin to thaw. As warmth and feeling returns, my emotions continue to build until my personality is set on fire. When he leaves, the fire dwindles until there is but a flicker. Then there is stillness and winter returns. – Donna Lynn Hope

That farewell kiss which resembles greeting, that last glance of love which becomes the sharpest pang of sorrow. – George Eliot

That is when time stands still – when you watch the one you love, walk away. – Mallika Nawal

The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected. – Nicholas Sparks

When something is missing in your life, it usually turns out to be someone. – Robert Brault

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

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Romantic quotes when the distance feels hard

These romantic quotes will give you all the loving feelings even when the distance between you seems insurmountable.

Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it. – Thomas Fuller

And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation. – Khalil Gibran

Can miles truly separate us from friends or lovers… If we want to be with someone we love, aren’t we already there? – Nitya Prakash

Distance simply means separation in place but never in connections. Heart remains inseparable. – DhelChen

He touched my soul long before I knew what his hands felt like. – Nikki Rowe

I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart). – e.e. cummings

I exist in two places, here and where you are. – Margaret Atwood

If you listen to the wind very carefully, you’ll be able to hear me whisper my love for you. – Andrew Davidson

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. – Aristotle

Love knows no distance; it hath no continent; its eyes are for the stars. – Gilbert Parker

Love will travel as far as you let it. It has no limits. – Dee King

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

My heart is your home, wherever in the world you are – you will always have a place to stay. – K.A. Hill

My only enemy
is the miles of distance
that’s there between us,
my favorite place
is the road that leads
me to you
the long road home – Jyoti Patel

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

No matter where my life takes me or yours takes you, I will love you whether there are a thousand miles between us or none at all. – Courtney Peppernel

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

There are no goodbyes for us. Wherever you are, you will always be in my heart. –Mahatma Gandhi

They sit together, physically separate but utterly connected by the moment they’ve created. – Stan Lee

True love can endure any circumstance and reach across any distance. – Steve Maraboli

Without a single thought, two hands collide and the world finally makes sense again. – Kayla Dawn

When two souls are one, they hear each other, even in silence. – Matshona Dhliwayo

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Surviving long distance relationship quotes

These long distance quotes are when you worry that you’ll never make it and you need that extra boost.

Distance means so little when someone means so much. – Tom McNeal

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

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

Once trust is built, distance cannot kill it. Time and space alone cannot destroy authentic connection. – Vironika Tugaleva

The ones that change…it’s not that going actually changed them its that they didn’t have something better waiting for them when they got back. They changed because its who they wanted to be. Not everyone is lucky enough to have the better half of his soul and the rest of his life waiting back home to remind him why he left in the first place. – Hope Alcocer

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

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

You are the stars hidden by clouds. I know you’re there even when I can’t see you. Your shine peeks out and reaches me in the depths of my soul. Tell me your arms are long enough to reach me across oceans. Tell me someday we will be together, somehow, some way. Tell me that this love we have can survive being together as well as we’ve survived being apart. Tell me we are more than the chasm of our divide. – Jacqueline Simon Gunn

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If you’re in a long distance relationship, you’ve already displayed strength and commitment over and over again. That doesn’t mean that it’s an easy ride, however.

These long distance quotes will help you feel less alone.

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