Love knows no boundaries, but the physical distance between partners can sometimes test even the strongest relationships.
Whether you’re separated by cities, countries, or continents, these heartfelt long-distance relationship quotes capture the unique beauty of loving someone from afar. From literary giants to modern-day romantics, these words of wisdom remind us that true love can flourish across any distance.
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I’m from California in the US and my wife is from the northern part of Sweden. The most intense time in our relationship was more than a decade ago, when we lived in different places and could only see each other once a year. We’ve been together for almost 1 and half years at that time.
Our love language is cuddling, cuddling, watching movies together on the sofa, things that require each other’s physical presence. However, at that time, we could only stay in touch through very limited means such as online or remote mailing gifts.
I am very similar to her. When we first met last year, the best time was cuddling or taking my dog (a puppy at the time) for a walk. Cooking together, we laughed our asses off when she tried to get me to pronounce different foods in Swedish. The little things, the daily little things, these are the moments we talk about the most when we are apart.
Pretty much every single person I’ve talked to who’s been in a long distance relationship has told me to break up and move on before I get to attached/involved… I can understand their point, they obviously care and they understand that this kind of relationship comes with a lot challenges and IT IS difficult.
Despite this, we still made it to the end. Today I collected these quotes, hoping to help more couples who are going through the torture of long-distance relationships.. I praise love itself.
And in case nobody has praised you today, I want you to know that — you are doing great! Being alive is a great victory in itself.
Romantic Long Distance Quotes
- “I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart).” — E.E. Cummings
- “My heart is your home, wherever in the world you are — you will always have a place to stay.” — K.A. Hill
- “I exist in two places, here and where you are.” — Margaret Atwood
- “Love knows not distance; it hath no continent; its eyes are for the stars.” — Gilbert Parker
- “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
- “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 want to be with you. It’s as simple and as complicated as that.” — Charles Bukowski
- “For the two of us, home isn’t a place. It is a person. And we are finally home.” — Stephanie Perkins
- “Where we love is home — home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
- “Love will travel as far as you let it. It has no limits.” — Dee King
- “Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
- “If I had a flower for every time I thought of you…I could walk through my garden forever.” — Alfred Tennyson
- “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
- “He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.” — Leo Tolstoy
- “When two souls are one, they hear each other, even in silence.” — Matshona Dhliwayo
Inspirational Distance Quotes
- “Distance means so little, when someone means so much.” — Tom McNeal
- “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.” — Meghan Daum
- “The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.” — Charles Dickens
- “I believe in the immeasurable power of love; that true love can endure any circumstance and reach across any distance.” — Steve Maraboli
- “In true love, the smallest distance is too great, and the greatest distance can be bridged.” — Hans Nouwens
- “Distance isn’t a reason to end a relationship but an opportunity to make a connection stronger.” — Unknown
- “Once trust is built, distance cannot kill it. Time and space alone cannot destroy authentic connection.” — Vironika Tugaleva
- “How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.” — A.A. Milne
- “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.” — Helen Keller
- “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
- “Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.” — Maya Angelou
- “You don’t develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.” — Barbara De Angelis
- “Missing someone is a part of loving them. If you’re never apart, you’ll never really know how strong your love is.” — Unknown
- “I’m not telling you it’s going to be easy — I’m telling you it’s going to be worth it.” — Art Williams
- “It is a risk to love. What if it doesn’t work out? Ah, but what if it does.” — Peter McWilliams
Missing You Quotes
- “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
- “The simple lack of her is more to me than others’ presence.” — Edward Thomas
- “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
- “I miss you deeply, unfathomably, senselessly, terribly.” — Franz Kafka
- “Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated.” — Alphonse de Lamartine
- “I keep myself busy with the things I do, but every time I pause, I still think of you.” — Cecelia Ahern
- “If I miss you any harder, my heart might come looking for you.” — Gemma Troy
- “I don’t know what they are called, the spaces between seconds—but I think of you always in those intervals.” — Salvador Plascencia
- “You’re everywhere except right here and it hurts.” — Rupi Kaur
- “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
- “Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.” — Emily Dickinson
- “I felt like I was leaving a piece of my soul behind the moment you left. And every second that passes, I miss you like that, times a million.” — J.A. Huss
- “Nothing makes a room feel emptier than wanting someone in it.” — Calla Quinn
- “I wake to you everywhere. Yet you are not here.” — Nayyirah Waheed
- “Poets use countless words to describe their pain, but I only need three: I miss you.” — Caroline George
Trust and Commitment Quotes
- “And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.” — Khalil Gibran
- “Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it inflames the great.” — Roger De Bussy-Rabutin
- “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
- “Trust is the first step to love.” — Munshi Premchand
- “Once trust is built, distance cannot kill it. Time and space alone cannot destroy authentic connection.” — Vironika Tugaleva
- “When mistrust comes in, loves goes out.” — Irish proverb
- “If you cannot hold me in your arms, then hold my memory in high regard. And if I cannot be in your life, then at least let me live in your heart.” — Ranata Suzuki
- “Distance never separates two hearts that really care, for our memories span the miles and in seconds we are there.” — Cheryl Ott
- “We were together even when we were apart.” — Shannon A. Thompson
- “If we truly trust no one, we cannot survive.” — Megan Whalen Turner
- “Love is not finding someone to live with. It’s finding someone you can’t live without.” — Rafael Ortiz
- “When you can’t believe your eyes, you can always trust your heart. Love makes anything possible.” — Unknown
- “The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected.” — Nicholas Sparks
- “Distance between two people is inconsequential when their souls are united.” — Matshona Dhliwayo
- “Years from now, our past will be a story – a story of long days and lonely nights, hard work and lack of sleep. We’ll appreciate our time together, knowing how lucky we are to have made it through.” — Unknown
Short & Sweet Distance Quotes
- “Ocean separates lands, not souls.” — Munia Khan
- “We only part to meet again.” — John Gay
- “Distance unites missing beats of two hearts in love.” — Munia Khan
- “Love is space and time measured by the heart.” — Marcel Proust
- “No matter where you go, you will always be in my heart.” — Anthony T. Hincks
- “Love has no age, no limit; and no death.” — John Galsworthy
- “Love, having no geography, knows no boundaries.” — Truman Capote
- “My soul will find yours.” — Jude Deveraux
- “Distance means nothing when your love means everything.” — Unknown
- “Close together or far apart, you’re forever in my heart.” — Unknown
- “Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.” — Benjamin Franklin
- “Love will find a way.” — Unknown
- “Distance gives us a reason to love harder.” — Unknown
- “Our love can stretch across any mile.” — Unknown
- “In case you ever foolishly forget: I am never not thinking of you.” — Virginia Woolf
