Heartfelt Inspirations: The Ultimate Collection of Quotes for Long Distance Relationships

"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. It's for those who know a good thing when they see it, even if they don't see it nearly enough."

- Meghan Daum

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

- Vironika Tugaleva

"I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart)"

- E.E. Cummings

"As long as we share the same sky and breathe the same air, we’re still together."

- Donna Lynn Hope

"I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart)."

- E.E. Cummings

"I want to be with you. It's as simple and as complicated as that."

- Charles Bukowski

"Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope."

- Maya Angelou

"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

"How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard."

- A.A. Milne

"I believe in the immeasurable power of love; that true love can endure any circumstance and reach across any distance."

- Steve Maraboli

"Distance means so little, when someone means so much."

- Tom McNeal

"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

"The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again."

- Charles Dickens

"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

"Love knows not distance; it hath no continent; its eyes are for the stars."

- Gilbert Parker

"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

"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

"I hope you don't mind that I put down in words how wonderful life is while you're in the world."

- Elton John

"Can miles truly separate you from friends… If you want to be with someone you love, aren’t you already there?"

- Richard Bach

"I exist in two places, here, and where you are."

- Margaret Atwood

"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

"If you fall I will catch you, I'll be waiting...time after time."

- Cyndi Lauper

"I want you forever, not just for tonight."

- Sylvain Reynard

"If you never left again, I would still spend the rest of my life missing you."

- Tessa Bailey

"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

"I wish I could show you, when you are lonely or in darkness, the astonishing light of your own being."

- Hafez

"I would walk 500 miles and I would walk 500 more just to be the man who walks a thousand miles to fall down at your door."

- The Proclaimers

"I’ll hold you in my heart, until I can hold you in my arms."

- J.M. Barrie

"My heart is your home, wherever in the world you are—you will always have a place to stay."

- K.A. Hill

"Just in case you ever foolishly forget; I’m never not thinking of you."

- Virginia Woolf

"They say that home is where the heart is, but that’s not where mine lives."

- Taylor Swift

"And I will wait, I will wait for you."

- Mumford & Sons

"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

"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

"If I could fall into the sky, do you think time would pass me by? 'Cause you know I'd walk a thousand miles if I could just see you tonight."

- Vanessa Carlton

"The best thing to hold onto in life is each other."

- Audrey Hepburn

"If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life."

- Oscar Wilde

"Where we love is home—home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts."

- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

"We were together even when we were apart."

- Shannon A. Thompson

"I don’t know what they are called, the spaces between seconds—but I think of you always in those intervals."

- Salvador Plascencia

"Keep holding on 'cause you know we'll make it through, we'll make it through. Just stay strong 'cause you know I'm here for you, I'm here for you."

- Avril Lavigne

"I miss you in ways that not even words can understand."

- Gemma Troy

"I miss your voice because it is a symphony; your scent because it is a treasure; your smile because it is a jewel; your hug because it is a masterpiece; and your kiss because it is a miracle."

- Matshona Dhliwayo

"I'm a thousand miles away, but, girl, tonight you look so pretty, yes, you do. Times Square can't shine as bright as you, I swear, it's true."

- Plain White T's

"Your memory feels like home to me. So whenever my mind wanders, it always finds it’s way back to you."

- Ranata Suzuki

"It’s painful, loving someone from afar. Watching them – from the outside. The once familiar elements of their life reduced to nothing more than occasional mentions in conversations and faces changing in photographs….. They exist to you now as nothing more than living proof that something can still hurt you … with no contact at all."

- Ranata Suzuki

"It’s difficult for me to imagine the rest of my life without you. But I suppose I don’t have to imagine it... I just have to live it"

- Ranata Suzuki

"Deep down, I think everybody wants to be ‘the one’ to someone. I don’t know if I’ve ever been that person to anyone else – but I do know you are that person to me. You are the one. The only one. And you always will be."

- Ranata Suzuki

"Though life has fated that we never cross paths again, don’t ever feel alone. For we are parallel …. and I will always be by your side."

- Ranata Suzuki

"For you are you, and I am I, and once we were we… but as long as I exist and so do you – know that I will always love you."

- Ranata Suzuki

"Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction."

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"Distance between two people is inconsequential when their souls are united."

- Matshona Dhliwayo

"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

"I love you past the moon and miss you beyond the stars."

- J.M. Storm

"We only part to meet again."

- John Gay

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

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

- K.A. Hill

"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

"When they work, long distance are the best sort of relationships, I think. That a person could wait months, cross miles and oceans for a few spectacular moments with the person they love, that’s it, you know, that’s all that we’re searching for."

- Beau Taplin

"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 exist in two places, here and where you are."

- Margaret Atwood

"The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected."

- Nicholas Sparks

"How lucky am I to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard."

- A. A. Milne

"Ocean separates lands, not souls."

- Munia Khan

"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 Hemmings

"Distance unites missing beats of two hearts in love."

- Munia Khan

"Love, having no geography, knows no boundaries."

- Truman Capote

"Love is space and time measured by the heart."

- Marcel Proust

"Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age."

- John Dryden

"Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it inflames the great."

- Roger de Bussy-Rabutin

"I am sitting far from you A thousand miles away from you I sit and write for you A thousand lines I write for you A thousand times I write for you. If love could reach you Thousand miles away I would say it then I love you – a thousand times. I will come again Much closer than before But I won’t say it then For I will fall in love A thousand times more. It’s better to restrain Until its time for the plane I will say it then I love you a thousand times A thousand miles away. With every mile I go away I love you even more So please stay away A thousand miles more"

- Amit Abraham

"Sometimes you have to be apart from people you love, but that doesn’t make you love them any less. Sometimes you love them more."

- Nicholas Sparks

"Why should distances matter? Between us there may be oceans There may be deserts between us"

- Avijeet Das

"Between my heart and your heart, there is a vein. Maybe a bridge."

- Emmanuelle Soni-Dessaigne

"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

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

- Kahlil Gibran

"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

"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

"In true love, the smallest distance is too great, and the greatest distance can be bridged."

- Hans Nouwens

"The simple lack of her is more to me than others' presence."

- Edward Thomas

"My heart is your home, wherever in the world you are — you will always have a place to stay."

- K.A. Hill

"Distances do not matter when people connect by hearts."

- Avijeet Das

"No matter where you go, you will always be in my heart."

- Anthony T. Hincks

"Lyall wanted Tristan’s kisses and his body and to have him close enough his scent would permeate rooms and make him smile when he walked into them. But he didn’t want it more than he wanted Tristan’s words, rushed in a voice messages and often too formal in emails, and in perfectly composed lectures full of masterful analogies. And not just for him, but for other people who needed to hear they didn’t have to be trapped by the vicissitudes of chance, that their bodies could be coaxed into allowing them enough freedom to find happiness—for without freedom there was no happiness possible. The distance would be harder, but it did not mean more than their closeness."

- N.J. Lysk

"I had always wanted to hear those words. I had always wanted to be your girl."

- Ranata Suzuki

"You let go of my hand to hold on to my heart Distance grasps us tight now that we are apart"

- Munia Khan

"If my voice could reach back through the past I'd whisper in your ear, 'Oh darling I wish you were here.'"

- Owl City

"Love has no age, no limit; and no death."

- John Galsworthy

"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 Roy

"It might not be distance or time that takes you away from people. Maybe you decide when you let them go. But I can't let go yet."

- Cecilia Vinesse

"I will love you until the chances of us running into one another slip from slim to zero, and until your face is fogged by distant memory, and your memory faced by distant fog, and your fog memorized by a distant face, and your distance distanced by the memorized memory of a foggy fog."

- Lemony Snicket

"You don’t develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity."

- Epicurus

"They say “Follow your heart”…. …. But I can’t follow you where you’re going…"

- Ranata Suzuki

"I just wanted you to know you were missed."

- Megan Erickson

"The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity."

- Edna St. Vincent Millay

"I'm only one call away, I'll be there to save the day. Superman got nothing on me."

- Charlie Puth

"There is an ocean of silence between us… and I am drowning in it."

- Ranata Suzuki

"The simple lack of her is more to me than others’ presence."

- Edward Thomas

"When your absence is felt, your presence is the essence and it makes a difference."

- Michael Bassey Johnson

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart."

- Helen Keller

"This is the sad bed of chosen chastity because you are miles and mountains away."

- Erica Jong

"The art of love is largely the art of persistence."

- Albert Ellis

"I may not always be with you. But when we’re far apart. Remember you will be with me. Right inside my heart"

- Marc Wambolt

"When mistrust comes in, loves goes out."

- Irish proverb

"Trust is the first step to love."

- Munshi Premchand

"If we truly trust no one, we cannot survive."

- Megan Whalen Turner

"You have to trust or you're only living half a life."

- J.D. Robb

"Long handwritten note deep in our pockets Words, how little they mean when we're a little too late I stood right by the tracks, your face in my head Good girls, hopeful they'll be and long they will wait In dreams I meet you in warm conversation We both wake in lonely beds, different cities And time is taking its sweet time erasing you And you've got your demons, and, darling, they all look like me Distance, timing, breakdown, fighting Silence, the train runs off its tracks Kiss me, try to fix it, could you just try to listen? Hang up, give up and for the life of us we can't get back A beautiful magic love there What a sad beautiful tragic, beautiful tragic, beautiful love affair"

- EJR

"Fate measures us perhaps with the breadth of being, Which is strange to us; Just think how much distance there is between a girl and a man When she is avoiding him or thinking of him."

- Rainer Maria Rilke

"Living in a state of constant wistful despair, perhaps, will be my destiny, said the traveller. Longing to be touched by you, will perhaps, be mine, whispered back the horizon."

- Preeti Bhonsle

"Now distance is my fate that will never grow into destiny."

- Qamar Rafiq

"Es al separarse cuando se siente y se comprende la fuerza con que se ama."

- Fyodor Dostoyevsky

"I am eternally with you As I am, No physical Form but Invisible Quantum!!"

- Ritu Negi

"But some relationships aren't meant to last. They are worthy only till the time the two persons involved have time for each other. They do not know eternity. They live for the present, the "now". And when distance plays it part, or life turns out to be busy, they fall apart. And may be that's why they're never termed "LOVE". They simply remain what they were - mere RELATIONSHIPS."

- Sanhita Baruah

"You’re crying because you think I’m going to a better place I’m crying because I think I’m leaving to a place Better than the one I am going to… Oh, the game of places… Oh, the winds of misfortune…"

- Louis Yako

"Every eye has an ocean to drown in it."

- Qamar Rafiq

"Love will travel as far as you let it. It has no limits."

- Dee King

"Short path or straight path, the distance to reach God remains the same"

- P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

"Absence makes the heart grow fonder."

"The only good thing about being apart is that I always have something beautiful to look forward to."

- Anonymous

"Whether you’re by my side or a plane ride away, having you in my life has made me a better person."

- Anonymous

"May the moon kiss you to sleep until I can."

- Anonymous

"You know it’s true love when no matter how far the distance is, he can still make you smile."

- Anonymous

"Love isn’t finding someone to live with. It’s finding someone you can’t live without."

- Unknown

"Definition of a long-distance relationship: ‘Inconveniently the most effective way to find out if you really love each other."

- Anonymous

"Distance isn’t a reason to end a relationship but an opportunity to make a connection stronger."

- Unknown

"It’s true- we don’t have it as easy as ordinary couples, but this is no ordinary love."

- Unknown

"Distance is not for the fearful, it is for the bold. It is for those willing to spend a lot of time alone in exchange for a little time with the one they love. It is for knowing a good thing when they see it, even if they don’t see it nearly enough."

- Unknown

"In true love the smallest distance is too great and the greatest distance can be bridged."

- Unknown

"I like the way you make me feel, even when you’re nowhere near."

- Unknown

"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 live each day having intimately known the pain of being apart. We’ll appreciate our time together, knowing how lucky we are to have made it through and we’ll find solace in the promise of a future together."

- Unknown

"Close together or far apart, you're forever in my heart."

"When you can't believe your eyes, you can always trust your heart. Love makes anything possible."

"Distance is just a test of how far love can travel."

"If need be, you can live in my heart…rent free…all utilities included."

"Missing someone is a part of loving them. If you’re never apart, you’ll never really know how strong your love is."