125 Quotes Couples in Long-Distance Relationships Will Understand Instantly

When you're in a long-distance relationship, it can sometimes feel like you're all alone and that no one but you and your partner really get what it's like or what you're going through—but these long-distance relationship quotes are right there with you.

From long-distance relationship quotes that comfort you on days when the miles feel like too many to romantic long-distance relationship quotes that'll get your honey excited for your next visit, this big list of quotes for long-distance lovers perfectly captures why all the hassle of traveling to see each other and sacrificing day-to-day closeness is worth it.

Plus, they're ideal for sharing with your long-distance boyfriend or girlfriend, too! Whether you're looking for cute texts to send your boyfriend, like long-distance relationship quotes for him before he goes to bed, or long distance quotes for her, or quotes for long-distance relationships and the power of love, these 125 long-distance relationship quotes will help you feel closer and stay even more connected.

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125 Long Distance Relationship Quotes

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

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

3. “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

4. "Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it." — Thomas Fuller

5. “Distance is to love like wind is to fire…it extinguishes the small and kindles the great!” – Roger de Bussy-Rabutin

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6. “Our lives were now worlds apart, separated by time, circumstance, and the unbridgeable chasm of money.” – Travis Luedke

7. "If love cannot stand the test of time, then it has failed the test of love." — Bernard Byer

8. “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

9. “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

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10. “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

11. “It is a risk to love. What if it doesn’t work out? Ah, but what if it does.” – Peter McWilliams

12. "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

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

14. “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

15. "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

16. “She affected me, even when she was absent.” – Shannon A. Thompson

17. “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

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18. "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

19. “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

20. “Odd how much it hurts when a friend moves away – and leaves behind only silence.” – Pam Brown

21. "When your absence is felt, your presence is the essence and it makes a difference." —Michael Bassey Johnson

22. “Love finds a way.” — Unknown

23. “I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart).” – E.E. Cummings

24. “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

25. "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

26. “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

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

28. "Tonight I can write the saddest lines.
To think that I do not have her.
To feel that I have lost her.
To hear the immense night, still more immense without her." — Pablo Neruda

29. “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

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

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

32. “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

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

34. “Distance makes the heart grow fonder.” – Thomas Haynes Bayly

35. “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

36. "Love is what you’ve been through with somebody." — James Thurber

37. “The stars lean down to kiss you
As I lie awake I miss you
Pour me a heavy dose of atmosphere
‘Cause I’ll doze off safe and soundly
But I’ll miss your arms around me
‘Cause I wish you were here.” — Owl City

38. “Morning without you is dwindled dawn.” – Emily Dickinson

39. ¨You have to go wholeheartedly into anything in order to achieve anything worth having." — Frank Lloyd Wright

40. “In true love the smallest distance is too great and the greatest distance can be bridged.” – Hands Nouwens

41. “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

42. "But I must admit, I miss you quite terribly. The world is too quiet without you nearby." — Lemony Snicket

43. “I want to be with you. It’s as simple and as complicated as that.” —  Charles Bukowski

44. “The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out.” – Elizabeth Bowen

45. "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

46. “All the while, believe me, I prayed our night would last twice as long.” — Sappho

47. “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

48. ¨I miss you even more than I could have believed; and I was prepared to miss you a good deal.” — Vita Sackville-West

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

50. “For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice.” – John Burroughs

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

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

53. “If need be, you can live in my heart…rent free…all utilities included.” – Grace Nagar

54. "When you come back, you will not be you. And I may not be I." — E.M. Forster

55. “It’s gonna be really hard. We’re gonna have to work at this every day, but I want to do that because I want you.” – Nicholas Sparks

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56. “The distance maybe 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

57. "Time is the longest distance between two places." — Tennesse Williams

58. “To love at all is to be vulnerable.” – C.S. Lewis

59. “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

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

61. “You’re too far for my hands to hold you, but too near for my heart to love you.” — Heraline

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

63. "Everything will be okay in the end. If it’s not okay, then it’s not the end." — Ed Sheeran

64. “We were together even when we were apart.” – Shannon A. Thompson

65. “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

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

67. “The thought of togetherness,
Keeps me alive, and nonetheless breathing inside .” — Shaun Rain

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

69. "In many ways, the art of love is largely the art of persistence." — Albert Ellis

70. “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

71. “Missing someone can hurt. But when you know they are yours forever, negativity it helps avert.” – Trishna Damodar

72. "Love is not finding someone to live with. It’s finding someone you can’t live without." — Rafael Ortiz

73. “Even when you are miles away, if you love someone more than anything, you can feel them when you close your eyes, as if your souls are together as one.” – Karen Kostyla

74. “May be its a good idea to write something about you in my book… At least then, there will be a place where we will meet everyday… and be together forever!” – Anamika Mishra

75. "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

76. “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

77. “Maybe, I thought, it’s not distance that’s the problem, but how you handle it.” – Dash

78. ¨I’m miles from where you are. I lay down on the cold ground, and I… I pray that something picks me up and sets me down in your warm arms.¨– Snow Patrol

79. “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

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

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

82. “You have to go wholeheartedly into anything in order to achieve anything worth having.” — Frank Lloyd Wright

83. “It’s been a year and 3 months since we’ve kissed, and I rather have the ghost of his mouth on my lips than kiss anyone else.” – Alishah Khan

84. "I knew when I met you an adventure was going to happen." — A.A. Milne

85. “I always see my bed as half empty.” – BlitznBeans

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

87. "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

88. “The simple lack of her is more to me than others’ presence.”— Edward Thomas

89. “If love cannot stand the test of time, then it has failed the test of love.” — Bernard Byer

90. "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

91. “Love is missing someone whenever you are apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you’re close in heart.”– Kay Knudsen

92. “Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.”– Erica Jong

93. “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

94. ¨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

95. "Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction." — Saint-Exupery

96. “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

97. “Distance is just a test of how far love can travel.” – Unknown

98. “I believe in the immeasurable power of love; that true love can endure any circumstance and reach across any distance.” – Steve Maraboli

99. "Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches." — Colley Cibbe

100. “If I could, I’d bottle up the way you look at me.
And I would open it whenever I feel I need a kiss, or maybe a little boost of confidence.
If I could, I’d take that look and wear it like a sweater.
And although feeling this way all of the time would be nice, having you here would be better.”– K. P. K.

101. “The scariest thing about distance is you don’t know if they’ll miss you or forget about you.”– Nicholas Sparks

102. "The harder the fight, the greater the victory." — Chris Burkmenn

103. “Slow down. Calm down. Don’t worry. Don’t hurry. Trust the process.”
– Alexandra Stoddard

104. “Ocean separates lands, not souls.” – Munia Khan

105. “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.”– Going the Distance

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106. "When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it." — Henry Ford

107. “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

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

109. “Distance means so little when someone means so much.” – Tom McNeal

110. ¨In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.¨-Albert Einstein

111. "Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for." — Erica Jong

112. “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

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

114. “If love cannot stand the test of time, then it has failed the test of love.” – Bernard Byer

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

116. "Love is missing someone whenever you’re apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you’re close in heart." — Kay Knudson

117. “Can miles truly separate? If you want to be with someone you love, aren’t you already there?” – Richard Bach

118. “Distance is temporary, but our love is permanent.”— Unknown

119. "I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you." — Elizabeth Barrett Browning

120. “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

121. “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

122.¨"I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you." — Albert Einstein

123. “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

124. “I believe in the immeasurable power of love; that true love can endure any circumstance and reach across any distance.” – Steve Maraboli

125. “In true love, the smallest distance is too great, and the greatest distance can be bridged.” – Hans Nouwens

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