33 Quotes About Love and Distance

Love plays an integral part in your emotions and social psychology. These quotes about love and distance show the effects of what happens when you feel separated and distant from your significant other.

“Absence is to love as wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small and kindles the great.”

“Absence makes the heart grow fonder, but it sure makes the rest of you lonely.”

“Absence sharpens love. Presence strengthens it.”

“Adventures are great, especially when the person you love is your destination.”

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

“As contraries are known by contraries, so is the delight of presence best known by the torments of absence.”

“Contrary to what the cynics say, 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.”

“Distance does not break off the friendship absolutely, but only the activity of it.”

“How lucky am I to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard?”

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

“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.”

“I dropped a tear in the ocean. The day you find it is the day I will stop missing you.”

“I hate the stars because I look at the same ones as you do, without you.”

“I imagine a line, a white line, painted on the sand and on the ocean, from me to you.”

“I miss you even more than I could have believed; and I was prepared to miss you a good deal.”

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

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

“It’s not the distance that’s the enemy, but the endless time I have to wait to hold you in my arms.”

“Love is missing someone when you’re apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you’re close in the heart.”

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

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

“Our separation of each other is an optical illusion of consciousness.”

“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.”

“The few hours I spend with you are worth the thousand hours I spend without you.”

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

“This is falling in love in the cruelest way. This is falling for you when you’re worlds away.”

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

“Together forever, never apart. Sometimes in distance, but never in heart.”

“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.”

“When two hearts are meant for each other, no distance is too far, no time too long and no other love can break them apart.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

One of the main goals of individuals should be focused on building relationships, not breaking them with one another.