Having a successful long distance relationship requires a special connection and commitment between both individuals. Here are some great long distance relationship quotes that help to capture this struggle and difficulty for many.
“Absence is to love as wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small and kindles the great.”
“Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.”
“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.”
“Can miles truly separate you from friends? If you want to be with someone you love, aren’t you already there?”
“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.”
“Distance makes the heart grow fonder.”
“Distance means so little when someone means so much.”
“For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice.”
“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 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.”
“I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart).”
“I don’t miss you and you alone – I miss you and me together.”
“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 hate the stars because I look at the same ones as you do, without you.”
“I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.”
“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 there’s a heaven out there somewhere, it’s a place where we never have to say goodbye.”
“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.”
“Just because things are not at their best right now does not mean that we should give up. Gold is tested in fire and something precious like love needs distance to be tested.”
“Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love.”
“Love is missing someone when you’re apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you’re close in the heart.”
“Love is the shortest distance between hearts.”
“Love knows not distance; it hath no continent; its eyes are for the stars.”
“Love one another and you will be happy. It’s as simple and as difficult as that.”
“Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.”
“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.”
“Odd how much it hurts when a friend moves away – and leaves behind only silence.”
“Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches.”
“Our lives were now worlds apart, separated by time, circumstance, and the unbridgeable chasm of money.”
“Sometimes I miss you so much, I just want to rip you out of my dreams and hug you!”
“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.”
“The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected.”
“The scariest thing about distance is you don’t know if they’ll miss you or forget about you.”
“The simple lack of her is more to me than others’ presence.”
“The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.”
“This is the sad bed of chosen chastity because you are miles and mountains away.”
“True love doesn’t mean being inseparable; it means being separated and nothing changes.”
“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.”
“We are the perfect couple, we’re just not in the perfect situation.”
“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.”
A long distance relationship is confronted by many unique challenges. Hopefully these quotes provide you with the perspective and encouragement you seek to be successful.
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