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Long Distance Relationship Quotes

Long Distance Relationship Quotes. A good quote is a powerful thing. So much nostalgia, longing, and tenderness can be telegraphed in just a few words. The perfect long distance relationship quotes can kindle fresh inspiration or determination. A dozen words can articulate your thoughts and feelings perfectly, or grant you a new perspective.

Long distance relationships aren’t easy so we all need some inspiration sometimes. Reading long distance relationship quotes can help you remain positive, and can remind you of how lucky you are to have someone amazing in your life even if you don’t get to see him or her nearly often enough.

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

-A.A. Milne, Winnie The Pooh

“Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.”

-Thomas Fuller

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

-Helen Keller

“Distance teaches us to appreciate the days that we are able to spend together and distance teaches us the definition of patience. It is a reminder that every moment together is special, and every second should be cherished.”

-unknown

“I don’t miss you and you alone – I miss you and me together.”

-unknown

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

-Bernard Byer

“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

“I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart)”

-E. E. cummings

“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

Long distance relationship quotes

“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

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

-Michael Bassey Johnson

“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

“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

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

-Khalil Gibran

“We are the perfect couple, we’re just not in the perfect situation.”

-unknown

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

-Edward Thomas

“Love is what you’ve been through with somebody.”

-James Thurber

“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, Winnie the Pooh

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

-Art Williams

Long distance relationship quotes

“You have to go wholeheartedly into anything in order to achieve anything worth having.”

-Frank Lloyd Wright

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

-unknown

“But I must admit, I miss you quite terribly. The world is too quiet without you nearby.”

-Lemony Snicket

“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

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

-Alisha Khan

“Long distance relationships are hard, but they’re also incredible. If you can love, trust, respect, and support each other from a distance then you’ll be unstoppable once you’re physically together.”

-unknown

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

-Vita Sackville-West

“That is when time stands still – when you watch the one you love, walk away.”

-Mallika Nawal

“When you come back you will not be you.

And I may not be I.”

-E.M. Forster

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

-Alcibiades

Long distance relationship quotes

“Time is the longest distance between two places.”

-Tennesse Williams

“I fell in love with her when we were together, then fell deeper in love in the years we were apart.”

-Nicholas Sparks

“Everything will be okay in the end. If it’s not okay, then it’s not the end.”

-Ed Sheeran

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

-Erica Jong

“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

“What I have with you is worth it. It is worth every lonely night, every tear I cry from missing you, and the pain I feel from not having you close. It is worth it because you are my one and only. When I picture myself years from now, I see only you. No matter how painful distance can be, not having you in my life would be worse.”

-unknown

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