28 Inspirational Quotes About Long Distance Relationship

It is paradoxically the absence that shows us how much the presence of someone matters to us. It is therefore often too late, when a person is no longer there, that we miss them and realize how important their presence was to us. Distance reveals the true feelings of love. But a long distance relationship is not something easy. It's like a roller coaster with ups and downs. We suffer of not seeing the loved one anymore, of not being by his or her side. The distance, an absence too long and a hope too far away put to hard test our motivation and our will to be together with the person we love. This is where the beautiful and motivational phrases from famous authors can give us hope and courage in our long distance relationship!

So, what have famous writers, artists and philosophers said about long distance relationships and the sufferings of absence? What are the famous sayings about the difficulties of being far away from the person you love?

We have made a list of the 25 best sayings and most inspirational quotes about long distance relationships:

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

Margaret Atwood

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

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

Steve Maraboli

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

John Dryden

Oh! how cruel it is to love when one is separated from the one one loves!

Victor Hugo

Only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated.

Alphonse de Lamartine

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

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

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

Edward Thomas

Distance means so little, when someone means so much.

Tom McNeal

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

Gandhi

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

Dee King

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

Charles Dickens

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

Matshona Dhliwayo

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

Charles M. Schulz

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

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.

Megham Daum

You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships every day. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

Epicurus

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

Andrew Davidson

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

Alcibiades

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

Kahlil Gibran

Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches.

Miguel de Cerventes

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

Gilbert Parker

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

Shakespeare - Romeo and Juliet

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

Absence extinguishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fire.

François de La Rochefoucauld

We were together even when we were apart.

Shannon A. Thompson

The art of love is largely the art of persistence.

Albert Ellis

That farewell kiss which resembles greeting, that last glance of love which becomes the sharpest pang of sorrow.

George Eliot

But nothing makes a room feel emptier than wanting someone in it.

Calla Quinn

Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.

Thomas Fuller

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