140 Long Distance Relationship Quotes for Motivation and to Help You Feel Closer to Your Love

When you’re in a long distance relationship then it can be tough, tiring and frustrating and time seems to move so slow.

But it can also help you develop your love in new ways to make it grow stronger and deeper.

In today’s post I want to share 140 of the most heartfelt, motivational and powerful long distance relationship quotes.

To help you to not feel so alone in having it this way (so many of us have been through the same thing). To help you express how you truly, deep down, feel.

And to help you to feel closer to your loved one and give you renewed strength to keep going through the difficult moments.

Long Distance Relationship Quotes for Him

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

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

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

“Love is not finding someone to live with. It’s finding someone you can’t live without.”
– Rafael Ortiz

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

“I miss your voice because it is a symphony; your scent because it is a treasure; your smile because it is a jewel; your hug because it is a masterpiece; and your kiss because it is a miracle.”
– Matshona Dhliwayo

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

“I may not always be with you, but when we’re far apart, remember you will be with me right inside my heart.”
– Marc Wambolt

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

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

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

“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

“Sometimes I miss you so much, I just want to grab you out of my dreams and hug you for real.”
– Unknown

“Distance is just a test of how far love can travel.”
– Rip Miller

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

“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

“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

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

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

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

“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

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

“Distance means nothing when your love means everything.”
– Unknown

“When they work, long distance are the best sort of relationships, I think. That a person could wait months, cross miles and oceans for a few spectacular moments with the person they love, that’s it, you know, that’s all that we’re searching for.”
– Beau Taplin

Long Distance Relationship Quotes for Her

“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.”
– Meghan Daum

“Time is the longest distance between two places.”
– Tennessee Williams

“I think we dream so we don’t have to be apart for so long. If we’re in each other’s dreams, we can be together all the time.”
– A.A. Milne

“Where we love is home – home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

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

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

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

“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

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

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

“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

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

“Your absence has not taught me how to be alone; it has merely shown that when together we cast a single shadow on the wall.”
– Doug Fetherling

“The longer you wait for something, the more you’ll appreciate it when you get it. Because anything worth having is always worth waiting for.”
– Unknown

“If you think missing me is hard, you should try missing you.”
– Sarah Kelly

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

“The art of love is largely the art of persistence.”
– Albert Ellis

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

“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

“Love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.”
– Khalil Gibran

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

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

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

“Missing someone gets easier everyday because even though you are one day further from the last time you saw them, you are one day closer to the next time you will.”
– Unknown

Long Distance Relationship Quotes on Tough Feelings (I’m Missing You)

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

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

“The distance between us doesn’t matter, because in the end, I know we’ll both be smiling.”
– Unknown

“Poets use countless words to describe their pain, but I only need three: I miss you.”
– Caroline George

“Distance doesn’t mean anything when your love is strong enough to hold on.”
– Unknown

“When I close my eyes, I see you. When I open my eyes, I miss you.”
– Anna Davis

“The hardest thing about distance is that you don’t know whether they’ll miss you or forget you.”
– Nicholas Sparks

“Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye.”
– Samuel Johnson

“Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated.”
– Lamartine

“My heart never knew loneliness until you went away. I’m missing you.”
– Unknown

“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

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

“Tonight I can write the saddest lines. To think that I do not have her. To feel that I have lost her.”
– Pablo Neruda

“I miss you in ways that not even words can understand.”
– Gemma Troy

“Missing you is my hobby, caring for you is my job, making you happy is my duty, and loving you is my life.”
– Unknown

“I keep myself busy with the things I do, but every time I pause, I still think of you.”
– Cecelia Ahern

“Missing you comes in waves. Tonight I’m drowning.”
– Unknown

“The tough part isn’t the distance but the fear that the distance might make us fade.”
– Alice Jones

“If I miss you any harder, my heart might come looking for you.”
– Gemma Troy

“I felt like I was leaving a piece of my soul behind the moment you left. And every second that passes, I miss you like that, times a million.”
– J.A. Huss

“I miss you deeply, unfathomably, senselessly, terribly.”
– Franz Kafka

“Nothing makes a room feel emptier than wanting someone in it.”
– Calla Quinn

“I wake to you everywhere. Yet you are not here.”
– Nayyirah Waheed

“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

“Missing someone is the hardest part of having them far away from you.”
– Unknown

“My world is thinning and it’s all because of one person I’m missing.”
– Sanober Khan

Funny Long Distance Relationship Quotes

“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

“Love knows no distance… but my bank account definitely does with all these plane tickets.”
– Unknown

“When people ask me how I handle long distance, I just show them my phone bill.”
– Sandra Shea

“I always joke and laugh when people ask me what’s the key to my long marriage and lasting love. I always say ‘Stay gone!’ and there’s a lot of truth to that.”
– Dolly Parton

“You are never alone on Valentine’s Day if you’re near a lake and have bread.”
– Mike Primavera

“She missed him. She missed him so much that she was starting to hate him.”
– Talia Hibbert

“I’m not crying because of you; I’m crying because my arms are too short to hug you from here.”
– Unknown

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

“Our WiFi connection is stronger than our emotional connection right now.”
– Unknown

“They say long-distance relationships will teach you to communicate well… I think they mean you’ll become a professional texter.”
– Debbie Moore

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

“I miss you so much that I talk to your photos. But they never reply back. How rude!”
– Unknown

“The only good thing about being apart is that I can eat all the pizza without sharing.”
– Sandra Shea

“They say absence makes the heart grow fonder, but I still prefer presence.”
– Unknown

“Missing you is my favorite waste of time.”
– Unknown

“Distance is just a number, but so is my phone bill.”
– Jay Thomas

Cute and Deep Long Distance Relationship Quotes

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

“True love doesn’t mean being inseparable; it means being separated and nothing changes.”
– Unknown

“Love knows no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.”
– Maya Angelou

“Distance gives us a reason to love harder.”
– Unknown

“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.”
– Aristotle

“If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.”
– Oscar Wilde

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

“The value of love is slowly lost when we have it. The value of love is slowly gained when we lose it.”
– Unknown

“Our souls speak a language that distance cannot comprehend.”
– Unknown

“Distance teaches us to appreciate the days that we are able to spend together.”
– Alice Jones

“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

“The most precious gift we can offer others is our presence. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers.”
– Thich Nhat Hanh

“Love bridges any distance and spans any time.”
– Unknown

“Distance between two hearts is not an obstacle; rather a beautiful reminder of just how strong true love can be.”
– Sarah Kelly

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

“When you come back, you will not be you. And I may not be I.”
– E.M. Forster

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

“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

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

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

“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

“Distance means nothing. Time means nothing. I’ll always wait for you.”
– Unknown

“Love is not about how many days, weeks, or months you’ve been together. It’s all about how much you love each other every day.”
– Bob Simmons

“The best things in life are worth waiting for.”
– Unknown

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

“No matter how far you manage to go, distance will never be able to erase those beautiful memories.”
– Lucy Aims

“Distance is just a test to see how far love can travel.”
– Unknown

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

“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

Short Long Distance Relationship Quotes on Strong Love

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

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

“Distance teaches us to appreciate days together.”
– Unknown

“Love conquers all distances.”
– Elise Green

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

“Love knows no boundaries.”
– Unknown

“Distance unites missing beats of two hearts in love.”
– Munia Khan

“Love finds a way. Always.”
– Unknown

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

“Distance means nothing when our love is as strong as this.”
– Unknown

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

“Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches.”
– Colley Cibbe

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

“My heart knows no distance that cannot be bridged.”
– Debbie Moore

“Missing you is the heart’s way of feeling you.”
– Unknown

“Love will find a way. Somehow. It always does.”
– Sandra Shea

“Distance is temporary. Our love is forever.”
– Unknown

“Our love transcends any distance and time.”
– Alice Jones

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

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

“Forever is composed of nows.”
– Emily Dickinson

“Love bridges all distances.”
– Unknown

“Love reckons hours for months, and days for years.”
– John Dryden

“Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.”
– Thomas Fuller

Want more helpful and uplifting love inspiration? Have a look at the many love quotes here, these short and romantic quotes in this post and also these the top 35 love quotes for him. Plus, this one with 101 inspirational Valentine’s day quotes.