We care. We feel. We think. We do not always miss the absent one. We cannot always come when called. Being friends with a loner requires patience and the wisdom that distance does not mean dislike. — Anneli Rufus
A friend is someone who allows you distance but is never far away. — Noah
It would be impossible to "love" anyone or anything one knew completely. Love is directed towards what lies hidden in its object. — Paul Valery
I knew when I met you an adventure is going to happen.
Somewhere we know that without silence, words lose their meaning. — Henri Nouwen
True friendship resists time, distance and silence. — Isabel Allende
Distance does not break off the friendship absolutely, but only the activity of it. — Aristotle
Long Distance Friend Quotes
How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard. — A. A. Milne
The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected. — Nicholas Sparks
always thought of myself as a loving person. But she was right. I had been a fair-weather friend. As long as she was happy and nice, I loved back. But if she was unhappy or upset, I would feel blamed and then argue or distance myself — John Gray
A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.
The distant soul can shake the distant friend's soul and make the longing felt, over untold miles. — John Masefield
Longing becomes more poignant if in the distance you can't tell whether your friend is going away or coming back. The pushing away pulls you in. — Coleman Barks
A friend of mine is in a long-distance relationship. They have dates on Skype. They'll both watch the same movie and...play. — Emmy Rossum
Stay close to people who feel like sunlight.
I have made new friends and have many new people that I know. But hey, you will always be a special part of my heart because no one has been able to replace the space you left in it. — Stephen Lobo
Twenty years is, after all, a long time. We are not the same people we were. Old friends, lovers, even family members: they are strangers who happen to wear a familiar face. We have no right to claim to know anyone after such a distance. — Graham Joyce
About once a year, I do these long-distance relays with some friends of mine, and it takes about 27 or 28 hours to complete it. — Anson Mount
Finally he closed the distance between us and kissed me - a sweet, gentle kiss that held within it every single one of the thousand days I'd loved him as my everything, long after I'd begun to love him as a friend. — Aimee Carter
Distant Friend Quotes
Where a blood relation sobs, an intimate friend should choke up, a distant acquaintance should sigh, a stranger should merely fumble sympathetically with his handkerchief. — Mark Twain
If you go far enough out you can see the Universe itself, all the billion light years summed up time only as a flash, just as lonely, as distant as a star on a June night if you go far enough out. And still, my friend, if you go far enough out you are only at the beginning - of yourself. — Rolf Jacobsen
Our friends - how distant, how mute, how seldom visited and little known. And I, too, am dim to my friends and unknown; a phantom, sometimes seen, often not. Life is a dream surely. — Virginia Woolf
Intelligent people tend to have less friends than the average person. The smarter you are, the more selevtive you become.
My hand is entirely the implement of a distant sphere. It is not my head that functions but something else, something higher, something somewhere remote. I must have great friends there, dark as well as bright. They are all very kind to me. — Paul Klee
The sun penetrates me soundlessly like a distant friend that stirs up my laziness, fertilizes it. We bring forth life. — Paul Cezanne
Isn't it a pleasure to study and practice what you have learned? Isn't it also great when friends visit from distant places? If one remains not annoyed when he is not understood by people around him, isn't he a sage? — Confucius
One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
When we're always connected, we allow others-colleagu es and celebrities, close friends and distant acquaintances, bloggers and news aggregators-set our life's agenda. Our ability to prioritize is paralyzed by the sheer volume of requests, demands, opportunities, and information. — George Barna
The pleasantest of all diversions is to sit alone under the lamp, a book spread out before you, and to make friends with people of a distant past you have never known. — Yoshida Kenko
A short letter to a distant friend is, in my opinion, an insult like that of a slight bow or cursory salutation -- a proof of unwillingness to do much, even where there is a necessity of doing something. — Samuel Johnson
Between friends, frequent reproofs make the friendship distant. — Confucius
Distance Love Quotes
Intelligence is what you use when you don't know what to do. — Jean Piaget
You have to go wholeheartedly into anything in order to achieve anything worth having. — Frank Lloyd Wright
I'd rather die tomorrow than live a hundred years without knowing you. — Pocahontas
Distance yourself from negativity or it will deplete your well of optimism.
Oh, may your silhouette never dissolve on the beach;
may your eyelids never flutter into the empty
distance.
Don't leave me for a second, my dearest. — Pablo Neruda
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
Things must be felt with the heart. — Helen Keller
The scariest thing about distance is that you don't know whether they'll miss you or forget you.
Love is missing someone whenever you're apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you're close in heart. — Kai Knudsen
Absence is to love as wind is to fire: it extinguishes the little flame, it fans the big. — Umberto Eco
Distance never seperates two hearts that really care, for our memories span the miles and in seconds we are there. But whenever I start feeling sad cuz I miss you I remind myself how lucky I am to have someone so special to miss. — Henri Nouwen
Long Distant Relationship Quotes
All the while, believe me, I prayed our night would last twice as long. — Sappho
I miss you even more than I could have believed; and I was prepared to miss you a good deal. — Vita Sackville-West
Some women love only what they can hold in their arms; others, only what they can't. — Mignon McLaughlin
How amazing is it to find someone who wants to hear about all the things that go in your head.
There is love in holding and there is love in letting go. — Elizabeth Berg
Separation is not the end of love; it creates love. — Nancy Friday
Unfortunately, I'm more experienced than I care to admit on long-distance relationships. Just because that is my life. I travel because I love to. As a result, I have to sort of make it work when a relationship kind of comes into view. — Hunter Hayes
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise man grows it under his feet.
Here in my heart, that is where you will be; you will be with me, here in my heart. No distance can keep us apart, long as you are here in my heart. — Diane Warren
I miss your love, I miss your touch But I'm feeling you every day. And I can almost hear you say You've come a long way baby. — Robbie Williams
This is the sad bed of chosen chastity because you are miles and mountains away. — Erica Jong
I thought of the words of the Renaissance philosopher Michel de Montaigne. "If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I. — Josh Lanyon
Distant Relationship Quotes
Every single person in my life and every relationship I have is distant because all I do is music. — Mac Miller
I was glad to hear of that determination as I detest the practice of cousins marrying or any marriage between persons in which there can be traced the most distant relationship. I go for the improvement instead of the deterioration of our race. — Ezra Cornell
I never feel sexy. I have a distant relationship with the mirror. — Harrison Ford
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
A writer out of loneliness is trying to communicate like a distant star sending signals. He isn't telling or teaching or ordering. Rather he seeks to establish a relationship of meaning, of feeling, of observing. We are lonesome animals. We spend all life trying to be less lonesome. — John Steinbeck
It's one of nature's way that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us. — Igor Stravinsky
I love when I reach Marcus on the phone and as he says hello, I can hear the music he's listening to in the background. That music is the sound of him without me. How he surrounds himself when I'm not there, which is almost all the time. — Megan McCafferty
Friendship picks you up when the world lets you down.
I imagine a line, a white line, painted on the sand and on the ocean, from me to you. — Jonathan Safran Foer
I just looked at her, feeling utterly empty. I didn't know what I was supposed to say to her. My life is in that bed. Please let me stay. — Maggie Stiefvater
I'll never see them again. I know that. And they know that. And knowing this, we say farewell. — Haruki Murakami
Genocide is not a legitimate option. It's not ok to decide that an entire population has no right to live in the world. No matter whether these relationships are very proximate or very distant, there is no entitlement to expunge a population or to demean its basic humanity. — Judith Butler
Love And Long Distance Quotes
I am waiting for the day when I will see you again and hold your soft hands, touch your sweet lips and hug you tight so that you will never leave me again. — Mercy Johnson
Today the heart of God is an open wound of love. He aches over our distance and preoccupation. He mourns that we do not draw near to Him. He grieves that we have forgotten Him. He weeps over our obsession with muchness and manyness. He longs for our presence. — Richard J. Foster
Sometimes you have to be apart from people you love, but that doesn't make you love them any less. Sometimes you love them more. — Nicholas Sparks
As Dostoevski said: 'Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams. — Dorothy Day
Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age. — John Dryden
In true love the smallest distance is too great, and the greatest distance can be bridged. — Unknown Author
We knew we'd be together, we didn't know when,
But long distance love, never thought it would end.
The feelings never changed until the call came...
You were engaged, I was in pain.
It was such a shame: the timing, it just wasn't right.
So I say, 'Good luck,' and then I say, 'Good night.' — MURS
If you listen to the wind very carefully, you'll be able to hear me whisper my love for you. — Andrew Davidson
I want all of you, forever, you and me, everyday — Nicholas Sparks
Long distance relationships through mobile communication generally becomes poor because of the weak signals and ends up due to jammed networks — Amit Abraham
Long Distance Love Quotes
The scariest thing about distance is that you don’t know whether they’ll miss you or forget you. — Nicholas Sparks
Love is everything it's cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. — Erica Jong
It is a risk to love. What if it doesn't work out? Ah, but what if it does. — Peter McWilliams
Wherever you are you will always be in my heart. — Mahatma Gandhi
Absence makes the heart grow fonder, but it sure makes the rest of you lonely. — Charles M. Schulz
When you don't know what to do, get still. The answer will come. — Oprah Winfrey
Your absence has not taught me how to be alone, it merely has shown that when together we cast a single shadow on the wall — George Fetherling
Long distance relationships are living proof that love is not just physical. I can feel you next to me even when you're thousands of miles away.
Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering. — Paulo Coelho
There may be times when you just have to love people from a distance. — Joel Osteen
Long Distance Relationship Quotes
Remember how far you've come, not just how far you have to go. You are not where you want to be, but neither are you where you used to be. — Rick Warren
As contraries are known by contraries, so is the delight of presence best known by the torments of absence. — Alcibiades
I'm very much a loner. I don't like long relationships with people and I always keep people at a distance. — Anthony Hopkins
It feels good to think about you when I'm warm in bed. I feel as if you're curled up there beside me, fast asleep. And I think how great it would be if it were true. — Haruki Murakami
One movement toward light becomes a clear signpost on a long road. — Mary Anne Radmacher
Remember how far you've come, not just how far you have to go. — Rick Warren
I didn't want to kiss you goodbye — that was the trouble — I wanted to kiss you good night — and there's a lot of difference. — Ernest Hemingway
Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
I like the storytelling and reading the letters, the long-distance dedications. — Casey Kasem
Long Distance Quotes
Walking long distances is fundamental to being a hunter-gatherer, but people sometimes have to run. One powerful motivation is to sprint to a tree or some other refuge when being chased by a predator. — Daniel Lieberman
Huskies get in trouble. Huskies are well-known to be escape artists. Why? Because they were bred to go long-distance. They're not bred to be in the backyard and just look beautiful because they have blue eyes. — Cesar Millan
Long-distance runners have to be very strange people. You have to really want to do it. You don't have to win or beat someone, you just have to get through the thing. That's the sense of victory. The sense of self-worth. — Ted Corbitt
They say the breaks even up in the long run, and the trick is to be a long-distance runner. — Chuck Knox
Many who have nothing opposed to the few who have everything, and as long as these disparities remain, as long as these distances remain between people and forces, I think we'll be in a perpetual state of upheaval. — Harry Belafonte
Sometimes you're trapped in writing songs and you don't have enough distance from what you do anymore and you need the talent and the years of other people to come and jump in. — Keren Ann
Long distance tells you a horse's real strength; Time tells you a person's true heart. — Changpeng Zhao
God reveals Himself in rearview mirrors. And I've an inkling that there are times when we need to drive a long, long distance, before we can look back and see God's back in the rearview mirror. Maybe sometimes about as far as heaven -- that kind of distance. — Ann Voskamp
In long-distance running the only opponent you have to beat is yourself, the way you used to be. — Haruki Murakami
Long distance running is particularly good training in perseverance. — Mao Zedong
Friendships and loves are forgotten, and when they meet, they talk like strangers, like passers-by — Greek Proverbs
Our society is so fragmented, our family lives so sundered by physical and emotional distance, our friendships so sporadic, our intimacies so 'in-between' things and often so utilitarian, that there are few places where we can feel truly safe. — Henri Nouwen
Distance of Time and Place do really cure what they seem to aggravate; and taking Leave of our Friends resembles taking Leave of the World, concerning which it hath been often said, that it is not Death but Dying which is terrible. — Henry Fielding
Distance cannot matter - ours is a friendship of the heart. — Mary Anne Radmacher
Editors and their authors seldom form deep friendships for the same reason that psychiatrists and their patients keep their distance: The relationship requires candor that mixes poorly with intimacy. — Jason Epstein
Distance sometimes endears friendship, and absence sweeteneth it. — James Howell
Shifts within friendships happen in imperceptible increments. There is distance, then assurance. Misconjecture, caution, gradual convergence. So much depends on the respect accorded to vulnerability. — Gail Jones
Friendship is a miracle by which a person consents to view from a certain distance, without coming any nearer, the very being who is as necessary to him as food. — Simone Weil
Friendship is not diminished by distance or time, by imprisonment or war, by suffering or silence. It is in these things that it roots most deeply. — Pam Brown
For me, friendship has always been the most accessible of relationships - certainly far more so than romantic love. Friendship, I learned, provided a buffer in the interplay of emotions, a distance that made the risk of intimacy bearable, a space that allowed the other person to remain safely another person. — Andrew Sullivan
In loneliness, in sickness, in confusion-the mere knowledge of friendship makes it possible to endure, even if the friend is powerless to help. It is enough that they exist. Friendship is not diminished by distance or time, by imprisonment or war, by suffering or silence. It is in these things that it roots most deeply. It is from these things that it flowers. — Pam Brown
We all lose friends.. we lose them in death, to distance and over time. But even though they may be lost, hope is not. The key is to keep them in your heart, and when the time is right, you can pick up the friendship right where you left off. Even the lost find their way home when you leave the light on. — Amy Marie Walz
Distance sometimes endears friendships, and sweetens it - for separation from those we love shows us, by the loss, their real value and dearness to us. — James Howell
Now, in my opinion, a woman has no business with Power-Power admits no equal, and dismisses friendship for flattery. Besides, it keeps the men at a distance, and that is not always what we wish. — George Edward Moore
Most guys I know are assholes. I have some great asshole friends, but that's not the point. Friendship has got nothing to do with that. It's can you hang, can you talk about this without any feeling of distance between you? Friendship is the diminishing of distance between people. That's what friendship is, and to me it's one of the most important things in the world. — Keith Richards
It is organized as a fellowship of men, a system of morals, a philosophy taught by degrees through the use of symbol, story, legend, pictures, and drama. It has served as a center of union among differing backgrounds, cultures, and countries. It serves as the means of conciliating true friendship among persons, who, because of differences, must have otherwise remained at a perpetual distance. — Harry S. Truman
A Life in Men is a joyful, ambitious novel that is also an adventure traversing three continents, as well as a meditation on love, sex, and, most important, friendship, which can overcome time, distance, and even death. — Bonnie Jo Campbell
How evanescent those loves and friendships seem at this distance in time…We move on, make new attachments. We grow old. But sometimes, we hanker for old friendships, the old loves. Sometimes I wish I was young again. Or that I could travel back in time and pick up the threads. Absent so long, I may have stopped loving you, friends; but I will never stop loving the Day I loved you. — Ruskin Bond
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