145 Long Distance Quotes

Following is our list of long distance quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about love long distance.

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Famous Long Distance Quotes

Distance is a great promoter of admiration! — Denis Diderot

Long distance tells you a horse's real strength; Time tells you a person's true heart. — Changpeng Zhao

Distance sometimes lets you know who's worth keeping and who's worth letting go. — Frank Ocean

If one is far away, one also gets far from the heart. — Turkish Proverbs

For time is the longest distance between two places. — Tennessee (Thomas Lanier) Williams

A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. — Les Brown

Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye. — Samuel Johnson

We won’t take distance for an answer. We’ll go the extra mile to connect everyone, everywhere, because we know connection is everything. — Micky Watkins

It's very far away/It takes about a half a day to get there/ If we travel by-dragonfly. — Jimi Hendrix

The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity. — Ouida

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

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

Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one. - Japanese Proverbs

Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one. — Japanese Proverbs

Long distance running is particularly good training in perseverance. — Mao Zedong

Distance not only gives nostalgia, but perspective, and maybe objectivity. - Robert Morgan

Distance not only gives nostalgia, but perspective, and maybe objectivity. — Robert Morgan

The hardest distance is always from the sofa to the front door — Erki Nool

Short Long Distance Quotes

  • The shortest distance between two points is often unbearable. — Charles Bukowski
  • Curve: The loveliest distance between two points. — Mae West
  • On other shows, guys can't wait to put 3000 miles between them during hiatus. — Martin Milner
  • If you get far enough away you'll be on your way back home. — Tom Waits
  • The mountains are never so far apart but the animals find one another. — American Proverbs
  • In the mountains, the shortest way is from peak to peak: but for that you must have long legs — Friedrich Nietzsche
  • True friends never apart maybe in distance but never in heart — Helen Keller
  • There are no traffic jams along the extra mile. — Roger Staubach
  • They say the breaks even up in the long run, and the trick is to be a long-distance runner. — Chuck Knox
  • The strength of a good friendship that goes the distance will be unconditional love. — Brian Houston

Long Distance Image Quotes

Long distance quote It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things
It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.

Cute Long Distance Quotes

I'd rather die tomorrow than live a hundred years without knowing you. — Pocahontas

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

When you don't know what to do, get still. The answer will come. — Oprah Winfrey

Long distance quote Distance yourself from negativity or it will deplete your well of optimism.
Distance yourself from negativity or it will deplete your well of optimism.

Distance makes the heart grow fonder. — Simone Elkeles

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

Remember how far you've come, not just how far you have to go. — Rick Warren

Long distance quote Long term consistency trumps short term intensity.
Long term consistency trumps short term intensity.

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

I'm not alone, but I am lonely without you. — Mary Martin

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

Love Long Distance 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 fell in love with her when we were together, then fell deeper in love with her in the years we were apart. — Nicholas Sparks

Long distance quote No matter how long you have traveled in the wrong direction, you always have the choice to turn arou
No matter how long you have traveled in the wrong direction, you always have the choice to turn around.

Things must be felt with the heart. — Helen Keller

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

Long distance quote The scariest thing about distance is that you don't know whether they'll miss you or forget you.
The scariest thing about distance is that you don't know whether they'll miss you or forget you.

Absence makes heart grow fonder. — English Proverbs

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

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

I Miss You Long Distance Quotes

The scariest thing about distance is that you don’t know whether they’ll miss you or forget you. — Nicholas Sparks

As contraries are known by contraries, so is the delight of presence best known by the torments of absence. — Alcibiades

Absence makes the heart grow fonder — Eleanor Roosevelt

Long distance quote I will go anywhere as long is it is forward.
I will go anywhere as long is it is forward.

The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected. — Nicholas Sparks

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

Long distance quote The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise man grows it under his feet.
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise man grows it under his feet.

I'm not the greatest long-distance shooter, I know that. But I know if I can get around that free-throw line area, a lot of times you've just got to hope I miss. — Chris Paul

Sadly when I want someone to hold me and tell me everything is going to be alright, I have no one. I miss you so much and I wish there was someone to love me when I am down. — Shane Johnson

But I must admit I miss you terribly. The world is too quiet without you nearby. — Daniel Handler

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

Relationship Long Distance 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

Love is everything it's cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. — Erica Jong

I'm very much a loner. I don't like long relationships with people and I always keep people at a distance. — Anthony Hopkins

Long distance quote If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.
If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.

It is a risk to love. What if it doesn't work out? Ah, but what if it does. — Peter McWilliams

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

Long distance quote The journey is long, but the goal is in each step.
The journey is long, but the goal is in each step.

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

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

It would be impossible to "love" anyone or anything one knew completely. Love is directed towards what lies hidden in its object. — Paul Valery

Long Distance Relationship Quotes

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

Some women love only what they can hold in their arms; others, only what they can't. — Mignon McLaughlin

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

Long distance quote Beautiful things happen when you distance yourself from negativity.
Beautiful things happen when you distance yourself from negativity.

I want all of you, forever, you and me, everyday — Nicholas Sparks

One movement toward light becomes a clear signpost on a long road. — Mary Anne Radmacher

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 quote The worst distance between to people is misunderstanding.
The worst distance between to people is misunderstanding.

There may be times when you just have to love people from a distance. — Joel Osteen

Somewhere we know that without silence, words lose their meaning. — Henri Nouwen

There is love in holding and there is love in letting go. — Elizabeth Berg

The distant soul can shake the distant friend's soul and make the longing felt, over untold miles. — John Masefield

Long Distance Love 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

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

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

Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams. — Fyodor Dostoevsky

Long distance is the next best thing to being there. But a dove in love would rather reach out and touch someone. Spring is in the air and all lines are busy with local calls as the wooing and cooing commences. — Charley Harper

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

If I go away What would still remain of me? The ghost within your eyes? The whisper in your sighs? You see...Believe And I'm always there. — Jon Oliva

One kind kiss before we part, Drop a tear and bid adieu; Though we sever, my fond heart Till we meet shall pant for you. — Robert Dodsley

True love will triumph in the end—which may or may not be a lie, but if it is a lie, it's the most beautiful lie we have. — John Green

Long Distance Relationship Love Quotes

i carry your heart with me(i carry it in my heart) — E. E. cummings

Separation is not the end of love; it creates love. — Nancy Friday

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

I love no one but you, I have discovered, but you are far away and I am here alone. — Daniel Handler

Maybe, it's not the distance that's the problem, but how you handle it. — David Levithan

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

Wherever you go Whatever you do I will be right here waiting for you Whatever it takes Or how my heart breaks I will be right here waiting for you — Richard Marx

This is the sad bed of chosen chastity because you are miles and mountains away. — Erica Jong

I know we loved each other, but distance can do strange things to people and before I was willing to tell you about it, I wanted to be certain that it would last — Nicholas Sparks

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

Love And Long Distance Quotes

I imagine a line, a white line, painted on the sand and on the ocean, from me to you. — Jonathan Safran Foer

The bond forged between us was not one that could be broken by absence, distance, or time. And no matter how much more special or beautiful or brilliant or perfect than me he might be, he was as irreversibly altered as I was. As I would always belong to him, so would he always be mine. — Stephenie Meyer

The rivers flow long distances and their goodness spreads all over far and wide. We are far from each other but our love for each other is creating a story that will forever be remembered. — Daran Norris

I guess I am basically most comfortable when I'm alone. As a kid, I was very much a loner. I love long distance running and long distance biking. A director once pointed out that those are all very isolated exercises you do for hours at a time. — Kevin Conroy

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

To do what we love we miss the ones we love. Long distance letters and phone calls and anything to make the distance disappear! That's what this means to me. — Hayley Williams

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More 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

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

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

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

Evolution has no long-term goal. There is no long-distance target, no final perfection to serve as a criterion for selection, although human vanity cherishes the absurd notion that our species is the final goal of evolution. — Richard Dawkins

A friend is someone who allows you distance but is never far away. — Noah

If you cause your ship to stop and place the head of a long tube in the water and place the outer extremity to your ear, you will hear ships at a great distance from you. — Leonardo da Vinci

Men at a distance, who have admired our systems of government unfounded in nature, are apt to accuse the rulers, and say that taxes have been assessed too high and collected too rigidly. — Henry Knox

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