33 Quotes to Make Your Long Distance Relationship Suck Less
If you're in a long distance relationship, you're probably a little too familiar with the quote, "Absence makes the heart grow fonder." The saying originated in Ancient Rome, when the poet Sextus Propertius wrote in Elegies, "Always toward absent lovers love's tide stronger flows." The modern version appeared in a 1832 edition of The Pocket Magazine of Classic and Polite Literature, penned by a writer identified as Miss Stickland. Maybe Miss Stickland was struggling through an LDR herself—and without texting or FaceTime, mind you. Oof.
Long distance relationships can be a challenge, from the lack of physical intimacy to the visceral pain of missing the person you love. That's why we put together this list of long distance relationship quotes. Reading these quotes and sharing them with your loved one may not ease the geographical distance between you, but they can help bring you closer on an emotional level, at least. They're also a good reminder that you're not alone: Writers, musicians, and artists throughout history have experienced the same struggles you're going through right now.
You can write these quotes in a love note, read them to your partner, or simply use them to comfort yourself. (BTW, if you're looking for more ways to bridge the gap in your LDR, check out our lists of sex toys and gifts for people in long distance relationships.)
"Absence makes the heart grow fonder, but it sure makes the rest of you lonely." —Charles M. Schulz (in Peanuts)
"The distance is nothing when one has a motive." —Jane Austen (in Pride and Prejudice)
"In true love, the smallest distance is too great, and the greatest distance can be bridged." —Hans Nouwens
"I exist in two places: here and where you are." —Margaret Atwood
"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 (in New Moon, from the Twilight Saga)
"Look after my heart—I've left it with you." —Stephenie Meyer (in Eclipse, from the Twilight Saga)
"The point of marriage is not to create a quick commonality by tearing down all boundaries; on the contrary, a good marriage is one in which each partner appoints the other to be the guardian of his solitude, and thus they show each other the greatest possible trust." —Rainer Maria Rilke (in Letters to a Young Poet)
“The scariest thing about distance is that you don’t know whether they’ll miss you or forget you.” —Nicholas Sparks (in The Notebook)
“I miss you."
"That's stupid," she said. "I saw you this morning."
"It's not the time," Levi said, and she could hear that he was smiling. "It's the distance.” —Rainbow Rowell (in Fangirl)
“The shortest distance between two points is often unbearable.” —Charles Bukowski
“Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.” —Henry David Thoreau
"With each reunion (we) had to learn each other all over again. There was always that nervous moment at the airport when I would stand there waiting for him to arrive, wondering, Will I still know him? Will he still know me?” —Elizabeth Gilbert (in Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage)
"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 (in Nights in Rodanthe)
“At that moment, I knew we could last past the end of summer. That with Parker, I could make a long-distance relationship work.That relationships were a lot like roller coasters. filled with highs and lows, terrifying split seconds, and awesome moments when you simply enjoy the ride.” —Rachel Hawthorne (in Thrill Ride)
"Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it inflames the great.” —Roger de Bussy-Rabutin
“I imagine a line, a white line, painted on the sand and on the ocean, from me to you.” —Jonathan Safran Foer
"They say when you are missing someone that they are probably feeling the same, but I don't think it's possible for you to miss me as much as I'm missing you right now” —Edna St. Vincent Millay
"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
"I felt her absence. It was like waking up one day with no teeth in your mouth. You wouldn't need to run to the mirror to know they were gone." —James Dashner (in The Scorch Trials)
"And isn't it just so pretty to think
All along there was some
Invisible string
Tying you to me?" —Taylor Swift (in "Invisible String")
"Hey there, Delilah
Don't you worry about the distance
I'm right there if you get lonely
Give this song another listen
Close your eyes
Listen to my voice, it's my disguise
I'm by your side" —Plain White T's (in "Hey There Delilah")
"I'm only one call away
I'll be there to save the day
Superman got nothing on me
I'm only one call away" —Charlie Puth (in "One Call Away")
"If I could only work this life out my way
I'd rather spend it bein' close to you" —Carole King (in "So Far Away")
"Oh, 'cause you know I'd walk a thousand miles
If I could just see you tonight" —Vanessa Carlton (in "A Thousand Miles")
“I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart).” —E. E. Cummings
"That farewell kiss which resembles greeting, that last glance of love which becomes the sharpest pang of sorrow.” —George Eliot
“Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches.” —Miguel de Cervantes
"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 (in Dear John)
"The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.” —Charles Dickens (in The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby)
“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” —Aristotle
"If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever." —Alfred Tennyson
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