Trip Ideas Romantic Getaways Long-distance Relationship Quotes That Will Make You Feel Close, Even When You're Far Apart These 26 romantic quotes about long-distance love will help you keep the spark alive when you're miles away from your partner. By Maya Kachroo-Levine Maya Kachroo-Levine Maya Kachroo-Levine is the digital senior editor at Travel + Leisure. She covers hotels, destinations (focusing on Europe, Asia, California, and Mexico), food and drink, cruises, and luxury aviation. Travel + Leisure Editorial Guidelines Updated on May 7, 2024 Fact checked by Elizabeth MacLennan Trending Videos Close this video player Photo: Alistair Berg/Getty Images Long-distance relationships can be incredibly fun and rewarding, but anyone who's been in one knows they're also challenging. Both parties have to make their time together count, and when they're not together, it takes work to maintain a deep connection from different states, countries, or continents. How do you show each other affection without coming face to face? These romantic quotes about long-distance relationships might help. In the inevitable moments when you miss your partner an unbearable amount, confide in these comforting sayings. Write them on paper and pin them to your wall. Share them with your significant other. Repeat them over and over like a personal mantra. Long-distance Quotes for When You Miss the One You Love "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 exist in two places, here and where you are." — Margaret Atwood "If my voice could reach back through the past I'd whisper in your ear, 'Oh darling I wish you were here.'" — Owl City "The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart." — Helen Keller "The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected." — Nicholas Sparks Romantic Quotes for When the Distance Feels Especially Hard "Distance is just a test of how far love can travel." — Unknown "How lucky am I to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard." — A.A. Milne "Ocean separates lands, not souls." — Munia Khan "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." — Meghan Daum "Distance means so little when someone means so much." — Tom McNeal "The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again." — Charles Dickens "Love knows not distance; it hath no continent; its eyes are for the stars." — Gilbert Parker "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 want to be with you. It's as simple and as complicated as that." — Charles Bukowski "I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart)." — E. E. Cummings How Traveling During a Long-distance Relationship Made Our Hearts Grow Fonder Getty Images Long-distance Love Quotes That Say They're the One for You "Home is not where you are from, it is where you belong. Some of us travel the whole world to find it. Others find it in a person." — Beau Taplin "In true love, the smallest distance is too great, and the greatest distance can be bridged." — Hans Nouwens "The simple lack of her is more to me than others' presence." — Edward Thomas "Close together or far apart, you're forever in my heart." — Unknown "My heart is your home, wherever in the world you are — you will always have a place to stay." — K.A. Hill Long-distance Quotes About Trusting in the Relationship "Once trust is built, distance cannot kill it. Time and space alone cannot destroy authentic connection." — Vironika Tugaleva "When mistrust comes in, loves goes out." — Irish proverb "Trust is the first step to love." — Munshi Premchand "If we truly trust no one, we cannot survive." — Megan Whalen Turner "You have to trust or you're only living half a life." — J.D. Robb "When you can't believe your eyes, you can always trust your heart. Love makes anything possible." — Unknown Romantic Getaways