Distance Relationship Quotes:

Most of the lyrics are over a year old, and it doesn't feel like it's about me. Time created a distance.

- Beth Gibbons

topic: Distance, Years, Distance Relationship

I like to get within handshaking distance of the crowd. If it happens, they know it, we know it, and that's all we came here for.

- Levon Helm

topic: Distance, Distance Relationship, Crowds

Do we need distance to get close?

- Sarah Jessica Parker

topic: Long Distance Relationship, Distance, Distance Relationship

A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.

- Zora Neale Hurston

topic: Distance, Insightful, Bigs, Distance Relationship, Time And Distance

The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance.

- Laurence J. Peter

topic: Distance, Men, Judging, Half Way, Distance Relationship

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

- A. A. Milne

topic: Relationship, Goodbye, Distance, Love Is Hard, Back Together

Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

- Erica Jong

source: Erica Jong (2007). “Inventing Memory: A Novel of Mothers and Daughters”, p.90, Penguin

topic: Love, Life, Inspiring, You Don't Love Me, Long Relationship

My guess is many top athletes, distance runners included, use performance-enhancing drugs, enough so that the problem must be tackled.

- Bill Rodgers

topic: Distance, Athlete, Drug, Performance Enhancing Drugs, Distance Relationship

Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.

- Rudyard Kipling

topic: Running, Witty, Work, Best Poetry, Distance Running

We are creating a unique experience. It's starts with how you see the building from a distance.

- Helmut Jahn

topic: Distance, Unique, Creating, Unique Experiences, Distance Relationship

It is of course the nature of historical contraction that the shortest distance to a historical destination is never a straight line.

- Ibrahim Babangida

topic: Distance, Historical, Lines, Contractions, Distance Relationship

Somewhere we know that without silence words lose their meaning, that without listening speaking no longer heals, that without distance closeness cannot cure.

- Henri Nouwen

topic: Distance, Silence, Listening, Inspirational Long Distance Relationship, Closeness

Unhappy is that Grandeur which makes us too great to be good; and that Wit which sets us at a distance from true Wisdom.

- Mary Astell

topic: Distance, Unhappy, Wit, Grandeur, True Wisdom

Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray.

- Jean Paul

topic: Distance, Sorrow, Black, Sorrow And Happiness, Distance Relationship

The most sinister aspect of Jack is his detachment, his ability to distance himself from his feelings.

- Victor Garber

topic: Distance, Feelings, Detachment, Distance Relationship

When I lived in New York, not only did I have safety locks on the door but I had the music going, keeping the city at a distance, trying to find creative time and peace and so forth.

- Ann Beattie

topic: New York, Distance, Doors, Distance Relationship

It's like why people read scary books or go see scary movies. Because it creates a distance. They're scared, but they're not going to get hurt.

- Vincent D'Onofrio

topic: Hurt, Distance, Book, Distance Relationship, Scary Books

I once tried standing up on my toes to see far out in the distance, but I found that I could see much farther by climbing to a high place.

- Xunzi

topic: Distance, Climbing, Toes, Standing Alone, Distance Relationship

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

topic: Love, Inspirational, Friendship, Long Relationship, Soulmate Love

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

topic: Believe, Love You, Eye, Strong Long Distance Relationship, Sweet Long Distance Relationship

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

- Mary Martin

topic: Valentines Day, Lonely, Without You, Distance Relationship, Long Distance

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

topic: Positive, Want, Remember, Long Relationship, Inspirational Long Distance

I miss you even more than I could have believed; and I was prepared to miss you a good deal.

- Vita Sackville-West

topic: Love, Long Distance Relationship, Missing, Back Together, Strong Long Distance Relationship

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

source: Song: I'll Be Right Here Waiting For You

topic: Inspirational Love, Heart, Waiting, Strong Long Distance Relationship, Waiting For You

Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.

- John Dryden

topic: I Miss You, Missing You, Years, I Ll Miss You, I Missed You

The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. The friend becomes a traitor by breaking, however unwillingly or sadly, out of our own zone: a hard judgment is passed on him, for all the pleas of the heart.

- Elizabeth Bowen

topic: Heart, Thinking, People, Strong Long Distance Relationship, Long Distance Love

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

source: Robert Dodsley (1797). “The Poetical Works of Robert Dodsley. With the Life of the Author ... Embellished with Superb Engravings”, p.101

topic: Heart, Kissing, Tears, Kissing Him, Kissing You

You have to go wholeheartedly into anything in order to achieve anything worth having.

- Frank Lloyd Wright

source: Frank Lloyd Wright, Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer (1987). “Frank Lloyd Wright: his living voice”, California State University (Fresno)

topic: Motivational, Education, Order, Inspiring Long Distance Relationship, Long Distance Love

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

topic: Relationship, Thinking, Feel Good, Inspiring Long Distance Relationship, Strong Long Distance Relationship

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

- Jonathan Safran Foer

topic: Long Distance Relationship, Ocean, White, Everything Is Illuminated, Inspiring Long Distance Relationship

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

source: Jodi Picoult (2009). “Keeping Faith”, p.2, Harper Collins

topic: Relationship, Distance, Eye, Inspiring Long Distance Relationship, Long Love

Distance makes the heart grow fonder.

- Simone Elkeles

source: "Brendan Fehr Talks THE NIGHT SHIFT, Research for the Role, ROSWELL 15th Anniversary, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 6, 2014.

topic: Long Distance Relationship, Heart, Chemistry, Long Relationship, Inspirational Long Distance Relationship

Absence makes the heart grow fonder

- Eleanor Roosevelt

topic: I Miss You, Romantic, Missing You, I Missed You, Someone You Miss

The simple lack of her is more to me than others' presence.

- Edward Thomas

source: Edward Thomas (2012). “Poems of Edward Thomas”, p.150, Other Press, LLC

topic: Love, Life, Relationship, Long Relationship, Special Relationship

The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected. Maybe they always have been and will be. Maybe we've lived a thousand lives before this one and in each of them we've found each other. And maybe each time, we've been forced apart for the same reasons. That means that this goodbye is both a goodbye for the past ten thousand years and a prelude to what will come.

- Nicholas Sparks

topic: Love, Goodbye, Hurt, Hurt So Much, I Ll Miss You

Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?

- Richard Bach

topic: Love, Friendship, I Miss You, I Ll Miss You, I Missed You

The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.

- Charles Dickens

topic: Friendship, Relationship, Pain, Meeting Again, Inspirational Long Distance Relationship

Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.

- Paulo Coelho

topic: Inspirational, Life, Pain, Love Pain, Knowing A Person

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.

- Helen Keller

source: "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

topic: Love, Inspirational, Funny, Physical Beauty, Long Relationship

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

- Gilbert Parker

source: Gilbert Parker “The Complete Works of Gilbert Parker”, Library of Alexandria

topic: Love, Relationship, Stars, Long Relationship, Inspirational Long Distance Relationship

Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches.

- Miguel de Cervantes

topic: Long Distance Relationship, Wings, Distance Love, Strong Long Distance Relationship, Sweet Long Distance Relationship

Odd how much it hurts when a friend moves away- and leaves behind only silence.

- Pam Brown

topic: Relationship, Hurt, Distance, Strong Long Distance Relationship, Moving Away

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

- Oprah Winfrey

topic: Answers, Stills, Inspirational Long Distance Relationship, Inspiring Long Distance Relationship, Strong Long Distance Relationship

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

- Nicholas Sparks

topic: Love, Relationship, I Miss You, I Missed You, Long Relationship

And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

- Khalil Gibran

source: Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.18, Lulu.com

topic: Love, Relationship, Smile, I Ll Miss You, Make You Cry

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

topic: Relationship, I Miss You, Missing You, I Missed You, Long Relationship

Distance is temporary, but our love is permanent. This may be the last time I see you, but if you keep me in your heart, together we shall be eternal; if you believe, we shall never part.

- Ben Harper

topic: Relationship, Distance, Believe, Inspirational Long Distance, Inspirational Long Distance Relationship

Intelligence is what you use when you don't know what to do.

- Jean Piaget

topic: Learning, Intellectual, Intelligence, Inspirational Long Distance Relationship, Inspiring Long Distance Relationship

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

- Erica Jong

topic: Long Distance Relationship, Mountain, Bed, Inspiring Long Distance Relationship, Strong Long Distance Relationship

Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance.

- Boy George

topic: Long Distance Relationship, Radiance, Separation, Long Distant Relationship, Distance Relationship

We are just not made up to be middle distance runners.

- Alberto Juantorena

topic: Distance, Middle, Made, Distance Relationship

We had to be parents by long distance, which is far from satisfactory.

- Jeffrey Hunter

topic: Long Distance Relationship, Parent, Distance, Distance Relationship