25+ Long Distance Relationship Quotes For Your LDR
LDR Activities · May 30, 2019 · Updated September 16, 2026
Sending your partner a spontaneous long distance relationship quote can be a great surprise and delight to let them know you’re thinking of them 💭
We also love to caption our Instagram photos with long distance relationship quotes that resonate with us!
Here are our 10 favorite long distance relationship quotes for LDR couples — plus love quotes from classic letters, long distance marriage quotes, and short lines for captions further down. 👇
“Distance is not for the fearful, it's for the bold. 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.”
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“It’s hard to wait for something you know might not happen. But it’s even harder to give up when you know it’s everything you want.
“The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.” – Charles Dickens
How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.” – A.A. Milne
“True love doesn’t mean being inseparable; it means being separated and nothing changes.”
- “Nothing in this world worth having comes easy.”
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“Sometimes you have to be apart from the people you love but that doesn’t make you love them any less. Sometimes you love them more.” – Nicholas Sparks
“Love will travel as far as you let it. It has no limits.” – Dee King
“Know that my love is present even when I am not.”
Long distance love quotes from classic letters
People have been loving each other across distance for as long as there has been paper. Some of the most beautiful long distance love quotes ever written come from real letters and poems by couples who were separated — by war, by oceans, by circumstance — centuries before video calls existed.
Ludwig van Beethoven, in his famous 1812 letter to his “Immortal Beloved”:
“Ever thine. Ever mine. Ever ours.”
John Keats, writing to Fanny Brawne in 1819, from just a few miles away that might as well have been a continent:
“I cannot exist without you.”
John Donne, in “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning” — written for his wife before a long journey in 1611, and still the best description of an LDR we’ve ever read:
“Our two souls therefore, which are one, / Though I must go, endure not yet / A breach, but an expansion, / Like gold to airy thinness beat.”
Gold, beaten thin enough, doesn’t break — it just stretches to cover more ground. That’s the whole assignment.
If these make you want to write your own, that’s the point — a handwritten letter still hits harder than any forwarded quote. (Our guide to open-when letters is a good place to start.)
Long distance marriage quotes
Distance isn’t only a dating-phase problem — plenty of married couples spend seasons apart for work, family, or immigration. These classics hold up:
Anne Bradstreet, “To My Dear and Loving Husband” (1678), written while her husband was often away:
“If ever two were one, then surely we. / If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning — who fell in love with Robert Browning through nearly two years of letters before they could be together:
“How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.”
The Brownings exchanged hundreds of letters before eloping. If they could build a marriage on correspondence alone, your nightly call is downright luxurious. (Wondering where your own distance is heading? We wrote about whether long distance relationships lead to marriage.)
Short LDR quotes for Instagram captions
And a few short ones of our own — free to steal for captions, lock screens, or the bottom of a care-package note:
- “Same team, different time zones.”
- “The distance is temporary. We’re not.”
- “Missing you is just love with nowhere to sit.”
- “Two cities, one home.”
- “Every goodbye here is a countdown there.”
- “We do date night in two kitchens.”
Want the reverse — questions instead of quotes? Try our questions to ask your long distance partner, or turn a quote into a whole evening with these 50 long distance date ideas.
Many of these quotes can be found throughout our book - The #LDR Activity Book and you can learn more about the Co-Authors here.
♥️ Sam and Jared
Need something shorter for a photo? We wrote 75 original long distance relationship captions for Instagram.
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