Long distance relationships are never easy, but it doesn’t mean they can’t work. Get inspiration from relationship experts, celebrities, movies, poems, songs, and the millions of couples all over the world who had to go through the experience of being physically apart. Theirs are stories that touch our hearts because their love ended up thriving instead of dying despite the distance. As you can glean from these carefully selected long distance relationship quotes to keep you holding on, people in love find ways to be together in the face of doubt, anxiety, apprehension, and other negative emotions threatening a union. The difference between these and those LDRs that didn’t work out is that in the end, the people involved found a reason to hold on.

I call you on
the ‘phone &
we chat, but
the way tele
is missing from
‘phone is the
way it makes me
feel, wishing
the rest of
you were here.

-An excerpt from 3 Little Poems by Ron Padgett

“As I’m writing this, I presume I must believe you’re real. Will you wait for me? Stay in my house, be my guest and live here till I return. I’m running from you, but I’m also searching for a way to accept my fate, which I know to be bound with yours. I desperately need your help–I will write with a forwarding address, and if you forgive me my cowardliness, maybe you will write back. Like Ariadne holding the string for Perseus while he enters the Minotaur’s labyrinth, your words might keep me from going hopelessly astray. There you see how I am, already giving this mythological status. Wanting to salvage my ego. Wanting to look like an adventurer rather than accepting the idea that I’m behaving like a madman hiding from his shadow. Are you my shadow?”

-Griffin to Sabine, in Sabine’s Notebook (1992) by Nick Bantock

The highway is full of big cars
going nowhere fast
And folks is smoking anything that’ll burn
Some people wrap their lives around a cocktail
glass
And you sit wondering
where you’re going to turn
I got it.
Come. And be my baby.
Some prophets say the world is gonna end
tomorrow
But others say we’ve got a week or two
The paper is full of every kind of blooming
horror
And you sit wondering
What you’re gonna do.
I got it.
Come. And be my baby.

-Come, And Be My Baby by Maya Angelou

Box: Now, look, I have done the long distance thing. And it is hard. As hell. And it doesn’t matter how good the relationship is, it literally can just rip it apart. Look, it is just very hard to be away from the person you love for months at a time.

Garrett: I know. I know it’s not gonna be easy.

Box: That’s all I’m sayin’.

Dan: But maybe YOU never found the right girl.

Garrett: That’s not a bad point.

-Box (Jason Sudeikis) to Dan (Charlie Day) and Garrett (Justin Long), from the movie Going the Distance (2010)

“Long-distance relationships do get easier. You get used to it and look forward to the next time you see each other. Potentially it keeps you in the honeymoon period of your relationship for much longer.”

-Relationship expert Paula Hall on the subject of long distance relationships, in an article from The Sun (2011)

“The other day, I was cleaning, he was cleaning. We couldn’t see each other — we were just scrubbing away and talking like we were in the same room!”

-Actress Amanda Seyfried about Skype-ing with her long distance boyfriend and Mamma Mia co-star Dominic Cooper, as told in an InStyle Hair magazine interview.

Garrett Blake: Theresa, I don’t want to lose you.
Theresa Osborne: Then don’t.
Theresa Osborne: Have you lived here your whole life?
Garrett Blake: Not yet.
Theresa Osborne: And you’ll just forget about me, right?
Garrett Blake: Every day.

-Garrett Blake (Kevin Costner) and Theresa Osborne (Robin Wright Penn), from the movie Message In a Bottle (1999)

Inspiration comes from finding reasons to stay in a relationship, even if the people in it are physically apart. We hope you get inspired with these long distance relationship quotes to keep you holding on to your own special bond with your faraway love.

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