76 Long Distance Friendship Quotes and Sayings
Distance is tough on friendships, but it’s true that it can make us cherish each other more.
When your best friend lives far away, staying connected takes work.
But with a little commitment and lots of talks, a long-distance friendship can thrive.
Share these uplifting and funny quotes about long-distance friendships with your best friend to show them they’re still close to your heart.
Long Distance Friendship Sayings and Quotes
“There are friendships imprinted in our hearts that will never be diminished by time and distance.” – Dodinsky
“If our friendship depends on things like space and time, we have destroyed our own brotherhood.” – Richard Bach
“I don’t cry because we’ve been separated by distance, and for a matter of years. Why? Because for as long as we share the same sky and breathe the same air, we’re still together.” – Donna Lynn Hope
“I’ve learned that true friendship continues to grow, even over the longest distance.” – Unknown
“True friendship is when two friends can walk in opposite directions, yet remain side by side.” – Unknown
“The road to a friend’s house is never too long!” – Danish Proverb
“There is no distance too far between friends, for friendship gives wings to the heart.” – Unknown
“No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other’s worth.” – Robert Southey
“Being physically away from a friend does not mean the friendship is going to be affected, if two people really appreciate each other then nothing and nobody can push them apart.” – Unknown
“Friends are connected heart to heart. Distance and time can’t break them apart.” – Unknown
“There is magic in long-distance friendships. They let you relate to other human beings in a way that goes beyond being physically together and is often more profound.” – Diana Cortes
“A part of you has grown in me, together forever we shall be, never apart, maybe in distance, but not in heart.” – Hakan Massoud Nawabi
“True friends never apart maybe in distance but never in heart.” – Helen Keller
“Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.” – Washington Irving
“A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?” – Kahlil Gibran
“A real friendship should not fade as time passes, and should not weaken because of space separation.” – John Newton
“True friends stay with you no matter the distance or time that separates you from them.” – Lance Reynald
“Distance does not break off the friendship absolutely, but only the activity of it.” – Aristotle
“The distance between you and me disappears with us.” – J.R. Rim
“The scariest thing about distance is that you don’t know whether they’ll miss you or forget you.” – Nicholas Sparks
“Odd how much it hurts when a friend moves away – and leaves behind only silence.” – Pam Brown
“I have made new friends and have many new people that I know. But hey, you will always be a special part of my heart because no one has been able to replace the space you left in it.” – Stephen Lob
“Though we drifted apart in distance I still think of you as being right here. And although we have many new friends, it is our friendship that means the most to me.” – Unknown
“Though miles may lie between us, we’re never far apart, for friendship doesn’t count the miles, it’s measured in the heart.” – Rozina Hasham
“Distance sometimes endears friendship, and absence sweetens it.” – James Howell
“Can miles truly separate you from friends… If you want to be with someone you love, aren’t you already there?” – Richard Bach
“Here is my favorite thing about long-distance besties; it can be years since you have seen each other and, the minute you start talking, it is like you were never apart.” – Becca Anderson
“We are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface but connected in the deep.” – William James
“When twilight drops her curtain down and pins it with a star, remember that you have a friend though she may wander far.” – L.M. Montgomery
“A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand.” – Les Brown
“True friendship isn’t about being inseparable, it’s being separated and nothing changes.” – Unknown
“You’re my closest friend and you’re thousands of miles away.” – Anthony Horowitz
“A friend allows you distance, but is never far away.” – Unknown
“Being physically away does not mean you have to finish a friendship, on the contrary, it can be much stronger.” – Unknown
“Distance cannot matter – ours is a friendship of the heart.” – Mary Anne Radmacher
“We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other everywhere.” – Tim McGraw
“If there ever comes a day when we can’t be together, keep me in your heart. I’ll stay there forever.” – A. A. Milne
“Distance does not matter if two hearts are loyal to one another.” – Ajen Dianawati
“Friendship means understanding, not agreement. It means forgiveness, not forgetting. It means the memories last, even if contact is lost.” – Akshat Thapa
“Growing apart doesn’t change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side; our roots will always be tangled. I’m glad for that.” – Ally Condie
“Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.” – Aristotle
“For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.” – Audrey Hepburn
“A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.” – Bernard Meltzer
“Absence makes the heart grow fonder, but it sure makes the rest of you lonely.” – Charles M. Schulz
“If ever there is tomorrow when we’re not together… there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we’re apart… I’ll always be with you.” – Christopher Robin
“Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it.” – Cicero
“Remember, the greatest gift is not found in a store nor under a tree, but in the hearts of true friends.” – Cindy Lew
“Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend – or a meaningful day.” – Dalai Lama
“Absence makes the heart grow fonder.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.” – Elisabeth Foley
“Ever absent, ever near; Still I see thee, still I hear; Yet I cannot reach thee, dear!” – Francis Kazinczy
“Love knows not distance; it hath no continent; its eyes are for the stars.” – Gilbert Parker
“In true love the smallest distance is too great, and the greatest distance can be bridged.” – Hans Nouwens
“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.” – Helen Keller
“I’m never sad when a friend goes far away, because whichever city or country that friend goes to, they turn the place friendly. They turn a suspicious-looking name on the map into a place where a welcome can be found.” – Helen Oyeyemi
“To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts unexpressed – That can make of this earth a garden.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“A single rose can be my garden… a single friend, my world.” – Leo Buscaglia
“There is no long distance about love, it always finds a way to bring hearts together no matter how many miles there are between them.” – Margaret Liu
“So close, no matter how far, Couldn’t be much more from the heart.” – Metallica
“The joy of meeting pays the pangs of absence; else who could bear it?” – Nicholas Rowe
“The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected.” – Nicholas Sparks
“A friend is someone who allows you distance but is never far away.” – Noah Benshea
“Where we love is home – home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes
“A strong friendship doesn’t need daily conversation; doesn’t always need togetherness, As long as the relationship lives in the heart, true friends will never part.” – Peter Cole
“If the days won’t allow us to see each other, memories will, and if my eyes can’t see you, my heart will never forget you.” – Rebone Lanah Shashape
“I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.” – Robert Breault
“I didn’t go to the moon, I went much further – for time is the longest distance between two places.” – Tennessee Williams
“But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine.” – Thomas Jefferson
“Absence is to love as wind is to fire: it extinguishes the little flame, it fans the big.” – Umberto Eco
“I wish that you were here or that I were there, or that we were together anywhere.” – Unknown
“If distance were measured in terms of the heart we’d never be more than a minute apart.” – Unknown
“Distance means nothing when someone says everything.” – Unknown
“Good friends are like stars. You don’t always see them, but you know they’re always there.” – Unknown
“A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.” – Walter Winchell
“All days are nights to see till I see thee, And nights bright days when dreams do show thee me.” – William Shakespeare
“Your absence has gone through me Like thread through a needle Everything I do is stitched with its color.” – William Stanley Merwin
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