Long-distance friendship: the most beautiful phrases to dedicate to distant friends

True friends are one of the most valuable assets. They accompany us every day of our life, sometimes even tacitly, being by our side in moments of joy and in those marked by pain and suffering. It may happen, however, that for various reasons one is forced to separate from them. Long distance friendship isn't always easy, just like a love story. However, there is nothing a true friendship cannot face, not even miles and miles away.

The most beautiful phrases about distance as proof of true friendship

Many great authors have shown how distance can be a way to demonstrate whether what there is between two people is a true friendship or not. Just like in love, two distant friends reveal to each other the feeling that binds them to the detriment of the "separation" made up of kilometers.

No distance can reduce the friendship of those who are completely determined to want it.
Robert Southey

If you separate from your friend, do not grieve, because his absence will enlighten you on what you love in him.
Khalil Gibran

There is no distance that can
separate a true friendship.
Strong bonds remain and challenge
the weather…
because they have only one home:
the heart.
Colette Haddad

A strong friendship does not need daily conversations; it does not need an assiduous presence.
As long as the relationship lives in the heart, true friends will never separate.
Anonymous

Distance sometimes adds value to friendship, and absence softens it.
James Howell

See also

True friendship: how to recognize it and the most beautiful phrases to dedicate to friends

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Friendship is not diminished by distance or time, suffering or silence
It is in these things that it takes its deepest roots.
It is from these things that it flourishes.
Pam Brown

Distance does not interrupt friendship at all, but only its activity.
Aristotle

Friendship is one of the most beautiful feelings to live because it gives wealth, emotions, complicity and because it is absolutely free. Suddenly we see each other, we choose, we build a sort of intimacy; you can walk side by side and grow together while traveling on different paths, even though they are hundreds of thousands of kilometers apart, like the two of us.
Susanna Tamaro

There is magic in long-distance friendships. They allow you to relate to other human beings in a way that goes beyond being physically together, and is often deeper.
Diana Cortes

As with prayer, there are no distances for friendship.
Henri Antoine Grouès

There are friendships imprinted in our hearts that will never be diminished by time and distance ”.
Dodinsky

However, it must be agreed that friendship, being harmony between souls, could not survive a prolonged distance, if these souls did not give each other signs of good agreement from time to time, and these signs can be of two kinds: words and actions.
Frédéric Ozanam

The truly connected ones need no correspondence, when they meet again after many years of separation, their friendship is truer than ever.
Ming-Dao Deng

The true friendship
It does not mean being inseparable
But feel close
Despite the distance.
Anonymous

True friendship resists time, distance and silence.
Isabel Allende

Aphorisms about nostalgia and the lack of distant friends

Although the distance may be the demonstration that a "true friendship is able to resist everything, it does not mean that being away from friends does not hurt. Several writers and philosophers have reflected precisely on the nostalgia one feels for distant friends and friends.

There is nothing that makes the world as spacious as having very distant friends; it is they who form the latitudes and longitudes.
Henry David Thoreau

Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the gentle rays of the setting sun, it glides tenderly but sadly over the heart.
Washington Irvin

The distance, which makes objects smaller to the eye, enlarges them at the thought.
Arthur Schopenhauer

You are never far enough away to find each other.
Alessandro Baricco

Strange how much it hurts when a friend walks away and just leaves silence.
Pam Brown

Distance and prolonged absence damage any friendship, even though it is so grudgingly admitted. The men we no longer see, even if they were our closest friends. they dry up, over the years, little by little until they become concepts.
Arthur Schopenhauer

There are times in life when you miss someone so much that you just want to get them out of your dreams to really hug them.
Paulo Coelho

It is always painful to part with people who have recently known each other. The absence of old friends can be endured with a serene soul. But even a momentary separation from someone you've just been introduced to is almost unbearable.
Oscar Wilde

I already feel the pain of separation from a friend that I have not yet seen.
Rabindranath Tagore

The most beautiful phrases and quotes to dedicate to distant friends

Every day is always a good time to dedicate phrases to your closest friends. All of this is even more valuable if they are far apart. Here are some of the most touching aphorisms to dedicate to a distant friend or "friend."

You meet people who forget you. You forget people you meet. But sometimes you meet people you can't forget. Those are your friends.
Mark Twain

A friend is the one who knows you are alone even when you are far away and holds out his hand to you.
Ada Roggio

A distant friend is sometimes closer than someone close at hand.
Is it true or not that the mountain inspires more reverence and appears clearer to the traveler of the valley than to the inhabitant of its slopes?
Khalil Gibran

A part of you has grown in me, we will always be together, never far away, perhaps in the distance but not in the heart.
Hakan Massoud Nawabi

True friends will never be distant, perhaps in space, but never with the heart.
Helen Keller

You cherish those people who have the ability to touch you and at the same time are thousands of miles away from you.
Rachel Wolchin

True friends transform years and years away into moments of light.
Fabrizio Caramagna

The most precious, the rarest flower
the friend is the friend.
Far or near, in happiness or unhappiness.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer

You know who your true friends are when you walk away from them and see who cares about your distance.
Anonymous

The only way to have a friend is to be a friend.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The most touching aphorisms about how distance is nothing compared to true friendship

Finally, what is the physical distance compared to a strong bond between two hearts? Having a distant friend can be scary at first, but over time you will realize that nothing can respect true friendship.

Friends are connected heart to heart. Time and distance cannot push them away.
Anonymous

No place is far. Can material distance really separate us from friends? If you want to be next to someone you love, aren't you already there?
Richard Bach

There is no strong wind, nor such intense rain, which can prevent your thought from traveling, so much so that it reaches the hearts of distant friends.
Anonymous

The road to a friend's house is never too long.
Danish proverb

Distance means so little when someone means so much.
Anonymous

Genuine friendship begins with what you share
continues with respect for differences,
grows with confrontation and even with conflicts,
withstands time, distance and silence,
but it goes out and dies forever with betrayal!
Father Enzo Bianchi

In nothing do I consider myself happy except in remembering my good friends.
William Shakespeare

No temporal or spatial distance can weaken the friendship of two people who each believe in the value of the other.
Robert Southey

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