Pet Grief Quotes:

If there is a heaven, it's certain our animals are to be there. Their lives become so interwoven with our own, it would take more than an archangel to detangle them.

- Pam Brown

topic: Religious, Dog, Animal, Inspirational Dog, Dog Death

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

- Helen Keller

topic: Love, Death, Grief, Endless Love, Everlasting Love

A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.

- Josh Billings

topic: Love, Friendship, Dog, Man And Dog, Inspirational Dog

When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

- Khalil Gibran

topic: Moving On, Broken Heart, Heartbroken, Sorrow And Happiness, Sorrow Love

Dogs' lives are too short. Their only fault, really.

- Agnes Sligh Turnbull

topic: Dog, Pet, Faults, Man And Dog, Inspirational Dog

The one best place to bury a good dog is in the heart of his master.

- Ben Hur Lampman

topic: Dog, Heart, Loss, Dog Death, Dog Grief

Sometimes losing a pet is more painful than losing a human because in the case of the pet, you were not pretending to love it.

- Amy Sedaris

topic: Pet, Losing, Sometimes, Lost Dog, Dog Died

If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.

- Will Rogers

topic: Cute, Dog, Sorry, Man And Dog, Inspirational Dog

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.

- Albert Schweitzer

topic: Love, Funny, Music, Music Life, Inspirational Animal

The misery of keeping a dog is his dying so soon. But, to be sure, if he lived for fifty years and then died, what would become of me?

- Walter Scott

topic: Dog, Sorry, Years, Inspirational Dog, Dog Died

Not the least hard thing to bear when they go from us, these quiet friends, is that they carry away with them so many years of our own lives.

- John Galsworthy

source: John Galsworthy (2013). “Delphi Works of John Galsworthy (Illustrated)”, p.3602, Delphi Classics

topic: Dog, Animal, Years, Hard Things, Sympathy For A Friend

When you are sorrowful, look again.

- Khalil Gibran

source: Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

topic: Sympathy, Condolences, Death Of A Loved One, Sorrow And Happiness, Sorrow Love

Brothers and Sisters, I bid you beware Of giving your heart to a dog to tear.

- Rudyard Kipling

source: Actions and Reactions (1909) "The Power of the Dog"

topic: Sister, Dog, Art, Dog Died, Dog Grief

There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power.

- Washington Irving

topic: Tears, Weakness, Mark, Hurt My Feelings, Hurt Feelings

We who choose to surround ourselves with lives even more temporary than our own, live within a fragile circle; easily and often breached. Unable to accept its awful gaps, we would still live no other way. We cherish memory as the only certain immortality, never fully understanding the necessary plan.

- Irving Townsend

topic: Memories, Circles, Understanding, Dog Grief, Dog Loss

Death ends a life, not a relationship.

- Jack Lemmon

topic: Death, Ends, Endless Love, Everlasting Love, Meaningful Death

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

- George Eliot

source: George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus”, p.226, 谷月社

topic: Spiritual, Nature, True Friend, Inspirational Animal, Inspirational Dog

Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep Do not stand at my grave and weep, I am not there, I do not sleep. I am in a thousand winds that blow, I am the softly falling snow. I am the gentle showers of rain, I am the fields of ripening grain. I am in the morning hush, I am in the graceful rush Of beautiful birds in circling flight, I am the star shine of the night. I am in the flowers that bloom, I am in a quiet room. I am in the birds that sing, I am in each lovely thing. Do not stand at my grave and cry, I am not there. I do not die.

- Mary Elizabeth Frye

source: "Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep" l. 15 (1932).

topic: Inspirational, Beautiful, Morning, Ripening, Inspirational Bereavement

No matter how close we are to another person, few human relationships are as free from strife, disagreement, and frustration as is the relationship you have with a good dog. Few human beings give of themselves to another as a dog gives of itself. I also suspect that we cherish dogs because their unblemished souls make us wish - consciously or unconsciously - that we were as innocent as they are, and make us yearn for a place where innocence is universal and where the meanness, the betrayals, and the cruelties of this world are unknown.

- Dean Koontz

topic: Relationship, Dog, Betrayal, Dog Died, Dog Grief

Dogs come into our lives to teach us about love and loyalty. They depart to teach us about loss. A new dog never replaces an old dog; it merely expands the heart. If you have loved many dogs, your heart is very big.

- Erica Jong

source: FaceBook post by Erica Jong from Oct 29, 2015

topic: Loyalty, Dog, Heart, Love And Loyalty, Old Dog

He is my other eyes that can see above the clouds; my other ears that hear above the winds. He is the part of me that can reach out into the sea. He has told me a thousand times over that I am his reason for being; by the way he rests against my leg; by the way he thumps his tail at my smallest smile; by the way he shows his hurt when I leave without taking him. (I think it makes him sick with worry when he is not along to care for me.)

- Gene Hill

topic: Dog, Hurt, Eye, I Love My Dog, Dog Grief

When I am wrong, he is delighted to forgive. When I am angry, he clowns to make me smile. When I am happy, he is joy unbounded. When I am a fool, he ignores it. When I succeed, he brags. Without him, I am only another man. With him, I am all-powerful. He is loyalty itself.

- Gene Hill

source: Steve Smith, Gene Hill (1999). “Just Mutts: A Tribute to the Rogues of Dogdom”, p.93, Willow Creek Press

topic: Loyalty, Dog, Powerful, I Love My Dog, Old Dog

He has taught me the meaning of devotion. With him, I know a secret comfort and a private peace. He has brought me understanding where before I was ignorant.

- Gene Hill

source: Steve Smith, Gene Hill (1999). “Just Mutts: A Tribute to the Rogues of Dogdom”, p.93, Willow Creek Press

topic: Dog, Understanding, Secret, I Love My Dog, Old Dog

His head on my knee can heal my human hurts. His presence by my side is protection against my fears of dark and unknown things. He has promised to wait for me... whenever... wherever-in case I need him. And I expect I will-as I always have. He is just my dog.

- Gene Hill

topic: Dog, Hurt, Dark, I Love My Dog, Wait For Me

No matter how little money and how few possesions you own, having a dog makes you rich.

- Louis Sabin

topic: Dog, Silly, Owning A Pet, Man And Dog, Inspirational Dog

When you awaken in the morning's hush I am the swift uplifting rush Of quiet birds in circled flight. I am the soft stars that shine at night. Do not stand at my grave and cry; I am not there, I did not die.

- Mary Elizabeth Frye

source: Mary Elizabeth Frye, “Do Not Stand At My Grave And Weep”

topic: Uplifting, Morning, Stars, Memorial For Loved One, Inspirational Sympathy

Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate.

- Sigmund Freud

topic: Cute, Dog, Hate, Love And Hate, Man And Dog

The dog of your boyhood teaches you a great deal about friendship, and love, and death: Old Skip was my brother. They had buried him under our elm tree, they said-yet this wasn't totally true. For he really lay buried in my heart.

- Willie Morris

topic: Family, Dog, Brother, Dealing With Death, Sympathy For Loss

Near this spot are deposited the remains of one who possessed beauty without vanity, strength without insolence, courage without ferocity, and all the virtues of man, without his vices. This praise, which would be unmeaning flattery if inscribed over human ashes, is but a just tribute to the memory of Botswain, a dog.

- Lord Byron

source: George Gordon Byron, “Epitaph To A Dog”

topic: Dog, Memories, Men, Insolence, Old Dog

No one can fully understand the meaning of love unless he's owned a dog. A dog can show you more honest affection with a flick of his tail than a man can gather through a lifetime of handshakes.

- Gene Hill

source: Gary Paulsen, James Herriot, Bill Tarrant, Gene Hill, Ted Kerasote, Lynn Stone “In Praise of Labs”

topic: Love, Friendship, Dog, Lost Dog, Dog Loss

I guess you don't really own a dog, you rent them, and you have to be thankful that you had a long lease.

- Joe Garagiola

topic: Dog, Loss, Long, Dog Death, Dog Grief

You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.

- Robert Louis Stevenson

topic: Dog, Animal, Thinking, Man And Dog, Inspirational Dog

Dogs do speak, but only to those who know how to listen.

- Orhan Pamuk

source: FaceBook post by Orhan Pamuk from Jun 15, 2011

topic: Dog, Pet, Speak, Dog Days, Dog Grief

Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.

- Roger Caras

topic: Life, Dog, Sorry, Man And Dog, Spaniels

Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.

- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

topic: Dog, Animal, Feet, Inspirational Dog, Loving Dog

There is sorrow enough in the natural way From men and woman to fill our day; But when we are certain of sorrow in store, Why do we always arrange for more? Brothers & Sisters, I bid you beware Of giving your heart to a dog to tear.

- Rudyard Kipling

source: Actions and Reactions (1909) "The Power of the Dog"

topic: Death, Dog, Brother, Dog Died, Dog Grief

The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man's.

- Mark Twain

topic: Dog, Animal, Men, Man And Dog, I Love My Dog

Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.

- Mark Twain

topic: Cute, Religious, Dog, Man And Dog, Inspirational Animal

Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened.

- Anatole France

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

topic: Love, Inspiring, Sibling, Inspirational Animal, Inspirational Dog

If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans.

- James Herriot

topic: Inspiring, Loyalty, Gratitude, Animal Cruelty, Kindness To Animals

I have sometimes thought of the final cause of dogs having such short lives and I am quite satisfied it is in compassion to the human race; for if we suffer so much in losing a dog after an acquaintance of ten or twelve years, what would it be if they were to live double that time?

- Walter Scott

topic: Dog, Short Life, Compassion, Lost Dog, Dog Grief

No man can fully understand the meaning of love unless he’s owned by a dog.

- Gene Hill

topic: Dog, Men, Pet Loss, Handshake, Lost Dog

The bond with a dog is as lasting as the ties of this earth can ever be.

- Konrad Lorenz

source: Konrad Lorenz, Marjorie Kerr Wilson (2002). “Man Meets Dog”, p.135, Psychology Press

topic: Dog, Loss, Ties, Dog Loss, Pet Grief

He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion. Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.

- Agnes Repplier

topic: Dog, Heart, Animal, Man And Dog, Inspirational Animal