Dog loss Quotes

18 quotes from 16 authors

When a dog leaves your life, the silence feels louder than any city street. The quotes on this page capture that raw ache, the gratitude for wagging tails, and the strange comfort of memories that still bark in your mind. If you’re drawn to pet grief, you might also enjoy the ‘animal companionship’ and ‘grief and healing’ collections.

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Shall we, because we walk on our hind feet, assume to ourselves only the privilege of imperishability?

George Eliot

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

Louis Sabin

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That one true heart was left behind! What feeling do we ever find, to equal among human kind , a dog's fidelity!

Thomas Hardy

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Few human beings give of themselves to another as a dog gives of itself.

Dean Koontz

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Dogs have a way of finding the people who need them, Filling an emptiness we don't even know we have.

Thom Jones

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You gain strength, courage, and confidence by doing the thing which you think you cannot do.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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

Rudyard Kipling

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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.

Erica Jong

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His head on my knee can heal my human hurts. His presence by my side is protection against my fears of dark…

Gene Hill

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If there is a heaven, it's certain our animals are to be there. Their lives become so interwoven with our own, it…

Pam Brown

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

Sigmund Freud

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When you awaken in the morning's hush I am the swift uplifting rush Of quiet birds in circled flight. I am the…

Mary Elizabeth Frye

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“A good dog never dies. He always stays. He walks besides you on crisp autumn days when frost is on the fields…

Mary Carolyn Davies

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The dog of your boyhood teaches you a great deal about friendship, and love, and death: Old Skip was my brother. They…

Willie Morris

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Dogs come into our lives to teach us about love and loyalty. They depart to teach us about loss. A new dog…

Erica Jong

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He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours,…

Agnes Repplier

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I came across a photograph of him not long ago... his black face, the long snout sniffing at something in the air,…

Willie Morris

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Unlike some people who have experienced the loss of an animal, I did not believe, even for a moment, that I would…

Cleveland Amory

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