Dog Loss Quotes

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

  Anatole France

  Love, Inspiring, Dog

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

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• 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

  Dog, Short Life, Loss

  Sir Walter Scott (1833). “The Complete Works of Sir Walter Scott: With a Biography, and His Last Additions and Illustrations”

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

  Ben Hur Lampman

  Dog, Heart, Loss

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

  Washington Irving

  Strength, Sad, Sympathy

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• 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

  Love, Friendship, Dog

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

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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

  Dog, Heart, Loss

  Thomas Hardy (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.49, Courier Dover Publications

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• 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

  Pet, Losing, Sometimes

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• 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

  Death, Dog, Brother

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

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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 never replaces an old dog; it merely expands the heart. If you have loved many dogs, your heart is very big.

  Erica Jong

  Loyalty, Dog, Heart

  FaceBook post by Erica Jong from Oct 29, 2015

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

  Rudyard Kipling

  Sister, Dog, Art

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

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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

  Inspirational, Motivational, Dog

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• 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

  Memories, Circles, Understanding

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

  George Eliot

  Animal, Feet, Pet

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• Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Dog, Cat, Animal

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• For those who love dogs, it would be the worst form of a lie to call any place where dogs were banned "Paradise." Certainly no loving God would separate people from their canine friends for eternity.

  Stanley Coren

  Dog, Religious, Lying

  Stanley Coren (2008). “The Modern Dog: A Joyful Exploration of How We Live with Dogs Today”, p.257, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  Friendship, Dog, Loss

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• If you have a dog, you will most likely outlive it; to get a dog is to open yourself to profound joy and, prospectively, to equally profound sadness.

  Marjorie Garber

  Friendship, Dog, Sadness

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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 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

  Uplifting, Morning, Stars

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

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• To call him a dog hardly seems to do him justice, though inasmuch as he had four legs, a tail, and barked, I admit he was, to all outward appearances. But to those who knew him well, he was a perfect gentleman.

  Hermione Gingold

  Dog, Loss, Perfect

  Hermione Gingold (1958). “The world is square”

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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 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

  Friendship, Family, Dog

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• Do not stand at my grave and cry, I am not there; I did not die.

  Mary Elizabeth Frye

  Death, Lost Love, Losing A Loved One

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

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• 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

  Dog, Memories, Men

  George Gordon Byron, “Epitaph To A Dog”

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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, his tail straight and pointing, his eyes flashing in some momentary excitement. Looking at a faded photograph taken more than forty years before, even as a grown man, I would admit I still missed him.

  Willie Morris

  Dog, Taken, Eye

  Willie Morris (2008). “My Dog Skip”, p.3, Vintage

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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, 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

  Dog, Heart, Animal

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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 never get another. I did know full well that there were just too many animals out there in need of homes for me to take what I have always regarded as the self-indulgent road of saying the heartbreak of the loss of an animal was too much ever to want to go through with it again. To me, such an admission brought up the far more powerful admission that all the wonderful times you had with your animal were not worth the unhappiness at the end.

  Cleveland Amory

  Powerful, Believe, Home

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