Dog Loss Quotes - Page 2

• This soldier, I realized, must have had friends at home and in his regiment; yet he lay there deserted by all except his dog. I looked on, unmoved, at battles which decided the future of nations. Tearless, I had given orders which brought death to thousands. Yet here I was stirred, profoundly stirred, stirred to tears. And by what? By the grief of one dog. Napoleon Bonaparte, on finding a dog beside the body of his dead master, licking his face and howling, on a moonlit field after a battle. Napoleon was haunted by this scene until his own death.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Dog, Grief, Home

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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 love and hate.

  Sigmund Freud

  Cute, Dog, Hate

  Sigmund Freud (1992). “The Diary of Sigmund Freud 1929-1939: A Record of the Final Decade”

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• Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

  Isaac Asimov

  Sympathy, Death, Depressing

  Isaac Asimov (1988). “Fantastic voyage II: destination brain”

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• Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.

  Thornton Wilder

  Love, Heartbreak, Dog

  Thornton Wilder (2009). “The Bridge of San Luis Rey and Other Novels, 1926-1948”

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

  Erica Jong

  Dog, Heart, Pet Loss

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• There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.

  Washington Irving

  Love, Marriage, Sympathy

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  Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Beauty

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.15, St. Martin's Press

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

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Running, Fear, Cancer

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

  Dean Koontz

  Dog, Loss, Giving

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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 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

  Dog, Hurt, Dark

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

  Louis Sabin

  Dog, Silly, Owning A Pet

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

  Helen Keller

  Love, Sympathy, Death

  Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

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• 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

  Inspiring, Loyalty, Gratitude

  James Herriot (2012). “All Creatures Great and Small: The classic memoirs of a Yorkshire country vet”, p.232, Pan Macmillan

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• The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.

  Samuel Butler

  Dog, Humorous, Animal

  Notebooks (1912) ch. 14

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• 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

  Dog, Loss, Animal

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

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

  Agnes Sligh Turnbull

  Life, Dog, Pet

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• If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.

  James Thurber

  Dog, Nature, Animal

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

  George Eliot

  Motivational, Spiritual, Dog

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

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

  Josh Billings

  Love, Friendship, Dog

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

  Roger Caras

  Life, Dog, Sorry

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

  Konrad Lorenz

  Dog, Loss, Ties

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

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• To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring - it was peace.

  Milan Kundera

  Letting Go, Dog, Stress

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

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

  Mark Twain

  Dog, Men, Animal

  Mark Twain, William Dean Howells (1960). “Mark Twain-Howells Letters: The Correspondence of Samuel L. Clemens and William D. Howells, 1872-1910”, Belknap Press

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

  Will Rogers

  Cute, Death, Loyalty

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

  Orhan Pamuk

  Dog, Owning A Pet, Pet Loss

  FaceBook post by Orhan Pamuk from Jun 15, 2011

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