Quotes About Death Of A Dog

#1. Love is love," I told her, as I tell all of my patients who are ashamed to find themselves shattered by the death of a dog. "Loss is loss.

Meg Donohue

#2. 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

#3. The fact is, all gangsters live in dog years. We come up fast in terms of making a name for ourselves, but, once our names have been established on the streets, we are on our way out.

Drexel Deal

#4. Lately, I've become accustomed to the way
The ground opens up and envelopes me
Each time I go out to walk the dog.

Amiri Baraka

#5. Here is a sermon for you, Reverend: Everything not dead dies. Just like those little fellows scooting around beside that dead mamma goose, little downy fellas who are gonna meet a hungry weasel or vicious farm dog before nightfall, their world stands in chaos, and not of their own doing.

Allan Dare Pearce

#6. No matter how deep my sleep I shall hear you, and not all the power of death can keep my spirit from wagging a grateful tail. I will always love you as only a dog can.

Eugene O'Neill

#7. Death-bed promises should be broken as lightly as they are seriously made.
-The Gay Old Dog

Edna Ferber

#8. The Line welcomed rain and sun. Seeds germinated in mass graves, between skulls and femurs and broken pick handles, tendrils rose up alongside dog spikes and clavicles, thrust around teak sleepers and tibias, scapulas, vertebrae, fibulas and femurs.

Richard Flanagan

#9. Tis torture, and not mercy. Heaven is here Where Juliet lives, and every cat and dog And little mouse, every unworthy thing, Live here in heaven and may look on her, But Romeo may not.

William Shakespeare

#10. Do you really think anyone needs some kind of notarized statement saying
'Dear Saint Peter, here's another stiff, pass him through the gates, signed, Father McGonnigill.' ... 'PS: He once had a hot dog on a Friday, but don't hold that against him.'

P.N. Elrod

#11. Death didn't answer. He was looking at Spold in the same way that a dog looks at a bone, only in this case things were more or less the other way around.

Terry Pratchett

#12. The theater kids? My God, it would be a bloody massacre. They would be found beaten to death with their own dog-eared The Wiz songbooks.

Jesse Andrews

#13. Your brother beat him almost to death, Temujin. He held him and kicked him until he cried like a child. He is afraid of you, so he hates you. It would be wrong to hurt him again. It would be like beating a dog after it has loosed it's bladder. The spirit is already broken in him.

Conn Iggulden

#14. A live dog is better than a dead lion, but death is preferable to poverty.

Salman Rushdie

#15. Our German forefathers had a very kind religion. They believed that, after death, they would meet again all the good dogs that had been their companions in life. I wish I could believe that too.

Otto Von Bismarck

#16. Death inspires me like a dog inspires a rabbit.

Tyler Joseph

#17. Neighbours complaining about someone's dog making an awful racket. You could hardly blame the poor beast, its owner had died in her bed at least a fortnight before and there hadn't been much left of the old girl worth eating.

James Oswald

#18. The day of death is better than the day of birth, a live dog is better than a dead lion, and the grave is better than poverty.

N.J. Dawood

#19. If you ever had a pet, with me it was a dog, with that sort of unconditional love that only dogs can give, people can't do that; that sort of thing where it's very powerful, it's kind of your first love and your first real relationship, and usually your first experience with death.

Tim Burton

#20. Elegy of the Death of a Mad Dog The dog, to gain some praivate ends, Went mad and bit the man.

Oliver Goldsmith

#21. I remember the pain I felt, and wonder why a man who was such an accomplished liar had to tell the truth that day.

Toni Maguire

#22. In a materialistic society, the dead body of a rich man's dog is regarded as a corpse; that of a poor man, a carcass.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#23. Youth, then, once ballyhooed as the epicenter of fun, hot dogs, hot sex, and marvelous dope-smoking good times, is now defined as follows: that period before death, characterized by smooth skin and ill-formed ideas.

Marilyn Suzanne Miller

#24. Death is like an old dog. He always knows when you are at his door.

Pseudonymous Bosch

#25. A dead dog is more quiet than a house on the steppes, a chair in a empty room.

Per Petterson

#26. I could croak with no warning, and the only tragedy anyone would experience would be showing up on the last day of my estate sale simply to discover that all remaining items had copious amounts of dog hair on them.

Laurie Notaro

#27. I thought it was a novel."
"It is."
"What's it about??"
"You'll have to buy it to find out, but it's got everything: love, death and an amusing dog."
"This one's got a recipe for apple crumble," I said.
"Don't you love that about the novel? The capaciousness?" he said.

Marcel Theroux

#28. It is only a gesture," he said, turning back to Shadow. "But gestures mean everything. The death of one dog symbolizes the death of all dogs.

Neil Gaiman

#29. Life's just a dream. It isn't real. I know that you can't see that yet. You want me to wake up but in my death I did wake up and I saw you were still sleeping.

Kate McGahan

#30. He's weak, afraid and dumber than your dog.
Besides, you gonna bet the farm on a pig?

The Alien Club

Trel Sidoruk

#31. I think, more than anything else, my dog's death has made me grow up. I find myself thinking about the world in a more serious way.

Zendaya

#32. For the pride of trace and trail was his, and sick unto death, he could not bear that another dog should do his work.

Jack London

#33. The best way to get over a dog's death is to get another soon.

Ronald Reagan

#34. I despise and abhor the pleas on behalf of that infamous practice, vivisection ... I would rather submit to the worst of deaths, so far as pain goes, than have a single dog or cat tortured to death on the pretense of sparing me a twinge or two.

Robert Browning

#35. His absence is so big it's like he's there.

Patrick Ness

#36. Fleetfoot turned to look up at Celaena, her golden eyes full of question. Celaena reached down to stroke the warm head, the long ears, the slender muzzle. But the question remained. Celaena said, "She's never coming back." The dog kept waiting.

Sarah J. Maas

#37. Via the conduit of a wild dog pack, she has now made the ultimate Gift to her fellow Creatures, and has become part of God's great dance of proteins.

Margaret Atwood

#38. Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog And in that town a dog was found, As many dogs there be, Both mongrel, puppy, whelp, and hound, And curs of low degree.

Oliver Goldsmith

#39. A comrade who deserts a comrade is a cowardly dog, and all such dogs should die a dog's death, comrade -

Robert Harris

#40. will you please explain how you can cry for a dead dog yet belong to a society of fanatics that urges death on human beings who happen to be Jews? Explain to me the logic of it.

Bernard Malamud

#41. Quarreling over food and drink, having neither scruples nor shame, not knowing right from wrong, not trying to avoid death or injury, not fearful of greater strength or of greater numbers, greedily aware only of food and drink - such is the bravery of the dog and boar.

Xun Zi

#42. I lost interest in firearms because we had a dog that was scared to death of the sound of a rifle shot.

James Spader

#43. A dog's spirit dies hard.

Mikhail Bulgakov

#44. I don't believe in happy endings. Children have got to face death sooner or later. Granny and Grandpa die, dogs die, cats die, gerbils and those frightful things - what are they called? - hamsters: all die like flies. So there's no point avoiding it.

Raymond Briggs

#45. The dog leash was still tied tight around the oak tree in the back, stretched worn and limp across the green grass as if trying to escape to freedom; and he buried his wife without a tombstone. Where before, she sat most times in his home, licking her wounds.

Anthony Liccione

#46. He went up to heaven, located his dog. Not only that, but he rejoined his arm.

Johnny Cash

#47. There are not enough words in the English language to describe the experience of this. Death is more than life. Humans put their animals "to sleep" when it's really waking them up. Everybody has it all backwards.

Kate McGahan

#48. We who advocate peace are becoming an irrelevance when we speak peace. The government speaks rubber bullets, live bullets, tear gas, police dogs, detention, and death.

Desmond Tutu

#49. Yeah, like that's gonna happen. A transporter with a dog as a pet. Where you going to board him while you're working? On cloud nine?" "Well, aren't you a barrel of laughs? For your information I figure if they will let Death have a human I can at least have a dog.

Abbi Glines

#50. It is not good to repudiate the dead because then they do not leave you alone, they are like dogs that bark intermittently at night.

Edna O'Brien

#51. It is hard to truly commune with the recently departed when carrying a plastic bag of dog feces.

Thomm Quackenbush

#52. Owning a dog always ended with this sadness because dogs just don't live as long as people do.

John Grogan

#53. Every Clayr is given the gift to See some portent of her death, though not the death itself, for no human could bear that weight. Almost twenty years ago I Saw myself and your little dog, and in time I realized that this was the vision that foretold my final days.

Garth Nix

#54. I think the idea that death is not the end, that your dog's just gone to live on the farm, is limiting. Thoughts like that prevent you from making the most of the time that you have.

Jimmy Carr