Top 33 Quotes About Dog Loss: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Dog Loss

#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. Among the dog leads, phones and hats, there would be babies hoped for and lost. All this would be remembered: missed opportunities, mislaid friends, the smile of a wife. It would be a place for lost things.

Tor Udall

#3. There is only one thing worse than losing the one you love, and that is losing them without knowing why. If you are a dog, then your master is like a god to you, and the pain of losing him is greater still.

Louis De Bernieres

#4. No louder shrieks to pitying heaven are cast, When husbands or lap-dogs breathe their last.

Alexander Pope

#5. 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

#6. In his grief over the loss of a dog, a little boy stands for the first time on tiptoe, peering into the rueful morrow of manhood. After this most inconsolable of sorrows there is nothing life can do to him that he will not be able somehow to bear.

James Thurber

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

Ben Hur Lampman

#8. Oh the saddest of sights in a world of sin Is the little lost pup with his tail tucked in.

Arthur Guiterman

#9. Turn away. From the darkness, the madness, the pain. Open your eyes and look at the light.

Jennifer Donnelly

#10. 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

#11. That she cried over the loss of a dog whose big claim to fame was that he could eat the crotch out of a pair of clean underpants in less than a minute?

Sarah-Kate Lynch

#12. Only a lover of animals will understand the sudden feeling of loss, of emptiness, and the intuitive bond which exists between man and dog, has always existed from the beginning and will, please God, continue to the end.

Daphne Du Maurier

#13. All the love you ever gave is waiting for you there at Rainbow Bridge.

Kate McGahan

#14. My original project was called 'The Wheel'; there's a record out there called 'Desire & The Dissolving Man,' 'The Memory Of Loss' as well. There's also 'Falling Faster Than You Can Run,' also 'Closer'; all of that's on our website.

Nathaniel Rateliff

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

Erica Jong

#16. You can't expect people to do the right thing or else they will go to hell. We are already in hell!

Adrian Grenier

#17. A good dog never dies.

Mary Carolyn Davies

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

Thomas Hardy

#19. He knew there were some who said that those who kept dogs had to resign themselves to their eventual loss because of the animals' relatively short lives. The trick - if "trick" was the right word - was to learn to love the spirit of the animal, and to recognize that it transferred itself from dog to

John Connolly

#20. The proper reply to right wing religiosity is not to insist that politics and religion don't mix. This is the stock response of the left.

Christopher Lasch

#21. I have become conscious of my own "cry face." My face puckers like the business end of a hot dog except for my mouth, which stretches in a grimace so wide as to accommodate said hotdog horizontally within it. It's not pretty.

Kelly Wilson

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

Dean Koontz

#23. It is a terrible thing for an old woman to outlive her dogs.

Tennessee Williams

#24. The dog without his master was like a body without a soul.

Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman

#25. 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

#26. One can't run in a park without a dog or make angels in the snow without a child and there are things one can't do without a lover, so the loss of the lover is like an amputation and the patient goes into shock.

Merle Shain

#27. When you do not see the beauty in the things around you, nothing will be adequate to you.

Stephen Richards

#28. Harrison wrote a two-page poem about his deep feelings of loss when his dog Filbert died, and Mrs. Minerva, the creative writing teacher, gave it a B-minus. Do you know what that does to a a person to get a B-minus in Grief?

Joan Bauer