Quotes on Dog Loss

Death ends a life, not a relationship.

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.

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

The dog is the most faithful of animals and would be much esteemed were it not so common. Our Lord God has made His greatest gifts the commonest.

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.

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.

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

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

God's finger touched him, and he slept.

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

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

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

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

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

We who choose to surround ourselves_x000D_ with lives even more temporary than our_x000D_ own, live within a fragile circle;_x000D_ easily and often breached._x000D_ Unable to accept its awful gaps,_x000D_ we would still live no other way._x000D_ We cherish memory as the only_x000D_ certain immortality, never fully_x000D_ understanding the necessary plan.

All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.

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.

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.