Comforting Quotes For People Who Have Lost Their Beloved Pets & Are Sad & Grieving
Posted: Tuesday, February 14, 2012
by Fran Larson
http://www.franniesquotes.com/
Owning and loving a pet is a bittersweet experience because most of us outlive our pets and it is oh, so sad and empty when they die. They are a part of our family and love us unconditionally. They don’t care what we look like or how much we weigh, they just love us.
Hopefully, these quotes will be a comfort to all of you who have ever lost your beloved pet. I sincerely hope these quotes help.
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)
The smallest feline is a masterpiece.
(Leonardo Da Vinci)
“I do not mind having imaginary conversations with animals who are part of my life. The comfort of talking to one at a time of personal distress is so soothing because one has the ease of knowing that one’s secrets will not be repeated to anyone. Yet there are those who are horrified that an animal can be a more reliable part of one’s world than that of the human world.”
(Derek Tangye -'The Evening Gull')
"There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
(George Santayana)
"A good dog never dies. He always stays. He walks besides you on crisp autumn days when frost is on the fields and winter's drawing near. His head is within our hand in his old way."
(Mary Carolyn Davies)
"To spare oneself from grief at all cost can be achieved only at the price of total detachment, which excludes the ability to experience happiness.”
(Erich Fromm)
"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?"
(Sir Walter Scott)
"Dogs have a way of finding the people who need them, Filling an emptiness we don't even know we have."
(Thom Jones)
“Grief makes one hour ten.”
(William Shakespeare)
"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)
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
At one time a synod of the Catholic Church was held in which the question of whether or not animals had a soul was discussed very seriously: would good dogs go to paradise and bad ones, who stole slices of lamb, burn in hell eternally. The denial of the soul was voted: it is enough for the honor of the species that the question was posed.
Alfred Barbou
I'm a great dog fanatic. My own dog died a little while ago and I take it very personally when things die ? it's a major offence.
Clive Barker
If there is a heaven, it's certain our animals are to be there. Their lives become so interwoven with our own, it would take more than an archangel to detangle them.
Pam Brown
Don't cry because it's over.
Smile because it happened.
Ted Geisel (Dr. Seuss)
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 psychologist
I know well enough that there have been dogs so loving that they have thrown themselves into the same grave with the dead bodies of their masters; others have stayed upon their masters' graves without stirring a moment from them, and have voluntarily starved themselves to death, refusing to touch the food that was brought them.
Miguel de Cervantes
Sources:
http://www.anangelsdestiny.com/pet-loss-quotes.html
http://www.pet-loss-matters.com/pet-quotations.html
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Top-level comments on this article: (2 total)Sad that animals only live a portion of the lives we live. I would be considered a cat person, but at present- no pets. Great article.Many people prefer cats for pets. I think cats are great, but personally I have had better luckith dogs. At any rate, when you lose a pet, it is just awful and grief for a pet is nothing to be ashamed of.
Thanks Elle for your comment.
My son brought home the Dobbie when he was young and a year later my husband brought home the mixed breed and when he was age 14 I had to have the Dobbie put down. That was almost two years ago and I wish I could find the poem the Vet’s office sent to us in sympathy. It was truly beautiful.
I don’t know how to express how much joy the animals have given us – they are so much a part of our lives. The youngest has now reached the age of 14 and he’s as active as he was when he was 7.
A few months ago my husband and I were going to take a trip, just to get away for a few days. Normally our one son would take care of the dog (s) while we were gone, but this time that wasn’t an option so I decided it wasn’t a problem, we would simply take the doggie with us. Come to find out the hotels that do allow dogs also have size restrictions and after spending a couple days searching I gave it up as a lost cause and decided to just stay home.
Leaving him with friends or family isn’t an option. He’s old and he’s spoiled rotten and he’s the ‘baby’ ?
I know exactly where you are coming from. Our dogs (2) are our babies and family. After all, they love you and don't judge. The down side is having to put them down. It breaks your heart.
As for getting away for a few days, we don't go much but I have to feel that my dogs are being cared for by someone who loves animals. It is a problem but I wouldn't have it any other way.
These "babies" or ours give us so much pleasure that we could never have otherwise. I could write volumes about mine. Thanks for your comment and give your doggies a hug for me!We only have one doggie left Fran, so I gave him two hugs for you :)thanks, Patricia!
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