Dog Loss Quotes

“Old men miss many dogs.”
Steve Allen

“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

“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.

“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 honour 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

“The CD is dedicated to our dog Nell, who passed away last year.“
Julia Barr

“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