70 Pet Loss Quotes That Bring Comfort

Let these pet loss quotes encourage you during the difficult time of losing a friend who was your constant companion.

Few things in this life compare to the pain and sorrow of losing a pet. They lift our heads and fill our hearts with the kind of love that few others can. If you're searching for loss of dog quotes or loss of cat quotes, we have you covered. Read through these uplifting words and reflect on all the precious times you shared with your best pal.

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Quotes About Our Bond with Pets

• "How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard." –Winnie The Pooh

• "Sorrow is how we learn to love. Your heart isn't breaking. It hurts because it's getting larger. The larger it gets, the more love it holds." –Rita Mae Brown

• “Love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.” –Kabil Gibran

• "It is amazing how much love and laughter they bring into our lives and even how much closer we become with each other because of them." –John Grogan

• "If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans." –James Herriot

• "The risk of love is loss, and the price of loss is grief. But the pain of grief is only a shadow when compared with the pain of never risking love." –Hilary Stanton Zunin

• "Dogs…do not ruin their sleep worrying about how to keep the objects they have, and to obtain the objects they have not. There is nothing of value they have to bequeath except their love and their faith." –Eugene O'Neill
  

• "Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened." –Anatole France

• "Nobody can fully understand the meaning of love unless he's owned a dog. A dog can show you more honest affection with a flick of his tail than a man can gather through a lifetime of handshakes." –Gene Hill

• "Sometimes losing a pet is more painful than losing a human because in the case of the pet, you were not pretending to love it." –Amy Sedaris

• “The littlest feet make the biggest footprints in our hearts.” –Unknown

• “I wanted to spend the rest of my life with you; but instead I am deeply honored knowing you spent the rest of your life with me.” –Camille Marcotte

• “Sometimes the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.” –Winnie the Pooh
  

• “Having a dog will bless you with the happiest days of your life and one of the worst days.” –Unknown

• “Never. We never lose our loved ones. They accompany us; they don’t disappear from our lives. We are merely in different rooms.” –Paulo Coelho

• "The bond with a dog is as lasting as the ties of this earth can ever be." –Konrad Lorenz

• "Unable are the loved to die. For love is immortality." –Emily Dickinson

Quotes About Grieving a Pet

• "Grief is like the ocean; it comes on waves ebbing and flowing. Sometimes the water is calm, and sometimes it is overwhelming. All we can do is learn to swim." –Vicki Harrison

• "Like a bird singing in the rain, let grateful memories survive in time of sorrow." –Robert Louis Stevenson

• "You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do." –Eleanor Roosevelt
  

• "So it's true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love." –E.A. Bucchianeri
  

• "Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water." –Christopher Morley

• “What we have once enjoyed we can never lose; all that we have loved deeply, becomes a part of us.” –Helen Keller
  

• “When we think of those companions who travelled by our side down life’s road, let us not say with sadness that they left us behind, but rather say with gentle gratitude that they once were with us.” –Unknown

• “Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.” –Isaac Asimov
  

• “Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.” –Rumi

• “No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.” –C.S. Lewis

• “Like a bird singing in the rain, let grateful memories survive in time of sorrow.” –Robert Louis Stevenson

• “You were my favorite hello and my hardest goodbye.” –Unknown

• “The pain passes, but the beauty remains.” –Pierre-Auguste Renoir

• "And they all said 'I'm sorry for your loss,' as if you were someone who could ever be taken from me." –Robert Brault

Quotes About the Loss of a Dog

• "Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole." –Roger Caras

• "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 gift the commonest." –Martin Luther

• “Dogs come into our lives to teach us about love, 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

• “A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself.” –Josh Billings

• “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

• “A person who has never owned a dog has missed a wonderful part of life.” –Bob Barker

• “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

• “No matter how little money and how few possessions you own, having a dog makes you feel rich.” –Louis Sabin

• “You do not own a dog. You have a dog. And the dog has you.” –Chelsea Handler

• “Money can buy you a fine dog, but only love can make him wag his tail.” –Kinky Friedman

• “My little dog—a heartbeat at my feet.” –Edith Wharton

• "Before you get a dog, you can't quite imagine what living with one might be like; afterward, you can't imagine living any other way." –Caroline Knapp

• "If you don't own a dog, at least one, there is not necessarily anything wrong with you, but there may be something wrong with your life." –Roger Caras

• "A dog doesn't care if you're rich or poor, educated or illiterate, clever or dull. Give him your heart and he will give you his." –John Grogan

• "Dogs have a way of finding the people who need them and filling an emptiness we didn't ever know we had." –Thom Jones

Quotes About the Loss of a Cat

• "Time spent with a cat is never wasted." –Sigmund Freud

• “When the cat you love becomes a memory, the memory becomes a treasure.” –Unknown

• "No amount of time can erase the memory of a good cat, and no amount of masking tape can ever totally remove his fur from your couch." –Leo Dworken

• "It's funny how…cats know the inside of folks better than other folks do, isn't it?" –Eleanor H. Porter

• "There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats." –Albert Schweitzer

• "What greater gift than the love of a cat." –Charles Dickens

• “I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through.” –Jules Verne

• "A home without a cat—and a well fed, well petted and properly revered cat—may be a home, perhaps, but how can it prove title?" –Mark Twain

Quotes About Pets in Heaven

• "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

• "If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die, I want to go where they went." –Will Rogers

• "If I have any beliefs about immortality it is that certain dogs I know will go to heaven, and very very few people." –James Thurber

• "Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in." –Mark Twain

• "The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven, not man's." –Mark Twain

• "Some angels choose fur instead of wings." –Unknown

Short Quotes About Pet Loss

• "Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened." –Ted Geisel (Dr. Seuss)

• "Death ends a life, not a relationship." –Jack Lemmon

• "His ears were often the first thing to catch my tears." –Elizabeth Barrett Browning

• "Pets teach us the purest kind of love." –Unknown

• “To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.” –Thomas Campbell

• "A pet is never truly forgotten until it is no longer remembered." –Lacie Petitto

• "You know, a heart can be broken, but it keeps on beating, just the same." –Fannie Flagg

• "Tears are words the mouth can't say nor can the heart bear." –Joshua Wisenbaker

• "Heartbreak is life educating us." –George Bernard Shaw

• "It is a fearful thing to love what death can touch." –Anonymous

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