The awaiting companion outside my home with a wagging tail is no more. I’m in no hurry to reach home, as Tommy’s innocent motility still haunt me!
Humans have always felt the need of a pet since prehistoric times, be it for use as a beast of burden or for simple companionship. There are many ways to hold on compassion and love for your deprived pet. Loss of a pet quotes is a memorable honors to the companion you are missing.
History pages admit the reality of true pets. Once Napoleon Bonaparte, the founder of European history was deeply afflicted after seeing pet’s love towards his dead master (a soldier). The dog was licking his face and howling for nights while all left him alone.
Napoleon cried out, “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.”
Pet Quotes that Help You Express Grief
■ “…love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.”
― Kahlil Gibran
■ “Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.”
― Roger Caras
■ “Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.”
― Emily Dickinson
■ “God’s finger touched him, and he slept.”
― Alfred, Lord Tennyson
■ “If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.”
― Will Rogers
■ “Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate.”
― Sigmund Freud
■ “It is not just that animals make the world more scenic or picturesque. The lives of animals are woven into our very being – closer than our own breathing – and our soul will suffer when they are gone.”
― Gary Kowalski, author of ‘The Souls of Animals’
■ “What we have once enjoyed, we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes part of us.”
― Hellen Keller
■ “Agreeable friends – they asks no questions, they pass no criticisms.”
― George Elliot
■ “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
■ “No heaven will not ever Heaven be, unless my cats are there to welcome me.”
― Anonymous
■ “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 of us who knew him well, he was a perfect gentleman.”
― Hermione Gingold
■ “Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.”
― Anatole France
■ “Grief is so painfully real, regardless of its origin. The love of, and attachment to, an animal friend can equal that of human relationships. Likewise, the loss of an animal can be just as devastating.”
― Rev. Joel L. Morgan
■ “If I have any beliefs about immortality it is that certain dogs I know will go to heaven, and very few people.”
― James Thurber
■ “The one best place to bury a good dog is in the heart of his master.”
― Ben Hur Lampman
■ “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
■ “That one true heart was left behind!
What feeling do we ever find
To equal among human kind
A dog’s fidelity!”
― Thomas Hardy
■ “His ears were often the first thing to catch my tears.”
― Elizabeth Barrett Browning
■ 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
■ “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 pet is never truly forgotten until it is no longer remembered.”
― Lacie Petitto
■ “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
Thus, blessed to those affectionate pets with oft-quoted sayings that will be a tribute to vocalize your love, sympathy, and quest for reuniting.
