26 Powerful Pet Loss & Love Quotes
There are very few things, if anything, more painful than the passing of a loving companion. Our furry, feathered, or scaled best friends are always right there with us. They’re there to comfort us, to love us, and even to protect us, as we try to do the same for them.
If you’ve recently lost a pet, or perhaps are in the anticipatory grief stage of an impending loss, you may be looking for some special or unique words of comfort.
We want to help.
We have compiled a list of 26 beautiful quotes about both pet loss and pet love below.
Compelling Quotes About the Love & Loss of a Pet
Why Both Love & Loss? Because …
“Grief is the price we pay for love”
“His ears were often the first thing to catch my tears.”
“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.”
“Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.”
“Like a bird singing in the rain, let grateful memories survive in time of sorrow.”
“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.”
“I wanted to spend the rest of my life with you; but instead I am deeply honoured knowing you spent the rest of your life with me.”
“If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans.”
“What we have once enjoyed we can never lose; all that we have loved deeply, becomes a part of us.”
“The littlest feet make the biggest footprint in our hearts.”
“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.”
“How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.”
“Sometimes the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.”
“Having a dog will bless you with the happiest days of your life and one of the worst days.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I guess you don’t really own a dog, you rent them, and you have to be thankful that you had a long lease.”
“No matter how little money and how few possessions you own, having a dog makes you feel rich.”
“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.”
“Such short little lives our pets have to spend with us, and they spend most of it waiting for us to come home each day.”
“Perhaps they are not stars in the sky, but rather openings where our loved ones shine down to let us know they are happy.”
“Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.”
“There are no goodbyes for us. Wherever you are, you will always be in my heart.”
“My mind still talks to you and my heart still looks for you but my soul knows you are at peace.”
“I loved you your whole life and I’ll miss you the rest of mine.”
“You will always be my favourite hello and hardest goodbye.”
Are you looking for ways to process your pet loss grief?
Read Reflections from a Hospice Vet Blog: Writing a Memorial or Tribute for Your Pet for inspiring ways to use some of these pet loss & love quotes
Check out Reflections from a Hospice Vet Blog: Journaling Through Pet Loss for 50 grief journaling prompts & more.
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