From the moment our furry friends enter our home, they become a part of the family. That is why it is so difficult to lose a member of our pet family. Our dogs bring us such joy and teach us the meaning of unconditional love.
And when our loved ones lose their dog, we may struggle to find the right words to comfort or support them.
The important thing is being by their side and listening to them open-heartedly. Being compassionate and understanding can make all the difference and help us mourn their death.
You can also send them messages, quotes, and poems to let them know how much you care. That is why I have put together a list of dog quotes to brighten their days and help them through the emotional pain of losing their beloved dog.
Best Dog Loss Quotes of All Time
“Dogs have a way of finding the people who need them, filling an emptiness we don’t even know we have.”
– Thom Jones
“Dogs’ lives are too short. Their only fault, really.”
Agnes Sligh
“Once you’ve had a wonderful dog, a life without one is a life diminished.”
Dean Koontz
Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.”
Roger Caras
“A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself.”
-Josh Billings
“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
“Sometimes we aren’t meant to get over someone, and we go on living a little bit emptier.”
– Martin Buxbaum
“If a dog has brightened your life and every day silently accepted your tears without judgement snuggled with you forgiven your faults and loved you unconditionally, then you know what a gift dogs are to this world.”
Author Unknown
“A dog wags his tail with his heart.”
Martin Buxbaum
“Dogs are always good and full of selfless love. They are undiluted vessels of joy who never, ever deserve anything bad that happens to them.”
– Steven Rowley
“Do dogs understand death? Do they have souls? Do they go to heaven? I have always believed so, but this [event] confirmed that all of God’s creatures, humans and animals, have a soul and that we will all be reunited in heaven.
– Author Unknown
“Dogs are miracles with paws.”
Susan Ariel Rainbow Kennedy
“Dogs don’t rationalize. They don’t hold anything against a person. They don’t see the outside of a human but the inside of a human.”
– Cesar Millan
“Dogs have given us their absolute all. We are the center of their universe. We are the focus of their love and faith and trust. They serve us in return for scraps. It is without a doubt the best deal man has ever made.”
Roger A. Caras
“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
“Dogs’ lives are short, too short, but you know that going in. You know the pain is coming, you’re going to lose a dog, and there’s going to be great anguish, so you live fully in the moment with her, never fail to share her joy or delight in her innocence, because you can’t support the illusion that a dog can be your lifelong companion.
– Author Unknown
“Heaven’s the place where all of the dogs you’ve ever loved come to greet you.”
– Author Unknown
“If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.”
– Will Rogers
“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
“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.”
By Gene Hill
“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 gifts the commonest.”
– Martin Luther King Jr
“The one best place to bury a good dog is in the heart of his master.”
– Ben Hur Lampman
“The world would be a nicer place if everyone had the ability to love as unconditionally as a dog.”
– M.K. Clinton
“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
“When an eighty-five pound mammal licks your tears away, then tries to sit on your lap, it’s hard to feel sad.”
– Kristan Higgins
“You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.”
-Robert Louis Stevenson
“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
“Don’t cry because it is over; smile because it happened”
– Dr. Seuss
“My heart will always wear the paw prints left by you”
Author Unknown
“My pastor once told me, if there are no dogs in heaven I don’t want to go.’ I agree.”
– Glenwood McNabb
“No longer by my side but forever in my heart”
Author Unknown
“No matter how bad my day was you always made me smile”
Author Unknown
“The song is ended but the melody lingers on”
Author Unknown
“Sometimes the smallest things take up the most room in your heart”
Author Unknown
“There’s such beauty in the hard honesty of that, in accepting and giving love while always aware that it comes with an unbearable price.”
– Dean Koontz
“You have left paw prints on our hearts that will last a lifetime”
– Author Unknown
“You still live on in the hearts and minds, Of the loving family you left behind”
– Author Unknown
“You were my favourite hello and my hardest goodbye”
– Author Unknown
– Author Unknown
“Forever loyal, forever loved.”
– Author Unknown
“Barking, playing, an endless run; I’m up in heaven having fun.”
– Author Unknown
“Heaven’s the place where all of the dogs you’ve ever loved come to greet you.”
“If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.”
– Will Rogers
– Author Unknown
“No longer by my side, but forever in my heart.”
– M.K. Clinton
“The world would be a nicer place if everyone had the ability to love as unconditionally as a dog.”
– Author Unknown
“You left pawprints on the hearts of everyone you nuzzled.”
–John Grogan
“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.”
-Robert Wagner
“A dog will teach you, unconditional love. If you can have that in your life, things won’t be too bad.”
– Mary Carolyn Davies
“A good dog never dies. He always stays. He walks beside 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.”
– Emily Dickinson
“Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.”
– Author Unknown
“Dogs come into our lives and leave paw prints on our hearts.”
“Dogs have a way of finding the people who need them and filling an emptiness we didn’t ever know we had.”
–Thom Jones
-Unknown Author
“Dogs leave pawprints on our hearts”
“Having a dog will bless you with the happiest days of your life and one of the worst days.”
– Mark Twain
“Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.”
–Rev. Billy Graham
“I think God will have prepared everything for our perfect happiness. If it takes my dog being there in Heaven, I believe he’ll be there”.
– Sir Walter Scott
“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?”
– Will Rogers
“If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.”
–James Thurber
“If I have any beliefs about immortality it is that certain dogs I know will go to heaven and very very few people.”
“If you think dogs can’t count, try putting three dog biscuits in your pocket and then give him only two of them.”
– Phil Pastoret
“If the kindest souls were rewarded with the longest lives, dogs would outlive us all.”
Unknown
– Author Unknown
“It’s impossible to forget a dog that gave you so much to remember.”
– Author Unknown
“My best friend and a true hero.”
– Louis Sabin
“No matter how little money and how few possessions you own, having a dog makes you feel rich.”
–Konrad Lorenz
“The bond with a dog is as lasting as the ties of this earth can ever be.”
– Erica Jong,
“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.”
– Author Unknown
“The hardest part of having a dog is saying goodbye.”
“The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants.”
Johnny Depp
-Aldous Huxley
“To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.”
– Dave Barry
“You can say any foolish thing to a dog, and the dog will give you a look that says,‘Wow, you’re right!I never would’ve thought of that!’”
– Bob Barker
“A person who has never owned a dog has missed a wonderful part of life.”
– Author Unknown
“Dogs leave paw prints on our hearts”
Looking for more Animal Loss Quotes? If so, have a read of the “Best 100 Pet Loss Quotes of all time”.
I hope you enjoyed reading these dog quotes and found that touched your heart too. And if a family member or friend has lost a pet, try sending them a quote to let them know you are thinking of them.
Let me know what your favourite quotes are by leaving comment in the box below.
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