26 Quotes About Losing A Dog & Dealing With Grief... (Part 2)

The saddest part about being dog parents and saying goodbye to your dogs.

I love my dog, and the dogs who crossed the rainbow bridge, till we meet again, my lovelies. Here are some quotes about losing a dog & dealing with grief and here’s Part 1, in case you missed it.

1. “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

2. “Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.” – From an Irish Headstone

3. “Dogs leave pawprints on our hearts” – Author Unknown

4. “Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.” – Anatole France

5. “There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.” – Washington Irving

6. “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

7. “When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.” – Khalil Gibran

8. “I should know enough about loss to realize that you never really stop missing someone-you just learn to live around the huge gaping hole of their absence.” – Alyson Noel

9. “Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated.” – Alphonse de Lamartine

10. “Not the least hard thing to bear when they go from us, these quiet friends, is that they carry away with them so many years of our own lives.” – John Galsworthy

11. “Grief doesn’t have a plot. It isn’t smooth. There is no beginning and middle and end.” – Ann Hood

12. “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

13. “What we have once enjoyed we can never lose; All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.” – Helen Keller

Have you ever experienced this? Tell us how you dealt with the loss and grief in the comments below.

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