Pet Loss Quotes

“You think the final act of love is setting them free to Rainbow Bridge? That is not the final act of love. The final act of love is releasing them from your leash of grief so they can be free in the heaven on the other side of the Bridge. Until you resolve your grief, you bind them to you in the land between Heaven and Earth while they wait, suspended between the worlds, for you to heal. When you are free of your grief, they are free of your grief.”
― Kate McGahan, JACK McAFGHAN: Reflections on Life with my Master

“Your pets will never judge you for helping them leave a body that has failed them. To them it is the ultimate gift of love.”
― Karen A Anderson

“Heaven, or the Other Side is all around us. It is not in some far away place. Your loved ones are just a thought away.”
― Karen A. Anderson, The Amazing Afterlife of Animals: Messages and Signs From Our Pets on the Other Side

“I plod sadly through the hours, preparing meals I don’t want, rinsing the dishes and putting them in the dishwasher, collecting the mail and paying the bills. Bao’s psychic presence still remains strong, as does my certainty that he is coming back to me. But as strange as it may sound, it doesn’t matter. Nothing matters. I am surrounded by pain, suffocated by pain, breathless with pain. I can’t imagine how it once felt, not to be in this constant, unrelenting pain.”
― Gail Graham

“Learning how to communicate with animals is just like learning any other language. The more you practice, the better you become.”
― Karen A. Anderson

“A pet is the perfect definition of unconditional love...”
― B.J. Shonk, Missing Pieces...Broken Heart: A Recovery Guide for the Grief and Sorrow of Pet Loss

“Some people awaken spiritually without ever coming into contact with any meditation technique or any spiritual teaching,” says Eckhart Tolle. “They may awaken because they can’t stand the suffering anymore.” Yet I’m no mystic. I’m not even particularly spiritual. I’ve never thought of myself in those terms, and I still don’t. I’m more comfortable with the crystal radio analogy. Somehow, I’ve tuned in. The channels are open and the message is coming through. My terrible grief plus the solitude imposed by this long, monotonous journey have combined to create ... what? A mystical experience? Or a psychotic break?”
― Gail Graham, Will YOUR Dog Reincarnate?

“When his dog Buster died, English writer, broadcaster and former Labour deputy leader Lord Hattersley wrote. “I sat in the first floor room in which I work, watching my neighbors go about their lives, amazed and furious that they were behaving as if it was a normal day. Stop all the clocks. Buster was dead.” That’s how I feel. Stop all the clocks. Bao is dead. There are people who say the death of an animal is less traumatic than the death of a human being. But love is love, and when you lose what you love more than anything else in the world, that loss is devastating. Many of us love animals more than we love people.”
― Gail Graham, Will YOUR Dog Reincarnate?

“The passing of a beloved pet evokes a depth of grief often difficult for others to comprehend. It’s a unique form of loss, intensified by the lack of understanding and support from those who haven’t experienced the profound love and bond shared with an animal companion.”
― Kelly Daugherty

“Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened." ~ Anatole France”
― Sandra Lee, The Dog Effect: Canine Influence and Wisdom for Personal Growth

“Grief is not the absence of love — it is the echo of love still longing to be expressed.
— Henry, trueYou Media”
― TrueYou Media

“Of course, not all dogs return to their owners. When they do, it is because a special bond exists between that dog and that person, a karmic bond that transcends death. Do you and your dog share this kind of special bond? Probably you do. You are reading this book because you are meant to read it.”
― Gail Graham, Will YOUR Dog Reincarnate?

“My family was gone and Bao was all I had left. We were inseparable, and we’d been through so much together. Friends worried. If anything happened to Bao, how would I handle it? Bao was my whole life.”
― Gail Graham, Will YOUR Dog Reincarnate?

“He loved traveling. The night before his surgery, I gave him a special dinner, with bones. Right up to the moment they sedated him, he was enjoying his life.”
― Gail Graham, Will YOUR Dog Reincarnate?

“I undress and creep back into bed. After I turn out the light I just lie there, staring into the darkness, still dazed. That’s when it happens. That’s when I know Bao is coming back to me. He is dead, yes. But he will be reborn, his loving soul in a new, healthy body. He is coming back to me. He is already on his way.”
― Gail graham , Will YOUR Dog Reincarnate?

“Dr. Lana says again. “It’s the very last thing we expected. The first 24 hours after surgery are always critical, but he seemed to be doing well. We thought he was going to make it. We are just all so very, very sorry.” There is a moment of silence. Everyone looks so sad. “He’s coming back to me. He’ll reincarnate,” They stare at me. “And he’ll be a Shih Tzu again. I don’t know if he’ll be a boy or a girl. I don’t know what he’ll look like, either. But I know he’s coming back to me.” I’m as astonished as they are. I can’t believe I’ve said such a thing out loud. Their expressions don’t change. They don’t disagree, or even argue. Of course, I think, they’re professionals. This is a veterinary hospital. They’re having to deal with this all the time. Animals come here because they’re hurt or sick, and some of them don’t make it. Most likely, they think I’m in denial. That’s the first stage of the grief process – denial.”
― Gail Graham, Will YOUR Dog Reincarnate?

“He is already on his way back to me. I know it. I can feel it. Yet I’m not comforted by this knowledge, not at all. I can’t imagine how I am going to manage without Bao. I don’t want to manage without him. I don’t want to live without him.”
― Gail Graham, Will YOUR Dog Reincarnate?

“I always thought we’d die together. My friends hated it when I said that. But they had husbands and children and grandchildren, and all I had was Bao. And now he is gone. I can’t imagine a life without him. I don’t want to imagine it. I think about how easy it would be to put an end to it, here on this deserted, winding mountain road. A sudden twist of the steering wheel, that’s all it needs. I have no unfinished business. My affairs are in order. Nobody will miss me. There’s nobody left to miss me. Yet here’s Bao, curled up in his usual place on the passenger seat. It doesn’t make sense, that he can be dead and also be here. I want to die, I want this awful pain to stop. But I can’t, not with Bao sitting here beside me.”
― Gail Graham, Will YOUR Dog Reincarnate?

“I sit on the bed, staring sightlessly out the window at nothing. I want to die, and I can’t even do that because Bao is already on his way back to me and I have to be here for him. At this point I have no idea about how he’ll look, no picture in my mind, nothing like that. I just know he is coming back.”
― Gail Graham, Will YOUR Dog Reincarnate?

“several days earlier, I had not questioned my intuition. I’d listened – not with my ears, but with every cell of my being – and accepted what came to me. Yielding to the universe, I became part of the universe. But now that I am out of the hermetically sealed silence of my car and back in what we call the real world, those moments of clarity are becoming more difficult to sustain. It is almost like waking up from a dream. I have to go out and buy food. I have to pay the bills. I have to wash the dishes, and my clothes. I have to get the car serviced. I have to answer the telephone. It feels as if I’m losing the ability to listen. I am beginning to question my feelings, and worse, to doubt them.”
― Gail Graham, Will YOUR Dog Reincarnate?

“On the other hand, when an individual’s karma – good or bad – is very strong, the entire process can take place in a split second. I think that’s how it was with Bao. I think he went straight to his mother’s womb. That was why they’d been unable to revive him, when his heart stopped. They couldn’t bring him back because he was already someplace else. I lie awake for hours that Friday night, envisioning Bao as a tiny embryo in his mother’s womb, snuggled with his brothers and sisters. I can actually see them, in my mind’s eye. They look like tiny lima beans. But when I open my eyes the next morning, all I feel is the searing sorrow of loss.”
― Gail Graham, Will YOUR Dog Reincarnate?

“Maybe you’re thinking that my knowing Bao is already on his way back to me should be comforting me. It isn’t. Although I know it, I don’t believe it. How can I believe it? Other people don’t believe it. Other people think I’ve totally lost it. Maybe they’re right. I’m a mess.”
― Gail Graham, Will YOUR Dog Reincarnate?

“Non puoi amare se non ti permetti di soffrire.”
― Elena Ragazzoni, Il tesoro è nei ricordi: Diario di un amore felino

“Vita non è vivere perché
se non si fa qualche salto nel buio
non si vive mai.”
― Elena Ragazzoni, Il tesoro è nei ricordi: Diario di un amore felino

“I never saw you cry
Not until our dog died
And the whole family came back together
We held her body as they put the needle in her
And then I saw you cry
And then I saw you cry”
― Adrianne Lenker

“I am the author of "Pet Loss: A Spiritual Guide" and "Ancient Egyptian Magic" under the pen name Eleanor L. Harris.”
― Eleanor L. Harris

“I saved your life and you saved mine”
― Bunny Mumma, Pet Loss Journal for Captain Snowball: Volume 2

“I don’t even know if I can say I’m over the grief, because there’s no upper limit to that. Everyone has their own time, it’s not a race to see who gets there first. Don’t listen to anyone who wants to make you believe something different. Vent the pain you feel, listen it and use it to overcome it. At your own pace, in the way you prefer and with whoever you feel comfortable with.”
― Elena Ragazzoni, Treasure Is In Memories: Diary of a Feline Love

“It’s love, because when it leaves you it takes a little piece of your heart with it. It’s a simple, pure and powerful love.”
― Elena Ragazzoni, Treasure Is In Memories: Diary of a Feline Love

“When it comes to animals we are allowed to enjoy the euphoria of the bonds we form with them but at the cost of enduring the heartache of agonizing loss.”
― William Shatner, Boldly Go: Reflections on a Life of Awe and Wonder