Pet Loss Quotes

Pet loss quotes can be used inside of a pet sympathy card, used to make a handmade gift or for a pet memorial service.

Until one has loved an animal,
a part of one's soul remains unawakened.
-Anatole France

The one best place to bury a good dog
is in the heart of its master.
-Ben Hur Lampman

All animals, except man, know that the
principal business of life is to enjoy it.
-Samuel Butler

The bird of paradise alights only
upon the hand that does not grasp.
-John Berry

A pet is never truly forgotten until
it is no longer remembered.
-Lacie Petitto

No one loves you unconditionally
as your beloved pet.
-Cynthia S. Dobesh

Dogs are not our whole life,
but they make our lives whole.
-Roger Caras

Although it's difficult today to see beyond the sorrow,
may looking back in memory help comfort you tomorrow.
-Author Unknown

The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him
and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.
-Samuel Butler

Don't cry because it's over, Smile because it happened.
-Dr. Seuss

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

Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the leash.
That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with a cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat.
-Mark Twain

Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less
of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.
-Thornton Wilder

We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
-Immanual Kant

There is no death. Only a change of worlds.
- Chief Seattle

Nothing to be done really about animals. Anything you do looks foolish.
The answer isn’'t in us. It’s almost as if we’re put here on earth to show how silly they aren'’t.
-Russell Hoban

What we have once enjoyed
we can never lose;
All that we love deeply,
becomes a part of us.
-Helen Keller

I believe all animals were created by God to help keep man alive.
-Iwao Fujita

That one true heart was left behind!
What feeling do we ever find
To equal among human kind
A dog's fidelity!
-Thomas Hardy

Not all of these quotes are necessarily pet loss quotes, some are just about pets in general. Many sympathy quotes are also suitable for pet loss.

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