“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
“Grief doesn’t have a plot. It isn’t smooth. There is no beginning and middle and end.” – Ann Hood
“Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated.” – Alphonse de Lamartine
“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
“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
“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
“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
“Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.” – From an Irish Headstone
“They say time heals all wounds, but that presumes the source of the grief is finite.” – Cassandra Clare
“Dogs have a way of finding the people who need them and filling an emptiness we didn’t ever know we had.” – Thom Jones
“Just because somebody is gone doesn’t mean they don’t exist anymore—with a little imagination, you’re never alone.” – Marc Levy
“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.”
“That one true heart was left behind! What feeling do we ever find, to equal among humankind, a dog’s fidelity!” – Thomas Hardy
“What we have once enjoyed we can never lose; all that we have loved deeply, becomes a part of us.” – Helen Keller
“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
“Miss me, but not for long. I was your joy, Don’t let me be your woe, So remember me, and smile. Then let me go.” – Lucy Gordon
“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 heaven on the other side of the Bridge.” – Kate McGahan
“While we are mourning the loss of our friend, others are rejoicing to meet him behind the veil.” – John Taylor
“Those we love may come and go, but just like a rainbow doesn’t stay. They’re never very far away.” – Richard Lawrence Belford
“Suppressed grief is like an ember. It radiates a burning glow in the chest. If disregarded, it could rekindle a fire.” – Anoir Ou-Chad
“If you’ve ever wondered what the right thing is to say to someone who’s grieving a death, I think this is it: Tell me all about your dear one.” – Duchess Goldblatt
“Grief is pervasive. It cannot be quarantined any more than love can be quarantined. Grief affects all areas of life.” – Shelby Forsythia
“Having a dog will bless you with the happiest days of your life, and one of the worst days.”
“What is grief, if not love persevering.” – Unknown
“Heartbreak is life educating us.” – George Bernard Shaw
“Dogs’ lives are too short. Their only fault, really.” – Agnes Sligh Turnbull
“The more boys I meet the more I love my dog.”― Carrie Underwood
“A person who has never owned a dog has missed a wonderful part of life.” — Bob Barker
“If you don't own a dog, at least one, there is not necessarily anything wrong with you, but there may be something wrong with your life.”― Roger Caras
