"There is no death, only a change of worlds." ~ Chief Seattle
"We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals." ~ Immanuel Kant
"If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans." ~ James Herriot
"Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened." ~ Anatole France
"Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole." ~ Roger Caras
"Dogs come into our lives to teach us about love and loyalty. 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
"His head on my knee can heal my human hurts. His presence by my side is protection against my fears of dark and unknown things. He has promised to wait for me... whenever... wherever-in case I need him. And I expect I will-as I always have. He is just my dog." ~ Gene Hill
"If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went." ~ Will Rogers
"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
"Animals have a much better attitude to life and death than we do. They know when their time has come. We are the ones that suffer when they pass, but it's a healing kind of grief that enables us to deal with other griefs that are not so easy to grab hold of." ~ Emmylou Harris
"The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man's." ~ Mark Twain
"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
"You will lose someone you can’t live without,and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never completely get over the loss of your beloved. But this is also the good news. They live forever in your broken heart that doesn’t seal back up. And you come through. It’s like having a broken leg that never heals perfectly—that still hurts when the weather gets cold, but you learn to dance with the limp." ~ Anne Lamott
"Sometimes losing a pet is more painful than losing a human because in the case of the pet, you were not pretending to love it." ~ Amy Sedaris
"Dogs do speak, but only to those who know how to listen." ~ Orhan Pamuk
"Dogs' lives are too short. Their only fault, really." ~ Agnes Sligh Turnbull
"That one true heart was left behind! What feeling do we ever find, to equal among human kind , a dog's fidelity!" ~ Thomas Hardy
"It is not just that animals make the world more scenic or picturesque. The lives of animals are woven into our very being - closer than our own breathing - and our soul will suffer when they are gone." ~ Gary A. Kowalski
"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
"I feel about my dogs now, and all the dogs I had prior to this, the way I feel about children—they are that important to me. When I have lost a dog I have gone into a mourning period that lasted for months." ~ Mary Tyler Moore
"Few human beings give of themselves to another as a dog gives of itself." ~ Dean Koontz
"Ask the beasts and they will teach you the beauty of this earth." ~ Francis of Assisi
"All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it." ~ Samuel Butler
"Nothing to be done really about animals. Anything you do looks foolish. The answer isn't in us. It's almost as if were put here on earth to show how silly they aren't." ~ Russell Hoban
"There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power." ~ Washington Irving
"Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms." ~ George Eliot
"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
"All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle." ~ Francis of Assisi
"You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us." ~ Robert Louis Stevenson
"I am I and you are you, whatever we were to each other that we still are." ~ Henry Scott Holland
"Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in." ~ Mark Twain
"Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty." ~ Albert Einstein
"What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us." ~ Helen Keller
"I have only slipped away into the next room, I am I and you are you. Whatever we were to each other, that we still are. Call me by my familiar name. Speak to me in the easy way which you always used .... Play, smile, think of me .... All is well." ~ Henry Scott Holland
"Here's how I became myself: mess, failure, mistakes, disappointments, and extensive reading; limbo, indecision, setbacks, addiction, public embarrassment, and endless conversations with my best women friends; the loss of people without whom I could not live, the loss of pets that left me reeling, dizzying betrayals but much greater loyalty, and overall, choosing as my motto William Blake's line that we are here to learn to endure the beams of love." ~ Anne Lamott
"The smallest feline is a masterpiece." ~ Leonardo da Vinci
"I have found that when you are deeply troubled, there are things you get from the silent devoted companionship of a dog that you can get from no other source." ~ Doris Day