“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.” KnowsHumansKindDeathSufferingEasyLossAnimalDealsGriefHealingAttitudeSorrowSingersLife And DeathEnablingPet LossDealing With Death Author:Emmylou Harris
“A good dog never dies. He always stays. He walks besides you on crisp autumn days when frost is on the fields and winter's drawing near. His head is within our hand in his old way.” WayHandsDiesLossWalksDogFieldsWinterDrawingPetAutumnFrostCanineCrispsOld WaysPet DogOld DogPet LossDog LossAutumn DaysSympathy For LossDog GriefGood DogPug DogsDog HeavenHeaven And DogsPets In HeavenDogs DyingDog Died Author:Mary Carolyn Davies
“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.” PeopleReadingLeftLinesLossMistakeGreaterConversationEndureAddictionDisappointmentBetrayalLoyaltyEndlessMessPetMottoEmbarrassmentSetbackBeamIndecisionBlakeMy MottoPet LossLimboExtensive Reading Author:Anne Lamott
“That one true heart was left behind! What feeling do we ever find, to equal among human kind , a dog's fidelity!” HumansHeartKindFeelingsLeftLossBehindsDogEqualPetLeft BehindFidelityPet LossDog LossSympathy For LossDog GriefTrue Heart Book:Selected poems Source: Selected poems
“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.” HeartStillsLosesHurtLossGriefForeverBrokenColdNewsLegsHealWeatherRecoveryBelovedGrievingPetGrief And LossGet OverGood NewsBereavementCopingSealsLive ForeverBad NewsGrief And HealingLove And LossGriefingLosing SomeonePet LossLoss Of A Loved OneGrief LossLove LossLoss Loved One InspirationalGrief HealingInspirational GriefMourning Loss Loved OneGrieving InspirationalHealing From LossBroken LegGrief And Loss InspirationalGrieving A LossLost SomeoneMemory Of Someone Author:Anne Lamott
“The misery of keeping a dog is his dying so soon. But, to be sure, if he lived for fifty years and then died, what would become of me?” IfsYearsLossDyingDogDiedMiserySorryFiftyPetPet DogDog LovePet LossInspirational DogDog LossDog GriefPet GriefFaithful DogsDogs DyingDog Died Author:Walter Scott