67 Pet Sayings for a Eulogy and/or Funeral

Here are several memorial sayings that you can incorporate into your eulogy or discussions to help yourself and others deal with grief. We’ve split them into categories: cute, humorous, religious, inspirational, uplifting, sad, sentimental, sweet and wise.

Cute

• “Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.” – Roger Caras

• “Dogs’ lives are too short. That’s their only fault, really.” - Agnes Sligh Turnbull
• “There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face.” - Ben Williams
• “The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog.” - Ambrose Bierce
• “You left pawprints on the hearts of everyone you nuzzled.” - Unknown
• “Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness?” - Jonathan Safran Foer
• “Happiness is a warm puppy.” - Charles M. Schulz
• “People that say “Money can’t buy happiness” have never paid an adoption fee.” - Unknown

Funny

• “Dogs have owners, cats have staff.” - Unknown
• “Did you ever walk into a room and forget why you walked in? I think that is how dogs spend their lives.” - Sue Murphy
• “After scolding one’s cat, one looks into its face and is seized by the ugly suspicion that it understood every word. And has filed it for reference.” - Charlotte Gray
• “The cat is there when you call her – if she doesn’t have something better to do.” - Bill Alder
• “Some days you’re the dog, some days you’re the hydrant.” - Unknown
• “Cats are connoisseurs of comfort.” - James Herriot
• “Cats will outsmart dogs every time.” - John Grogan
• “Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog’s face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in a car he sticks his head out the window.” - Steve Bluestone

Heaven

• “We know you’d be here with us if heaven wasn’t so far away.” - Unknown
• “Everyone is taught that angels have wings. The lucky ones of us find that they have four paws.” - Jury Nel
• “Heaven’s the place where all of the dogs you’ve ever loved come to greet you.” - Unknown
• “Barking, playing, an endless run; I’m up in heaven having fun.” - Unknown
• “You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.” - Robert Louis Stevenson
• “If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.” - Will Rogers

Inspirational 

• “I think dogs are the most amazing creatures; they give unconditional love. For me, they are the role model for being alive.” - Gilda Radner
• “My goal in life is to be as good of a person as my dog already thinks I am.” - Unknown
• “Way down deep, we’re all motivated by the same urges. Cats have the courage to live by them.” - Jim Davis
• “A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.” - Ernest Hemingway
• “What we have once enjoyed we can never lose; All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.” - Helen Keller
• “Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal. Difficult standards for people to live up to.” - Alfred A. Montapert
• “Dogs…do not ruin their sleep worrying about how to keep the objects they have, and to obtain the objects they have not. There is nothing of value they have to bequeath except their love and their faith.” - Eugene O’Neill
• “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

Uplifting

• “How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.” - Winnie the Pooh
• “Bernard’s love will come back to you in a new form.” - Liam Norfleet
• “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
• “The pain passes, but the beauty remains.” - Pierre Auguste Renoir
• “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
• “There is no death. Only a change of worlds” - Chief Seattle
• “Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.” - Ted Geisel (Dr. Seuss)

Sad

• “I have sometimes thought of the final cause of dogs having such short lives and I am quite satisfied it is in compassion to the human race; for if we suffer so much in losing a dog after an acquaintance of ten or twelve years, what would it be if they were to live double that time?” - Sir Walter Scott
• “I loved you your whole life. I’ll miss you for the rest of mine” - Unknown
• “There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.” - Aeschylus 
• “I guess you don’t really own a dog, you rent them, and you have to be thankful that you had a long lease.” - Joe Garagiola
• “Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.” - From an Irish Headstone
• “Grief doesn’t have a plot. It isn’t smooth. There is no beginning and middle and end.” - Ann Hood
• “Love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.” - Kabil Gibran

Sentimental

• “Sometimes the smallest beings leave the biggest impression on our hearts.” - Unknown
• “People leave imprints on our lives, shaping who we become in much the same way that a symbol is pressed into the page of a book to tell you who it comes from. Dogs, however, leave paw prints on our lives and our souls, which are as unique as fingerprints in every way.”- Ashly Lorenzana
• “The world would be a nicer place if everyone had the ability to love as unconditionally as a dog.” - M.K. Clinton
• “What greater gift than the love of a cat?” - Charles Dickens
• “The bond with a dog is as lasting as the ties of this earth can ever be.” - Konrad Lorenz
• “I believe all animals were created by God to help keep man Alive.” - Iwao Fujita
• “In rescuing animals, I lost my mind but found my soul.” - Unknown
• “Your favorite chair is empty now, where you loved to sleep. But the memory of our happy times is our family’s to keep.” - Unknown

Sweet

• “The smallest feline is a masterpiece.” - Leonardo da Vinci
• “Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.” - Roger Caras
• “I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.” - Jean Cocteau
• “Cats choose us; we don’t own them.” - Kristin Cast
• “Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.” - George Eliot
• “Dogs are our link to paradise. They don’t know evil or jealousy or discontent.” - Milan Kundera
• “No matter how little money and how few possessions you own, having a dog makes you feel rich.” - Louis Sabin

Wise

• “Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.” - Anatole France
• “Pets are humanizing. They remind us we have an obligation and responsibility to preserve and nurture and care for all life.” - James Cromwell
• “A dog is the only thing on earth that will love you more than you love yourself.” - Josh Billings
• “Annie and her four paws taught me to love more than I thought I ever could. Despite my grief, or rather, because of it, I choose to keep my heart open and soft to welcome in even more love.” - Stephanie Stevens
• “It is amazing how much love and laughter animals bring into our lives and even how much closer we become with each other because of them.” - Unknown
• “Like a bird singing in the rain, let grateful memories survive in times of sorrow.” - Robert Louis Stevenson
• “Those who’ll play with cats must expect to be scratched.” - Miguel de Cervantes
• “All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.” - Samuel Butler