After a while I started to think of that as an image of something that went a lot deeper than the dead dog, which is you can't bring back anything to life.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It is a very mixed blessing to be brought back from the dead.
I don't really understand that process called reincarnation but if there is such a thing I'd like to come back as my daughter's dog.
It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled.
I think the idea that death is not the end, that your dog's just gone to live on the farm, is limiting. Thoughts like that prevent you from making the most of the time that you have.
Painting contains a divine force which... makes the dead seem almost alive.
The dead can't change, but you can.
I wish there was such a thing as reincarnation.
Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.
It is possible to take something beautiful and lasting out of the heart-wrenching experience of seeing the animal you love move inexorably toward death.
We've restored life where life was extinct. It's no longer sufficient to bring the dead back to life. We must create from the beginning, we must build up our own creature, build it up from nothing.