Top 100 Quotes About Betrayal
#1. In 1905, Freud wrote: "No mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips. Betrayal oozes out of him from every pore.
Pamela Meyer
#2. Each Fable is inspired by some true stories which doesn't have an happy ending, unlike the Fable.
Neetesh Dixit
#3. Betrayal is a more subtle, twisted feeling than terror. It burns and eats, but terror stabs right through.
Wendy Hoffman
#4. She'd betrayed her country because she'd believed it was the right thing to do. Yet would she have done this, if not for Arin?
He knew none of it. Had never asked for it. Kestrel had made her own choices. It was unfair to blame him.
But she wanted to.
Marie Rutkoski
#5. You will find the way, daughter of the forest. Through grief and pain, through many trials, through betrayal and loss, your feet will walk a straight path.
Juliet Marillier
#6. Once, maybe I would have thought you a fool, but ... well, that's kind of what trust is, isn't it? A willful self-delusion? You have to shut out that voice that whispers about betrayal, and just hope that your friends aren't going to hurt you.
Brandon Sanderson
#7. Smell remembers and tells the future ... Smell is home or loneliness. Confidence or betrayal. Smell remembers.
Cherrie Moraga
#8. I get up and pace the room, as if I can leave my guilt behind me. But it tracks me as I walk, an ugly shadow made by myself.
Rosamund Lupton
#9. You can quickly go from having passion and love to passion and hate when an act of betrayal happens.
Robert Sternberg
#11. When marketers influence habits, they influence peoples' self-identity. And so when a group or company does something that doesn't correspond to our core values, it feels like a betrayal.
Charles Duhigg
#12. Feelings, rationale and values are the top qualities that make a person exceedingly human.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#13. It is in writing of the emotions that style becomes most individual, in moments of passion, betrayal, of life and death.
Hallie Burnett
#14. One's worst enormities remain within, and it is only one's vulgar commonplaces of error and folly that turn into murders and suicides, treasons, infidelities, and betrayals.
Lewis Mumford
#15. Our faith in others betrays that we would rather have faith in ourselves. Our longing for a friend is our betrayer. And often with our love we want merely to overcome envy. And often we attack and make ourselves enemies, to conceal that we are vulnerable.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#16. The dubious niche Case had carved for himself in the criminal ecology of Night City had been cut out with lies, scooped out a night at a time with betrayal.
William Gibson
#17. He would stab his best friend for the sake of writing an epigraph on his tombstone.
Oscar Wilde
#18. With true love, you can move mountains, make unusual sacrifices, live a life of deprivations and still be happy.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#19. There are times when you have to speak because silence is betrayal.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#20. I was taught to deceive by a great deceiver. Jenny will embrace me as a good man. Just as you did...before tonight.
Ken Cruickshank
#21. No one understands betrayal like the one who has been betrayed.
Ken Poirot
#23. You discover something so awful, so life-changing, the only way you can cope is to jump straight into denial.
Jane Green
#24. But to begin again? No, Virginia. There can be no beginning again. Love and forgiveness are not the same thing.
Priya Parmar
#25. It's enough for a small betrayal, a distancing, an affirmation of independence to provoke wrath, fear and also hatred from the adult. How many husbands and boyfriends kill the woman they say they love because she has decided to leave. It's in the news every day.
Dacia Maraini
#26. liars ultimately destroy the things they lie to protect, and corruption, ambition, and betrayal inevitably betray themselves, as well.
David Weber
#27. Tragedy in life normally comes with betrayal and compromise, and trading on your integrity and not having dignity in life. That's really where failure comes.
Tom Cochrane
#29. I could never release something on the label I didn't personally love. The label's really an extension of my own musical career, and I'm intensely involved with every aspect personally, so it'd be a betrayal to myself if I released something simply because I thought it would make money.
Michael Gira
#30. You can be found better man then me.But where you will found Toy like me with whom you can play a lot in many ways and who just keep simple with out hurt you.
Mohammed Zaki Ansari
#31. It's a bitter truth but we humans are the only creature in this universe who not only fed up with things but also by other human beings.
M.H. Rakib
#33. (aside) Oh, you are well tuned now,
But I'll set down the pegs that make this music,
As honest as I am.
William Shakespeare
#34. To know one's future is the single most destructive way of ending your life before you've lived it. - Altheon (Betrayal- Fey Court Trilogy)
Cyndi Goodgame
#36. It is undoubtedly easier to believe in absolutes, follow blindly, mouth received wisdom. But that is self-betrayal.
John Ralston Saul
#37. I always thought high school was supposed to be a time for finding yourself, but I guess that's only if you fit into the mold people have made for you.
Renee Dyer
#38. Vengence, betrayal, and love they all are synonyms for the same word: fake.
TBBishiXO
#39. The attack of an enemy is easier to fend off than the betrayal of a friend.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#41. It is better to trust and face betrayal than to remain skeptical of everything and everybody. Your open heart is a gift.
Melissa De La Cruz
#42. For when success a lover's toil attends,
Few ask, if fraud or force attain'd his ends
Alexander Pope
#43. The reason people fear to confide in anyone is that even an internal friend can make personal details external, and it will remain eternal.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#45. And it's significant that he has been using the, you know, language of betrayal in his rhetoric about Turkey. He called the shoot down a treacherous stab in the back by an accomplice of the terrorists. And that suggests that there could still be some harsh revenge in store for Turkey.
Corey Flintoff
#46. President Obama's actions are an unconscionable betrayal of America's fundamental values and a profound insult to the oppressed Cuban people.
Mario Diaz-Balart
#47. He knows about things like betrayal, and being afraid, and the looks on people's faces when they know you did something they thought impossible
Tamora Pierce
#48. when we sit with discomfort without trying to fix it, when we stay present to the pain of disapproval or betrayal and let it soften us, these are the times that we connect with bodhichitta. Tapping
Pema Chodron
#49. Within the pages of The Betrayal of America I prove that these justices were absolutely up to no good, and they deliberately set out to hand the election to George Bush.
Vincent Bugliosi
#50. Consciousness that is not translated into appropriate action is a betrayal of consciousness ... Living consciously is living responsibly toward reality. We do not necessarily have to like what we see but we recognize that wishes or fears or denials do not alter facts.
Nathaniel Branden
#51. For a woman betrayal has no sense - one cannot betray one's passions.
Coco Chanel
#52. Yet each man kills the thing he loves
By each let this be heard
Some do it with a bitter look
Some with a flattering word
The coward does it with a kiss
The brave man with a sword
Oscar Wilde
#53. I realise that love isn't painful. It's the not having love that hurts. The rejection. The betrayal. The loneliness. They hurt. Love doesn't. The
Sue Fortin
#54. Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#55. When I was 15, I made a solo record. It made Artie very unhappy. He looked upon it as something of a betrayal.
Paul Simon
#57. The feeling of betrayal by the friend you trust
Jeon Tae-il
#58. When my words are concealed
With lies and disguises, truth and beyond
Insecurities in the veil of trust
Betrayal in bounds of lies
It's just the charm of words darling
Giving the illusion of happiness inside misery
Irum Zahra
#59. A woman betrayed is deadlier than a man's terror's; A woman honored is gentler than a man's expectations.
Mark Donnelly
#60. betrayal knife does not visible in body's back Because it's directly hot Soul and Injured There
Mohammed Zaki Ansari
#61. I dropped my eyes, kneading the dying flesh of his feet between my fingers. For a moment, I felt afraid, as if accepting his words would somehow betray my own father. But when I looked up, I saw Morrie smiling through tears and I knew there was no betrayal in a moment like this. All
Mitch Albom
#62. Every betrayal contains a perfect moment, a coin stamped heads or tails with salvation on the other side.
Barbara Kingsolver
#63. Every happiness is the child of a separation it did not think it could survive.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#64. Your enemy will always plan to destroy you in any way possible thus take care of your friends, he may use them.
Auliq Ice
#65. Isaac didn't understand heartache. Or regret or longing or divided loyalties. Or anger or shattered trust or betrayal. Such things had no clarity. They involved expectations of another's behavior, and Isaac had no such expectations.
Mary Doria Russell
#66. Do you know what love is? I'll tell you: it is whatever you can still betray.
John Le Carre
#67. Men's minds are too ready to excuse guilt in themselves.
Livy
#68. Deep down a broken heart, all the sadness one can bear is misery.
Auliq Ice
#69. Rome, if you do not wish me to betray you, make enemies that I can hate!
Pierre Corneille
#70. Friendship is one friend betraying another friend to a third friend. With a fond friendly smile. The greater the betrayal, the greater the intimacy - the greater the friendship.
Craig Raine
#71. Kindness is a source of relief to the soul of the giver, creating a sense of fortitude that is incomprehensible to those who do not know what kindness is all about.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#72. In 'Se7en' and 'Fight Club,' Fincher proved his suave mastery of film violence; in Zodiac, his way of clarifying the many clues in a murder thriller. As he showed in 'The Social Network,' the director also knows that no wound is more toxic than a friend's betrayal.
Richard Corliss
#73. If I could quietly kill her without anyone knowing, I would.
Miranda July
#74. Eagles are extinct," grumbled Morpurgo. "Perhaps they should have attacked the sky. It betrayed them.
Dan Simmons
#75. There is nothing more entertaining then leaving someone speechless. Yet, there is nothing sadder than realizing that person was incapable of retaining half of what you said, and will repeat the story all wrong to someone else.
Shannon L. Alder
#76. We can depend on nobody in this world, and sometimes we even betray ourselves
Dean Cavanagh
#77. Then your heart is a black, shriveled thing, because you absolutely betray me.
P.C. Cast
#78. I understood cheating, understood the betrayal that you went through when you found out. Understood the lows that your self-esteem struggled with, the validation that you tried to find, the loneliness that haunted your nights as you mourned a future that, in an instant, disappeared.
Alessandra Torre
#79. As a rule the person found out in a betrayal of love holds, all the same, the superior position of the two. It is the betrayed one who is humiliated.
Ada Leverson
#80. You do not win a war by dying for your country. You win a war by making sure that some poor bastard dies for his.
Mal Peet
#81. I guess that's the thing about betrayal; it holds no prejudice and preys on those who neither see it coming nor deserve it.
Anna Todd
#82. Still, we're less betrayed by others, it seems, than by our own hopes and dreams.
Martha Moody
#83. It's not your enemies who are likeliest to hurt you. It is, always, those you trust.
Rachel Caine
#84. He realized that trust between people is what makes us happy. Any totalitarian state is based on betrayal. It needs people to inform on each other, to avoid socializing to interact only through the state and to avoid unsanctioned meetings.
Oliver Bullough
#85. Umbed by disappointment and betrayal, like a child who had been awakened suddenly from a summer dream about christmas morning.
Armistead Maupin
#86. Men's loyalty to their women dies hard - and almost always too late. ("I'm Dangerous Tonight")
Cornell Woolrich
#87. Why do you always want the things that you cannot have...
Hotaru Odagiri
#88. O what will she do, a soul bitten into with wrong?
Euripides
#89. Every Betrayal begins with trust-Phish
Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today-James Dean
Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live-Anonymous
Brian Jacques
#90. Bad things always happen in three.
Jane Green
#91. Never look back; you may only find what you left or let you go.
Stefanos Livos
#92. Now you die while we live on, and you've no one to blame but your selves. So do not speak of betrayal behind my back, humans. For the Great Betrayal is your shame, not mine. ~ Ayden
Rachel Haimowitz
#93. There are allegations actually that he's [Vladimir Putin] associated with real gangsters in the past and that he runs his top circle sort of like a mafia family. But, you know, what is clear is that he seems to prize loyalty above all. He deeply resents anything that he sees as a betrayal.
Corey Flintoff
#94. What about those Promises of yours to never leave me? she asked, stammering too much this time. His cruel smirk was as gut-wrenching as his words - Promises are meant to be broken, sweetheart.
Khadija Rupa
#95. We need rituals for all traumas and loss, whether it is betrayal or infidelity or violence or murder. Ritual helps us heal, and ritual helped me heal and become ready to consider the person who murdered Angela, his story, his pain.
Desmond Tutu
#96. Campbell" Julia says "Don't do this to me"
"Do what?"
"Push me off the same cliff twice
Jodi Picoult
#97. Whatever makes a man a beast also renders him pitiable. But it behoves us to be wary of these bestial men despite our compassion, for they frequently turn on their friends.
Maria McCann
#98. You can wait as long as you like, pretty one, it won't make any difference. He will never see you as anything more than some victim he has to protect. Why he thinks it his duty to protect you from the inevitable, I do not know ... unless he knows something we do not ...
Charlotte Munro
#99. Blame and betrayal are the emotional enemies of improvement.
Andy Hargreaves
#100. A love as intense as the one we shared, one that had not dimmed through years of betrayal but had only grown, was terrifying. We had the power to destroy, to devastate and ruin, to lay the other to waste.
A.L. Jackson
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