Quotes About Friendship Betrayal

#1. Barbara, you have done it again! Sweet Salt Air is a fabulous story of friendship, betrayal, courage and love with family and friends. Having been raised in Maine, she writes 'to the T, in describing beautiful and simple lives on a Maine Island.

Barbara Delinsky

#2. Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly.

William Shakespeare

#3. We met less than a week ago and in that time I've done nothing but lie and cheat and betray you. I know. But if you give me a chance ... all I want is to protect you. To be near you. For as long as I'm able.

Marissa Meyer

#4. There is no honour in betraying your friends.

Madeline Miller

#5. It is difficult to cultivate a healthy relationship in a landscape overgrown with blame, lack of trust, and betrayal

Saji Ijiyemi

#6. We always emerge from the death of a loved one like a phoenix arising from its funeral pyre.

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#7. Most people have this tendency to make judgments on others based on preconceptions, especially when they are dealing with them for the first time.

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#8. Male writers who never find the stabilizing force of an understanding woman in their lives usually end up as the jaded figures of their days, the types who give much artistic expression to the world, but who are lonely in their overcrowded worlds of love.

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#9. We love out of compassion, passion or a sense of commitment.

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#10. What is the purpose of wealth if it cannot serve an ideal that enhances humanity and betters the lives of the people, even if that means those we have never met before in our lives?

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#11. I knew they would kill me when they found out, but ... " He struggled for words, releasing a sharp breath. "I think I realized that I would rather die because I betrayed them, than live because I betrayed you.

Marissa Meyer

#12. Friendship is something that gets harder to understand, every damn year of my life.Friendship is like a kind of algebra test that nobody passes. In my worst moods, I think the best you can say is that a friend is anyone you don't despise.

Gregory David Roberts

#13. To become reconciled to a friend with whom you have broken, is a form of weakness; and you pay the penalty of it when he takes the first opportunity of doing precisely the very thing which brought about the breach.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#14. The scrupulous survivors in life are the best counterweight to unscrupulous survivors.

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#15. There is no bigger gratification than the realization of the things you believe in after overcoming all the odds.

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#16. Most of the truly kind people of this world show some measure of discomfort when offered kindness. Their gratitude stems not only from their understanding of the depth of the force of kindness, but also from their conviction that kindness should not be taken for granted.

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#17. The only thing that's worse than betrayal is getting stuck in line between friendship & relationship.

Nikhil Kushwaha

#18. Writers understand the world better, but they lack the strength to change it. Perhaps that is so because they understand their limitations more than others.

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#19. A man can't talk of true happiness if he has never known true love - the trusting, selfless and unconditional love that I took for granted.

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#20. ...Never opt for war, no matter how simple it may seem, especially when you know that peace is achievable, even if achieving that peace entails going through a complicated and protracted process,

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#21. When somebody you love dies, a phase of life's innocence dies with that person, and a part of you dies as well.

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#22. A yesterday missed can never be found even in a fine tomorrow.

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#23. Only a fool would find happiness from an achievement that is detrimental to those he loves.

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#24. It is not something we often find out; but most of the specially-gifted have a deep desire to be ordinary.

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#25. What is the purpose of achieving your dream if the people you had dreamed your achievements for are no longer there to reap the benefits?

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#26. The older I get, the more I believe that if love is to be judged by most of its visible effects, it looks more like hatred than friendship.

Paul Hoffman

#27. Judgments based on preconceptions make life simple for us to deal with since that means we safely shield ourselves behind barriers of preconception that helped us feel safe in whatever views or assumptions we are having.

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#28. We, humans, have come up with so many superficialities that are completely unnecessary for our existence and happiness on earth.

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#29. Expose human ties for what they really are and you are most likely to find the worst forms of betrayal staring back at you.

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#30. We still need to give our best to life even if we do not understand the purpose of our existence on earth.

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#31. The saddest thing about betrayal is that it never comes from your enemies.

Anonymous

#32. A circle of friends, doesn't always keep perfect relationships.

Anthony Liccione

#33. In dealing with others, man is inherently a slave to his preconceptions, to the stereotypes he became familiar with that made life easier for him to comprehend.

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#34. At what point is normal natural?

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#35. Some honest people think it is better to know the ways of the devil without being evil.

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#36. Again. Was it better to trust or better to be wary? Could you have a real friendship if some part of you was always expecting betrayal?

Hanya Yanagihara

#37. Sometimes, our pride compels us to engage in costly wars when a true commitment to a compromising peace would have been the best course to pursue.

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#38. When I recall memories, it all seems like a film, not a reality.

Rukhsar Din

#39. In today's world, human desires far supersede human needs. Waste, as you can see, is the result of that disparity.

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#40. She is intent on pleasing the men that frighten her.

Carla H. Krueger

#41. So, you see; you have the soul of a missionary, the heart of a revolutionary and the mind of a reformer. But what are you to yourself and the family and friends who will always be there for you?

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#42. Never divulge secrets to acquaintances.
Never betray old friends for new ones.
Never mistake flattery for praise.
Never rely on dishonorable people.
Never trust your enemy's friends.
Never mistake someone's kindness for weakness.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#43. ... People who are the spices of this world are the natural souls with instincts and impulses that have not been pruned by evolution and civilization.

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#44. It was one thing to be fooled, and another thing to be taken for a fool all the time.

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#45. Some people live their memorable years fighting against their basic instincts only to succumb in the end to what was actually good for them.

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#46. For to be sunk, though but for an hour in your esteem is a humiliation to which I know not how to submit. -Susan

Jane Austen

#47. ...No man is foolish when his friend betrays him because a man's world is most serene when he has people to trust and call friends. After all, is it not often said that a friend is another self?

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#48. In your selflessness pursuit of things higher than yourself, you appear selfish or inconsiderate to those who truly love you and who have cared deeply about you from the first day you came into their lives.

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#49. Isn't reality based on the prevailing culture, the trend that people want to identify with?

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#50. There are people who bring joy to our lives, but who fail to make us happy. They are the people for the moment. Never rely on their love because it is not sustainable. Their love is alike a comet that illuminates the sky, but then fades away because it lacks the sustainable energy of the sun.

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#51. The narrow-minded find it convenient to create stereotypes, and then try to fit everybody, everything and every situation into those stereotypes.

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#52. A nationalist will blindly follow his country to his death out of love for it. A patriot will stand up for and even against his country to his death out of love for it.

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#53. ...only the dreamers of a dream are capable of translating their dreams into worthy practical endeavors that are devoid of haunting errors. After all, they are the ones who carefully observed the link between their dreams and reality; they are the ones who worked consciously to blend them into one.

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#54. I love to talk to flowers. They are sensitive. And sometimes I just want to have couple of wings and fly away ... Will you ever notice?

Galina Nelson

#55. Writers are the most tormented of all the different categories of artists that are out there in the world.

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#56. Huh! Mankind always comes up with ideas to make up for the follies of the status quo. But what happens if those ideas are inflexible and fail to respond to the changing times. They end up betraying the people who believed in them.

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#57. Hold onto your creativity, that idealism that is rooted in some degree of innocence and a firm belief in something finer than the things we already have.

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#58. Remember these, Sons! Truth presented with tenderness enriches the soul of man and enhances humanity in the process. A Franco-Cameroonian relation based on truth and nurtured with tenderness will be to the benefit not only of Kamerun and France, but also of mankind as a whole.

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#59. The mind of man can only teach what he has learned from others. It is how you use that knowledge that will decide who you are.

Micheal Rivers

#60. Sometimes moving forward changes what's behind you.

Kami Garcia

#61. Most people live lives that are full of mysteries, lives whose ultimate purpose we may never really understand. But for the sake of serenity, we must believe in life's nobleness.

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#62. True heroes and ideas never fall in the final sense of the word. They can only encounter temporary setbacks in their difficult journey to progress and success,

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#63. ...A canonical leader is someone whose exemplary rule might have appeared to be for the alleviation of the pains and miseries of a particular group, but which in reality is for the advancement of humanism...

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#64. We need the wisdom to accept the fact that this world abounds with issues we cannot solve; and we need to part ways with those people, ideas and things that are a vexation to the soul.

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#65. A stupid friend can hurt you more than a smart enemy.

Erol Ozan

#66. I think preconceived ideas or prejudgments are meant to give us an edge whenever we are dealing with others we don't know or haven't made the effort to understand.

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#67. Though the trials of life are never easy, someone to stand with you and help you with your burdens is one of the true essences of living. It is well that two should join together to face life as friends as well as lovers.

Micheal Rivers

#68. Never back a woman you defend, never get quit of a friend on whom you depend, never make face to a foe till he's rife and never get stuck to another man's pfife.

James Joyce

#69. Bittersweet? No, just bitter, the taste of your tongue.
Words you can't have back, so they linger.

Coco J. Ginger

#70. The basis of love that most people share is the intimacy they developed with their partners, the intensity of their attraction, or the similarity of their thought patterns,

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#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.

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#72. 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

#73. Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.

Arthur Miller

#74. With true love, you can move mountains, make unusual sacrifices, live a life of deprivations and still be happy.

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#75. 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

#76. Feelings, rationale and values are the top qualities that make a person exceedingly human.

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#77. Life is a mighty joke that is not meant to be funny.

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#78. You and I were meant to be together, even if we weren't meant to be happy.

Stacey T. Hunt

#79. ...A legendary leader distinguishes himself as someone who gets ahead of his people from an impasse and futile general consensus, and then finds new grounds that constitute the base from which a unique course of his people's destiny is charted...

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#80. The true leaders of our time, the legends of this world or the movers of the movers are the towering figures that are blessed with beautiful minds, receptive ears and directing voices. They are the ones we should emulate in life.

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#81. When we tend to be too hard on those we love, we erode the softness of our souls in the process, taking out the humanity within us that is the nucleus of our goodness, even if our actions are for their own sake.

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#82. It's hard to tell who has your back, from who has it long enough just to stab you in it ...

Nicole Richie

#83. Singers, actors or artists who touch on sorrow are trying to give comfort to aggrieved souls by giving some meaning to their sorrows.

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#84. Sometimes this was much harder than trying to get an alligator in a suitcase.

Micheal Rivers

#85. I can love what is broken.

Carla H. Krueger

#86. Man craves joy far more than anything else in life, but there is nothing as madly intoxicating as the feeling of joy that comes from the soul.

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#87. Perhaps fate has a way of turning things around and making something good out of the action of someone who failed humanity without meaning to.

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#88. ...Bad leaders are known to destroy one, more or even all of the foundations of their people's way of life...

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#89. Societies and people that come close to being happy are those that do well in narrowing the disparity between their desires and their needs, especially the material things of life.

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#90. The knives of betrayal and drama cut deep and hurt ... but they also trim away the nonsense and reveal your true friends.

Steve Maraboli

#91. Human ties are the greatest distorters of reality because they tend to conceal man's worst selfish instincts.

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#92. A woman will endure many wounds in her lifetime, but the betrayal of a friend is one of the most difficult to overcome.

Tina Samples

#93. His jaw tightening and his eyes closed on the tears. I believe you. It's okay because I understand and I believe you.

John Knowles

#94. Friendship's enemy is betrayal.

Toba Beta

#95. ...True classical dropouts in society are those who avoid difficult challenges and cling to the first opportunity that comes their way. They never test their talents. These latent talents will only help to produce the next cycle of dropouts...

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#96. Thirteen years of friendship had bonded us together more thoroughly than if we had been born of the same mother. Even at this late stage, I was unwilling to let him go.

Melika Dannese Lux

#97. In the world of today, human desires far supersede human needs. Waste, as you can see, is the result of all of those contradictions. That is how we ended up complicating our world.

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#98. Love and hate when stretched to their extremes blind reasoning.

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#99. The selfish and self-centered have a hard time being kind, even though you and I know that kindness is a source of relief to the soul.

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#100. You're my prey tonight.

Carla H. Krueger