Quotes about betrayal

Molière - The Misanthrope

You may plainly perceive the traitor through his mask he is well-known everywhere in his true colors his rolling eyes and his honeyed tones impose only on those who do not know him.

Janvier Chouteu-Chando - Flash of the Sun

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

Dada Bhagwan -

Being dependent on this world will lead to betrayal. It will deceive us at the right time. It is better to depend on a pillow at least it will not move away from us at the right time. The one that is living will move away.

Janvier Chando - The Union Moujik

We are truly human when we live for a purpose far above ourselves but most people prefer to identify with an entity for the sake of belonging thereby subjecting themselves to the spirit of collective selfishness that is only found in groups.

Mark Donnelly -

A woman betrayed is deadlier than a man's terror's A woman honored is gentler than a man's expectations.

Émile Gaboriau - File No. 113

He was as yet not sufficiently experienced in ruffianism to know that one villain always sacrifices another to advance his own project he was credulous enough to believe in the old adage of 'honor amongst thieves.

Stefanos Livos - A Life In A Moment

Never look back you may only find what you left or let you go.

Shannon L. Alder -

It is not the hand that rocks the cradle that rules the world it is the woman that holds the keys to the kingdom.

Alice Miller - Thou Shalt Not Be Aware : Society's Betrayal of the Child

The victimization of children is nowhere forbidden what is forbidden is to write about it.

Aliyyah Eniath - The Yard

How do you forgive those who’ve betrayed you? Move on from the hurt they caused? Does forgiving mean you’ve given them a pass?... Forgiveness is tricky I’ve often felt like I can’t… But if you don’t… you’re trapped.

Paula Stokes - Inc.

When you care about someone, you can’t just turn that off because you learn they betrayed you.

Shannon L. Alder -

Often people that say they “don’t care” actually do. The moment they discuss you with their friends and family, compete with you, bad mouth you to others or react to anything you do or say is when they give themselves away. You can either be saddened or flattered that you effected someone so much. The perspective is yours to determine.

N.K. Jemisin - The Broken Kingdoms

Love betrayed has an entirely different sound from hatred outright.

Auliq Ice -

Beware! Friends are like chameleons, for they can turn enemies overnight.

Phindiwe Nkosi - Behind the Hospital

Instead of hating, my heart cries mercy! Mercy on me! Mercy on me! Mercy on me!

Syed Arshad -

It's not love that you hate, it's the loved one who betrayed.

Kimberly Montague - Racing Outside the Line

Well, good afternoon, sunshine. How are you feeling?""Like something the cat dragged in, then dragged back outside to leave in the rain, and mud, then the lightning hit it, and burned it, and the cat came back to tear it into pieces, before burying it.

Wendy Hoffman - The Enslaved Queen: A Memoir about Electricity and Mind Control

Betrayal is a more subtle, twisted feeling than terror. It burns and eats, but terror stabs right through.

Graeme Galton - Forensic Aspects of Dissociative Identity Disorder

Some people with DID present their narratives of sadistic abuse in a quite matter-of-fact way, without perceptible affect. This may sometimes be done as a way of protecting themselves, and the listener, from the emotional impact of their experience. We have found that people describing trauma in a flat way, without feeling, are usually those who have been more chronically abused, while those with affect still have a sense of self that can observe the tragedy of betrayal and have feelings about i

Mohammed Zaki Ansari - "Zaki's Gift Of Love"

Cheating, betraying its easy, changing partner like clothes its easy that's why people run there.Honesty is so difficult ,only people with power of self respect Do it.

Sam Shepard - Fool for Love

I don't understand my feelings. I really don't. I don't understand how I could hate you so much after so much time. How, no matter how much I'd like to not hate you, I hate you even more. It grows.

Gena Showalter - The One You Want

You speak as if I actually have a soul. As if mine wasn’t ripped from me by lies and betrayal.

Elizabeth Gaskell - Wives and Daughters

There is nothing like wounded affection for giving poignancy to anger.

Sara Shepard - Twisted

But then Klaudia's lips curled ino a conniving smile."Actually, Aria, I'm going to fuck your boyfriend. Ton

Shannon L. Alder -

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.

Auliq Ice -

Deep down a broken heart, all the sadness one can bear is misery.

Madeline Miller - The Song of Achilles

There is no honour in betraying your friends.

James Joyce - Finnegans Wake

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.

Charlotte Munro - The Lockharts

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...

John Knowles - A Separate Peace

...his jaw tightening and his eyes closed on the tears. “I believe you. It’s okay because I understand and I believe you.

Auliq-Ice -

Man's devilish thoughts is the devil and the devil is man.

J.R.R. Tolkien - The Children of Húrin

Now when Túrin learnt from Finduilas of what had passed, he was wrathful, and he said to Gwindor: 'In love I hold you for your rescue and sake-keeping. But now you have done ill to me, friend, to betray my right name, and call my doom upon me, from which I would lie hid.'But Gwindor answered: 'The doom lies in yourself, not in your name.

George R.R. Martin - A Storm of Swords

A son for a son, heh. But that's a grandson...and he never was much use." --Walder Frey

William Shakespeare - Macbeth

Each new mornNew widows howl, new orphans cry, new sorrowsStrike heaven on the face, that it resoundsAs if it felt with Scotland, and yelled outLike syllable of dolor.

Bryan Way - Life After: The Void

When you open yourself up to people, you show them where to put the knife in.

Joseph Conrad -

All a man can betray is his conscience.

Catherynne M. Valente - Deathless

Just tell yourself a story that'll satisfy you and pretend he told it.

Isabel Allende - Daughter of Fortune

Until a few months ago we had a code of honor, and even the worst ruffians behaved with decency. You could leave your gold in a tent with no guard and no one would touch it, but now all that has changed. The law of the jungle rules, the only ideology is greed. Don't let yourself be parted from your weapons, and always travel in pairs or groups, because this is a land of thieves.

Sandra Lee Dennis -

Blame is a Defense Against PowerlessnessBetrayal trauma changes you. You have endured a life-altering shock, and are likely living with PTSD symptoms— hypervigilance, flashbacks and bewilderment—with broken trust, with the inability to cope with many situations, and with the complete shut down of parts of your mind, including your ability to focus and regulate your emotions.Nevertheless, if you are unable to recognize the higher purpose in your pain, to forgive and forget and move on, you clearl

C. Terry Warner -

Self-betrayal occurs when we do to another what we sense we should not do or don't do what we sense we should. Thus self-betrayal is a sort of moral self-compromise, a violation of our own personal sense of how we ought to be and what we ought to do.

Sandra Lee Dennis - Love and the Mystery of Betrayal

....I came to consider betrayal a moral violation of another's humanity—akin to torture.

Takayuki Yamaguchi - シグルイ 15

Takamasa Saegusa: 'Seigen, a mere member of the Toudouza, had the effrontery to sully the sacred dueling ground. For that reason, our lord had already decided to subject him to tu-uchi before long. Cut off his head immediately, and stick it on a pike!'Gennosuke could hardly believe his ears. Such an insult to Irako Seigen was unwarranted. It was pride. For Gennosuke, Irako Seigen was pride itself.Takamasa Saegusa: 'Fujiki Gennosuke! It is the way of the samurai to take the head of the defeated e

Melody Aurora -

When sweet lullabies are whispered into the sky, my heart is filled with with the sorrow of time. So when the kiss of a midnight moon ends, drop sweet nothings to fill my ear. Too many years to be sincere, and too many lost favorites that were never there.A tear or two, and maybe three; apathy is-and may not be me.

Terra Elan McVoy - After the Kiss

my own chocolate center has filled up with poison,the roses he gave me all twisted black

Billy Marshall Stoneking -

Character is not purchased with a dance in the street. It's expensive and hard to come by. Though it is the heir of disappointment, betrayal and frustration, it is not the inheritance that matters but what you do with it. No one ever developed their character by arranging their experiences in such a way that only ‘good’ things are allowed to happen.

Treyco -

Karma how come we give the truth but the lies we receive?

Jo Nesbø - Panserhjerte

no one is as they seem, and most of life, apart from honest betrayal, is lies and deceit. And the day we discover we are no different is the day we no longer want to live.

pikmin100xx -

I don't mined being lied to, but what ever you do never betray me

Sadeqa Johnson - Second House from the Corner

I know betrayal can unravel a man. I learned early on from watching my parents that men are capable of doing terrible things to women when they feel deceived. When the bubble of trust and honesty bursts, nothing is off-limits.

Katie Klein - Cross My Heart

The more lies you tell the more stories you have to remember.

H.S. Crow -

With each glare words escape me, yet no ears care to listen. It is cold here with her stare, judging every affair. My mind fiddles beneath the changeless confines of this betrayal as we hide behind deceitful wails. We have become trapped in lies long forgotten—squandering our time in lunacy with the thought of what was and is no more.

L.M. Montgomery - Emily's Quest

Never be silent with persons you love and distrust," Mr. Carpenter had said once. "Silence betrays.

Khaled Hosseini -

I thought about you all the time. I used to pray that you’d live to be a hundred years old. I didn’t know. I didn’t know that you were ashamed of me.

Israelmore Ayivor - Leaders' Watchwords

To make plans and not make good use of them is like “betraying your success helpmate” after getting to know him. Make plans, get prepared, but let the work be done!

Erol Ozan -

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

Trinity J. Eidsness -

Friends are forever but life is full of disapointments

Brian D. Anderson - Of Gods and Elves

You cannot be betrayed by your enemies, only your friends.

Paul Hoffman - The Left Hand of God

...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.

Shannon L. Alder -

You can be bit in the leg by a rattlesnake and seek help to heal your wound, or you can run after it and let the poison take your leg. The same is true with love.

George R.R. Martin -

Our enemies leave our bodies for the crows and the wolves. Our friends bury us in secret graves.

Shannon L. Alder -

You will never let go of the past by ignoring the most painful thing the person you loved has done to you. When you begin to minimize it, second guess yourself and others, ignore it or even pretend it didn't happen you cheat yourself out of healing. Naturally, your mind would rather believe the lies you are telling it, rather than accept the truth. The soul has a way of protecting itself from trauma, but if left in denial there is no growth or change. Healing requires going to that place you avo

Ed Harris -

You can't betray yourself too often, or you become somebody else.

Gautama Buddha - The Dhammapada

Through the round of many births I roamed without reward, without rest, seeking the house-builder. Painful is birth again & again.House-builder, you're seen!You will not build a house again.All your rafters broken,the ridge pole destroyed,gone to the Unformed, the mind has come to the end of craving.

Monika Ramzy -

You cant laugh at a joke agian and agian, but why do you keep crying over the same thing over and over agian?

Kilroy J. Oldster - Dead Toad Scrolls

A life of hardship and personal suffering is unavoidable. A person must endure many humiliations of the mind and body, and expect persons whom they trusted to someday betray them. People inevitably witness the death of their loved ones. We also witness acts of depravity committed by criminals that lurk in every society and rouge acts of scandal committed by government officials in charge of the public welfare. A person must nonetheless resist personal discouragement, sadness, dejection, and desp

Sandra Lee Dennis -

Attitude Is EverythingWe live in a culture that is blind to betrayal and intolerant of emotional pain. In New Age crowds here on the West Coast, where your attitude is considered the sole determinant of the impact an event has on you, it gets even worse.In these New Thought circles, no matter what happens to you, it is assumed that you have created your own reality. Not only have you chosen the event, no matter how horrible, for your personal growth. You also chose how you interpret what happene

Mande Chambers - Surviving Today

No lie, secret, betrayal, or mistake will remain concealed if you have a past.

MacDonald Harris - The Balloonist

We only betray ourselves. No one is betrayed except by himself. One way to betray yourself is to try to be too many people at once."How many people should a person try to be in your opinion?"One at the most. Most people don't even succeed in that.

John Updike - Rabbit Redux

Growth is betrayal.

Yuuki Obata - Vol. 1

You don’t know what it means to be betrayed! Should I explain it to you? It means to be treated like trash and your feelings get stepped on…you get hurt over and over again and in the end you are left alone!Can’t you see how much I care for you? How hard I’m trying to connect with you?When did I ever betray you? When did I ever leave you alone?

Sōseki Natsume - Kokoro

The memory of having sat at someone’s feet will later make you want to trample him underfoot. I’m trying to fend off your admiration for me, you see, in order to save myself from your future contempt. I prefer to put up with my present state of loneliness rather than suffer more loneliness later. We who are born into this age of freedom and independence and the self must undergo this loneliness. It’s the price we pay for these times of ours.

Mary E. DeMuth - Thin Places: A Memoir

I understand true life doesn't happen when I constantly gaze backwards, mulling over all the injustices others have done or I have done to others.

Robin Hobb - Golden Fool

...some secrets beg to be betrayed. The secret of undeclared love is like that.

Oliver Markus - Sex and Crime: Oliver's Strange Journey

Nobody has ever killed themselves over a broken arm. But every day, thousands of people kill themselves because of a broken heart. Why? Because emotional pain hurts much worse than physical pain.

Auliq Ice -

Life is full of unfairness but you'll have to deal with it, as long as you're able to take a breath.

Craig D. Lounsbrough -

The real promise in too many promises is a promise that I’m going to be disappointed.

Frederick Weisel - Teller

Of course, when you fall out of love, it’s rarely about just one failure or one betrayal, is it? . . . How does it happen? All those things you once loved about each other are replaced by other things that remind you of something you hate until you’re always setting each other off, and what you share is a battleground. In the end, the failure turns out to be less about sex—which surprises most men—and more about loss of respect. One morning your partner looks at you across the bed and wonders at

Galina Nelson -

When I was a teen, I liked to hang out around popular girls, I thought they had some magic, secrets that only they knew and I wanted to learn it... Though pretty soon I realized... popular girls were just like spam... they promised a lot, but only thing they had and could use were their well-built bodies and ability to apply make-up here and there. Mostly they were deceptive and had no senses... they had no idea about friendship, kindness and beauty as it is. Friendship for them was not somethin

Shannon L. Alder -

If it were true love, he would never make you sacrifice your dignity to be with him. He would respect you and treat you as if you were sacred to his heart. If he loved you as dearly as he professes to love Christ, then he would never let anyone that loved him suffer or lower their self worth to be with him. True love is compassion, respect and honorable acts that prove love.

Maria McCann - As Meat Loves Salt

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.

J.E. Cross - Judas: Hero Misunderstood

Between the sands of time and tradition is a multitude of truths untold.

Joshua De Vera Bautista -

I know the scent of betrayal. I may be kind to you, but don't mistake my kindness for weakness. After all, the Angels have a sharp sword too

Anonymus Autor -

He gasped in despair while he wrote to her knowing everything is going to end.He: Why did you ruin my image in front of your mother and family though I wasn't the bad guy?She replied Coldly: I acted childish and took revenge, I wanted to end this relation.He kept asking all that she accused him of.She kept admitting false allegations, something kept breaking inside him.Silence kept creeping into him, sorrow enveloped his soul and tears fell of his eyes for he knew all had ended.

Margaret George - Mary Queen of Scotland and The Isles

Defeat I can endure with cheerfulness, my lady. But betrayal is like taking the wind from my sails, or the earth from beneath my feet. It chills my spirits like a rainy day, and all I can do is draw the curtains and cry into my pillow.

Grace Draven - Eidolon

My dear, treacherous mother,” he breathed. “What have you done?

Sarah E. Olson - Becoming One: A Story of Triumph Over Dissociative Identity Disorder

We say, "It wasn't that bad. It was all my fault. I’m making all this stuff up. "All my life, I spoke bitterly of my mother's treatment of me as a child.Friends asked, “What did she do to you?“ I couldn't really describe it, and in frustration would say, “Well, she didn't lock us up in closets." in fact, my mother behaved much worse than that, but by focusing on the empty closet, I avoided looking at what waited beyond it.

Carolyn Ainscough - Breaking Free: Help For Survivors Of Child Sexual Abuse

Survivors are damaged to different degrees by their experiences. This does not depend on what happened physically. A Survivor who has been raped will not necessarily be more damaged than a Survivor who has been touched. The degree of damage depend on the degree of traumatic sexualization, stigmatization, betrayal and powerlessness, the child has experienced. This in turn depends on a number of factors such as:* who the abuser was;* how many abusers were involved;* if the abuser was same-sex or o

Judith Lewis Herman - Father-Daughter Incest: With a New Afterword

The vast majority of incest begins years before the earliest conceivable age of consent. p4

Lloyd DeMause - The Emotional Life of Nations

Whenever a group produces murderers, the early parental relationship must have been abusive and neglectful. Yet this elementary truth has not even begun to be considered in historical research; just stating that poor mothering lies behind wars seems blasphemous.

A.Z.Green -

I'm waiting for the piece of shit to crawl out from under his rock. If it is who she said it is, then I'll be there to kick the throne from beneath his filthy, lying, murdering backside.” - Nik Driver

Miranda July - No One Belongs Here More Than You

If I could quietly kill her without anyone knowing, I would.

Dianna Hardy - Cry Of The Wolf

And then there was

Joseph Delaney - Attack of the Fiend

I see a girl, soon to be a woman," Tibb continues. "The girl who will share your life. She will love you, she will betray you, and finally she will die for you. And it will all have been for nothing. All for nothing in the end.

Micheal Rivers - Moonlight on the Nantahala

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 - Moonlight on the Nantahala

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

Toba Beta - Master of Stupidity

True love is tested when betrayed.

Wynter Wilkins - Strigoi

A red veil covers the room as walls, which flow but do not stand. Screams echo from every stone. Incense I smell of sandalwood and lavender, and lavender I taste as well. A tea, a brew, or a liquid I sip. Calm I feel. Gyfu shows a great sacrifice will be made. I feel tied in knots as light reflects from crystals found in rock. All is not what it seems. Choices are made, the white handled bolline swings, the steps slide, gates swing open, memories flow like rain—betrayal and it is done. --A quote

Balkrishn Sanmotra -

All your lies became truth of my life!

Veronica Roth - Four: A Divergent Story Collection

Now it seems like no matter what I decide, I'll be betraying someone.

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