Top 96 Betrayal Quotes

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Being betrayed by someone that is very close to you is one of the most heartbreaking things that you can ever experience. With that in mind, check out the top 96 betrayal quotes.

#96 – 90. Betrayal Quotes

96. One of the hardest lessons in life is letting go.Whether it’s guilt, anger, love, loss or betrayal.Change is never easy. We fight to hold on and we fight to let go.If you’ve been hurt until it breaks your soul into pieces, your perspective in life will definitely change, and no one and nothing in this world could ever hurt you again. Mareez Reyes

95. The worst pain in the world goes beyond the physical. Even further beyond any other emotional pain one can feel. It is the betrayal of a friend. Heather Brewer

94. The knives of betrayal and drama cut deep and hurt… but they also trim away the nonsense and reveal your true friends. Steve Maraboli

93. Betray a friend, and you’ll often find you have ruined yourself. Aesop

92. Backstabbers specialize in saying the wrong thing at the wrong time to the wrong person. Les Parrott

91. The male, for all his bravado and exploration, is the loyal one, the one who generally feels love. The female is skilled at betrayal and torture and damnation. Charles Bukowski

90. Dealing with backstabbers, there was one thing I learned. They’re only powerful when you got your back turned. Eminem

#89 – 80. Betrayal Quotes

89. Is it possible to succeed without any act of betrayal? Jean Renoir

88. All trust involves vulnerability and risk, and nothing would count as trust if there were no possibility of betrayal. Robert C. Solomon

87. It was a mistake, you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you. David Levithan

86. Silence is a true friend who never betrays. Confucius

85. It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them. Confucius

84. I could become very rich in Guatemala but by the low method of ratifying my title, opening a clinic, and specializing in allergies. To do that would be the most horrible betrayal of the two ‘I’s’ struggling inside me: the socialist and the traveler. Che Guevara

83. For there to be betrayal, there would have to have been trust first. Suzanne Collins

82. I could never hurt him enough to make his betrayal stop hurting. And it hurts, in every part of my body. Veronica Roth

81. The problem is that everywhere the gas drilling industry goes, a trail of water contamination, air pollution, health concerns and betrayal of basic American civic and community values follows. Josh Fox

80. Love is whatever you can still betray. Betrayal can only happen if you love. John le Carre

#79 – 70. Betrayal Quotes

79. Trust is not established in the absence of betrayal, but in those whose betrayalis least. Wes Fessler

78. All our experience with history should teach us, when we look back, how badly human wisdom is betrayed when it relies on itself. Martin Luther

77. Betrayal can only happen if you love. John Le Carre

76. There are only really a few stories to tell in the end, and betrayal and the failure of love is one of those good stories to tell. Sean Lennon

75. Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee. William Penn

74. Do you believe a man can truly love a woman and constantly betray her? Never mind physically but betray her in his mind, in the very “poetry of his soul”. Well, it’s not easy but men do it all the time. Mario Puzo

73. All a man can betray is his conscience. Joseph Conrad

72. It’s a shame that the very people who you protect are the first ones to turn there backs on you. Autumn Kohler

71. You want to believe that there’s one relationship in life that’s beyond betrayal. A relationship that’s beyond that kind of hurt. And there isn’t. Caleb Carr

70. I used to advertise my loyalty and I don’t believe there is a single person I loved that I didn’t eventually betray. Albert Camus

#69 – 60. Betrayal Quotes

69. There are three signs of a hypocrite: when he speaks he speaks lies, when he makes a promise he breaks it, and when he is trusted he betrays his trust. Muhammad

68. Betrayal is common for men with no conscience. Toba Beta

67. It’s particularly hard to take being stabbed in the back close to home. There’s always a feeling of betrayal when people of your own group oppose you. Catharine MacKinnon

66. One should rather die than be betrayed. There is no deceit in death. It delivers precisely what it has promised. Betrayal, though … betrayal is the willful slaughter of hope. Steven Deitz

65. Pleasure which must be enjoyed at the expense of another’s pain, can never be such as a worthy mind can fully delight in. Samuel Johnson

64. An honest enemy is better than a false friend. When in doubt, pay more attention to what people do and less to what they say. Actions not only speak louder than words, they are more difficult to fake. Zero Dean

63. The Bible is very resonant. It has everything: creation, betrayal, lust, poetry, prophecy, sacrifice. All great things are in the Bible, and all great writers have drawn from it and more than people realize, whether Shakespeare, Herman Melville or Bob Dylan. Patti Smith

62. It’s hard to tell who has your back, from who has it long enough just to stab you in it. Nicole Richie

61. Be cautious of who is holding your quarters because as soon as they get four quarters they will change them for a dollar. Alexis A. Davis

60. Betrayal is never easy to handle and there is no right way to accept it. Christine Feehan

#59 – 50. Betrayal Quotes

59. Love and marriage are wonderful arenas in which to place a character. We are most likely to risk our morals and beliefs while in love. Betrayal gives tremendous insights into a character as well. Anita Shreve

58. In life you can easily trust someone, but once the trust is broken its very difficult to trust anyone again. Sushan Sharma

57. The three touchstones that woke Buddha up sickness, old age, and death are a pretty good place to start when crafting a tragic tale. And if we need to get more specific: heartbreak, destruction, miscomprehension, natural disasters, betrayal, and the waste of human potential. Paul Di Filippo

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

55. He who advises you to be reserved to your friends wishes to betray you without witnesses. Don J. Manuel

54. Betrayal does that betrays the betrayer. Erica Jong

53. Love is understood, in a historical way, as one of the great human vocations but its counterspell has always been infidelity. This terrible, terrible betrayal that can tear apart not only another person, not only oneself, but whole families. Junot Diaz

52. False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us when we cross into the shade. Christian Nevell Bovee

51. The thorn from the bush one has planted, nourished and pruned pricks more deeply and draws more blood. Maya Angelou

50. Pride had kept her running when love had betrayed her. Susan Elizabeth Phillips

#49 – 40. Betrayal Quotes

49. Beware the person that stabs you and then tells the world they’re bleeding! Jill Blakeway

48. To love without criticism is to be betrayed. Djuna Barnes

47. When someone breaks your trust don’t feel stupid for trusting them. You didn’t do anything wrong they’re just an untrustworthy person. Sonya Parker

46. We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal. Tennessee Williams

45. I’m not really sure why. But… do you stop loving someone just because they betray you? I don’t think so. That’s what makes the betrayal hurt so much pain, frustration, anger… and I still loved her. I still do. Brandon Sanderson

44. Don’t saw off the branch you’re sitting on. Swedish Proverbs

43. Everyone suffers at least one bad betrayal in their lifetime. It’s what unites us. The trick is not to let it destroy your trust in others when that happens. Don’t let them take that from you. Sherrilyn Kenyon

42. I may be many things, and there are even more I am not, but I would never do to you what you did to me, and I think that says a lot. Jessica Katoff

41. There is no greater blessing than a family hand that lifts you from a fall; but there is not lower curse than a family hand that strikes you when you’re down. Wes Fessler

40. You can’t betray yourself too often, or you become somebody else. Ed Harris

#39 – 30. Betrayal Quotes

39. Rather than writing about international events, I write about individual lives. There is elation and sadness, death and birth, love and jealousy, co-operation and betrayal. All the great emotional transactions that happen wherever people come together. Tom Drury

38. For me, I always wonder what’s worse: an emotional betrayal or a physical betrayal? That’s a really tough call. Hilarie Burton

37. I have never known a more vulgar expression of betrayal and deceit. Lucien Bouchard

36. It’s particularly hard to take being stabbed in the back close to home. There’s always a feeling of betrayal when people of your own group oppose you. Catharine MacKinnon

35. Don’t bite the hand that feeds you. English Proverbs

34. A fraudulent intent, however carefully concealed at the outset, will generally, in the end, betray itself. Titus Livius

33. He who throws away a friend is as bad as he who throws away his life. Sophocles

32. Familial betrayal is, to me, the most heartbreaking kind because if you can’t trust your family to love you and protect you, who can you really trust? Alexandra Bracken

31. There is always a lesson of a lifetime to learn in every betrayal. Edmond Mbiaka

30. 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

#29 – 20. Betrayal Quotes

29. Some people are willing to betray years of friendship just to get a little bit of the spotlight. Lauren Conrad

28. If you’re betrayed, release disappointment at once. By that way, the bitterness has no time to take root. Toba Beta

27. You know that you have been stabbed when you feel the deep pain of betrayal. Les Parrott

26. When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself. Isaac Bashevis Singer

25. Grow a thick skin – a very thick skin. And watch your back. For every back, there is a knife. Lily Chatterjee

24. Sometimes the people closest to you betray you, and your home isn’t a place you can be happy anymore. Kristin Cast

23. 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

22. The betrayal of trust carries a heavy taboo. Aldrich Ames

21. Betrayal is about learning not to idealize external sources. Linda Talley

20. To me, the thing that is worse than death is betrayal. You see, I could conceive death, but I could not conceive betrayal. Malcolm X

#19 – 10. Betrayal Quotes

19. He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore. Sigmund Freud

18. To betray, you must first belong. Kim Philby

17. Naturally, when one makes progressive steps, there may be some who see it as a betrayal of their goals and interests. Louis Farrakhan

16. He, who had done more than any human being to draw her out of the caves of her secret, folded life, now threw her down into deeper recesses of fear and doubt. The fall was greater than she had ever known, because she had ventured so far into emotion and had abandoned herself to it. Anaïs Nin

15. Sometimes, instead of being hurt, you should look at betrayal as a gift. It makes it that much easier to sweep it up and toss it out with the rest of the trash. And why is that you ask? Because trash starts to stink…and when it does, it has no more value in your life. Donna Schoenrock

14. Anyone who hasn’t experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all. Jean Genet

13. Every betrayal contains a perfect moment, a coin stamped heads or tails with salvation on the other side. Barbara Kingsolver

12. When you realize you’ve been deeply betrayed, fear really hits you. That’s what you feel first. And then it’s anger and frustration. Then disappointment and disillusionment. José N. Harris

11. She would see it as betrayal. Nothing more. Nothing less. Samantha Young

10. There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#9 – 1. Betrayal Quotes

9. People are always fascinated by infidelity because, in the end whether we’ve had direct experience or not there’s part of you that knows there’s absolutely no more piercing betrayal. People are undone by it. Junot Diaz

8. Mind what people do, not only what they say, for deeds will betray a lie. Terry Goodkind

7. Betrayal is the only truth that sticks. Arthur Miller

6. I’m not crying because of you; you’re not worth it. I’m crying because my delusion of who you were was shattered by the truth of who you are. Steve Maraboli

5. It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend. William Blake

4. Muhammad is more human, more self-doubting, even self-tortured at times. His story is full of adventure, intrigue, betrayal. Deepak Chopra

3. Just because they say they’re praying for you in your face, doesn’t mean they aren’t laughing at your struggle behind your back. Trent Shelton

2. The fear really hits you. That’s what you feel first. And then it’s the anger and frustration. Part of the problem is how little we understand about the ultimate betrayal of the body when it rebels against itself. Charles Bronson

1. One should rather die than be betrayed. There is no deceit in death. It delivers precisely what it has promised. Betrayal, though … betrayal is the willful slaughter of hope. Steven Deitz

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