Being betrayed is one of the most valuable lessons life can teach. — Shania Twain
I'd rather betray the world than let the world betray me. — Cao Cao
They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond first. All a man can betray is his conscience. — Joseph Conrad
The betrayal of trust carries a heavy taboo. — Aldrich Ames
Betray a friend, and you'll often find you have ruined yourself. — Aesop
To me, the thing that is worse than death is betrayal. — Malcolm X
To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception; it is an eternal loss for which there is no reparation, either in time or in eternity. — Soren Kierkegaard
Treacherous people do not last only memories of their treason last.So will it last with emotions mixed, of love and hate for treacherous ones. — Amit Abraham
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
The trust that I once built has been betrayed. But I'd rather live tellin' the truth and be judged for my mistakes, than falsely held up, given props, loved and praised. — Macklemore
Mankind adores its betrayers, and murders its saviors. — Taylor Caldwell
All a man can betray is his conscience. — Joseph Conrad
Be certain that he who has betrayed thee once will betray thee again. — Johann Kaspar Lavater
Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee. — William Penn
One cannot be betrayed if one has no people. — Takeru Kobayashi
..."better to have loved and lost" bullshit. Don't show me paradise and then burn it down. — Harlan Coben
It's better to be hanged for loyalty than be rewarded for betrayal. — Vladimir Putin
Love is like a dying ember, only memories remain. — Willie Nelson
Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute. — Edgar Allan Poe
How we lie to ourselves when we've fallen in love with the wrong man. — Julia Alvarez
Betrayed Love Image Quotes
Your mind will always believe everything you tell it. Feed it hope. Feed it truth. Feed it with love.
You Betrayed Me Love Quotes
Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn't matter; only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you-that would be the real betrayal. — George Orwell
If you betray me, can I take a better revenge than to love the person you hate? — Pierre Corneille
You can never betray the people who are dead, so you go on being a public Jew; the dead can't answer slurs, but I'm here. I would love to think that Jesus wants me for a sunbeam, but he doesn't. — Anita Brookner
The secret to living well and longer is: eat half, walk double, laugh triple and love without measure.
I can't bring myself to trust you. But even if you were to betray me, and even if you were to become my enemy... would it be okay for me to love? Could you... let me love you? — Ryohgo Narita
Lord Jesus, don't let me lie when I say that I love you.....and protect me, for today I could betray you. — Saint Augustine
Everyone comes with baggage. Find someone who loves you enough to help you unpack.
About me, nothing worse they will tell you, my love, than what I told you — Pablo Neruda
Love Quotes
One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life. — Kahlil Gibran
To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless. — G. K. Chesterton
To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intelligent persons and the affection of children; to earn the approbation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings. — Anais Nin
Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. — Anais Nin
To love a person is to see all of their magic, and to remind them of it when they have forgotten.
All along this path I tread, my heart betrays my weary head, with nothing but my love to save, from the cradle to the grave. — Eric Clapton
The church would betray its own love for God and its fidelity to the gospel if it stopped being . . . a defender of the rights of the poor . . . a humanizer of every legitimate struggle to achieve a more just society . . . that prepares the way for the true reign of God in history. — Oscar Romero
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
Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are magic.
Even though we are deceived, still believe. Though we are betrayed, still forgive. Love completely even those who hate you. — Sun Myung Moon
Be true to Love.
Do not betray Her.
Then, on the day
that the forest of the mind
bursts into flames,
you will not run.
You will remain silent and still;
for this is when Love bears
Her sweetest fruit:
untouched Presence. — Mooji
When you give someone your whole heart and he doesn't want it, you cannot take it back. It's gone forever. — Sylvia Plath
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
Being Betrayed Quotes
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. — Elijah Muhammad
To be an artist is a blessing and a privilege. Artists must never betray their true hearts. Artists must look beneath the surface and show that there is more to this world than what meets the eye. — Marvin Gaye
Daily I expect to be murdered or betrayed or reduced to slavery if the occasion arises. But I fear nothing, because of the promises of heaven. — Saint Patrick
I hope to arrive to my death, late, in love and a little drunk.
Don't feel sad over someone who gave up on you, feel sorry for them because they gave up on someone who would have never given up on them. — Frank Ocean
If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself. — Rollo May
I know not what treason is, if sapping and betraying the liberties of a people be not treason. — Cato the Younger
The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.
Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people, in order to betray them. — Joseph Story
Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful. — Aesop
While overeating would be seen by some as an indulgence of self, it is in fact a profound rejection of self. It is a moment of self-betrayal and self-punishment, and anything but a commitment to one's own well-being. — Marianne Williamson
As CEO, I’d often tell my executives and board that every email should be written and every conversation conducted as though it will one day be leaked. — Rand Fishkin
Betrayal Quotes
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
We are not apart from nature, we are a part of nature. And to betray nature is to betray us. To save nature is to save us. — Prince Ea
When a government betrays the people by amassing too much power and becoming tyrannical, the people have no choice but to exercise their original right of self-defense — to fight the government. — Alexander Hamilton
Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.
Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured. — Mark Twain
I agree with Dante, that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in a period of moral crisis maintain their neutrality. There comes a time when silence becomes betrayal. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Silence is the true friend that never betrays. — Confucius
A strong person loves, forgives, walks away, lets go, tries again, perseveres... No matter what life throws at them.
My heart is the throne of the Beloved, the Beloved the heart's destiny: Whoever breaks another's heart will find no homecoming in this world or any other. — Yunus Emre
If someone hurt you, abandoned you, betrayed you..it says nothing about your meaningfulness but everything about their character. — Krystal
The chief internal enemies of any state are not spies nor saboteurs nor the paid agents of foreign governments. They are, on the contrary, those myriads of public officials who betray the trust imposed upon them by the people. — Dalton Trumbo
Let's say a Soviet exchange student back in the '70s would go back and tell the KGB about people and places and things that he'd seen and done and been involved with. This is not really espionage; there's no betrayal of trust. — Aldrich Ames
Trust Betray Quotes
Espionage, for the most part, involves finding a person who knows something or has something that you can induce them secretly to give to you. That almost always involves a betrayal of trust. — Aldrich Ames
Stab the body and it heals, but injure the heart and the wound lasts a lifetime. — Mineko Iwasaki
Confiding a secret to an unworthy person is like carrying grain in a bag with a hole. — African Proverbs
Trust is earned, respect is given, and loyalty is demonstrated. Betrayal of any one of those is to lose all three. — Ziad K. Abdelnour
Forgiveness does not come easily to us, especially when someone we have trusted betrays our trust. And yet if we do not learn to forgive, we will discover that we can never really rebuild trust. — Billy Graham
Lack of trust is an enormous transaction cost, and I underestimated this when I first got into business. — Sam Bankman-Fried
When a citizen gives his suffrage to a man of known immorality he abuses his trust; he sacrifices not only his own interest, but that of his neighbor; he betrays the interest of his country. — Noah Webster
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
Following Christ, the Church seeks the truth, which is not always the same as the majority opinion. — Pope John Paul II
Betray Quotes
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
In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate. — Charles De Gaulle
She wanted me to betray you guys, and I was like, 'Pfft, right, I'm gonna listen to a face in the potty sludge'. — Rick Riordan
Europe were promised LNG by the US after cutting Russian buying. They were lied to. Electoral politics more important than a core ally. Biden pulls the LNG terminals even though Qatari LNG has to take the long route due to Red Sea attacks. Europe look like complete clowns. — Philip Pilkington
Silence is a true friend who never betrays. — Confucius
The great liberal betrayal of this generation is that in the name of liberalism, communal rights have been prioritized over individual autonomy within minority groups. And minorities within minorities really do suffer because of this betrayal. — Maajid Nawaz
The populist movement has been emerging from the left and the right. So many people have been betrayed by their leaders. They're tired of the uniparty. It's time for a leader who can give you back the America that was taken from you. — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
Pull the intestine out for the crow to eat. — Thai Proverbs
Even if we have to go without bread, we Albanians do not violate principles. We do not betray Marxism - Leninism. — Enver Hoxha
The lesser the friends, the lesser the chances of betrayal. — Tupac Shakur
Friend Betrayal Quotes
A best friend is the only one that walks into your life when the world has walked out. — Shannon Alder
If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country. — E. M. Forster
First you have nothing, and then, astonishingly, after ripping out your brain and your heart and betraying your friends and ex-lovers and dreaming like a zombie over the page till you can't see or hear or smell or taste, you have something. — T.C. Boyle
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
The friendly preacher who fails to warn of the reality of Hell, betrays the Son of God with a kiss. — Ray Comfort
Sir, if you think that I am that kind of a man, you have missed your mark. I would rather die a thousand deaths than betray a friend or be false to duty. — Sam Davis
Do not fear your enemies. The worst they can do is kill you. Do not fear friends. At worst, they may betray you. Fear those who do not care; they neither kill nor betray, but betrayal and murder exists because of their silent consent. — Bruno Jasienski
A truthful enemy is better than a deceitful friend. — Matshona Dhliwayo
Our policy is simple: We are not going to betray our friends, reward the enemies of freedom, or permit fear and retreat to become American policies — especially in this hemisphere. None of the four wars in my lifetime came about because we were too strong. — Ronald Reagan
A straw enables you to drink without using your wrist. A straw is your friend - until you lose eye contact with the straw. Then it will betray you and make you look like an idiot. — Demetri Martin
Disappointed Love Quotes
Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed. — Albert Einstein
In love, it is better to know and be disappointed, than to not know and always wonder. — Oscar Wilde
Masonic labor is purely a labor of love. He who seeks to draw Masonic wages in gold and silver will be disappointed. The wages of a Mason are in the dealings with one another; sympathy begets sympathy, kindness begets kindness, helpfulness begets helpfulness, and these are the wages of a Mason. — Benjamin Franklin
Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart. — C. S. Lewis
I would rather give full vent to all human loves and disappointments, and take a chance on being corny, than die a smartass. — Jim Harrison
The two hardest tests on the spiritual road are the patience to wait for the right moment and the courage not to be disappointed with what we encounter. — Paulo Coelho
Even if people have disappointed you or circumstances have not turned out as you had hoped or prayed, know that God is with you, cares for you, and loves you. He is working all these things together for your good right at this very moment. — Christine Caine
Faith endures as seeing Him who is invisible (Heb. 11:27); endures the disappointments, the hardships, and the heart-aches of life, by recognizing that all comes from the hand of Him who is too wise to err and too loving to be unkind. — Arthur W. Pink
It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness and of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature, and everlasting beauty of monotony. — Benjamin Britten
Basic anxiety can be roughly described as a feeling of being small, insignificant, helpless, deserted or endangered in a world that is out to abuse, cheat, humiliate, betray, envy... . And special in this is the child's feeling that the parents' love, their Christian charity, honesty, generosity ... may be only a pretense. — Karen Horney
I do here in the most solemn and bitter manner curse the Prime Minister of England [sic] for having cumulated all his other betrayals of the national interest and honour, by his last terrible exhibition of dishonour, weakness and gullibility. The depths of infamy which our accurst "love of peace" can lower us are unfathomable. — Enoch Powell
This avoidance of the difficult things of Scripture — of sinfulness and hell and God’s notable severity — is idolatrous and cowardly. If a man or a woman who teaches the Scriptures is afraid to explain to you the severity of God, they have betrayed you, and they love their ego more than they love you. — Matt Chandler
The biggest coward is a man who awakens a woman’s love with no intention of loving her. — Edward Barber
Somewhere between love and hate lies confusion, misunderstanding and desperate hope. — Shannon Alder
I'm trying to take culture and put it onstage, demonstrate it is capable of sustaining you. There is no idea that can't be contained by life: Asian life, European life, certainly black life. My plays are about love, honor, duty, betrayal - things humans have written about since the beginning of time. — August Wilson
Disappointments in love, even betrayals and losses, serve the soul at the very moment they seem in life to be tragedies. The soul is partly in time and partly in eternity. We might remember the part that resides in eternity when we feel despair over the part that is in life. — Thomas Moore
It was a mistake," you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you. — David Levithan
You can show somebody all the love in the world but that don’t mean they gonna show it back. — 21 Savage
Love is not a fire to be shut up in a soul. Everything betrays us: voice, silence, eyes; half-covered fires burn all the brighter. — Jean Racine
The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him. — Henry L. Stimson
Love is whatever you can still betray. Betrayal can only happen if you love. — John Le Carre
If I can't enjoy the full and total happiness of love, then I want to drain its torments, its tortures to the dregs; then I want the woman I love to mistreat me, betray me, and the more cruelly the better. That too is a pleasure. — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could. — Louise Erdrich
Great lovers will always be unhappy, because, for them, love is of supreme importance. Consequently they demand of their beloved the same intensity of thought as they have for her, otherwise they feel betrayed. — Cesare Pavese
As the end of the what is called the 'sexual life' the only love which has lasted is the love which has everything, every disappointment, every failure and every betrayal, which has accepted even the sad fact that in the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship. — Graham Greene
There must be love, and understanding, to betray. Most men haven't the wit or the honor for betrayal: not to know it when they see it; not the stomach to apprehend it as they do it. Most men, blind and dumb in their self-centeredness, don't betray: they merely disappoint. — Janet Morris
I have not broken your heart - you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine. — Charlotte Bronte
My love of truth and honesty forces me to notice that the liberal intelligentsia of Western countries is betraying itself where Islam is concerned. — Richard Dawkins
Anna Karenina is just a story about a woman falling in love with a bloke who is not her husband. Its gossip, rubbish - on the other hand, its the deepest story there could be about social transgression, about love, betrayal, duty, children. — Hanif Kureishi
I think given the choice between loving Mare - betrayal included - and never knowing her, I'd chose love. I risked, and I lost, but the risk was still worth it. — Brandon Sanderson
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
The zombie is in a lot of ways the perfect horror movie bad guy. It plays on so many fears all at once. The fear of predators, the fear of disease and the fear of loved ones betraying us - the ones we care about are turning around and trying to eat us. — James Gunn
Pride had kept her running when love had betrayed her. — Susan Elizabeth Phillips
For some people, a one-night stand doesn't make any difference in a seven-year love affair. I don't believe the degree of betrayal is always commensurate with the egregiousness of the behavior. They are two separate things. — Esther Perel
If he be so resolved, I can o'ersway him; for he loves to hear That unicorns may be betrayed with trees And bears with glasses, elephants with holes, Lions with toils, and men with flatterers — William Shakespeare
Love it will not betray you, dismay or enslave you, it will set you free/to be more like the man you were made to be — Marcus Mumford
Annabeth didn’t want to sleep, but her body betrayed her. Her eyelids turned to lead. “Percy, wake me for second watch. Don’t be a hero.” He gave her that smirk she’d come to love. “Who, me?” He kissed her, his lips parched and feverishly warm. “Sleep. — Rick Riordan
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