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
What greater wound is there than a false friend? — Sophocles
The lesser the friends, the lesser the chances of betrayal. — Tupac Shakur
A good friend will always stab you in the front. — Oscar Wilde
What are friends? Friends are people you think are your friends but they really your enemies, with secret identities. — Eminem
Being betrayed is one of the most valuable lessons life can teach. — Shania Twain
Friend Betrayal 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 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
Silence is the true friend that never betrays. — Confucius
Silence is a true friend who never betrays. — Confucius
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
To me, the thing that is worse than death is betrayal. — Malcolm X
Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful. — Aesop
A best friend is the only one that walks into your life when the world has walked out. — Shannon Alder
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
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
Betraying Friends Quotes
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
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
All a man can betray is his conscience. — Joseph Conrad
A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.
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
Intelligent people tend to have less friends than the average person. The smarter you are, the more selevtive you become.
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
Being Betrayed Quotes
It's better to be hanged for loyalty than be rewarded for betrayal. — Vladimir Putin
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
Be with those who bring out the best in you, not the stress in you.
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
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
I know not what treason is, if sapping and betraying the liberties of a people be not treason. — Cato the Younger
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
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
Disappointment In Friends Quotes
If friends disappoint you over and over, that's in large part your own fault. Once someone has shown a tendency to be self-centered, you need to recognize that and take care of yourself; people aren't going to change simply because you want them to. — Oprah Winfrey
Look. I have a strategy. Why expect anything? If you don’t expect anything, you don’t get disappointed. — Patricia McCormick
An important day in a young person's life is the day on which he becomes convinced that Christ is the only Friend who will not disappoint him, on which he can always count. — Pope John Paul II
Two things you will never have to chase: true friends and true love.
As sure as water's wet and days are long and a friend will always disappoint you in the end. — Neil Gaiman
Expect nothing and accept everything and you will never be disappointed. — Laurence Overmire
A large proportion of my best friends are a little bit crazy. ... I try to be cautious with my friends who are too sane. Depression is itself destructive, and it breeds destructive impulses: I am easily disappointed in people who don't get it. — Andrew Solomon
One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
Disappointment, defeat, and despair are the tools God uses to show us the way. — Paulo Coelho
If I am to meet with a disappointment, the sooner I know it, the more of life I shall have to wear it off. — Thomas Jefferson
If you expect nothing, you can never be disappointed. — Tonya Hurley
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
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.
I'd rather betray the world than let the world betray me. — Cao Cao
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
The betrayal of trust carries a heavy taboo. — Aldrich Ames
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
Friends Turn Into Enemies Quotes
If you treat people with dignity, respect and friendliness, you can turn enemies into friends. An enemy is nothing but a friend in disguise. — Ted Turner
It pays to know the enemy -- not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend. — Margaret Thatcher
Kindness can turn the bad man's heart, and fools convert to wise, Make poison into nectar-juice, and friends of enemies. — Bhartrhari
What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him. — Seneca The Elder
Promises may fit the friends, but non-performance will turn them into enemies. — Benjamin Franklin
What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him. — Seneca
Machiavelli is right: one always must live with one's friends with the idea that they may turn into one's enemies. He should have said, with everyone. — Napoleon Bonaparte
When came the invasion of privacy.That kind of thing turns the newspaper from a friendly organ - not necessarily appeasing everybody - into the enemy. It's one reason why newspapers have suffered circulation falls. — Harold Evans
Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day. — Bill Vaughan
Love Betrayal Quotes
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
Even though we are deceived, still believe. Though we are betrayed, still forgive. Love completely even those who hate you. — Sun Myung Moon
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
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
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
Friend Deceive Quotes
It is not hard to deceive ministers, relatives and friends. But it is impossible to deceive Christ. — J. C. Ryle
A friend’s slap has honest intentions, your enemies’ kisses are meant to deceive. — Swedish Proverbs
Diplomacy means the art of nearly deceiving all your friends, but not quite deceiving all your enemies. — Kofi Busia
Diplomacy means the art of nearly deceiving all your friends, but not quite deceiving all your enemies. — Kofi Abrefa Busia
Abhor flatterers as you would deceivers; for both, if trusted, injure those who trust them. If you admit as friends men who seek your favor for the lowest ends, your life will be lacking in friends who will risk your displeasure for the highest good. — Isocrates
There is nothing that deceives us more than our own judgment when used to give an opinion on our own works. It is sound in judging the work of our enemies but not that of our friends, for hate and love are two of the most powerfully motivating factors found among living things. — Leonardo da Vinci
Propaganda is that branch of the art of lying which consists in nearly deceiving your friends without quite deceiving your enemies. — Francis Cornford
Should anyone attempt to deceive you by false expressions, and not be a true friend at heart, act in the same manner, and thus art will defeat art. [If you would catch a man let him think he is catching you.] — Cato the Younger
I know that I have had friends who would never have vexed or betrayed me, if they had walked on all fours. — Horace Walpole
It's hard to tell who has your back, from who has it long enough just to stab you in it. — Nicole Richie
Like an enemy I knew as intimately as any friend, I came to know the nagging, constant emptiness of the incongruent life. I ignored myself and lived for people, purposes, and goals that weren't my own. I betrayed who I was and instead accepted a fictional substitute that was defined from the outside in. — Phil McGraw
You're growing and changing, and eventually, you can go from having all these friends to feeling like you have no one, because you've been betrayed, or you've gone through things. But in this moment, I'm in such a good place with my friends. I feel confident and I'm happy there are people who I can truly trust in my life. — Selena Gomez
Those who cannot conceive of Friendship as a substantive love but only as a disguise or elaboration of Eros betray the fact that they have never had a Friend. — C. S. Lewis
What was there to be gained by fighting the most evil wizard who has ever existed?" said Black, with a terrible fury in his face. "Only innocent lives, Peter!" "You don't understand!" whined Pettigrew. "He would have killed me, Sirius!" "THEN YOU SHOULD HAVE DIED!" roared Black. "DIED RATHER THAN BETRAY YOUR FRIENDS, AS WE WOULD HAVE DONE FOR YOU! — J. K. Rowling
I think all women have a friend who at some point dumped them or betrayed them or deeply disappointed them. And at the same time all women have a friend who they dumped or betrayed or hurt in some way. That's universal in women's friendships. — Lisa See
With me being in so many pain from when you have a betrayal from your best friend - who was my husband - and the girl got pregnant, I couldn't even get out of bed. The only thing that saved me was my stand-up. I would get on stage and just talk about stuff, and I made people laugh. A lot of women e-mail me and say, 'How do you smile? How do you laugh at something like this?' That's how I do it. I laugh because that's how I get through pain. — Sherri Shepherd
Those South Africans who berate me for being loyal to our friends, literally they can go and throw themselves into a pool. I am not going to betray the trust of those who helped us. — Nelson Mandela
Let yourself feel good again, laugh with friends, have fun. Living your life to the full is not betrayal of a memory but fulfillment of a promise to someone who would want only the best for you. — Karen Katafiasz
A man who sells his conscience for his interest will sell it for his pleasure. A man who will betray his country will betray his friend. — Maria Edgeworth
I sorrowfully acknowledge that seven years ago.... I was wickedly manipulated by treacherous former friends and colleagues who victimized me with the aid of a female confederate. They conspired to betray me into a sexual encounter at a time of great stress in my marital life.... I was set up as part of a scheme to co-opt me and obtain some advantage for themselves over me in connection with their hope for position in the ministry. — Jim Bakker
The Kingdom is to be in the midst of your enemies. And he who will not suffer this does not want to be of the Kingdom of Christ; he wants to be among friends, to sit among roses and lilies, not with the bad people but the devout people. O you blasphemers and betrayers of Christ! If Christ had done what you are doing, who would ever have been spared? — Martin Luther
He who loves his enemies betrays his friends; this surely is not what Jesus meant. — William Blake
No. Take the heart first. Then you don't feel the cold so much. The pain so much. With the heart gone, there's no reason to stay your hand. Your eyes can look on death and not tremble. It's the heart that betrays us, makes us weep, makes us bury our friends when we should be marching ahead. It's the heart that sickens us at night and makes us hate who we are. It's the heart that sings old songs and brings memories of warm days. — Jeanette Winterson
To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart. Anger is only one letter short of danger. If someone betrays you once, it is his fault; if he betrays you twice, it is your fault. Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. He who loses money, loses much; he who loses a friend, loses much more; he who loses faith, loses all. — Eleanor Roosevelt
I miss God. I miss the company of someone utterly loyal. I still don't think of God as my betrayer. The servants of God, yes, but servants by their very nature betray. I miss God who was my friend. I don't even know if God exists, but I do know that if God is your emotional role model, very few human relationships will match up to it. — Jeanette Winterson
I have some questions about betrayal,” I said. “Think about this: A person who calls you his best friend, and says he has dinner plans with you, goes off with a beautiful woman, saying he’ll be back directly, then makes you wait half an hour because he’s kissing the woman in the alley. Is that betrayal?” “Oh, Lord.” Eldric tossed back his wine. — Franny Billingsley
Then I saw it, and it just grabbed me. That moment, that breath just before destiny, between innocence and power. He'll pull the sword free. You know it. And in that moment, the world changes. Camelot's born, Arthur's fate is sealed. He'll unite a people, be betrayed by a woman and a friend, and sire the man who'll kill him. In this moment, he's a boy. In the next he'll be a king. — Nora Roberts
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