Dealing with backstabbers, there was one thing I learned. They're only powerful when you got your back turned.
It was a mistake," you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you.
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.
All our experience with history should teach us, when we look back, how badly human wisdom is betrayed when it relies on itself
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.
No one ever really pays for betrayal in silver....The price of any betrayal always comes due in flesh.
In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.
We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
I like animals because they are not consciously cruel and don't betray each other.
One of the less attractive aspects of human nature is our tendency to hate the people we haven't treated very well; it's much easier than accepting guilt. If we can convince ourselves that the people we betrayed or enslaved were subhuman monsters in the first place, then our guilt isn't nearly so black as we secretly know that it is. Humans are very, very good at shifting blame and avoiding guilt.
So this was betrayal. It was like being left alone in the desert at dusk without water or warmth. It left your mouth dry and will broken. It sapped your tears and made you hollow.
History is not the story of heroes entirely. It is often the story of cruelty and injustice and shortsightedness. There are monsters, there is evil, there is betrayal. That's why people should read Shakespeare and Dickens as well as history ~~ they will find the best, the worst, the height of noble attainment and the depths of depravity.
If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.
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.
Affairs are loaded with romanticism, morality, mythology, and intense emotions. They're not really about sex, but about pain and fear and the desire to feel alive. They're also about betrayal.
Anyone who hasn't experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all.
You can quickly go from having passion and love to passion and hate when an act of betrayal happens.
When I was 15, I made a solo record. It made Artie very unhappy. He looked upon it as something of a betrayal.
Each man kills the thing he loves.
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.
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.
War in the end is always about betrayal, betrayal of the young by the old, of soldiers by politicians, and of idealists by cynics.
Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.
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.
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