Betrayal Quotes

• Stab the body and it heals, but injure the heart and the wound lasts a lifetime.

  Mineko Iwasaki

  Sad, Heartbreak, Heartbroken

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• It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

  William Blake

  Friendship, Forgiveness, Depressing

  William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.251, Univ of California Press

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• To me, the thing that is worse than death is betrayal.

  Malcolm X

  Betrayed, Betraying Friends, Friend Betrayal

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• 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

  Trust, Suffering, Betrayed

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2011). “Invincible: The Chronicles of Nick”, p.123, Macmillan

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• Trust is earned, respect is given, and loyalty is demonstrated. Betrayal of any one of those is to lose all three.

  Ziad K. Abdelnour

  Loyalty, Three, Given

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• Each betrayal begins with trust.

  Martin Luther

  Phish, Betraying Friends, Friend Betrayal

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• Don’t depend too much on anyone in this world because even your own shadow leaves you when you are in darkness.

  Ibn Taymiyyah

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Islamic

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• 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

  Heartbreak, Betrayed, Abandonment

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• 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

  Fear, Ignorance, Enemy

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

  Confucius

  Friendship, Trust, Deceived Us

  "Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld, 1665-1678.

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• If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Inspiring, Thankful

  Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 16, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)

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• When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Self Improvement, Betrayed, Betraying Friends

  Interviewed in the New York Times Magazine, 3 December 1978.

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• Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.

  Arthur Miller

  Life, Heartbreak, Betrayed

  Arthur Miller (2015). “After the Fall”, p.96, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• It was a mistake," you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you.

  David Levithan

  Trust, Mistake, Betrayed

  David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.22, Macmillan

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• 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

  Love, Stories, Ends

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• Be certain that he who has betrayed thee once will betray thee again.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Betrayed, Thee, Certain

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• Anyone who hasn't experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all.

  Jean Genet

  Betrayed, Ecstasy, Knows

  Jean Genet (2003). “Prisoner of Love”, New York Review of Books

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• That was how dishonesty and betrayal started, not in big lies but in small secrets.

  Amy Tan

  Lying, Secret, Dishonesty

  Amy Tan (2001). “The Bonesetter's Daughter”, p.105, Penguin

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• 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

  Heartbreak, Pain, Emotional

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• 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 Dietz

  Heartbreak, Deceit, Betrayed

  Steven Dietz (1996). “Dracula”, p.59, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• 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

  Integrity, Tragedy, Betrayed

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• 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

  Friendship, Country, Cheating

  Two Cheers for Democracy "What I Believe" (1951)

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

  Lauren Conrad

  Years, People, Backstabbers

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• You know that you have been stabbed when you feel the deep pain of betrayal.

  Les Parrott

  Pain, Backstabbing, Feels

  Les Parrott (1996). “High-Maintenance Relationships: How to Handle Impossible People”, Tyndale House Pub

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• All a man can betray is his conscience.

  Joseph Conrad

  Men, Betrayed, Betraying Friends

  Joseph Conrad (2016). “Joseph Conrad: The Complete Novels [Nostromo, Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, The Secret Agent, etc.] (Book House)”, p.1449, Book House

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