Betrayal Quotes - Page 12

• Even the wealthiest professional woman can be "brought down" by being in a relationship where she longs to be loved and is consistently lied to. To the degree that she trusts her male companion, lying and other forms of betrayal will most likely shatter her self-confidence and self-esteem.

  Bell Hooks

  Self Esteem, Lying, Self Confidence

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• While privacy strengthens all our bonds, secrecy weakens and damages connection. Lerner points out that we do not usually "know the emotional costs of keeping a secret" until the truth is disclosed. Usually, secrecy involves lying. And lying is always the setting for potential betrayal and violation of trust.

  Bell Hooks

  Lying, Emotional, Secret

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• We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget. We forget the loves and the betrayals alike, forget what we whispered and what we screamed, forget who we were.

  Joan Didion

  Never Forget, Forget

  Joan Didion (2006). “We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction”, Everyman's Library

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• To me, when someone wrongs you, you both share the burden of that wrongdoing - the pain of it weighs on both of you. Forgiveness, then, means choosing to bear the full weight all by yourself. Caleb's betrayal is something we both carry, and since he did it, all I've wanted is for him to take its weight away from me. I am not sure that I'm capable of shouldering it all myself - not sure that I am strong enough, or good enough.

  Veronica Roth

  Strong, Pain, Mean

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• Love has a particular trait: far from being indulgent or fickle, it has a task or purpose to fulfil: to abide. By its nature love is enduring. Again, dear friends, we catch a further glimpse of how much the Holy Spirit offers our world: love which dispels uncertainty; love which overcomes the fear of betrayal; love which carries eternity within; the true love which draws us into a unity that abides!

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Life, Love Is, Our World

  Pope Benedict XVI's Prayer Vigil with The Young People, w2.vatican.va. July 19, 2008.

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• Every happiness is the child of a separation it did not think it could survive.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Heartbreak, Children, Thinking

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2005). “In Praise of Mortality: Selections from Rainer Maria Rilke's Duino Elegies and Sonnets to Orpheus”, Riverhead Books (Hardcover)

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• Frankness invites frankness.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Trust, Truth, Honesty

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1857). “Essays: First Series”, p.215

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• All advertising, whether it lies in the field of business or of politics, will carry success by continuity and regular uniformity of application.

  Adolf Hitler

  Trust, Lying, Deception

  Adolf Hitler (1939). “Mein Kampf: Complete and Unabridged, Fully Annotated”

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• The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that, you've got it made.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Funny, Trust, Writing

  "Murphy's Law Book Two: More Reasons Why Things Go Wrong". Book by Arthur Bloch, p. 47, 1980.

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• When all else fails, tell the truth.

  Donald T. Regan

  Trust, Truth, Honesty

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• Men's minds are too ready to excuse guilt in themselves.

  Livy

  Trust, Integrity, Men

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• We are never more true to ourselves than when we are inconsistent.

  Oscar Wilde

  Trust, Integrity, Hypocrisy

  Oscar Wilde (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Illustrated)”, p.1491, Delphi Classics

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• How many times do you get to lie before you are a liar?

  Michael Josephson

  Trust, Integrity, Liars

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• For life is an expression, our unconscious actions the constant betrayal of our innermost thought. Perhaps we reveal ourselves too much in small things because we have so little of the great to conceal. The tiny incidents of daily rouitine are as much a commentary of racial ideas as the highest flight of philosophy or poetry.

  Okakura Kakuzo

  Life, Appreciation, Philosophy

  Okakura Kakuzo (2012). “The Book of Tea: Classic Edition”, p.17, Tuttle Publishing

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• In my mind, he was guilty of no error - he was chargeable with no exaggeration - he was betrayed by his fancy into no metaphor, who once said that all we see about us, Kings, Lords, and Commons, the whole machinery of the State, all the apparatus of the system, and its varied workings, end in simply bringing twelve good men into a box.

  Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux

  Kings, Men, Errors

  'Hansard' 7 February 1828, col. 131

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• 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 Fesler

  Fall, Blessing, Hands

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• I must decide if you deserve to die.

  Janet Morris

  Revenge, Responsibility, Dies

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• Her idea of who's worth what ain't mine.

  Janet Morris

  Love, Ideas, Ethics

  "Blood Ties: Thieves' World, Book 9". Edited by Robert Lynn Asprin and Lynn Abbey, 1986.

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• There are worse things than having behaved foolishly in public. There are worse things than these miniature betrayals, committed or endured or suspected; there are worse things than not being able to sleep for thinking about them. It is 5 a.m. All the worse things come stalking in and stand icily about the bed looking worse and worse and worse.

  Fleur Adcock

  Sleep, Insomnia, Thinking

  Fleur Adcock (2000). “Poems 1960-2000”, Bloodaxe Books Limited

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• I am not sure how many "sins" I would recognize in the world. Some would surely be defused by changed circumstances. But I can imagine none that is more irredeemably sinful than the betrayal, the exploitation, of the young by those who should care for them.

  Elizabeth Janeway

  Wisdom, Advice, World

  Elizabeth Janeway (1982). “Cross sections from a decade of change”, William Morrow & Co

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• Sincerity is a great but rare virtue, and we pardon to it much complaining, and the betrayal of many weaknesses.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Weakness, Complaining, Sincerity

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.369, Penguin

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• Anecdote: In a controversial way, Comedian and actor Bill Cosby sought to teach his son the pain of being lied to. Convinced his son had been dishonest regarding an issue, Cosby promised that if he told him the truth, he would not hit him. When his son did confess, Cosby did hit him. Seeing his son's shock and hurt, Cosby said he hoped this lesson had deepened his understanding of the anguish generated by a sense betrayal.

  Bill Cosby

  Hurt, Pain, Lying

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• It does not matter that only a few in each generation will grasp and achieve the full reality of man's proper stature-and the rest will betray it. It is those few that move the world and give life its meaning-and it is those few that I have always sought to address. The rest are no concern of mine; it is not me or "The Fountainhead" that they will betray: it is their own souls.

  Ayn Rand

  Life, Courage, Moving

  Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.13, Penguin

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• We feel like "Lost" deserved a real resolution, not a "snow globe, waking up in bed, it's all been a dream, cut to black" kind of ending. We thought that would be kind of a betrayal to an audience that's been on this journey for six years. We thought that was not the right ending for our show.

  Carlton Cuse

  Dream, Real, Cutting

  "Talking 'Lost' with Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse". Interview with Jen Chaney, voices.washingtonpost.com. May 20, 2010.

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• Now, after years of observation and enough courage to admit what I have observed, I try to plant peace if I do not want discord; to plant loyalty and honesty if I want to avoid betrayal and lies.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Loyalty, Honesty

  Maya Angelou (2011). “Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now”, p.44, Bantam

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