Betrayal Quotes - Page 22

• 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

  Heartbreak, Destiny, Thrones

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• Heartbreak has an archetypal core, all heartbroken individuals suffer from the same kind of torture.

  Ginette Paris

  Heartbreak, Heartbroken, Suffering

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• To bow to the fact of our life's sorrows and betrayals is to accept them; and from this deep gesture we discover that all life is workable. As we learn to bow, we discover that the heart holds more freedom and compassion than we could imagine.

  Jack Kornfield

  Heart, Compassion, Sorrow

  Jack Kornfield (2008). “After The Ecstasy, The Laundry”, p.11, Random House

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• I think that the greatest betrayal that a revolutionary can participate in is to become like the people you are struggling against. To become like your persecutors. I think that is a betrayal and a sin.

  Assata Shakur

  Struggle, Thinking, People

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  A promise made is a debt unpaid.

  Robert W. Service

  Trust, Truth, Honesty

  Songs of a Sourdough (1907) "Cremation of Sam McGee"

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• There are betrayals in war that are childlike compared with our human betrayals during peace. The new lovers enter the habits of the other. Things are smashed, revealed in a new light. This is done with nervous or tender sentences, although the heart is an organ of fire.

  Michael Ondaatje

  War, Heart, Fire

  FaceBook post by Michael Ondaatje from Nov 22, 2015

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• The Bible is not a book for the faint of heart -- it is a book full of all the greed and glory and violence and tenderness and sex and betrayal that befits mankind. It is not the collection of pretty little anecdotes mouthed by pious little church mice -- it does not so much nibble at our shoe leather as it cuts to the heart and splits the marrow from the bone. It does not give us answers fitted to our small-minded questions, but truth that goes beyond what we even know to ask.

  Rich Mullins

  Sex, Book, Heart

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• The recent statement of your executive committee are the sentiments of my own heart and I found myself in full accord when I read its opening lines: "A time comes when silence is betrayal." That time has come for us in relation to Vietnam. Some of us who have already begun to break the silence of the night have found that the calling to speak is often a vocation of agony, but we must speak. We must speak with all the humility that is appropriate to our limited vision, but we must speak.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Night, Agony, Silence

  "A Time to Break Silence". Speech at a meeting of Clergy and Laity Concerned at Riverside Church in New York City, www.deanza.edu. April 04, 1967.

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• I would never betray a friend to serve a cause. Never reject a friend to help an institution. Great nations may fall in ruin before I would sell a friend to save them.

  Edward Abbey

  Friendship, Fall, May

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.15, RosettaBooks

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• Not the shadow of a doubt crossed my mind of the purpose for which the Count had left the theatre. His escape from us, that evening, was beyond all question the preliminary only to his escape from London. The mark of the Brotherhood was on his arm-I felt as certain of it as if he had shown me the brand; and the betrayal of the Brotherhood was on his conscience-I had seen it in his recognition of Pesca.

  Wilkie Collins

  Mind, Brotherhood, Doubt

  Wilkie Collins (1873). “The Woman in White: A Novel”, p.509

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• Those who have come here to hate should leave now; for in their hate, they only betray themselves.

  Terry Goodkind

  Hate, Leave Me Alone, Complacency

  Terry Goodkind (2015). “Confessor”, p.476, Head of Zeus

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• There's nothing like a deadline to get the old blood flowing. All the juices, really. It doesn't follow, if you think about it. You'd assume certain things ... certain activities ... would become unimportant. Certain betrayals would become unbearable. But they don't really. In fact, quite the opposite. Everything takes on a new light. The impossible becomes possible, desirable even. It's quite remarkable.

  Walter Wykes

  Thinking, Opposites, Light

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• Never underestimate the totality of chaos and betrayal that comes through currency debasement.

  James Cook

  Chaos, Underestimate, Currency

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• The sadness of the end of a career of an older athlete, with the betrayal of his body, is mirrored in the rest of us. Consciously or not, we know: there, soon, go I.

  Ira Berkow

  Athlete, Sadness, Careers

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• He who has loved and who betrays love does harm not only to the image of the past, but to the past itself.

  Theodor Adorno

  Past, Doe, Betrayed

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.166, Verso

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• One has to endure betrayal and disloyalty and, hardest of all , another person's excellence of character or intellect

  Sándor Márai

  Character, Excellence, Disloyalty

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• 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

  Girl, Pain, Husband

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Anyone who promises that everything can be made the way it used to be with the recipes of the past betrays in reality the people he claims to represent. We must never participate in this betrayal and we must never allow this betrayal.

  Matthias Platzeck

  Past, Reality, People

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• Unless you make allowances for your friends foibles, you betray your own.

  Publilius Syrus

  Friendship, Allowance, Foibles

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• I'm a moderate and a centrist. That means I get flak from both sides. The upside is that I can vote for either party whenever I feel like it without any sense of obligation or betrayal.

  Michael Totten

  Party, Mean, Sides

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• There's a kind of perverseness or betrayal in that idea that art is somehow superior to life. Or that it's more important to write well than it is to take out the garbage.

  Matthew Specktor

  Art, Writing, Ideas

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The moral nihilism of celebrity culture is played out on reality television shows, most of which encourage a dark voyeurism into other people's humiliation, pain, weakness, and betrayal.

  Chris Hedges

  Pain, Dark, Reality

  Chris Hedges (2014). “Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle”, p.30, Nation Books

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• My highest achievement: never shutting my heart down. Even in my darkest moments - through sexual abuse, a pregnancy at 14, lies and betrayals - I remained faithful, hopeful, and open to seeing the best in people, regardless of whether they were showing me their worst. I stayed open to believing that no matter how hard the climb, there is always a way to let in a sliver of light to illuminate the path forward.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Lying, Believe, Pregnancy

  "Oprah On Turning 60: ‘Every Day And Every Breath Is Magic’" by Oprah Winfrey, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 29, 2014.

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• Sleep is the most moronic fraternity in the world, with the heaviest dues and the crudest rituals. It is a mental torture I find debasing... I simply cannot get used to the nightly betrayal of reason, humanity, genius.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Sleep, Humanity, Genius

  Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1989). “Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited”

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• Self interest determines loyalty or betrayal.

  James Cook

  Loyalty, Self, Interest

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