Betrayed Love Quotes

• Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart.

  C. S. Lewis

  Hurt, Heart, Silence

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• 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, Life, Inspiring

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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, Betrayal, Mistake

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

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• Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.

  Arthur Miller

  Life, Heartbreak, Betrayal

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

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• 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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• 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, Betrayal

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• Love is whatever you can still betray. Betrayal can only happen if you love.

  John le Carre

  Love, Betrayal, Betrayed

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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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• For there to be betrayal, there would have to have been trust first.

  Suzanne Collins

  Relationship, Trust, Betrayal

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.109, Scholastic Inc.

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• We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.

  Tennessee Williams

  Truth, Betrayal, Defense

  Camino Real (1953).

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• 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.

  Sigmund Freud

  Betrayal, Eye, Keeping Secrets

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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

  Jean Genet

  Betrayal, Betrayed, Ecstasy

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

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

  Malcolm X

  Betrayal, Betrayed, Betraying Friends

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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

  Betrayal, Integrity, Tragedy

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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, Betrayal, Betrayed

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

  Lauren Conrad

  Betrayal, Years, People

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

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Betrayal, Self Improvement, Betrayed

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

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• It's hard to tell who has your back, from who has it long enough just to stab you in it.

  Nicole Richie

  Friendship, Betrayal, Long

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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, Betrayal, Stories

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• Every betrayal contains a perfect moment, a coin stamped heads or tails with salvation on the other side.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Betrayal, Heads Or Tails, Perfect

  Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “The Poisonwood Bible”, p.311, Faber & Faber

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• Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source.

  Anais Nin

  Sad, Broken Heart, Heartbreak

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• I could never hurt him enough to make his betrayal stop hurting. And it hurts, in every part of my body.

  Veronica Roth

  Hurt, Betrayal, Body

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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, Betrayal, Suffering

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

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• Betrayal is never easy to handle and there is no right way to accept it.

  Christine Feehan

  Betrayal, Way, Easy

  Christine Feehan (2011). “Christine Feehan 5 CARPATHIAN NOVELS”, p.1150, Penguin

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• 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.

  Anna Godbersen

  Heartbreak, Betrayal, Broken

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