Betrayed Quotes - Page 15

• We were made to believe / our faces betrayed us. / Our bodies were loud / with yellow / screaming flesh / needing to be silenced / behind barbed wire.

  Janice Mirikitani

  War, Believe, Yellow

  Janice Mirikitani (1995). “We, the Dangerous: New and Selected Poems”, Ten Speed Press

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• I have yet to meet a person who has not felt betrayed.

  Caroline Myss

  Persons, Felt

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• Such as are betrayed by their easy nature to be ordinary security for their friends leave so little to themselves, as their liberty remains ever after arbitrary at the will of others; experience having recorded many, whom their fathers had left elbowroom enough, that by suretyship have expired in a dungeon.

  Frances Osborne

  Father, Liberty, Ordinary

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• It's a taboo subject. How the dead are betrayed by the living. We who are living--we who have survived--understand that our guilt is what links us to the dead. At all times we can hear them calling to us, a growing incredulity in their voices, You will not forget me -- will you? How can you forget me? I have no one but you.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Voice, Guilt, Calling

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• Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Anger, Interesting, Understanding

  "Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects".

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• We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Anger, Abuse, Imperfect

  Mahatma Gandhi (1947). “Teachings of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• I think all women have a friend who at some point dumped them or betrayed them or deeply disappointed them. And at the same time all women have a friend who they dumped or betrayed or hurt in some way. That's universal in women's friendships.

  Lisa See

  Hurt, Thinking, Way

  "Lisa See: Best-selling Author Talks Female Friendships, Adapting Her Novel To Film". Interview with Lucas Kavner, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 12, 2011.

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• Being betrayed is one of the most valuable lessons life can teach.

  Shania Twain

  Life Lesson, Lessons, Teach

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

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• Very well." He sat cross-legged on the floor of the cage. "You haven't run off so you want to talk. I will hear your explanation now." "Really, Your Majesty? So good of you to condescend. I'll try to use small words and go slow." "You're wasting my time. I know Jim betrayed me and you're covering for him. This is your chance to dazzle me wih your brillance or baffle me with your bullshit. You won't get another. When I get out, I won't be in the mood to listen.

  Ilona Andrews

  Running, Bullshit, Trying

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• You did not so much mind being -conventionally- betrayed, if you were not kept in the dark, which was humiliating, or defined only as a wife and dependent person, which was annihilating.

  A. S. Byatt

  Dark, Wife, Mind

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• how hard you worked for what you wanted. how cruelly fate betrayed you in the end.

  Lauren Kate

  Fate, Ends, Wanted

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• Love does not last forever, then?" "He asked me the same thing this morning," she said. "No, it does not - not love that has been betrayed. One realizes that one has loved a mirage, someone who never really existed. Not that love dies immediately or soon, even then. But it does die and cannot be revived.

  Mary Balogh

  Morning, Forever, Lasts

  Mary Balogh (2008). “Simply Perfect”, p.224, Delacorte Press

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• Let truth be told - women do as a rule live through such humiliations, and regain their spirits, and again look about them with an interested eye. While there's life there's hope is a connviction not so entirely unknown to the "betrayed" as some amiable theorists would have us believe.

  Thomas Hardy

  Believe, Eye, Looks

  Thomas Hardy (2016). “Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Diversion Classics)”, p.131, Diversion Books

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• Have you ever experienced a pain so sharp in your heart that it's all you can do to take a breath? It's a pain you wouldn't wish on your worst enemy; you wouldn't want to pass it on to anyone else for fear he or she might not be able to bear it. It's the pain of being betrayed by a person with whom you've fallen in love. It's not as serious as death, but it feels a whole lot like it, and as I've come to learn, pain is pain any way you slice it.

  Chelsea Handler

  Funny, Pain, Heart

  Chelsea Handler (2014). “My Horizontal Life”, p.29, Random House

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• Many who know something but not enough about dreams and their meaning...are liable to succumb to the prejudice that the dream actually has a moral purpose, that it warns, rebukes, comforts, foretells the future, etc. If one believes that the unconscious always knows best, one can easily be betrayed into leaving the dreams to take the necessary decisions, and is then disappointed when the dreams become more and more trivial and meaningless...The unconscious functions satisfactorily only when the conscious mind fufills its task to the very limit.

  Carl Jung

  Dream, Believe, Decision

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• The gentle mind by gentle deeds is known,
  For a man by nothing is so well betrayed
  As by his manners.

  Edmund Spenser

  Men, Mind, Deeds

  'The Faerie Queen' (1596) bk. 6, canto 3, st. 1

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• God has abandoned you. Fear does not serve you. Your heart has betrayed you. Only the music can guide you.

  Noah Levine

  Heart, Doe, Abandoned

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• You have suffered grievously and I am truly sorry. I know that nothing can undo the wrong you have endured. Your trust has been betrayed and your dignity has been violated.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Sorry, Abuse, Church

  "Pope Benedict's apology" by Andrew Brown, www.theguardian.com. March 20, 2010.

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• We each have been betrayed. Let yourself picture and remember the many ways this is true. Feel the sorrow you have carried from this past. Now sense that you can release this burden of pain by gradually extending forgiveness as your heart is ready.

  Jack Kornfield

  Pain, Heart, Past

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• The Blood She Betrayed is unique, and Shahkara, the character, is one of the most engaging strong female role models I’ve seen in a long time. This girl can handle herself! The plot is full of ingenious twists, turns and surprises, and I look forward to reading the next book in the series.

  L. J. Smith

  Girl, Strong, Book

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• Nothing brings out the lower traits of human nature like office-seeking. Men of good character and impulses are betrayed by it into all sorts of meanness.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Character, Men, Office

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• One's sentiments -- call them that -- one's fidelities are so instinctive that one hardly knows they exist: only when they are betrayed or, worse still, when one betrays them does one realize their power.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Doe, Realizing, Fidelity

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• Larry Silverstein has betrayed the public's trust and that of all New Yorkers.

  George Pataki

  Silverstein, Larry, New Yorkers

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• I feel betrayed by own mother.

  Aaron Carter

  Mother, Feels

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• I am not unaware that leaders betray, and sell out, and play false.

  Mother Jones

  Betrayal, Play, Leader

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