Have you ever been betrayed? Almost everyone in the world will encounter some sorts of betrayal. Perhaps the most trusted friend has betrayed you, maybe your most beloved person has betrayed you, maybe your most reliable business partner has betrayed you. In either case, you will be distressed.
Betrayal Quotes
If you have been betrayed you are probably in pain and trying to deal with it.
We hope these insightful betrayal quotes will help soothe you and help you deal with the pain of betrayal.
1.“It was a mistake,” you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you.” – David Levithan
2.“For there to be betrayal, there would have to have been trust first.” – Suzanne Collins
3.“Anyone who hasn’t experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all.” – Jean Genet
4.“In every betrayal lies a reason, and it comes with a lesson.” – Unknown
5.“Some people are in such utter darkness that they will burn you just to see a light. Try not to take it personally.” – Kamand Kojouri
6.“Betrayal is never easy to handle and there is no right way to accept it.” – Christine Feehan
7.“It’s only possible to betray where loyalty is due.” – Muriel Spark
8.“I used to advertise my loyalty and I don’t believe there is a single person I loved that I didn’t eventually betray.” – Albert Camus
9.“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
10.“Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.” – Arthur Miller
11.“Stab the body and it heals but injure the heart and the wound lasts a lifetime.” – Mineko Iwasaki
12.“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
13.“Life has taught me that you can’t control someone’s loyalty. No matter how good you are to them, doesn’t mean that they will treat you the same. No matter how much they mean to you, doesn’t mean that they’ll value you the same. Sometimes the people you love the most, turn out to be the people you can trust the least.” – Unknown
14.“Every betrayal contains a perfect moment, a coin stamped heads or tails with salvation on the other side.” – Barbara Kingsolver
15.“Betrayal is about learning not to idealize external sources.” – Linda Talley
16.“It’s hard to tell who has your back, from who has it long enough just to stab you in it….” – Nicole Richie
17.“Nothing hurts more than being disappointed by the single person you thought would never hurt you.” – Unknown
18.“Is it possible to succeed without any act of betrayal?” – Jean Renoir
19.“If you’re betrayed, release disappointment at once. By that way, the bitterness has no time to take root.” – Toba Beta
20.“Do you believe a man can truly love a woman and constantly betray her? Never mind physically but betray her in his mind, in the very “poetry of his soul”. well, it’s not easy but men do it all the time.” – Mario Puzo
21.“Love is whatever you can still betray. Betrayal can only happen if you love.” – John le Carre
22.“Sometimes the person you’d take a bullet for is behind the trigger.” – Unknown
23.“The saddest thing about betrayal is that it never comes from your enemies.” – Unknown
24.“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
25.“Betrayal can be extremely painful, but it’s up to you how much that pain damages you permanently.” – Emily V. Gordon
26.“We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.” – Tennessee Williams
27.“For me, I always wonder what’s worse: an emotional betrayal or a physical betrayal? That’s a really tough call.” – Hilarie Burton
28.“Betrayal does so many different things to people.” – Trai Byers
29.“You want to believe that there’s one relationship in life that’s beyond betrayal. A relationship that’s beyond that kind of hurt. And there isn’t.” – Caleb Carr
30.“Trust is not established in the absence of betrayal, but in those whose betrayal is least.” -Wes Fessler
31.“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
32.“Betrayal does that betrays the betrayer.” – Erica Jong
33.“You know that you have been stabbed when you feel the deep pain of betrayal.” – Les Parrott
34.“If you spend your time hoping someone will suffer the consequences for what they did to your heart, then you’re allowing them to hurt you a second time in your mind.” – Shannon L. Alder
35.“The betrayal of trust carries a heavy taboo.” – Aldrich Ames
36.“Be cautious of who is holding your quarters because as soon as they get four quarters they will change them for a dollar.” – Alexis A. Davis
37.“Sometimes blood isn’t thicker than water and family will cross you quicker than strangers.” – Unknown
38.“Don’t saw off the branch you’re sitting on.” – Unknown
39.“Betrayal come next to trust. No one is betrayed without trusting first.” – Unknown
40.“Do not believe in every words of the one who betrays you. If they really care, they will never betray in the first place.” – Unknown
41.“A mind that is pure will never think of betraying someone in life.” – Unknown
42.“Betrayal is very common nowadays. To avoid it, one must always be vigilant.” – Unknown
43.“I would rather die than be betrayed because betrayal destroys hope.” – Unknown
44.“Hypocrites speak only lies, break their own promises, and betray the trust of those who trusts him.” – Unknown
45.“We’re never so vulnerable than when we trust someone—but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.” – Walter Anderson
46.“Familial betrayal is, to me, the most heartbreaking kind – because if you can’t trust your family to love you and protect you, who can you really trust?” – Alexandra Bracken
47.“Betrayal is common for men with no conscience.” – Unknown
48.“You are going to break your promise. I understand. And I hold my hands over the ears of my heart so that I will not hate you.” – Catherynne M. Valente
49.“When you betray a friend, it is like throwing away your life too.” – Unknown
50.“You can never really enjoy something you got at the expense of somebody else’s pain.” – Unknown
51.“You should watch out for what a person does, not what he says because actions could betray lies.” – Unknown
52.“I’m not upset that you lied to me, I’m upset that from now on I can’t believe you.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
53.“Betrayal is the worst… and the key to moving past it is to identify what led up to it in the first place.” – Charles J. Orlando
54.“No one fights dirtier or more brutally than blood; only family knows its own weaknesses, the exact placement of the heart. The tragedy is that one can still live with the force of hatred, feel infuriated that once you are born to another, that kinship lasts through life and death, immutable, unchanging, no matter how great the misdeed or betrayal. Blood cannot be denied, and perhaps that’s why we fight tooth and claw, because we cannot—being only human—put asunder what God has joined together.” – Whitney Otto
55.“It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.” – Confucius
56.“There’s a sort of rage a man feels when he’s been deceived where he most trusted. It compares to no other anger.” – Orson Scott Card
57.“A dagger has only a single point, but a traitor cuts from anywhere.” – Orson Scott Card
58.“When no one you know tells the truth, you learn to see under the surface.” – Cassandra Clare
59.“I’m not really sure why. But… do you stop loving someone just because they betray you? I don’t think so. That’s what makes the betrayal hurt so much – pain, frustration, anger… and I still loved her. I still do.” – Brandon Sanderson
60.“When you betray to someone ,first you betray to yourself, who speak somewhere inside you that you are a good human.” – Mohammed Zaki Ansari
61.“Shattered legs may heal in time, but some betrayals fester and poison the soul.” – George R.R. Martin
62.“As they spoke, the only thing I could think about was that scene from Julius Caesar where Brutus stabs him in the back. Et tu, Eric?” – Nicholas Sparks
63.“Then you should have died! Died, rather than betray your friends, as we would have done for you!” – Joanne Kathleen Rowling
64.“When you care about someone, you can’t just turn that off because you learn they betrayed you.” – Paula Stokes
65.“Kill me with love but don’t love me with la lie.” – Pooja Bagul
66.“To betray you must first belong.” – Harold Philby
67.“You already got caught lying! Stop being fake and try being real for once in your life.” – Unknown
68.“I didn’t understand why he sabotaged our future at the time – cheating on me, again, as we were making final plans to move in together. By the time he came over to smooth talk his way out of it, I was done. No more crying. Even my tears had given up on him. I’d already moved on, his cheating was simply the key left in the mailbox.” – Rachel Thompson
69.“My Six Word Love Story- He’s only sorry he got caught.” – Unknown
70.“People don’t cheat because of who you are, they cheat because of who they are not.” – Unknown
71.“Accept loyalty gratefully, and accept betrayal with a smile, knowing that it teaches you life lessons.” – Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
72.“You can’t betray yourself too often, or you become somebody else.” – Unknown
73.“Betray a friend, and you’ll often find you have ruined yourself.” – Unknown
74.“Loyalty is from above, betrayal is from below.” – Unknown
75.“Betrayal dressed in love and trimmed with the facade of good intentions is the most barbaric of all betrayals.” – Craig D. Lounsbrough
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Conclusion:
Betrayals only come from trust, so if you never trusted anyone, how can you get betrayed? But if you choose to not trust anyone just because afraid of betrayal, that’s not worth the loss. This is why betrayal is so challenging because it impacts our deepest closest relationships…adn then we pull back and feel all alone.
Sound familiar?
Anyway, betrayal is ugly, but trust is virtue. Life need trust. Hope after reading above betrayal quotes will help you to become wise when you facing betrayal.
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