Betrayal Quotes

• 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, Suffering, Betrayed

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

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• Trust is earned, respect is given, and loyalty is demonstrated. Betrayal of any one of those is to lose all three.

  Ziad K. Abdelnour

  Loyalty, Three, Given

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

  Malcolm X

  Betrayed, Betraying Friends, Friend Betrayal

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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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• 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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• Each betrayal begins with trust.

  Martin Luther

  Phish, Betraying Friends, Friend Betrayal

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• Don’t depend too much on anyone in this world because even your own shadow leaves you when you are in darkness.

  Ibn Taymiyyah

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Islamic

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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, Betrayed, Abandonment

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• I agree with Dante, that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in a period of moral crisis maintain their neutrality. There comes a time when silence becomes betrayal.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Silence, Neutrality, Moral

  "Why I Am Opposed to the War in Vietnam". Sermon at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia, April 30, 1967.

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• The treachery of demons is nothing compared to the betrayal of an angel.

  Brenna Yovanoff

  Angel, Satanic, Demon

  Brenna Yovanoff (2012). “Smoulder”, p.242, Simon and Schuster

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• If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Inspiring, Thankful

  Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 16, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)

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

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Self Improvement, Betrayed, Betraying Friends

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

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  It's better to be hanged for loyalty than be rewarded for betrayal.

  Vladimir Putin

  Loyalty

  Putin and Yakovlev meeting again in the future, www.businessinsider.com. 2000.

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• The betrayal of trust carries a heavy taboo.

  Aldrich Ames

  Heavy, Taboo, Carrie

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• Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.

  Arthur Miller

  Life, Heartbreak, Betrayed

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

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• That was how dishonesty and betrayal started, not in big lies but in small secrets.

  Amy Tan

  Lying, Secret, Dishonesty

  Amy Tan (2001). “The Bonesetter's Daughter”, p.105, Penguin

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• It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

  Confucius

  Friendship, Trust, Deceived Us

  "Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld, 1665-1678.

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• Do not fear your enemies. The worst they can do is kill you. Do not fear friends. At worst, they may betray you. Fear those who do not care; they neither kill nor betray, but betrayal and murder exists because of their silent consent.

  Bruno Jasienski

  Fear, Ignorance, Enemy

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

  John le Carre

  Love, Betrayed, Love Is

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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 have never known a more vulgar expression of betrayal and deceit.

  Lucien Bouchard

  Expression, Hype, Deceit

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• Betrayal betrays the betrayer.

  Erica Jong

  Betrayed, Betray

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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, Long, 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

  Years, People, Backstabbers

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• Be certain that he who has betrayed thee once will betray thee again.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Betrayed, Thee, Certain

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