Betrayed Quotes - Page 6

• I think there’s a lot of threshold weeping. Like, am I doing this? Am I really wearing this out in the world? My daughter is very much like that. She will put clothes on and her clothes just make her beside herself. They make her so sad sometimes. And you do realize you feel betrayed sometimes by your own clothing. You put something on that usually protects you and makes you OK, and sometimes you’re just not fit for the world and even your best pants can’t overcome that feeling for you.

  Heidi Julavits

  Daughter, Thinking, Clothes

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• Heads will fly all over the place, others will explode by themselves, everyone will have their chance to betray, and those who don't betray will be betrayed.

  Sandro Veronesi

  Chance, Betray

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• Daily I expect to be murdered or betrayed or reduced to slavery if the occasion arises. But I fear nothing, because of the promises of heaven.

  Saint Patrick

  Heaven, Promise, Slavery

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• Lysley Tenorio is a writer of sly wit and lively invention—these are stories bursting with wonders (from monster movies and leper colonies, to faith-healers and superheroes)—but most wondrous of all is his intimate sense of character. Each story is a confession of love betrayed, told with a mournful, austere tenderness as heartbreaking as it is breathtaking.

  Peter Ho Davies

  Character, Love Is, Superhero

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• Man is a mind betrayed, not served, by his organs.

  Edmond de Goncourt

  Betrayal, Men, Mind

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• Have we come all this way, I wondered, only to be dismantled by our own technologies, to be betrayed by political connivance or the impersonal avarice of a corporation?

  Barry Lopez

  Technology, Rivers, Political

  Barry Lopez (2013). “Arctic Dreams”, p.65, Open Road Media

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• Like an enemy I knew as intimately as any friend, I came to know the nagging, constant emptiness of the incongruent life. I ignored myself and lived for people, purposes, and goals that weren't my own. I betrayed who I was and instead accepted a fictional substitute that was defined from the outside in.

  Phil McGraw

  People, Goal, Expectations

  Dr. Phil McGraw (2003). “Self Matters: Creating Your Life from the Inside Out”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• In order that all men may be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it; for no species of falsehood is more frequent than flattery, to which the coward is betrayed by fear, the dependent by interest, and the friend by tenderness: those who are neither servile nor timorous are yet desirous to bestow pleasure; and, while unjust demands of praise continue to be made, there will always be some whom hope, fear, or kindness will dispose to pay them.

  Samuel Johnson

  Kindness, Men, Order

  Samuel Johnson (1797). “The Beauties of Samuel Johnson, Etc. (A New Edition, Being the Ninth.).”, p.101

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• Jane Kindred’s THE HOUSE OF ARKHANGEL'SK dazzles with its surreal blending of worlds. Lost angel Anazakia, last survivor of her murdered family, finds herself in the hands of demons with suspect motives, betrayed by her own kind, stranded in the world of Man—21st century St. Petersburg, Russia, to be exact. Weaving startling visuals with compelling characters, Kindred reveals parallels in the two worlds that are ‘neither haphazard chance nor calculated design.’ It’s a dizzying, vibrant read.

  Lynn Flewelling

  Character, Angel, Men

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• [Judaism is] ever... mighty in wickedness... when it cursed Moses; when it hated God; when it vowed its sons to demons; when it killed the prophets, and finally when it betrayed to the Praetor and crucified our God Himself and Lord... And so glorying through all its existence in iniquity.

  Hilary of Poitiers

  Son, Wickedness, Demon

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• God does not cause our misfortunes. Some are caused by bad luck, some are caused by bad people, and some are simply an inevitable consequence of our being human and being mortal. living in a world of inflexible natural laws. The painful things that happen to us are not punishments for our misbehavior, nor are they in any way part of some grand design on God's part. Because the tragedy is not God's will, we need not feel hurt or betrayed by God when tragedy strikes. We can turn to Him for help in overcoming it, precisely because we can tell ourselves that God is as outraged by it as we are.

  Harold S. Kushner

  Hurt, Healing, Law

  Harold S Kushner (2011). “When Bad Things Happen to Good People: 20th Anniversary Edition”, p.159, Pan Macmillan

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• If you are doing a piece about somebody, even if you admire them tremendously and express that in the piece, express that admiration, if they're not used to being written about, if they're civilians, [...] they're not used to seeing themselves through other people's eyes. So you will always see them from a slightly different angle than they see themselves, and they feel a little betrayed by that.

  Joan Didion

  Eye, People, Different

  Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 3, 2006.

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• I'm afraid you gave up the right to pontificate on social mobility when you abolished educational maintenance allowance [EMA], trebled tuition fees and betrayed a generation of young people.

  Harriet Harman

  Educational, People, Generations

  "Clegg Announces Child Poverty and Social Mobility Commission" by Allegra Stratton and Hélène Mulholland, www.theguardian.com. April 05, 2011.

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• President Bush is a liar. He betrayed Nevada and he betrayed the country... All Americans should be concerned, not just because he lied to me or the people of Nevada and indeed all Americans, but because the President's decision threatens Americans' lives.

  Harry Reid

  Country, Liars, People

  "Political rift could hurt state’s Yucca fight" by Erin Neff, lasvegassun.com. March 5, 2002.

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• If you ever loved anything in your life, try to remember it. If you ever betrayed anything, pretend for a moment that you have been forgiven. If you ever feared anything, pretend for an instant that those days are gone and will never return. Buy the lie and hold to it for as long as you can. Press your familiar, whatever its name, to your breast and stroke it till it purrs.

  Roger Zelazny

  Lying, Names, Long

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• I have more compassion than if I had led a life where everything worked out exactly as I had planned or if I had never been wounded or if I had never been betrayed or I had never been harmed. I don't think I would be as good a person.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Thinking, Compassion, Would Be

  "Elizabeth Gilbert, ‘Eat, Pray, Love’ Author, On What It Takes To Get Inspired". Interview with Chantal Pierrat, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 11, 2013.

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• And look, we have young people in this country who are thirty years old living with their parents. We have young people in this country who don't have jobs, who graduate from college and are fed the lie of meritocracy. "You get a degree, you get a job." That's not happening. We have young people who have become the Zero Generation: zero hope, zero employment, zero possibilities. Do we really believe that this young generation is going to stand by and not take note of an economic system that - however it calls itself - has completely betrayed them?

  Henry Giroux

  Country, Lying, Believe

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• Some leaders of denominations are not of the Bride of Christ. They are leaders in a Church in which many have long since betrayed the Master. When they meet someone of the Underground Church, a martyr, they look at him strangely.

  Richard Wurmbrand

  Long, Leader, Church

  Richard Wurmbrand (2017). “Tortured for Christ: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.80, David C Cook

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• Those who are successfully to lead their fellow-men, should have once possessed the nobler feelings. We have all known individuals whose magnanimity was not likely to be troublesome on any occasion; but then they betrayed their own interests by unwisely omitting the consideration, that such feelings might exist in the breasts of those whom they had to guide and govern: for they themselves cannot even remember the time when in their eyes justice appeared preferable to expediency, the happiness of others to self-interest, or the welfare of a State to the advancement of a party.

  Arthur Helps

  Leadership, Party, Eye

  Sir Arthur Helps (1883). “Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd”

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• By such literalism, fundamentalism, religions betrayed the best intentions of their founders. Reducing thought to formula, replacing choice by obedience, these preachers turned the living word into dead law.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Law, Choices, Intention

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2000). “The Telling”, p.139, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There ought to be an absolute dictatorship... a dictatorship of painters... a dictatorship of one painter... to suppress all those who have betrayed us.

  Pablo Picasso

  Authority, Dictatorship, Painter

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• In the lost boyhood of Judas, Christ was betrayed.

  George William Russell

  Childhood, Boyhood, Christ

  'Germinal' (1931)

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• In our island myth this was the prescribed end of marriages like mine: the wife goes off with someone from the Cercle Sportif, outside whose gates at night the willingly betrayed husband waits in his motorcar. The circumstances were slightly.

  V. S. Naipaul

  Husband, Night, Islands

  V. S. Naipaul (2012). “The Mimic Men”, p.95, Pan Macmillan

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• Man who betrayed you once would betray you twice.

  Ken Follett

  Men, Betray

  Ken Follett (2010). “Code to Zero”, p.143, Pan Macmillan

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• Before The World Was Made If I make the lashes dark and the eyes more bright and the lips more scarlet, or ask if all be right from mirror after mirror, no vanity's displayed: I'm looking for the face I had before the world was made. What if I look upon a man as though on my beloved, and my blood be cold the while and my heart unmoved? Why should he think me cruel or that he is betrayed? I'd have him love the thing that was before the world was made.

  William Butler Yeats

  Eye, Heart, Dark

  1928 'A Woman Young and Old', part 2 'Before the World was Made', stanza 1. Collected in The Winding Stair and Other Poems (1933).

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