Betrayal Quotes

There are different kinds of infidelity, but betrayal is betrayal wherever you find it.

~ Jeanette Winterson

She'd betrayed her country because she'd believed it was the right thing to do. Yet would she have done this, if not for Arin?He knew none of it. Had never asked for it. Kestrel had made her own choices. It was unfair to blame him.But she wanted to.

~ Marie Rutkoski

your facethrough the blurred visionof my disillusioned eyesmergeswith the rest of them.

~ Anna Jae

There are many ways to become mistress (or master) of one's fate after a betrayal, but they all have things in common: conscious effort and a fighting spirit, embodied in what I call 'the Affirmative No.' The Affirmative No incorporates self-enhancing outrage, independence, and courage. It is a stance through which a traumatized person actively proclaims her will by rejecting the role of victim.... Unable to change our predicaments, we actively changed their meaning and our relationship to them, and in the process, we discovered that we could exert power when we thought we had none.

~ Jeanne Safer

He tells me he can't believe how bitter he has become, how sour, that all his life he had been one of the most fun, one of the happiest, one of the most joyous people anyone knew, and now he was like a crumpled piece of steel covered in rust. The way he describes himself, a 'crumpled piece of steel covered in rust,' I don't think I'll ever forget those precise words or his voice as he said them.

~ Jacob Wren

To love without criticism is to be betrayed.

~ Djuna Barnes

How I should have raised all her terrible destruction to the surface like a shipwrecked boat dredged up from the sea floor. But that would have given the fracture a shape, a dimension--a definite perimeter to the ruin. This way has a subtle cruelty. This way will torment. She will spend years trying to map the rift she caused and sound the damage. She will push on the bruise and grow frantic trying to repair the creeping remoteness. It is the unkindest thing I have ever done. And I will not relent. I will not do otherwise.

~ Priya Parmar

But to begin again? No, Virginia. There can be no beginning again. Love and forgiveness are not the same thing.

~ Priya Parmar

Still, we're less betrayed by others, it seems, than by our own hopes and dreams.

~ Martha Moody

... sexual abuse by the mother is considered to he one of the most traumatic forms of abuse. In some ways it's the ultimate betrayal.

~ Cameron West

Sometimes we do not realize how many people give a damn until something horrible happens. And sometimes we realize that those who should give a damn, whom we counted on giving a damn, sometimes really don’t

~ Monika Basile

No one understands betrayal like the one who has been betrayed.

~ Ken Poirot

There were many forms of betrayal. Betrayal of friends. Comrades. Even life.

~ Hollow Ryan

The unknown is scary. It’s unknown for a reason. That's why normal people don't go there.

~ Geoff Green

The greatest betrayal is betraying yourself.

~ Ama H. Vanniarachchy

Because you decided I couldn't take it! I shout. You kept the truth from me because you thought I couldn't handle it. You were so wrong! I can take it straight up! That's what hurts me the most. I'm not some fragile thing that needs to be treated like a glass house. It's humiliating and it just pisses me off that you pretend like I'm not strong. I get that you're a man...you feel the need to protect me. I get that you're afraid and my strength feels dangerous to you. And you know what? It should feel that way, because it is. It's power.

~ Elisa Marie Hopkins

How did he get so terribly smart, so determined? Maybe it was the pain I'd caused that made him that way, and if that were true, then I'd sort of had a hand in it, in making him as smart and devious as he was. I was really starting to dislike the guy. But I also felt a little proud, like Dr. Frankenstein must have felt when his monster turned on him, because after all, it was Dr. Frankenstein who had made the monster strong and cunning enough to turn on him.

~ Brock Clarke

Aelin hissed, Need I remind you Captain, that you went to Endovier and did not blink at the slaves and the mass graves? Need I remind you that I was starved and chained and you let Duke Perrington force me to the ground at Dorian's feet while you did nothing? And now you have the nerve to accuse me of not caring, when many of the people in this city have profited off the blood and misery of the very people you ignored?

~ Sarah J. Maas

Never be a slave of loyalty to unloyal people.

~ Shannon L. Alder

The saddest thing about betrayal is that it never comes from your enemies.

~ Anonymous

She's cuckoo, laying her egg in my nest.

~ Paula Hawkins

I’ve made her relive, over and over, the last few days,” I say softly, watching Ms. White’s body. “I’ve had to fill in the blanks with my own feelings and experiences. She’s spiraling around those last moments, those times when she went against me, and she’s feeling it from my side, the pain, the betrayal.”She thinks she’s awake. I’m doing to her just what she did to me. I’m making her feel what it was like to slowly go crazy, to question everything. To watch my mother die. To fight for my life against my best friend. To feel the man who loved me try to kill me.To know that the woman I trusted as much as my own mother betrayed me.That’s what I’m making her feel.I’ve turned her into me, and made her live the life she forced me to live.Over and over and over again.

~ Beth Revis

Cheat, defeat, repeat.

~ Elda M. Lopez

Become careless with fire, and sure enough, fire will burn you. Do treachery, and treachery will be done you. Kill, and be punished with death. All these I've done. Now I pay the price, in my own flesh and blood.

~ Diane Duane

Betrayal means breaking ranks and going off into the unknown. Sabina knew of nothing more magnificent than going off into the unknown.

~ Milan Kundera

After he's gone Greer sits for a long time. She rests her head on her knees and weeps - not because she loved Blake and not because she's lost him. But because she did not care of herself. She knew Blake's nature the moment she met him, just as she knew the philandering fiancé. She knew them and she knew herself. Greer thinks of the story of the scorpion and the frog, and she knows she cannot blame these men for her messy life, they only did what she always knew they would do. No, this is not about crushed hopes and broken dreams. This is about trusting her own heart. Hope doesn't even enter into it.

~ Menna Van Praag

You and I were meant to be together, even if we weren't meant to be happy.

~ Stacey T. Hunt

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

~ Tennessee Williams

Don't judge my past base on my present action, remember past and present are of two different timeline

~ Aireen Pontillo

For my own piece of mind, I will forget those who have screwed me over this past year and here recently, but Aunt Karma won't forget you. Good luck with her, I heard she's a bitch!!!

~ Tammy Wooster

I am all out of forgiveness and you are all out of chances to get back into my life.

~ Trishna Damodar

He knew I betrayed him and yet he was rescuing me once again, maybe for the last time.

~ Khaled Hosseini

You're the medium Weed and I use to communicate, that's all, this set of holes, pleasantly framed, this little femme scampering back and forth with scented messages tucked in her little secret places.She was too young then to understand what he thought he was offering her, a secret about power in the world. That's what he thought it was. Brock was young then too. She only took it as some parable about his feelings for her, one she didn't exactly understand but covered for with the wide invincible gaze practiced by many sixties children, meaning nearly anything at all, useful in a lot of situations, including ignorance.

~ Thomas Pynchon

Like a sheep invited to a banquet in his honor thrown by wolves.

~ Pierce Brown

A human being who trades away individuality for conformity is nothing but a slave.

~ Auliq Ice

Weeping for other people's pain isn't true weeping if it doesn't come from deep down your heart.

~ Auliq Ice

Your enemy will always plan to destroy you in any way possible thus take care of your friends, he may use them.

~ Auliq Ice

That who sold the expensive for no price, bought the cheap with the highest price.

~ Raja Rayshouny

Memories can be hard to forget and painful to remember that those who hate us now once loved us.

~ Auliq Ice

For many years eagerly thought by your enemy to destroying your life, it's all one second of mastery for you to save your life from his deadly plans, for you to survive.

~ Auliq Ice