Betrayal is the worst and weakest act of humans. It is even worse than killing someone physically. It hurts like the dickens and not only burns like hell but also leaves you in a state of insecurity, loneliness, and shock. It is like that chronic wound that stays with you till the very end making you weaker at every passing moment.
People who betray are worse than the ones who kill because they not only kill the lively and active soul of someone but also the trust, the respect, and the love of that person. Betrayal just does not happen, it is a person’s own choice. It is never a solution neither a reason nor a reaction to any problem. No matter the circumstances, there is no explanation and no justification for the acts of cheating, deceiving, or betraying someone.
The true meanings of betrayal, the suffering, and the pain of betrayal can be felt very strongly from some of these famous quotes.
The betrayal of trust carries a heavy taboo.
Aldrich Ames
There must be love, and understanding, to betray. Most men haven’t the wit or the honor for betrayal: not to know it when they see it; not the stomach to apprehend it as they do it. Most men, blind and dumb in their self-centeredness, don’t betray: they merely disappoint.
Janet Morris
They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond first. All a man can betray is his conscience.
Joseph Conrad
It’s hard to tell who has your back, from who has it long enough just to stab you in it.
Nicole Richie
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
Breaking someone’s trust is like crumpling up a perfect piece of paper. You can smooth it over but it’s never going to be the same again.
Unknown
All a man can betray is his conscience.
Joseph Conrad
Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.
Arthur Miller
Anyone can betray anyone.
Victoria Aveyard
“Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn’t matter; only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you-that would be the real betrayal.”
George Orwell
“The worst kind of hurt is betrayal because it means that someone will willing to hurt you just to make themselves feel better.”
Unknown
“The jungle is shut to me, and I must forget your talk and your companionship, but I will be more merciful than ye are. Because I was all but your brother in blood, I promise that when I am a man among men I will not betray ye to men as ye have betrayed me.”
Rudyard Kipling
“Not everyone who comes into your life in the name of saving you will save you. Some come just to save themselves.”
Akshay Vasu
“Nothing hurts more than being disappointed by the single person you thought would never hurt you.”
Unknown
Margaret Atwood
“The moment of betrayal is the worst, the moment when you know beyond any doubt that you’ve been betrayed: that some other human being has wished you that much evil.”
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“Betrayal is common for men with no conscience.”
Toba Beta
“For there to be betrayal, there would have to have been trust first.”
Suzanne Collins
“I’m not mad, I’m hurt. There’s a difference.”
Unknown
“Betrayal is never easy to handle and there is no right way to accept it.”
Christine Feehan
“He who trusts the world, the world betrays him.”
Ali Ibn Abi Talib AS
Trust, once lost, could not be easily found. Not in a year, perhaps not even in a lifetime
J.E.B. Spredemann
Shattered legs may heal in time, but some betrayals fester and poison the soul
George R.R. Martin
Forgive yourself for the blindness that lets others betray you. Sometimes a good heart doesn’t see the bad.
Unknown
Bittersweet? No, just bitter, the taste of your tongue. Words you can’t have back, so they linger
Coco J. Ginger
If your voice is heard by more people because you have earned some kind of name and fame, your silence on an issue of urgent moral importance is even more of a betrayal. Privilege is an obligation
Ursula K. Le Guin
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People are always fascinated by infidelity because, in the end – whether we’ve had direct experience or not – there’s part of you that knows there’s absolutely no more piercing betrayal. People are undone by it
Junot Diaz
Tragedy in life normally comes with betrayal and compromise, and trading on your integrity and not having dignity in life. That’s really where failure comes
Tom Cochrane
We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal
Tennessee Williams
Naturally, when one makes progressive steps, there may be some who see it as a betrayal of their goals and interests
Louis Farrakhan
Don’t be sorry I trusted you. My mistake, not yours
Unknown
There are three signs of a hypocrite: when he speaks he speaks lies when he makes a promise he breaks it, and when he is trusted he betrays his trust
Muhammad
You can’t betray yourself too often, or you become somebody else
Ed Harris
There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The thorn from the bush one has planted, nourished, and pruned pricks more deeply and draws more blood
Maya Angelou
Grow a thick skin – a very thick skin. And watch your back. For every back, there is a knife
Lily Chatterjee
For me, I always wonder what’s worse: an emotional betrayal or a physical betrayal? That’s a really tough call
Hilarie Burton
Trust is earned, respect is given, and loyalty is demonstrated. Betrayal of any one of those is to lose all three
Ziad K. Abdelnour
Is it possible to succeed without any act of betrayal?
Jean Renoir
Anyone who hasn’t experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all
Jean Genet
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
Trust can take years to build, but only a second to break
Unknown
Backstabbers specialize in saying the wrong thing at the wrong time to the wrong person
Les Parrott
Just because they say they’re praying for you in your face, doesn’t mean they aren’t laughing at your struggle behind your back
Trent Shelton
Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee
William Penn
Dealing with backstabbers, there was one thing I learned. They are only powerful when you got your back turned
Eminem
Even as your body betrays you, your mind denies it
Sara Gruen
Fool me once, shame on me. Fool me twice, I deserved to get fucked over
Derekica Snake
Every betrayal contains a perfect moment, a coin stamped heads or tails with salvation on the other side
Barbara Kingsolver
We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal
Tennessee Williams
All our experience with history should teach us, when we look back, how badly human wisdom is betrayed when it relies on itself
Martin Luther
Love Betrayal Quotes
Love is the most beautiful and warmest sentiment. It has such a strong power that can make anyone’s life full of colors, joy, and liveliness. We experience love in so many ways, the love of a mother, love of family, love of friends, but the most intimate of all is the love we feel towards our partners, our soulmates, and our better halves.
They are the ones for whom we dedicate our entire attention, trust, respect, and care. These are the ones around whom our lives revolve.
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But when the betrayal comes from them we are left with nothing but insecurity and hate. Experiencing betrayal from your loved one is the worst of all. It leaves an empty hole inside your heart for a lifetime. These quotes depict the true feelings of betrayal in love.
Rather than writing about international events, I write about individual lives. There are elation and sadness, death and birth, love and jealousy, co-operation, and betrayal. All the great emotional transactions that happen wherever people come together
Tom Drury
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
When you loved someone and had to let them go, there will always be that small part of yourself that whispers, “What was it that you wanted and why didn’t you fight for it?
Shannon L. Alder
Stab the body and it heals, but injure the heart and the wound lasts a lifetime
Mineko Iwasaki
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
Yet each man kills the thing he loves
Oscar Wilde
By each let this be heard
Some do it with a bitter look
Some with a flattering word
The coward does it with a kiss
The brave man with a sword
Love is not something we give or get; it is something that we nurture and grow, a connection that can only be cultivated between two people when it exists within each one of them – we can only love others as much as we love ourselves. Shame, blame, disrespect, betrayal, and the withholding of affection damage the roots from which love grows. Love can only survive these injuries if they are acknowledged, healed, and rare
Brené Brown
“I’m not crying because of you; you’re not worth it. I’m crying because my delusion of who you were was shattered by the truth of who you are.”
Steve Maraboli
Love is whatever you can still betray. Betrayal can only happen if you love
John le Carre
Two people who were once very close can without blame or grand betrayal become strangers. Perhaps this is the saddest thing in the world
Warsan Shire
I didn’t fall in love with you, I fell in love with the person you pretended to be
Unknown
Betrayal answers betrayal, the mask of love is answered by the disappearance of love.
Albert Camus
Love and marriage are wonderful arenas in which to place a character. We are most likely to risk our morals and beliefs while in love. Betrayal gives tremendous insights into a character as well
Anita Shreve
Betrayal is one of my biggest fears. Betrayal happens on many different levels all the time, and there is no worse feeling than realizing someone you thought you could trust has gone against you
Katie Lee
Sometimes the people closest to you betray you, and your home isn’t a place you can be happy anymore
Kristin Cast
Betrayal is so emotionally charged because the act of betrayal violates a couple’s core agreement- the promise to care for each other and keep each other safe
Unknown
That was how dishonesty and betrayal started, not in big lies but in small secrets
Amy Tan
Sometimes you don’t need to hear their excuses or what they have to say for themselves because their actions already spoke the truth
Unknown
My first language had no word for betrayal or traitor. Or even loyalty—because without the existence of the opposite, the concept had no meaning
Stephenie Meyer
There are betrayals in a war that are childlike compared with our human betrayals during peace. The new lover enters the habits of the other. Things are smashed, revealed in a new light. This is done with nervous or tender sentences, although the heart is an organ of fire
Michael Ondaatje
Pride had kept her running when love had betrayed her
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
When you care about someone, you can’t just turn that off because you learn they betrayed you
Paula Stokes
It was never my enemies I had to watch out for. It was the ones screaming I love you.
Unknown
I could never hurt him enough to make his betrayal stop hurting. And it hurts, in every part of my body
Veronica Roth
All love is betrayal, in that it flatters life. The loveless man is the best armed
John Updike
I knew that what I was seeking to discover was a thing I’d always known. That all courage was a form of constancy. That it was always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this, all other betrayals came easily
Cormac McCarthy
Betrayal doesn’t only break your heart but also darkens your soul. You’ll never forget the pain like a fog that forever lingers in the depths of your mind
Unknown
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
It’s very easy to get a boy to leave the room. It’s much harder to get him to leave your thoughts
Elizabeth Eulberg
What had seemed like love was a betrayal
Unknown
Even loss and betrayal can bring us awakening
Buddha
He, who had done more than any human being to draw her out of the caves of her secret, folded life, now threw her down into deeper recesses of fear and doubt. The fall was greater than she had ever known because she had ventured so far into emotion and had abandoned herself to it
Anais Nin
When you’re out of sight for as long as I was, there’s a funny feeling of betrayal that comes over people when they see you again
Esther Williams
The worst feeling is feeling unwanted by the person you want the most
Unknown
Love is understood, in a historical way, as one of the great human vocations – but its counterspell has always been infidelity. This terrible, terrible betrayal that can tear apart not only another person, not only oneself but whole families
Junot Diaz
Let’s call cheating what it is; a complete betrayal of trust
Unknown
I don’t hate you I am just disappointed you turned into everything you said you’d never be
Unknown
When no one you know tells the truth, you learn to see under the surface
Cassandra Clare
Those who don’t know the value of loyalty can never appreciate the cost of betrayal
Unknown
It is difficult to cultivate a healthy relationship in a landscape overgrown with blame, lack of trust, and betrayal
Saji Ijiyemi
Never believe a liar’s truth, a cheater’s answers, or a player’s love
Unknown
She is in love with the way he used to be. She is in love with the person he never truly was
R.H Sin
There are only really a few stories to tell in the end, and betrayal and the failure of love is one of those good stories to tell
Sean Lennon
You made me feel that you really like me. And then you just left, just like it was nothing
Unknown
You want to believe that there’s one relationship in life that’s beyond betrayal. A relationship that’s beyond that kind of love. And there isn’t
Caleb Carr
You knew what you were doing and you know it would hurt me but somehow it still didn’t stop you
Unknown
She would see it as a betrayal. Nothing more. Nothing less.
Samantha Young
Forgiveness doesn’t excuse their behavior. Forgiveness prevents their behavior from destroying your heart.
Unknown
It’s effortless to let go of self-absorbed people. It’s challenging to let go of someone you care about and it’s exceedingly difficult to let go of an idea and a belief in someone because what exacerbates the disappointment of finding out they weren’t who they presented themselves to be, is the betrayal of it
Donna Lynn Hope
I may be many things, and there are even more I am not, but I would never do to you what you did to me, and I think that says a lot
Jessica Katoff
Friendship Betrayal Quotes
Friends are the people whom you trust blindly and those whom you can’t doubt even for a second. They have your backs, they support you cheer you up when no one else does. Their love is priceless. But if your support systems betray you then I guess there is no one else left to trust anymore.
Some quotes on friendship betrayals might help you relate and understand what you should be aware of while making friends.
It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.
Confucius
Friends are supposed to be there for you when you cry, not the reason you cry
Unknown
The lesser the friends, the lesser the chances of betrayal
Tupac Shakur
The knives of betrayal and drama cut deep and hurt… but they also trim away the nonsense and reveal you’re true friends
Steve Maraboli
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend
William Blake
Better to have an enemy who slaps you in the face than a friend who stabs you in the back
Unknown
Betray a friend and you’ll often find you have ruined yourself
Aesop
We’re not friends, we’re not enemies, we’re just strangers with some memories
Unknown
Mind what people do, not only what they say, for deeds will betray a lie
Terry Goodkind
Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none
William Shakespeare
Don’t fear the enemy that attacks you, but the fake friend that hugs you
Unknown
“There is a big difference between being betrayed by an enemy and being betrayed by a friend. The latter hurts more
Unknow
“You know that you have been stabbed when you feel the deep pain of betrayal
Les Parrott
He who throws away a friend is as bad as he who throws away his life
Sophocles
An honest enemy is better than a false friend. When in doubt, pay more attention to what people do and less to what they say. Actions not only speak louder than words, they are more difficult to fake
Zero Dean
Some people are willing to betray years of friendship just to get a little bit of the spotlight
Unknown
Betrayal does that betrays the betrayer
Erica Jong
The saddest thing about betrayal is that it never comes from your enemies
Unknown
It was a mistake,’ you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you
David Levithan
What irritated me most in that entire situation was the fact that I wasn’t feeling humiliated, or annoyed, or even fooled. Betrayal was what I felt, my heart broken not just by a guy I was in love with, but also by, as I once believed, a true friend
Danca V
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
Be careful who you tell your feelings to because some people are waiting for the opportunity to use them against you
Unknown
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
Be careful who you trust… the devil was once an angel
Unknown
Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly
William Shakespeare
Some people aren’t loyal to you. They are loyal to their need of you. Once their needs change, so does their loyalty
Unknown
I lay it down as a fact that if all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world
Blaise Pascal
Life is not about who is real to your face, it’s about who’s really behind your back
Unknown
As we get older, we don’t lose friends. We just find out who the real ones are
Unknown
No man shall say that I betrayed a brother
Sophocles
I didn’t lose a friend, I just realized I never had one
Unknown
Why had nobody ever told him? Dumbledore, Hagrid, Mr. Weasley, Cornelius Fudge… why hadn’t anyone ever mentioned the fact that Harry’s parents died because their best friend had betrayed them?
J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Lovers have a right to betray you; friends don’t
Judy Holliday
Stop swimming across oceans for people who won’t jump a puddle for you
Unknown
Beware the person who stabs you and then tells the world they’re the ones bleeding
Jill Blakeway
Wanna know what the saddest part was? Calling you my best friend instead of another fake friend
Unknown
Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down
Socrates
I have been stabbed in the back by those I needed the most. I’ve been lied to by those I love. And I’ve felt alone when I couldn’t afford to be. But at the end of the day, I had to learn to be my own best friend, because there’s going to be days where no one is going to be there for me but myself
Unknown
False friends like weeds try very hard to appear genuine
Matshona Dhliwayo
It’s particularly hard to take being stabbed in the back close to home. There’s always a feeling of betrayal when people of your own group oppose you
Catharine MacKinnon
It’s funny how sometimes the people you’d take a bullet for are the ones behind the trigger
Unknown
It was a mistake,” you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you
David Levithan
It’s hard to trust someone, especially when the ones you trusted the most were the ones that betrayed you
Unknown
Trust is established in the absence of betrayal, but in those whose betrayal is least
Wes Fessler
I was torn between holding on to what you promised and accepting the reality of you not being able to deliver
R.H Sin
Don’t tell me what they said about me. Tell me why they were so comfortable to say it around you
Unknown
Being betrayed is one of the most valuable lessons life can teach
Shania Twain
“One fake friend can do more damage than 10 enemies.” Unknown
Friendship is delicate as a glass once broken it can be fixed but there will always be cracks
Waqar Ahmed
Be certain that he who has betrayed thee once will betray thee again
Johann Kaspar Lavater
Love, friendship, betrayal all three of these sentiments come and go in our lives. The impacts of betrayal and disappointments are no doubt the worst of all but we must try to move on from such people who deceive us as every person every moment of our life either good or bad, teaches us so many things that make us much better and stronger.
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