Best Betrayal Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“Tears make us tenacious,”

“Fear of meeting yourself”

“When we fail, our pride supports us, and when we succeed it betrays us.”

“There is a part of us that knows the timing of any relationship. It knows things that we cannot work out. It knows when to say yes. It knows when to say no. It knows when to wait. It knows when something has finished. It knows when something has started. It knows when we have a responsibility to another person. It knows when the ties are untied. It will not betray us or another.”

“In the way that you need to clear the way to make a road, those who betray and abandon you expose things you need to remove from your life. They reveal the mistakes you made in trusting them and how you can avoid them in the future, and move on.”

“Betrayal hurts, but knowing who was betraying hurts even more.”

“It’s better to be alone than with someone who drags you down. Or worse — pretends to lift you up, just to drop you from higher up.”

“I recently had a relationship, or thought I did. She didn’t share my views on things like loyalty, trust, the basics.”

“You never really understood me.”

“Victor's tortured eyes blazed down at her, and for a moment she was afraid.  Then he leaned down and dissolved into tears in the arms of Celena who was only six.”

“For there to be betrayal, there would have to have been trust first.”

“I used to advertise my loyalty and I don't believe there is a single person I loved that I didn't eventually betray.”

“She is an able negotiator and a strong ally." Pickering said, as his eyes caressed her lovely face.  He noticed both her arms were wrapped tightly around Victor's, and that she looked up at him with such commitment that it made his cynical view of love soften.  Reminding him bittersweetly of how he had felt once, a very long time ago.”

“(Her husband's departure ...) had picked Mildred up by the hair and dropped her down at the doorstep of insanity.”

“Trust is not a gasoline-soaked blanket that succumbs to the matches of betrayal, never able to be used for its warmth again; it’s a tapestry that wears thin in places, but can be patched over if you have the right materials, circumstances, and patience to repair it. If you don’t, you’re always the one who feels the coldest when winter comes.”

“There is tremendous trauma in the betrayal caused by a perpetual liar as they repeatedly commit psychological abuse.”

“In the garden of trust, betrayal is the weed that chokes the bloom of faith.”

“Arise Reborn! by Stewart Stafford”

“God is the Cure, Love is the Answer”

“You are enough to drive a saint to madness or a king to his knees.”

“What is it that makes you cry? It is only your attachments. What is it that you miss when it is lost? It is the object of your attachment. Ponder over this. Find out what it is that grips your very life, without which you feel miserable and destitute; that is the center of your attachment.”

“For Brutus, as you know, was Caesar's angel:”

“Nostalgia has a way of blocking the reality of the past.”

“Sometimes you have to give up on people. Not because you don't care but because they don't. A person's actions will tell you everything you need to know. Love yourself enough to say goodbye to those who don't make time for you or don't know how to love you back. Let go of what hurts, even if it hurts to let go." ~ Jennifer Green”

“...fool me once, shame on me…fool me twice…I deserved to get fucked over.”

“You may marry Miss Grey for her fifteen pounds but you will always be my Willoughby. My nightmare. My sorrow. My past. My mistake. My regret. My love.”

“I wouldn’t wish my life on anyone!” screamed Edward. “It was a life of heartache, disappointment, wishing what could have been, never knowing the love of another human being.”

“Innocence invites protection, yet we might be smarter to protect ourselves against it...”

“Show me a man that gets rich by being a politician, and I'll show you a crook.”

“She was a ray of sunshine, a warm summer rain, a bright fire on a cold winter’s day, and now she could be dead because she had tried to save the man she loved.”

“We were hooked when we woke.”

“She loved him. But he didn’t know how to love.”

“Some people with DID present their narratives of sadistic abuse in a quite matter-of-fact way, without perceptible affect. This may sometimes be done as a way of protecting themselves, and the listener, from the emotional impact of their experience. We have found that people describing trauma in a flat way, without feeling, are usually those who have been more chronically abused, while those with affect still have a sense of self that can observe the tragedy of betrayal and have feelings about it. In some cases, this deadpan presentation can also be the result of cult training and brainwashing. Unfortunately, when a patient describes a traumatic experience without showing any apparent emotion, it can make the listener doubt whether the patient is telling the truth.”

“You can't keep snakes in your backyard and expect them only to bite your neighbors. You know, eventually those snakes are going to turn on whoever has them in the backyard.”

“Words don’t have the power to hurt you, unless that person meant more to you than you are willing to confess.”

“Even as your body betrays you, your mind denies it.”

“Only yesterday I was no different than them, yet I was saved. I am explaining to you the way of life of a people who say every sort of wicked thing about me because I sacrificed their friendship to gain my own soul. I left the dark paths of their duplicity and turned my eyes toward the light where there is salvation, truth, and justice. They have exiled me now from their society, yet I am content. Mankind only exiles the one whose large spirit rebels against injustice and tyranny. He who does not prefer exile to servility is not free in the true and necessary sense of freedom.”

“When no one you know tells the truth, you learn to see under the surface.”

“Beware those who stand nearest,”

“They'll say you are bad”

“Whoever gains the power to make you betray reason gains the power to make you betray conscience.”

“Some stories have to be written because no one would believe the absurdity of it all.”