Feeling Betrayed? 52 Quotes to Help You Cope

Betrayal betrays the betrayer. – Erica Jong

All a man can betray is his conscience. – Joseph Conrad

Betrayal is the only truth that sticks. – Arthur Miller

Loyalty expanded is not loyalty betrayed! – E. B. Farnum

I betrayed Gutenberg for McLuhan long ago. – Chris Marker

The family of Dane Heggem has been betrayed. – Robert Stephens

Not to transmit an experience is to betray it. – Elie Wiesel

Intolerance betrays want of faith in one’s cause. – Mahatma Gandhi

There’s a bad odor about a man who’s been betrayed. – Maureen Howard

Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge. – Leonardo da Vinci

To me, the thing that is worse than death is betrayal. – Malcolm X

Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee. – William Penn

When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself. – Isaac Bashevis Singer

To take refuge with an inferior is to betray one’s self. – Publilius Syrus

I’d rather betray the world than let the world betray me. – Cao Cao

You can’t betray yourself too often, or you become somebody else. – Ed Harris

I am not unaware that leaders betray, and sell out, and play false. – Mother Jones

Alas! how difficult it is not to betray one’s guilt by one’s looks. – Ovid

For there to be betrayal, there would have to have been trust first. – Suzanne Collins

Be certain that he who has betrayed thee once will betray thee again. – Johann Kaspar Lavater

We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal. – Tennessee Williams

Love is whatever you can still betray. Betrayal can only happen if you love. – John le Carre

Impostor: How George W. Bush Bankrupted America and Betrayed the Reagan Legacy. – David Frum

I like animals because they are not consciously cruel and don’t betray each other. – Taylor Caldwell

One has not the right to betray even a traitor. Traitors must be fought, got betrayed. – Charles Peguy

It’s hard to tell who has your back, from who has it long enough just to stab you in it. – Nicole Richie

Anyone who hasn’t experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all. – Jean Genet

We would betray Mexicans’ hopes for change if we felt satisfied with what we’ve accomplished so far. – Vicente Fox

Rome has betrayed itself. It knew the truth and chose violence, it knew humaneness and it chose tyranny. – Friedrich Durrenmatt

I could never hurt him enough to make his betrayal stop hurting. And it hurts, in every part of my body. – Veronica Roth

A fraudulent intent, however carefully concealed at the outset, will generally, in the end, betray itself. – Livy

It was a mistake,” you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you. – David Levithan

He who has loved and who betrays love does harm not only to the image of the past, but to the past itself. – Theodor Adorno

In politics it is necessary either to betray one’s country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate. – Charles de Gaulle

Naturally, when one makes progressive steps, there may be some who see it as a betrayal of their goals and interests. – Louis Farrakhan

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

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

I would rather do what I did than crawl in front of a ritualistic Left and lie the way those other comrades did betray my own soul. – Elia Kazan

Men are strong, women are smart, but no matter how smart, their bellies are always there to betray women and that’s their downfall. – Simone Schwarz-Bart

As a rule the person found out in a betrayal of love holds, all the same, the superior position of the two. It is the betrayed one who is humiliated. – Ada Leverson

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

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 – Margaret Atwood

We are not wounded so deeply when betrayed by the things we hope for as when betrayed by things we try our best to despise. In such betrayal comes the dagger in the back. – Yukio Mishima

You have suffered grievously and I am truly sorry. I know that nothing can undo the wrong you have endured. Your trust has been betrayed and your dignity has been violated. – Pope Benedict XVI

One should rather die than be betrayed. There is no deceit in death. It delivers precisely what it has promised. Betrayal, though … betrayal is the willful slaughter of hope. – Steven Dietz

We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop. – Mahatma Gandhi

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

When you Love.. you Expect.. Once u start Expecting.. u have Hope.. Hopes in return makes you to put Trust.. and Trust makes u prone to Betrayal.. and whn u r Betrayed.. Hell falls over U…!!! – Abhijeet Sawant

All the money was spent for the ‘Concept Plan’ document, which made reasonable recommendations for developments. Now that’s kind of being forgotten. That’s why I think the public trust is being betrayed. – Stephen F. Hayes

The chief internal enemies of any state are not spies nor saboteurs nor the paid agents of foreign governments. They are, on the contrary, those myriads of public officials who betray the trust imposed upon them by the people. – Dalton Trumbo

We all get betrayed or we all betray. Life is so complex that it’s almost impossible to avoid that. Betrayal is also a critical theme in all the world’s great stories. If Christ had not been betrayed, would you have had the resurrection? – Jean Houston

Once the curtain is raised, the actor is ceases to belong to himself. He belongs to his character, to his author, to his public. He must do the impossible to identify himself with the first, not to betray the second, and not to disappoint the third. – Sarah Bernhardt

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