Being Betrayed Quotes:

Don't feel sad over someone who gave up on you, feel sorry for them because they gave up on someone who would have never given up on them.

- Frank Ocean

topic: Sorry, Given, Feels, Break Your Heart, Being Betrayed

Some people are willing to betray years of friendship just to get a little bit of the spotlight.

- Lauren Conrad

topic: Betrayal, Years, People, Backstabbers, Friend Betrayal

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

- William Blake

topic: Friendship, Forgiveness, Depressing, Stabbing, Making Friends

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

topic: Heartbreak, Betrayal, Abandonment, Love And Betrayal, Love Betrayal

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

topic: Heartbreak, Pain, Betrayal, Losing Friendship, Love And Betrayal

If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.

- Rollo May

source: Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.12, W. W. Norton & Company

topic: Depression, Ideas, Creating, Being Original, Original Ideas

It was a mistake," you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you.

- David Levithan

topic: Trust, Betrayal, Mistake, Stabbing, Backstabbing

Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.

- Arthur Miller

source: Arthur Miller (2015). “After the Fall”, p.96, Bloomsbury Publishing

topic: Life, Heartbreak, Betrayal, Stabbing, Love And Betrayal

All a man can betray is his conscience.

- Joseph Conrad

topic: Men, Betray, Conscience, Being Betrayed, Betraying Friends

Love is whatever you can still betray. Betrayal can only happen if you love.

- John le Carre

topic: Love, Betrayal, Betrayed, Love And Betrayal, Love Betrayal

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

- Suzanne Collins

topic: Relationship, Betrayal, Firsts, Stabbing, Love And Betrayal

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.

- Elijah Muhammad

topic: Betrayal, Lying, Hypocrite, Friend Betrayal, Being Betrayed

Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.

- Aesop

topic: Kissing, Faithful, Enemy, Deceitful, Wise Friendship

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

topic: Relationship, Loyalty, Betrayal, Stabbing, Love And Betrayal

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

source: Joseph Conrad (2015). “Under Western Eyes (Unabridged Deluxe Edition): An Intriguing Tale of Espionage and Betrayal in Czarist Russia From the Renowned Author of Heart of Darkness, Nostromo & The Secret Agent (Including Author’s Memoirs, Letters & Critical Essays)”, p.29, e-artnow

topic: Country, Betrayal, Men, Friend Betrayal, Being Betrayed

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

source: Sherrilyn Kenyon (2011). “Invincible: The Chronicles of Nick”, p.123, Macmillan

topic: Trust, Betrayal, Suffering, Not Trusting, Love And Betrayal

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

- Confucius

topic: Friendship, Trust, Betrayal, Stabbing, Losing Friends

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

- Tennessee Williams

topic: Truth, Betrayal, Defense, Love And Betrayal, Love Betrayal

He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.

- Sigmund Freud

topic: Betrayal, Eye, Keeping Secrets, Kept Secrets, Fingertips

Being betrayed is one of the most valuable lessons life can teach.

- Shania Twain

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Life Lesson, Lessons, Betrayed, Valuable Lessons, Being Betrayed

Have you ever experienced a pain so sharp in your heart that it's all you can do to take a breath? It's a pain you wouldn't wish on your worst enemy; you wouldn't want to pass it on to anyone else for fear he or she might not be able to bear it. It's the pain of being betrayed by a person with whom you've fallen in love. It's not as serious as death, but it feels a whole lot like it, and as I've come to learn, pain is pain any way you slice it.

- Chelsea Handler

source: Chelsea Handler (2014). “My Horizontal Life”, p.29, Random House

topic: Pain, Heart, Enemy, Being Betrayed

When a man leaves his mistress, he runs the risk of being betrayed two or three times daily.

- Stendhal

source: Stendhal (2016). “The Red and the Black: World Classics”, p.80, World Classic

topic: Running, Women, Two, Being Betrayed

We are inconsolable at being deceived by our enemies and being betrayed by our friends, yet we are often content in be being treated like that by our own selves.

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

topic: Self, Deception, Enemy, Self Deception, Being Betrayed

I believe if you want to be trusted, you have to trust first. If you do that, you will be betrayed sometimes. But the value of engendering trust is greater than the cost of being betrayed sometimes.

- Mark Leslie

topic: Believe, Cost, Betrayed, Being Betrayed

I write about the things that happen to us all. The things that are tough, the things that matter, from a loved one fighting an illness, to losing a job, being betrayed by somebody you trust, all parts of the human condition. No one is exempt from those things.

- Danielle Steel

source: Source: www.popsugar.com

topic: Jobs, Writing, Fighting, Being Betrayed

Young people know they are being betrayed by he mass electronic media. It caricatures them, caricatures others. It is not really about them though it targets them as consumers.

- Adrienne Rich

source: Source: www.paulodacosta.ca

topic: Media, People, Target, Electronic Media, Being Betrayed

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

topic: Betrayal, Thinking, Development, Public Trust, Being Betrayed