Betrayed Love Quotes:

Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart.

- C. S. Lewis

topic: Hurt, Heart, Silence, Hurt Feelings, Break Your Heart

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.

- Anais Nin

topic: Love, Life, Inspiring, Knowing Love, Failed Relationship

Stab the body and it heals, but injure the heart and the wound lasts a lifetime.

- Mineko Iwasaki

topic: Sad, Heartbreak, Heartbroken, Stabbing, Love And Betrayal

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

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

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

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

Anyone who hasn't experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all.

- Jean Genet

source: Jean Genet (2003). “Prisoner of Love”, New York Review of Books

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

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

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

- Suzanne Collins

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

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

- Tennessee Williams

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

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

- William Blake

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

I would rather my enemy's sword pierce my heart then my friend's dagger stab me in the back." Faustus - Don't Talk Back To Your Vampire

- Michele Bardsley

topic: Heart, Enemy, Vampire, Faustus, Betrayed Love

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

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

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

topic: Betrayal, Integrity, Tragedy, Love And Betrayal, Love Betrayal

When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself.

- Isaac Bashevis Singer

source: Interviewed in the New York Times Magazine, 3 December 1978.

topic: Betrayal, Self Improvement, Betrayed, Love And Betrayal, Love Betrayal

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

topic: Love, Betrayal, Stories, Good Story, Love And Betrayal

Every betrayal contains a perfect moment, a coin stamped heads or tails with salvation on the other side.

- Barbara Kingsolver

topic: Betrayal, Perfect, Tails, Love And Betrayal, Love Betrayal

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's hard to tell who has your back, from who has it long enough just to stab you in it....

- Nicole Richie

topic: Friendship, Betrayal, Long, Stabbing, Backstabbing

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

- Veronica Roth

topic: Hurt, Betrayal, Body, Hurting Him, Love And Betrayal

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

Betrayal is never easy to handle and there is no right way to accept it.

- Christine Feehan

source: Christine Feehan (2011). “Christine Feehan 5 CARPATHIAN NOVELS”, p.1150, Penguin

topic: Betrayal, Way, Easy, Betrayed Love

So this was betrayal. It was like being left alone in the desert at dusk without water or warmth. It left your mouth dry and will broken. It sapped your tears and made you hollow.

- Anna Godbersen

topic: Heartbreak, Betrayal, Broken, Dusk, Betrayed Love

There is no hate such as that born out of love betrayed- and my brain screamed out for revenge.

- Virginia C. Andrews

source: Virginia C. Andrews (2004). “Flowers in the Attic”

topic: Revenge, Hate, Brain, Betrayed Love, No Hate

Love betrayed has an entirely different sound from hatred outright.

- N.K. Jemisin

source: "The Broken Kingdoms". Book by N.K. Jemisin, Chapter 3 "Gods and Corpses" (oil on canvas) (p. 58), 2011.

topic: Hatred, Betrayed, Sound, Betrayed Love

Lysley Tenorio is a writer of sly wit and lively invention—these are stories bursting with wonders (from monster movies and leper colonies, to faith-healers and superheroes)—but most wondrous of all is his intimate sense of character. Each story is a confession of love betrayed, told with a mournful, austere tenderness as heartbreaking as it is breathtaking.

- Peter Ho Davies

topic: Character, Love Is, Superhero, Bursting, Healer

As anyone who has received or dispensed psychotherapy knows, it's a profession whose mainspring is love. Nearly everyone who visits a therapist has a love disorder of one sort or another, and each has a story to tell - of love lost or denied, love twisted or betrayed, love perverted or shackled to violence. Broken attachments litter the office floors like pick-up sticks. People appear with frayed seams and spilling pockets.

- Diane Ackerman

source: Diane Ackerman (2011). “A Natural History of Love: Author of the National Bestseller A Natural History of the Senses”, p.136, Vintage

topic: Lost Love, Attachment, People, Spilling, Psychotherapy