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.
The fewer the friends, the fewer the chances of betrayal.
I could never hurt him enough to make his betrayal stop hurting. And it hurts, in every part of my body.
I think given the choice between loving Mare – betrayal included – and never knowing her, I’d chose love. I risked, and I lost, but the risk was still worth it.
The betrayal of a belief is not the same thing as ceasing to believe. If this were not so there would be no moral standards in the world at all.
We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
Two people who were once very close can without blame or grand betrayal become strangers. Perhaps this is the saddest thing in the world.
We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget. We forget the loves and the betrayals alike, forget what we whispered and what we screamed, forget who we were.
Some people are willing to betray years of friendship just to get a little bit of the spotlight.
I would never betray a friend to serve a cause. Never reject a friend to help an institution. Great nations may fall in ruin before I would sell a friend to save them.
That was how dishonesty and betrayal started, not in big lies but in small secrets.
To reduce the imagination to a state of slavery – even though it would mean the elimination of what is commonly called happiness – is to betray all sense of absolute justice within oneself. Imagination alone offers me some intimation of what can be.
Violent antipathies are always suspicious, and betray a secret affinity.
I find life itself provides ample and sufficient tests of my valor and mettle: illness; betrayal; fruitless searches for love; working for the abusive, the insane, and the despotic. All challenges easily as thrilling to me as scrambling over icy rock in a pair of barely adequate boots.
It is undoubtedly easier to believe in absolutes, follow blindly, mouth received wisdom. But that is self-betrayal.
Let’s call cheating what it is: a complete betrayal of trust.
Trust is earned, respect is given, and loyalty is demonstrated. Betrayal of any one of those is to lose all three.
Even loss and betrayal can bring us awakening.
It is most true, stylus virum arguit, – our style betrays us.
My heart is the throne of the Beloved, the Beloved the heart’s destiny: Whoever breaks another’s heart will find no homecoming in this world or any other.