A promise made is a debt unpaid.
I used to advertise my loyalty and I don’t believe there is a single person I loved that I didn’t eventually betray.
Betrayal answers betrayal, the mask of love is answered by the disappearance of love.
Betrayal, abandonment, deceit and manipulation.
In a restless heart the seed of betrayal lay.
The highest, most decisive experience is to be alone with one’s own self. You must be alone to find out what supports you, when you find that you can not support yourself. Only this experience can give you an indestructible foundation.
The male, for all his bravado and exploration, is the loyal one, the one who generally feels love. The female is skilled at betrayal and torture and damnation.
The most dangerous follower is the one whose defection would destroy the whole party: hence, the best follower.
The liar’s punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.
Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn’t matter; only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you-that would be the real betrayal.
Sincerity is a great but rare virtue, and we pardon to it much complaining, and the betrayal of many weaknesses.
In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.
While overeating would be seen by some as an indulgence of self, it is in fact a profound rejection of self. It is a moment of self-betrayal and self-punishment, and anything but a commitment to one’s own well-being.
Always seek less turbulent skies. Hurt. Fly above it. Betrayal. Fly above it. Anger. Fly above it. You are the one who is flying the plane.
Each betrayal begins with trust.
For only when faithfulness turns to betrayal And betrayal into trust Can any human being become part of the truth.
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.
But now the joy is gone and the sadness is back, the sadness feels like something deserved, the price of some not-quite-forgotten betrayal.