Quotes tagged ‘Betrayal’

“I'm not really sure why. But... do you stop loving someone just because they betray you? I don't think so. That's what makes the betrayal hurt so much - pain, frustration, anger... and I still loved her. I still do.”

— Brandon Sanderson, amazon.com

“Hell is when people you love the most reach right into your soul and rip it out of you. And they do it because they can.”

— Jess Rothenberg, amazon.com

“If you have to speculate if someone loves you and wants to be with you, chances are they don’t. It’s not that complicated. Love, in most cases, betrays the one feeling it. Don’t waste moments waiting and wondering. Don’t throw away your time dreaming of someone that doesn’t want you. No one is that…”

— Donna Lynn Hope, goodreads.com

“Your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, amazon.com

“It’s the ones you love the most who can lift you in an instant, and destroy you without trying.”

— Dorothy Koomson, amazon.com

“Opening up to the wrong person is like putting ammo in their hands.”

— Lisa Kleypas, amazon.com

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

— Tennessee Williams, amazon.com

“When someone stabs you it's not your fault that you feel pain.”

— Louise Penny, amazon.com

“What irritated me most in that entire situation was the fact that I wasn’t feeling humiliated, or annoyed, or even fooled. Betrayal was what I felt, my heart broken not just by a guy I was in love with, but also by, as I once believed, a true friend.”

— Danka V., amazon.com

“Disappointments in love, even betrayals and losses, serve the soul at the very moment they seem in life to be tragedies. The soul is partly in time and partly in eternity. We might remember the part that resides in eternity when we feel despair over the part that is in life.”

— Thomas Moore, amazon.com

“Look, Serena, stop trying to pretend you're a good girl. So you slept with your best friend's boyfriend. I kind of admire you for it.”

— Stephanie Savage, Josh Schwartz, Chuck Bass, Ed Westwick, imdb.com

“In part, trauma repetition is an effort by the victim to bring resolution to the traumatic memory. By repeating the experience, the victim tries anew to figure out a way to respond in order to eliminate the fear. Instead, the victim simply deepens the traumatic wound. Note that repetition, like sham…”

— Patrick Carnes, Patrick Carnes Ph.D., amazon.com

“She looked as betrayed as the most betrayed person in Shakespeare.”

— Miranda July, amazon.com

“Here's the thing: best friends never talk bad behind your back no matter how bad shit gets.”

— Sade Andria Zabala, thoughtcatalog.com

“It is not so incomprehensible as you pretend, sweet pea. Love is the feeling we have for those we care deeply about and hold in high regard. It can be light as the hug we give a friend or heavy as the sacrifices we make for our children. It can be romantic, platonic, familial, fleeting, everlasting,…”

— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.com

“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.”

— George Orwell, amazon.com

“Are you deaf? I thought we were friends, you know? But friends tell each other the truth. And they definitely don't lie to each other. You made me think that Will was okay; that he was still out there but he wasn't! He wasn't. Maybe you thought you were helping but you weren't. You hurt me, do you u…”

— Matt Duffer, Ross Duffer, Mike Wheeler, Finn Wolfhard, netflix.com

“I regret opening up to some people; they didn’t deserve to know me like that.”

— Anonymous, explores.me

“… I trust you, I mean I’ve considered that you could betray me …”

— Carl Phillips, poems.com

“I know how betrayal and disillusionment feel, when someone who could give you the world refuses even a tiny piece of it.”

— Mary Kubica, amazon.com