Betrayal Quotes
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![David Levithan](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1426529210i/11664._UY200_CR49,0,200,200_.jpg)
“It was a mistake," you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you.”
― The Lover's Dictionary
― The Lover's Dictionary
![Oscar Wilde](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1673611182i/3565._UX200_CR0,15,200,200_.jpg)
“Yet each man kills the thing he loves
By each let this be heard
Some do it with a bitter look
Some with a flattering word
The coward does it with a kiss
The brave man with a sword”
― The Ballad of Reading Gaol
By each let this be heard
Some do it with a bitter look
Some with a flattering word
The coward does it with a kiss
The brave man with a sword”
― The Ballad of Reading Gaol
![Shannon L. Alder](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1647739446i/1391130._UY200_CR33,0,200,200_.jpg)
“If you spend your time hoping someone will suffer the consequences for what they did to your heart, then you're allowing them to hurt you a second time in your mind.”
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![Albert Camus](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1686463588i/957894._UY200_CR46,0,200,200_.jpg)
“I used to advertise my loyalty and I don't believe there is a single person I loved that I didn't eventually betray.”
― The Fall
― The Fall
![Brené Brown](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1246473726i/162578.jpg)
“We cultivate love when we allow our most vulnerable and powerful selves to be deeply seen and known, and when we honor the spiritual connection that grows from that offering with trust, respect, kindness and affection.
Love is not something we give or get; it is something that we nurture and grow, a connection that can only be cultivated between two people when it exists within each one of them – we can only love others as much as we love ourselves.
Shame, blame, disrespect, betrayal, and the withholding of affection damage the roots from which love grows. Love can only survive these injuries if they are acknowledged, healed and rare.”
― The Gifts of Imperfection
Love is not something we give or get; it is something that we nurture and grow, a connection that can only be cultivated between two people when it exists within each one of them – we can only love others as much as we love ourselves.
Shame, blame, disrespect, betrayal, and the withholding of affection damage the roots from which love grows. Love can only survive these injuries if they are acknowledged, healed and rare.”
― The Gifts of Imperfection
![Emily Brontë](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1529578586i/4191._UX200_CR0,31,200,200_.jpg)
“You teach me now how cruel you've been - cruel and false. Why did you despise me? Why did you betray your own heart, Cathy? I have not one word of comfort. You deserve this. You have killed yourself. Yes, you may kiss me, and cry; and wring out my kisses and tears: they'll blight you - they'll damn you. You loved me - what right had you to leave me? What right - answer me - for the poor fancy you felt for Linton? Because misery, and degradation, and death, and nothing that God or Satan could inflict would have parted us, you, of your own will did it. I have no broken your heart - you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine. So much the worse for me that I am strong. Do I want to live? What kind of living will it be when you - Oh, God! would you like to lie with your soul in the grave?”
― Wuthering Heights
― Wuthering Heights
![J.K. Rowling](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1596216614i/1077326._UX200_CR0,15,200,200_.jpg)
“What was there to be gained by fighting the most evil wizard who has ever existed?" said Black, with a terrible fury in his face. "Only innocent lives, Peter!"
"You don't understand!" whined Pettigrew. "He would have killed me, Sirius!"
"THEN YOU SHOULD HAVE DIED!" roared Black. "DIED RATHER THAN BETRAY YOUR FRIENDS, AS WE WOULD HAVE DONE FOR YOU!”
― Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
"You don't understand!" whined Pettigrew. "He would have killed me, Sirius!"
"THEN YOU SHOULD HAVE DIED!" roared Black. "DIED RATHER THAN BETRAY YOUR FRIENDS, AS WE WOULD HAVE DONE FOR YOU!”
― Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
![Marissa Meyer](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1558121336i/4684322._UY200_CR49,0,200,200_.jpg)
“I knew they would kill me when they found out, but…” He struggled for words, releasing a sharp breath. “I think I realized that I would rather die because I betrayed them, than live because I betrayed you.”
― Scarlet
― Scarlet
![Sherrilyn Kenyon](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1547439330i/4430._UX200_CR0,50,200,200_.jpg)
“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.”
― Invincible
― Invincible
“It's hard to tell who has your back, from who has it long enough just to stab you in it....”
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![Malcolm X](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1185201379i/17435._UX200_CR0,37,200,200_.jpg)
“To me, the thing that is worse than death is betrayal. You see, I could conceive death, but I could not conceive betrayal.”
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![F. Scott Fitzgerald](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1517864008i/3190._UX200_CR0,42,200,200_.jpg)
“Ah," she cried, "you look so cool."
Their eyes met, and they stared together at each other, alone in space. With an effort she glanced down at the table.
You always look so cool," she repeated.
She had told him that she loved him, and Tom Buchanan saw.”
― The Great Gatsby
Their eyes met, and they stared together at each other, alone in space. With an effort she glanced down at the table.
You always look so cool," she repeated.
She had told him that she loved him, and Tom Buchanan saw.”
― The Great Gatsby
![Brandon Sanderson](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1721927489i/38550._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“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.”
― The Final Empire
― The Final Empire
![Shannon L. Alder](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1647739446i/1391130._UY200_CR33,0,200,200_.jpg)
“When you loved someone and had to let them go, there will always be that small part of yourself that whispers, "What was it that you wanted and why didn't you fight for it?”
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![S.C. Stephens](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1486143303i/4372391._UX200_CR0,22,200,200_.jpg)
“I think in the end, you would have stayed with me, out of obligation...or maybe comfort. Maybe I was safe to you, and you needed to feel that. I know how scared you get of the unknown. To you...I must be kind of a security blanket. Do you see now, how that doesn't work for me? I don't want to be there, simply because the idea of me being gone is too...scary. I want to be someone's everything. I want fire and passion, and love that's returned, equally. I want to be someone's heart... Even if it means breaking my own.”
― Thoughtless
― Thoughtless
![Veronica Roth](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1702319133i/4039811._UX200_CR0,13,200,200_.jpg)
“I could never hurt him enough to make his betrayal stop hurting. And it hurts, in every part of my body.”
― Insurgent
― Insurgent
![Catherynne M. Valente](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1220999852i/338705.jpg)
“You are going to break your promise. I understand. And I hold my hands over the ears of my heart, so that I will not hate you.”
― Deathless
― Deathless
![Danka V.](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1316602111i/5167883._UX200_CR0,33,200,200_.jpg)
“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.”
― The Unchosen Life
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.”
― The Unchosen Life
![Emily Brontë](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1529578586i/4191._UX200_CR0,31,200,200_.jpg)
“May she wake in torment!" he cried, with frightful vehemence, stamping his foot, and groaning in a sudden paroxysm of ungovernable passion. "Why, she's a liar to the end! Where is she? Not there—not in heaven—not perished—where? Oh! you said you cared nothing for my sufferings! And I pray one prayer—I repeat it till my tongue stiffens—May she wake in torment!" he cried, with frightful vehemence, stamping his foot, and groaning in a sudden paroxysm of ungovernable passion. "Why, she's a liar to the end! Where is she? Not there—not in heaven—not perished—where? Oh! you said you cared nothing for my sufferings! And I pray one prayer—I repeat it till my tongue stiffens—Catherine Earnshaw, may you not rest as long as I am living; you said I killed you—haunt me, then! The murdered do haunt their murderers, I believe. I know that ghosts have wandered on earth. Be with me always—take any form—drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh, God! it is unutterable! I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul!”
― Wuthering Heights
― Wuthering Heights
![George Orwell](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1588856560i/3706._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“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.”
― 1984
― 1984
![Toba Beta](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1709205708i/3336353._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“If you're betrayed, release disappointment at once.
By that way, the bitterness has no time to take root.”
― My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
By that way, the bitterness has no time to take root.”
― My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
![Shannon L. Alder](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1647739446i/1391130._UY200_CR33,0,200,200_.jpg)
“A true gentleman is one that apologizes anyways, even though he has not offended a lady intentionally. He is in a class all of his own because he knows the value of a woman's heart.”
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![Heather Brewer](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1472827934i/293603._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“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.”
― Ninth Grade Slays
― Ninth Grade Slays
![Anaïs Nin](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1585811222i/7190._UX200_CR0,18,200,200_.jpg)
“He, who had done more than any human being to draw her out of the caves of her secret, folded life, now threw her down into deeper recesses of fear and doubt. The fall was greater than she had ever known, because she had ventured so far into emotion and had abandoned herself to it.”
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![M.L. Rio](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1647195157i/14954351._UX200_CR0,33,200,200_.jpg)
“What is more important, that Caesar is assassinated or that he is assassinated by his intimate friends? … That,’ Frederick said, 'is where the tragedy is.”
― If We Were Villains
― If We Were Villains
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