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Quotes About Faithless

What shall I say to a faithless brother? The King of the Damned is a poor judge of Being.
~ Jordan B. Peterson
Je suis mystique au fond, et je ne crois à rien
~ Gustave Flaubert
It's a faithless love, but you hit four good shots and you've started your day right.
~ Dinah Shore
I, whom proof hath taught of lateHow so far only should we hate our foesAs though we soon might love them, and so farDo a friend service as to one most likeSomeday to prove our foe, since oftenest menIn friendship but a faithless haven find.
~ Sophocles
As the soul leaves the body torn and bruised As the mind deserts the body it has used. I should find Some way incomparably light and deft, Some way we both should understand, Simple and faithless as a smile and shake of the hand.
~ T.S. Eliot
But no one will understand Oscar Wilde who for a moment loses sight of the fact that he was a pagan born: as Gautier says, "One for whom the visible world alone exists," endowed with all the Greek sensuousness and love of plastic beauty; a pagan, like Nietzsche and Gautier, wholly out of sympathy with Christianity, one of "the Confraternity of the faithless who "cannot" believe," (His own words in "De Profundis.") to whom a sense of sin and repentance are symptoms of weakness and disease.
~ Frank Harris
The crowds that queued for snacks and knick-knacks, the constant stream of passengers recorded by the closed-circuit TVs, were wondrous proof of the sheer variety of human specimens, except that they were presumed to be identically faithless inside, duty-free in every sense of that word.
~ Michel Faber
oh, you faithless, unfortunate man!...Because of you I spent the whole night yesterday shivering and naked. I lost my nature and replaced it with a new one, I spent several months sitting in a dark closet thinking about one thing, about the storm over Yershalaim, I cried my eyes out, and now, when happiness has befallen us, you drive me away! Well, then I'll go, I'll go, but you should know that you are a cruel man! They've devastated your soul!
~ Mikhail Bulgakov
And all your Faithless doubts Will not destroy The rising spring In me.
~ Terry Tempest Williams
Berkouwer is to be commended for his careful avoidance of "the polarities of a mindless fideism and a faithless rationalism.
~ Bruce Demarest
Cynicism stems from disappointment. Cynical and faithless people were not always like that. They were filled with possibilities and hope as kids. But they tried and perhaps failed.
~ Robin S. Sharma
He's a low-born rascal who has by unfailing flattery tickled the whims of the Emperor. He's well-hated by the court aristocracy, vermin themselves, because he can lay claim to neither family nor humility. He is the Emperor's adviser in all things, and the Emperor's tool in the worst things. He is faithless by choice but loyal by necessity. There is not a man in the Empire as subtle in villainy or as crude in his pleasures.
~ Isaac Asimov
His mental powers alone made him formidable, for he was not only a general of note, but a wily politician, faithless not with the light and heady fickleness of a savage, but with the deliberate and malicious treachery of a professional intriguer.
~ Charles Oman
It only took one generation of neglecting God to turn a faithful family into a faithless one.
~ Kim Vogel Sawyer
Work was the antidote—to faithless friends, determined killers, and a society more bent upon revenge than justice. It was something that could be done, whereas all one could do with life's slings and arrows was to bear them, bravely or not.
~ Carole Lawrence
Memory is faithless, like a cheating lover, telling you what you believe is true.
~ Caroline Kettlewell
Men are such faithless creatures
~ George R.R. Martin
Varys appeared not long after Lord Jacelyn had left. "Men are such faithless creatures," he said by way of greeting. Tyrion sighed. "Who's the traitor today?" The eunuch handed him a scroll. "So much villainy, it sings a sad song for our age. Did honor die with your fathers?
~ George R.R. Martin
As soon as he was free from the library, he raced away from the Sanctuary, returning his faithless body to his bedroom at the mansion. He was still erect when he got there. Duh. Staring down at his button fly, he tried to find another explanation. Maybe he'd thrown a clot? A cock clot … or maybe … shit… There was no way he could be attracted to another female.
~ J.R. Ward
Simple and faithless as a smile and shake of the hand.
~ T. S. Eliot
perfidious.
~ Victor Hugo
A faithless woman, if known to be such by the person concerned, is but faithless ; if she is believed faithful, she is treacherous.
~ la bruyere jean de
If you want to see that human story unfold, if you want to understand that only the unexpected life is worth a damn, spend some time with 46 years of Lou Reed's work: music that leaped and then looked. Safety is for the godless and the faithless.
~ Elizabeth Wurtzel
Thus," said she, "shall be treated the deceiver, the traitor, the faithless, the disgraced, and the beardless.
~ Thomas Bulfinch