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Quotes About Faithlessness

Mildred sat quite still, and when she heard Veda drive off she was consumed by a fury so cold that it almost seemed as though she felt nothing at all. It didn't occur to her that she was acting less like a mother than like a lover who had unexpectedly discovered an act of faithlessness, and avenged it.
~ James M. Cain
There is no disease I spit on more than treachery.
~ Aeschylus
Any man can turn traitor.
~ Mario Puzo
They have decided nothing can kill them but God himself, and they don't even believe in him." -- David Benioff; City of Thieves
~ David Benioff
Where there is nothing, there is God.
~ William Butler Yeats
I run blindly through the madhouse ... And I cannot even pray ... For I have no God.
~ Grant Morrison
There is but one thing without honor, smitten with eternal barrenness, inability to do or to be,-insincerity, unbelief.
~ Thomas Carlyle
Jupiter laughs at the perjuries of lovers.
~ Albius Tibullus
You can't hide from yourself, Loki! I said. No matter what form you take, you're still you - alone, scorned, bitter, faithless. Your insults are hollow and desperate. You don't stand a chance against us, because you don't have an us. You are Loki, always alone.
~ Rick Riordan
The man who counts on the aid of a god deserves the help he doesn't get.
~ Glen Cook, Dreams of Steel
Hélène slowly surveyed the room. In this respectable society, amongst these apparently decent middle-class people, were there none but faithless wives? With her strict provincial morality, she was amazed at the licensed promiscuity of Parisian life.
~ Émile Zola
In the United Kingdom – that godless isle of apostasy
~ Robert Harris
Because your faith and sacrifice, the price you're paying for your silence, will make you a better, a greater being. Or, at least, it could. But my faithlessness can do nothing. It's powerless. 'You ask what I believe in, in that case.' 'I believe in the sword.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
Because your faith and sacrifice, the price you're paying for your silence, will make you a better, a greater being. Or, at least, it could. But my faithlessness can do nothing. It's powerless.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
I don't believe in Melitele, don't believe in the existence of other gods either, but I respect your choice, your sacrifice. Your belief. Because your faith and sacrifice, the price you're paying for your silence, will make you better, a greater being. Or, at least, it could. But my faithlessness can do nothing. It's powerless.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
Abandoned lovers were often lured into the false embrace of faithless mistresses and this caused the Minister the gravest concern for he feared that one day a man would impregnate an illusion and then a generation of half-breed ghosts would befoul the city
~ Angela Carter
For everything that exists I feel a visual affection, an intellectual fondness – nothing in the heart. I have faith in nothing, hope in nothing, charity for nothing. I feel only horror and nausea for the sincere souls of all sincerities and the mystics of all mysticisms, or rather, for the sincerities of all sincere souls and the mysticisms of all mystics.
~ Fernando Pessoa
I gazed upon the earth and saw that a body, in its tender faithlessness, had located it in the sky. A splendid scarf of blood, looming above the abyss.
~ Joë Bousquet
But he saw only dying light and a dead land. He uttered no prayer, believed in no deity, and knew that the past was devoid of meaning like the present, and a refuge for cowards.
~ E.M. Forster
Don't worry about the faithlessness of women—you've got a Spanish wife now—famous for their faithfulness! (See Encyclopedias, histories, guide books.)
~ Anais Nin
Very few people believe in the devil these days, which suits the devil very well. He is always helping to circulate the news of his own death. The essence of God is existence, and He defines Himself as: "I am Who am." The essence of the devil is the lie, and he defines himself as: "I am who am not." Satan has very little trouble with those who do not believe in him; they are already on his side. The
~ Fulton J. Sheen
There is nothing more shameful than perfidious friendship.
~ Marcus Aurelius
Peor and BaalimForsake their temples dim.
~ John Milton
The failure of rebellious Israelites to enter the Promised Land could be a picture of the faithless organized church of today failing to possess the heavenly things promised by Christ.
~ Elmer Towns