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Quotes About Betrayal

Further, I must not dream for when I do I see the table set and a faltering crone at my place, her eyes burnt by cigarettes as she eats betrayal like a slice of meat.
~ Anne Sexton
He read me the Bible to prove I was sinful. For in the night he was betrayed. And then he let me give him a Judas-kiss, that red lock that held us in place, and then I gave him a drink from my cup and he whispered, "Rape, rape." And then I gave him my wrist and he sucked on the blood, hating himself for it, murmuring, "God will see. God will see.
~ Anne Sexton
I am stuffing your mouth with your promises and watching you vomit them out upon my face.
~ Anne Sexton
Do you like me?" No answer. Silence bounced, fell off his tongue and sat between us and clogged my throat. It slaughtered my trust. It tore cigarettes out of my mouth. We exchanged blind words, and I did not cry, I did not beg, but blackness filled my ears, blackness lunged in my heart, and something that had been good, a sort of kindly oxygen, turned into a gas oven.
~ Anne Sexton
She froze. He reached up and took her hand in his, pulling the knife away, making her drop it on the floor. "Show me how much you hate me," he whispered against her mouth. "Prove it to me.
~ Anne Stuart
She raised her head finally. He looked the same, but then, he always did. She'd seem him kill twice, and he betrayed no reaction at all. He was a monster, not even human. But he was her monster...
~ Anne Stuart
Je hasarde une explication : écrire c'est le dernier recours quand on a trahi.
~ Annie Ernaux
Dans leur dos
~ Annie Ernaux
Il allait être très amoureux de moi, puis se lasser, peut-être me « tromper », et il s'en va.
~ Annie Ernaux
Mais que penser de la dernière fois, de ses mensonges au sujet du film où il n'aurait pas dû être ? Je suis persuadée maintenant qu'il a eu d'autres femmes en même temps que moi, mais depuis quand
~ Annie Ernaux
Lies like that are not a sin, they are a sacrifice.
~ Ann-Marie MacDonald
It takes years to build up trust, and only seconds to destroy it.
~ Anonymous
People will sell you out for profit, that's just how people are.
~ Koena Mitra
Living in France while the Falklands War was going on, I felt a profound sense of shame and betrayal, just as I did by the war in Iraq. People have asked why I don't talk about that directly in my plays. Well, politics needs to be articulated in many different ways.
~ Simon McBurney
I was dumped at my senior prom - I was 18 and in love. We danced all night, then she got back together with her ex. It broke my heart.
~ Chris Evans
In high school, my prom date fooled around with another guy - on prom night!
~ Matthew Perry
I went to prom with my boyfriend, but after the dance he left me at a party all by myself. It was awful!
~ Crystal Reed
A guy will promise you the world and give you nothin', and that's the blues.
~ Otis Rush
Nothing keeps its promise.
~ Philip Roth
Slavery was the betrayal of the American Promise at the moment that promise was made.
~ Steve Erickson
'Eastern Promises' is great.
~ The Weeknd
I love actors, both my parents were actors, and the work with actors is the most enjoyable part of making a film. It's important that they feel protected and are confident they won't be betrayed. When you create that atmosphere of trust, it's in the bag - the actors will do everything to satisfy you.
~ Michael Haneke
I feel very ashamed to have chosen a brother like Azam Khan. Maybe it was a wrong choice for me to call him a brother and he proved in reality he is not the person he pretends to be.
~ Jaya Prada
Knowledge is not wisdom: cleverness is not, not without awareness of our death, not without recalling just how brief our flare is. He who overreaches will, in his overreaching, lose what he possesses, betray what he has now. That which is beyond us, which is greater than the human, the unattainably great, is for the mad, or for those who listen to the mad, and then believe them.
~ Euripides