Quotes About Betrayal

To love is to tire of being alone; it is therefore a cowardice, a betrayal of ourselves.

Let us not be deceived by hope, because it betrays, or by love, because it grows weary, or by life, because it satiates but does not sate, or even by death, because it brings more than you want and less than you expect.

Amar es cansarse de estar solo: es, por lo tanto, una cobardía y una traición a nosotros mismos.

Desengañémonos de la esperanza, porque traiciona en el amor, porque cansa en la vida, porque harta y no se sacia, y hasta de la muerte, porque trae más de lo que se quiere y menos de lo que se espera.

Every spoken word double-crosses us. The only tolerable form of communication is the written word, since it isn't a stone in a bridge between souls but a ray of light between stars.

Believe me, only vulgar creatures actually do deceive their husbands.

Nunca duvidei que todos me traíssem; e pasmei sempre quando me traíram.

To love is to tire of being alone; it is therefore a cowardice, a betrayal of ourselves. (It's exceedingly important that we not love).

That's not the way he told it, Tarwater said. He said that when the schoolteacher was seven years old, he had good sense but later it dried up. His daddy was an ass and not fit to raise him and his mother was a whore. She ran away from here when she was eighteen years old. It took her that long? the stranger said in an incredulous tone. My, she was kind of a ass herself.

She didn't like to admit it about her own kin, least about her own brother, but there he was—good for absolutely nothing.

his mind had frozen around his grandfather's treachery as if he were trying to preserve it intact to present at the final judgment.

I can remember being fascinated by what people really thought about each other and what they were really doing to each other behind people's backs.

I love 'Fatal Attraction.'

I saw a limit to what I was giving as kind of a scam I was running on the KGB, by giving them people that I knew were their double agents fed to us.

When we feed people, we should only feed them healthy food. They go to the government because they don't have any other choices. So it's almost a betrayal when you know someone has no other choice but to eat what you give them, and you're giving them food that feeds their chronic diseases.

There are very few people who I can trust. I look at those people and say, Why do you keep coming back?

I always say a lot of fake friends are the ones I can't get into a fight with, because if I get into a fight with them, it's over.

Fighters need someone they can trust. We can't trust anybody.

Never trust anyone who wants what you've got. Friend or no, envy is an overwhelming emotion.

He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.

My whole life has been a lie.

Love is understood, in a historical way, as one of the great human vocations - but its counterspell has always been infidelity. This terrible, terrible betrayal that can tear apart not only another person, not only oneself, but whole families.

In the case of my book, I don't think it's really the coming-out gay novel that everyone really needed, even though it was received as such. The boy is too creepy, he betrays his teacher, the only adult man with whom he's enjoyed a sexual experience, etc.

By and large, our political system has betrayed its promise to each new generation of Filipinos, not a few of whom are voting with their feet, going abroad and leaving that system behind.