Quotes About Betrayal

Heroes betray us. By having them, in real life, we betray ourselves.

Be wary of this devil-blade, Moonglum. It kills the foe - but savours the blood of friends and kinfolk most.

Corum stared at the mired hand, now once again his. "It is nothing," he murmured. "I have killed my friend.

Elric of Melniboné, madam, called Elric Womanslayer in the West, and this is Moonglum of Elwher; he has no conscience.

Secrets are lies by another name.

I think you are inhuman. If I leave you, who will you go to? Would you find another lover? I said nothing. -Deny it,damn you!

Could you waste your life on a gift? If you did not use your gift, was it a betrayal?

What had our relationship been? A betrayal of those around us, or the desire of another life?

This history of mine,' Herodotus says, 'has from the beginning sought out the supplementary to the main argument.' What you find in him are cul-de-sacs within the sweep of history—how people betray each other for the sake of nations, how people fall in love....

Someone's war was slashing apart his delicate tapestry of companions. I was Odysseus, I understood the shifting and temporary vetoes of war. But he was a man who made friends with difficulty. He was a man who knew two or three people in his life, and they had turned out now to be the enemy.

What do you hate most? he asks. -A lie. And you? -Ownership, he says. When you leave me, forget me.

You would stand in the room so still sometimes, as if the greatest betrayal of yourself would be to reveal one more inch of your character.

In nearly every house, in nearly every family, there was knowledge of someone's murder or abduction by one side or another

Just like I'm still angry with Simpson for getting by with two murders.

O.J. Simpson never lied to me.

By that sin fell the angels.

From the get-go, 'Original Sin' was always as much a Nick Fury story as anything else.

When I was seven months pregnant with Ariana, my husband cheated on me, so I became a single mother to a four-year-old and a newborn.

With the single parent model, you experience betrayal differently. You experience lying from your kids differently.

Not a single person I named hadn't already been named at least a half-dozen times and wasn't already on he blacklist.

I read my sister's diary when I was 7. She was, I think, 13. It was awful to read it.

I'm in my father's car at age 9 or 10 crying to Leonard Cohen's 'Famous Blue Raincoat,' thinking that you could write nearly a love letter to a man who betrayed you by having an affair with your wife. I was thinking how wonderful and pure music can be for explaining situations.

And what if---what are you if the people who are supposed to love you can leave you like you're nothing?

Women in love sooner forgive great indiscretions than small infidelities.