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Quotes About Betrayal

Perhaps it is worse when love has flowed freely to find it one day dammed.
~ Jeanette Winterson
I miss God. I miss the company of someone utterly loyal. I still don't think of God as my betrayer. The servants of God, yes, but servants by their very nature betray. I miss God who was my friend. I don't even know if God exists, but I do know if God is your emotional role model, very few human relationships will match up to it.
~ Jeanette Winterson
There are different kinds of infidelity, but betrayal is betrayal wherever you find it.
~ Jeanette Winterson
It's not a word people use very often, which confuses me, because there are different kinds of infidelity, but betrayal is betrayal wherever you find it. By betrayal, I mean promising to be on your side, then being on somebody else's.
~ Jeanette Winterson
U]nhappy families are conspiracies of silence. The one who breaks the silence is never forgiven. He or she has to learn to forgive him or herself.
~ Jeanette Winterson
Take the heart first. Then you don't feel the cold so much. The pain so much. With the heart gone, there's no reason to stay your hand. Your eyes can look on death and not tremble. It's the heart that betrays us, makes us weep, makes us bury our friends when we should be marching ahead. It's the heart that sickens us at night and makes us hate who we are. It's the heart that sings old songs and brings memories of warm days and makes us waver at another mile, another smouldering village.
~ Jeanette Winterson
If there is such a thing as spiritual adultery, my mother was a whore.
~ Jeanette Winterson
That's why he hates him so much. He disappointed him. Passion does not take disappointment well. What is more humiliating than finding the object of your love unworthy?
~ Jeanette Winterson
Necesitaba palabras porque las familias infelices son un pacto de silencio. Quien rompa el silencio jamás será perdonado.
~ Jeanette Winterson
There are different sorts of treachery, but betrayal is betrayal wherever you find it.
~ Jeanette Winterson
I knew my mother hoped I would blame myself, but I didn't. I knew now where the blame lay. If there's such a thing as spiritual adultery, my mother was a whore.
~ Jeanette Winterson
There are different kinds of treachery but betrayal is betrayal wherever you find it.
~ Jeanette Winterson
sociedad en que el deber de una eterna fidelidad sólo sirve para originar adulterios y donde las mismas leyes del honor y la continencia extienden necesariamente la corrupción y multiplican los abortos.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Some love too little, some too long, Some sell, and others buy; Some do the deed with many tears, And some without a sigh: For each man kills the thing he loves, Yet each man does not die.
~ Jeannette Walls
Six months later, Maureen stabbed Mom.
~ Jeannette Walls
the worst part about being lied to is knowing you werent worth the truth
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
he is betrayed by the cynical sparkle of her eyes, by her sophisticated look. Real ladies do not know the price of things, they like adorable follies; their eyes are like beautiful, hothouse flowers.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
I don't know where to go, I stay planted in front of the cardboard chef. I don't need to turn around to know they are watching me through the windows: they are watching my back with surprise and disgust; they thought I was like them, that I was a man, and I deceived them. I suddenly lost the appearance of a man and they saw a crab running backwards out of this human room. Now the unmasked intruder has fled: the show goes on.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
Exactly how am I supposed to work in a thank-you in there? Somehow it just won't seem sincere if I'm trying to slit his throat.
~ Suzanne Collins
O world, world! thus is the poor agent despised. O traitors and bawds, how earnestly are you set a-work, and how ill requited! Why should our endeavor be so loved, and the performance so loathed?
~ William Shakespeare
There are so many people out there who think they are fans of Pink Floyd - and certainly the work I did in Pink Floyd - who are still furious that I left.
~ Roger Waters
Cheaters are people who have a lot of stuff to work out, and they're working it out on your time and with your heart.
~ Greg Behrendt
When Bush says that Abu Ghraib was the work of a few, he forgot to mention that he was one of them.
~ Andrew Sullivan
Let me tell you, Alex. He's a crook. He's based here in Miami. He's a nasty piece of work." "He's mexican" Troy added.
~ Anthony Horowitz