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Quotes About Betrayal

Everything said, you couldn't hope for a nicer day to have a half dozen ex-soldiers with hunting bows relieve you of everything you owned.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
Dealing with backstabbers, there was one thing I learned. They're only powerful when you got your back turned.
~ Eminem
Dogs never bite me. Just humans.
~ Marilyn Monroe
When our actions do not, our fears make us traitors.
~ William Shakespeare
As the weeks and months unfolded, we realized that we were the victims of a broken promise.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Trust is a good way to get oneself killed
~ Lauren Kate, Fallen
The treacherous are ever distrustful.
~ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers
I loved him even now, as he took a knife to my throat, as I drowned in blood, as I whispered "Cousin, you were wrong. We were born to live.
~ Alice Hoffman, The Dovekeepers
Everyone is deceived in his hopes, cheated in his expectations.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A man who tosses worms in the river isn't 't necessarily a friend of the fish. All the fish who take him for a friend, who think the worm's got no hook in it, usually end up in the frying pan.
~ Malcolm X
I have shed enough tears over you lately and you don't deserve any of them
~ Stella Knights, Taken Outback
Those times when someone you thought was your friend talks about you behind your back really hurt. Even if you act like you don't care, deep inside, you care.
~ Zoey-Rose Hawthorne
She will be your living hell.
~ David Bowie
Your false promises are dark enough to submerge even the sun.
~ Jawwad Zafar
Treachery and acrimony are the wares that endure in the family heirs."
~ James. A. Kenny
How would you like it if someone you cared about just disappeared on you?
~ Jami Attenberg
our Face Will be our Betrayer on the Long Run
~ Jan Jansen Easy Branches
RATS-IN-A-POKE!
~ Jan Karon
To my husband, Harold, I leave the Lower Bayou Motel. You've spent so many nights there with other women that I felt you should call the place home. It's been operating in the red for the last eight years, owes back taxes since 1986, and is covered with deadly asbestos. Nothing but the best for you, dear.
~ Jana Deleon
We all need people to tell us that we were the ones who had been deeply wronged.
~ Jane Hamilton
Almost I took you as husband, love. Then you left me. I took surprise for husband instead.
~ Jane Hirshfield
Most of us live without awareness of the natural course of our lives. We were all born but don't remember the pain or shock of the transition from being safe and enclosed to the shock of being pushed out into a new element. We treat illness with resentment as though it is a total betrayal, and our bodies become an enemy. Old age is seen as something that happens to other people, and death is treated like rumour that may or may not be true.
~ Jane Hope
We treat illness with resentment as though it is a total betrayal, and our bodies become an enemy. Old age is seen as something that happens to other people, and death is treated like rumour that may or may not be true.
~ Jane Hope
But something worse can happen to the person who is betrayed." "What? What could possibly happen to me that is worse?" The older man stared at the younger, and then said pityingly, "You may learn treachery from it.
~ Jane Jakeman