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Quotes About Betrayal

Music was your real passion, this thing you held dear even above family. It was this relationship that never betrayed you. Once it became your job - this thing that was highly visible, this thing that became about commerce - that's when you were holding onto music like it was a palm tree in a hurricane.
~ Eddie Vedder
Then there's the fact that losses tend to be multilayered. There's the actual loss (in my case, of Boyfriend), and the underlying loss (what it represents). That's why for many people the pain of a divorce is only partially about the loss of the other person; often it's just as much about what the change represents: failure, rejection, betrayal, the unknown, and a different life story than the one they'd expected.
~ Lori Gottlieb
Loss of trust is harder to repair.
~ Lori Gottlieb
AND ALL THE OTHER SOULS WHO GOT LEFT AND CURSED BY THOSE THAT SHOULD HAVE LOVED AND CARED.
~ Lori Lansens
He'd left her stranded in front of three hundred wedding guests, wearing a white dress and glass slippers like some deranged Cinderella, while he caught a plane to the Cayman Islands with a knock-kneed stripper named Chrysanthemum Greene and several million dollars embezzled from the Stardust Savings and Loan.
~ Lori Wilde
found him in our bed with Mallory, wearing my favorite cowboy hat." "Wait a minute, who was wearing your favorite cowboy hat, Mallory or the dude." "The dude, but he was wearing it on his Johnson." "Eww. Low class.
~ Lori Wilde
The easiest way in the world to make enemies is to hire friends.
~ Unknown
I guess when someone's really hurt you, there always seems to be a possibility for more.
~ Lorna Landvik
Have you ever loved anyone?" "You mean besides my mum?" Luke was dumbfounded as he stared at Jack. He knew his friend's story. "She sold you when you were five." Jack shrugged. "Doesn't mean I didn't love her. Just means she didn't love me.
~ Lorraine Heath
How could he give her so much, yet leave her so little.
~ Lorraine Heath
I understand why you did what you did. Perhaps a part of me even admires you for it. But I can't forgive you for it.
~ Lorraine Heath
If she made a cake for him, she'd use salt in place of sugar-and lots of it.
~ Lorraine Heath
But you also admitted to her being in the shadows and not having a clear view of him." "What would be his motive?" "Perhaps he saw me kissing Mary." "Killing the man for kissing your betrothed seems a bit drastic." I would, he thought, surprised by the vehement behind the words.
~ Lorraine Heath
Stephanie says that she wants to know Why she's given half her life, to people she hates now
~ Lou Reed
Right after that, Jesus added, "But after I am raised up, I will go before you to Galilee" (Matthew 26:32). Jesus often tucked in little phrases like that. Continually, throughout his ministry on earth, he was letting people know that hope was on its way. He said things such as this: My body will be broken for you and my blood spilled for many for the forgiveness of sins, yet one of you is going to betray me.
~ Louie Giglio
Have you ever been abandoned? Left behind? Sold out? Maybe not dropped literally down a dry hole, but that's how you felt.
~ Louie Giglio
The whole thing is so degrading! That a man like Eric should be reduced to crawling before those bloodsuckers who are taking every advantage of his weakened state. And strip himself of one whole third of his wealth to throw it away like all the huge sums they've already got out of him!
~ Louis Auchincloss
But I'm afraid you've blotted your copybook fatally with Clara.
~ Louis Auchincloss
The die is set and Malcolm will not escape for the foolish talk he spoke against his benefactor, such a man, is worthy of death, and it would have been so, were it not for Muhammad's confidence that God would give him the victory over the enemies.
~ Louis Farrakhan
La jeunesse est un temps merveilleux qui aboutit presque toujours à une trahison de soi-même dont on ignore comment elle s'est faite, et dont le reste de la vie se passe à contempler les conséquences dans un consentement dont on ne s'étonne même plus.
~ Unknown
Slipping in blood, by his own hand, through pride, Hamlet, Othello, Coriolanus fall. Upon his bed, however, Shakespeare die, Having endured them all.
~ Louise Bogan
Who hurt you, once, so far beyond repair that you would greet each overture with curling lip?
~ Unknown
That was the danger. Not that betrayals happened, not that cruel things happened, but that they could outweigh all the good. That we could forget the good and only remember the bad.
~ Louise Penny
Wait, Armand, he heard behind him but kept walking, ignoring the calls. Then he remembered what Emile had meant to him and still did. Did this one bad thing wipe everything else out? That was the danger. Not that betrayals happened, not that cruel things happened, but that they could outweigh all the good. That we could forget the good and only remember the bad. But not today. Gamache stopped.
~ Louise Penny