Top 413 Betrayal Quotes & Sayings

Loyalty is from above, betrayal is from below.

I know that disavowal is an unusal form of betrayal. From the outside it is impossible to tell if you are disowning someone or simply exercising discretion, being considerate, avoiding embarrassments and sources of irritation. But you, who are doing the disowning, you know what you're doing. And disavowal pulls the underpinnings away from a relationship just as surely as other more flamboyant types of betrayal.

Betrayal is one of my biggest fears. Betrayal happens on many different levels all the time, and there is no worse feeling than realizing someone you thought you could trust has gone against you.

Empathy is not a betrayal of one's cause.

Whether you're a vampire or werewolf, love is still love. Betrayal is still betrayal.

Trust is not established in the absence of betrayal, but in those whose betrayal is least.

Betrayal betrays the betrayer.

One should rather die than be betrayed. There is no deceit in death. It delivers precisely what it has promised. Betrayal, though ... betrayal is the willful slaughter of hope.

For there to be betrayal, there would have to have been trust first.

The betrayal of trust carries a heavy taboo.

Each betrayal begins with trust.

I dispute that 'Closer' is about betrayal. Betrayal is one of the elements.

Self interest determines loyalty or betrayal.

Betrayal does so many different things to people.

there are times when you have to speak because silence is betrayal.

Anyone who promises that everything can be made the way it used to be with the recipes of the past betrays in reality the people he claims to represent. We must never participate in this betrayal and we must never allow this betrayal.

What had seemed like love was betrayal

jealousy is the direct result of self-betrayal.

To me, the thing that is worse than death is betrayal.

Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn't matter; only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you-that would be the real betrayal.

A time comes when silence is betrayal.

A garbled quotation is equivalent to a betrayal, an insult, a prejudice.

War in the end is always about betrayal, betrayal of the young by the old, of soldiers by politicians, and of idealists by cynics.

A betrayal in a family is much more devastating than a betrayal among friends, or even lovers.

For only when faithfulness turns to betrayal And betrayal into trust Can any human being become part of the truth.

One thing I am certain of, I do not want to be betrayed, but thats quite hard to say casually, at the beginning of a relationship. 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, and then being on somebody else’s.

The feeling of betrayal by the friend you trust

I have always, or for the most part, identified myself as a biracial person. Much to the chagrin of a lot of African-American people that I meet, because it's almost like there's a betrayal, an intrinsic betrayal: "Don't do that, brotha, we need you. We need you here, in this fold."

Betrayal answers betrayal, the mask of love is answered by the disappearance of love.

For a woman betrayal has no sense - one cannot betray one's passions.

I think that the greatest betrayal that a revolutionary can participate in is to become like the people you are struggling against. To become like your persecutors. I think that is a betrayal and a sin.

I understand pain. I've lived with pain my entire life. But pain is nothing compared to betrayal. And betrayal is nothing compared to knowing that the javelin in your back was rammed there by the one person in your life you actually trusted.

Betrayal isn't ridiculous. It's the reason empires fall.

Betrayal is beautiful.

I have some questions about betrayal,” I said. “Think about this: A person who calls you his best friend, and says he has dinner plans with you, goes off with a beautiful woman, saying he’ll be back directly, then makes you wait half an hour because he’s kissing the woman in the alley. Is that betrayal?” “Oh, Lord.” Eldric tossed back his wine.

I've suffered betrayal with all five senses. For over a year.

Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.

Let's call cheating what it is: a complete betrayal of trust.

In a restless heart the seed of betrayal lay.

Betrayal would be a different sort of sick.

People think it's a betrayal of authenticity if you do something different.

Is it possible to succeed without any act of betrayal?

The treachery of demons is nothing compared to the betrayal of an angel.

For me, I always wonder what's worse: an emotional betrayal or a physical betrayal? That's a really tough call.

No one ever really pays for betrayal in silver....The price of any betrayal always comes due in flesh.

Betrayal of any kind is hard, but betrayal by one's religion is excruciating. It makes you want to rage and weep.

Betrayal. It's one of the worst feelings.

With some people there is such a thing as the habit of betrayal.

Even loss and betrayal can bring us awakening.

Betrayal is the deepest wound. Betrayal is what remains of love, when love has gone.

Fidelity to meaning alone in translation is a kind of betrayal.

This dress exacerbates the genetic betrayal that is my legacy.

Betrayal... is my favorite subject.

My parents were entirely unpredictable and what they said very unreliable, which meant I became very attuned to the range of other signals human beings give out - body language or what Freud graphically called the "betrayal that oozes out of him at every pore," betrayal, that is, of what they really mean. I have that to this day, and it makes conversation exhausting because I'm listening not just to the words of the person in front of me but also to their body. It's as if there are two radio stations on at the same time.

Between lovers, betrayal is always the worst sin.

From tender youth we are told by father and teacher that betrayal is the most heinous offence imaginable. But what is betrayal??Betrayal means breaking ranks and breaking off into the unknown. Sabina knew of nothing more magnificent than going off into the unknown.

We've all gone through some kind of betrayal, whether it's with a boyfriend or a friend or a family member. That's why this is so relatable to everybody because we all know what it feels like to feel that betrayal.

It's better to be hanged for loyalty than be rewarded for betrayal.

To me, the thing that is worse than death is betrayal. You see, I could conceive death, but I could not conceive betrayal.

Blame and betrayal are the emotional enemies of improvement.