Betrayal equals losing your trust and having your heart broken. We all know that being betrayed is one of the most debilitating thing that could ever happen to anyone, especially if it is done by someone dear to us, be it a friend or a loved-one. When you are betrayed, all the trust you had for that person is gone, you become less confident, afraid, constantly asking yourself what you’ve done wrong to deserve such an awful thing. Being miserable is a part of it and trusting again becomes very hard. The only thing that’s left to do is to totally cut that person out of your life, move on and make sure that the next person whom you’ll put your trust into will never do the same.
Listed below are quotes about betrayal that might help if you are in the same situation.
FAMOUS QUOTES ABOUT BETRAYAL
There are three signs of a hypocrite: when he speaks he speaks lies, when he makes a promise he breaks it, and when he is trusted he betrays his trust.
— Muhammad
Tragedy in life normally comes with betrayal and compromise, and trading on your integrity and not having dignity in life. That’s really where failure comes.
— Tom Cochrane
When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself.
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
Love is whatever you can still betray. Betrayal can only happen if you love.
— John le Carre
You want to believe that there’s one relationship in life that’s beyond betrayal. A relationship that’s beyond that kind of hurt. And there isn’t.
— Caleb Carr
It was a mistake, you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you.
— David Levithan
For there to be betrayal, there would have to have been trust first.
— Suzanne Collins
Anything may be betrayed, anyone may be forgiven, but not those who lack the courage of their own greatness
— Ayn Rand
Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.
— Arthur Miller
Trust can take years to build, but only a second to break.
— Unknown
FAMILY BETRAYAL QUOTES
It’s particularly hard to take being stabbed in the back close to home. There’s always a feeling of betrayal when people of your own group oppose you.
— Catharine MacKinnon
The most powerful ties are the ones to the people who gave us birth it hardly seems to matter how many years have passed, how many betrayals there may have been, how much misery in the family: We remain connected, even against our wills.
— Anthony Brandt
Sometimes blood isn’t thicker than water and family will cross you quicker than strangers.
— Unknown
Love is understood, in a historical way, as one of the great human vocations – but its counterspell has always been infidelity. This terrible, terrible betrayal that can tear apart not only another person, not only oneself, but whole families.
— Junot Diaz
FRIEND BETRAYAL QUOTES
False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us when we cross into the shade.
— Christian Bovee
The worst pain in the world goes beyond the physical. Even further beyond any other emotional pain one can feel. It is the betrayal of a friend.
— Heather Brewer, Ninth Grade Slays
If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
— Edward M Foster
Better to have an enemy who slaps you in the face than a friend who stabs you in the back.
— Unknown
To be deceived by our enemies or betrayed by our friends in insupportable; yet by ourselves we are often content to be so treated.
— Duc de La Rochefoucauld
It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.
— Confucius
The only difference between your friends and your enemies is you know who your enemies are.
— Unknown
Sometimes we expect more from others, because we’d be willing to do much more for them; and as we grow older we don’t lose friends, we just learn who the real ones are.
— Unknown
It’s hard to tell who has your back from who has it long enough just to stab you in it….
— Nicole Richie
BETRAYAL OF TRUST QUOTES
Each betrayal begins with trust.
— Unknown
We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against Betrayal.
— Tennessee Williams
There are only really a few stories to tell in the end, and betrayal and the failure of love is one of those good stories to tell.
— Sean Lennon
The day you betrayed my trust was the day that I lost all my trust for you. I believed that you would take care of my heart and that’s why I left it with you. Well, I am taking it back because at this very moment I can’t trust you with my heart in fear that you will hurt me once more.
— Unknown
It breaks my heart; it makes me sad to think of all the times we had. You made me laugh and you made me cry. And all that I can do is sigh and wonder why.
— Unknown
Tragedy in life normally comes with betrayal and compromise, and trading on your integrity and not having dignity in life. That’s really where failure comes.
— Tom Cochrane
Naturally, when one makes progressive steps, there may be some who see it as a betrayal of their goals and interests.
— Louis Farrakhan
Anyone who hasn’t experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all.
— Jean Genet
