B Quotes
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“Betrayal is an inherent part of Love.”
“Betrayal is astounding as it shows beautiful colours never seen before ...”
“Betrayal is beautiful.”
“Betrayal is common for men with no conscience.”
Source: My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
“Betrayal is neat. It absolves you from having to think about your own failures, the ways you didn’t show up for your partner, the harm you might have done.
Betrayal is neat because no matter what else happened—if you argued about work or the kids, if you lacked intimacy, if you were disconnected and lonely—it’s as if that person doused everything with lighter fluid and threw a match.
Sometimes I wonder: If there had been no postcard, no notebook, would our marriage have survived?
I don’t know. That’s the truth.”
Source: You Could Make This Place Beautiful
“Betrayal is never easy to handle and there is no right way to accept it.”
Source: Christine Feehan 5 CARPATHIAN NOVELS
“Betrayal is not a single act, but a crack in the mirror of loyalty, reflecting shards of shattered trust”
Source: The Rhythm of Betrayal
“Betrayal is primitive and elemental and deep in the memory of my body an old animal knowledge had stirred to life.”
Source: Liars
“Betrayal is the deepest wound. Betrayal is what remains of love, when love has gone.”
Source: Little Bird of Heaven
“Betrayal is the echo of a shattered promise, reverberating through the chambers of the heart.”
Source: The Rhythm of Betrayal
“Betrayal is the foundation of power. That's how history advances.”
Source: Glaxo
“Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.”
Source: After the Fall
“Betrayal is the ultimate act of cowardice. It takes courage to be honest, but it takes no courage to deceive. It is a choice, not a mistake. It's a conscious decision to put self-interest above loyalty and truth”
“Betrayal is the ultimate test of trust. It reveals who is truly loyal and who is only pretending, and the ultimate betrayal is not when someone else wrongs us, but when we betray our own values and integrity”
“Betrayal is the venom that poisons the veins of fake love, revealing its true nature - a masquerade of manipulation and deception, leaving scars that can never fully heal.”
“Betrayal is the venomous serpent that slithers through the shadows of friendship, ready to strike when least expected. When loyalty turns to betrayal, it's a reminder that even the purest intentions can be tainted by deceit”
“Betrayal is the whispered lie that drowns the melody of truth, silencing the symphony of the soul.”
Source: The Rhythm of Betrayal
“Betrayal is too kind a word to describe a situation in which a father says he loves his daughter but claims he must teach her about the horrors of the world in order to make her a stronger person; a situation in which he watches or participates in rituals that make her feel like she is going to die. She experiences pain that is so intense that she cannot think; her head spins so fast she can't remember who she is or how she got there.
All she knows is pain. All she feels is desperation. She tries to cry out for help, but soon learns that no one will listen. No matter how loud she cries, she can't stop or change what is happening. No matter what she does, the pain will not stop. Her father orders her to be tortured and tells her it is for her own good. He tells her that she needs the discipline, or that she has asked for it by her misbehavior. Betrayal is too simple a word to describe the overwhelming pain, the overwhelming loneliness and isolation this child experiences.
As if the abuse during the rituals were not enough, this child experiences similar abuse at home on a daily basis. When she tries to talk about her pain, she is told that she must be crazy. "Nothing bad has happened to you;' her family tells her Each day she begins to feel more and more like she doesn't know what is real. She stops trusting her own feelings because no one else acknowledges them or hears her agony. Soon the pain becomes too great. She learns not to feel at all. This strong, lonely, desperate child learns to give up the senses that make all people feel alive. She begins to feel dead.
She wishes she were dead. For her there is no way out. She soon learns there is no hope.
As she grows older she gets stronger. She learns to do what she is told with the utmost compliance. She forgets everything she has ever wanted. The pain still lurks, but it's easier to pretend it's not there than to acknowledge the horrors she has buried in the deepest parts of her mind. Her relationships are overwhelmed by the power of her emotions. She reaches out for help, but never seems to find what she is looking for The pain gets worse. The loneliness sets in. When the feelings return, she is overcome with panic, pain, and desperation.
She is convinced she is going to die. Yet, when she looks around her she sees nothing that should make her feel so bad. Deep inside she knows something is very, very wrong, but she doesn't remember anything. She thinks, "Maybe I am crazy.”
Source: Ritual Abuse: What It Is, Why It Happens, and How to Help
“Betrayal is very sour. Moreso when the one you've been trusting turns out to be the one you should be fearing.”
“Betrayal is when your companion in a monkey hunt describes your head as being like that of a monkey.”
“Betrayal isn't ridiculous. It's the reason empires fall.”
Source: Night Film
“Betrayal, it was the most solitary word of all, beyond abandonment, beyond torture, beyond hatred. It was the human act that cut the most deeply, splintering north from south and east from west.”
Source: The Measure of Gold
“Betrayal leaves a gigantic scar which can never be seen ...”
“Betrayal lived in a separate realm than sex, a realm that was far more innocent, and far more erotic.”
Source: The Romantics
“Betrayal means breaking ranks and going off into the unknown. Sabina knew of nothing more magnificent than going off into the unknown.”
“Betrayal means that, faced with opposition or temptation or ridicule, we fail to stand by a commitment to another. It’s another instance of that vicious lack of integrity which affects human life and fellowship—we make promises but break them; our word is not our bond; our fidelity is worthless.”
“Betrayal never begins with an attack. It begins the moment you confuse familiarity with safety.”
Source: KNOW YOUR ENEMIES: Familiarity is camouflage
“BETRAYAL
No failure in Life, whether of love or money, is ever really that simple; it usually involves a type of a shadowy betrayal, buried in a secret, mass grave of shared hopes and dreams.
That universal mass grave exists in a private cemetery that most... both those suffering from the loss, but especially those committing the betrayal, refuse to acknowledge its existence.
When you realize you've been deeply betrayed, fear really hits you. That's what you feel first. And then it's anger and frustration. Then disspointment and disilussionment.
Part of the problem is how little we understand about the ultimate effects and consequences of betrayal on our hearts and spirits; and on trust and respect for our fellow brothers and sisters.
In writing, there are only really a few good stories to tell, and in the end, and betrayal and the failure of love is one of the most powerful stories to tell.
Tragedy in life normally comes with betrayal and compromise- by trading in our integrity and failing to treat life and others in our life, with respect and dignity. That's really where the truest and the most tragic failures comes from... they come making the choice to betray another soul, and in turn, giving up a peice of your own.”
Source: Mi Vida
“Betrayal of any kind is hard, but betrayal by one's religion is excruciating. It makes you want to rage and weep.”
“Betrayal of men can cost the life of the betrayed, but betrayal of the Lord will come at cost of the life of the betrayer, beware!”
“Betrayal. That's the first thing I feel, which is ludicrous. For there to be betrayal, there would have to have been trust first.”
Source: The Hunger Games
“Betrayal,” the Grand Inquisitor said, raising his lip. “How quotidian.”
Source: Inquisitor: Rise of the Red Blade
“Betrayal. Translation means doing violence upon the original, means warping and distorting it for foreign, unintended eyes. So then where does that leave us? How can we conclude, except by acknowledging that an act of translation is then necessarily always an act of betrayal.”
Source: Babel
“Betrayal was a stone beneath a mattress of thr bed you shared, something you felt digging into you no matter how you shifted position. What was the point of being able to forgive, when deep down, you both had to admit you'd never forget?”
“Betrayal was the greatest of all crimes, for it took all that was human within a person and made it a thing of pain. In the face of that, murder itself was surcease: it was quick, and it ended the anguish and despair of a life without hope.”
Source: Gardens Of The Moon: (Malazan Book Of The Fallen 1)
“Betrayal was the ultimate weapon, for it left emotional destruction in its wake. And questions. Thousands of questions.”
Source: The Madcap Marriage
“Betrayal would be a different sort of sick.”
“Betrayal, in all forms, is painful. It can make you go crazy. But we all have choices on how to deal with it. Do we just go away or stay?”
“Betrayal, in one form or another, is at the very heart of the world of intelligence.”
“Betrayal. It's one of the worst feelings.”
Source: Thirteen Reasons Why
“Betrayal... is my favorite subject.”
“Betrayals don’t cancel each other out. They just hurt more.”
Source: Every Summer After
“Betrayals during war are childlike compared with our betrayals during peace.”
“Betrayals shatters illusions... It breaks your heart, but clears your vision.”
“Betrayals that make your soul scream so loud you wonder why no one else hears it. In the end, we are all alone in that private hell. But life isn't about learning to forgive those who have hurt you or forgetting the past. It's about learning to forgive yourself for being human and making mistakes. Yes, people disappoint us all the time. But the harshest lessons come when we disappoint ourselves. When we put our trust and our hearts into the hands of the wrong person and they do us wrong. And while we may hate them for what they did, the one we hate most is ourself for allowing them into our private circle. How could I have been so stupid? How could I let them deceive me?”
“Betrayed and wronged in everything,
I’ll flee this bitter world where vice is king,
And seek some spot unpeopled and apart
Where I’ll be free to have an honest heart.”
Source: The Misanthrope
“Betrayed and wronged in everything, I’ll flee this bitter world where vice is king, And seek some spot unpeopled and apart Where I’ll be free to have an honest heart. - Molière, The Misanthrope”
“Betrayed by Judas, denied by Peter, abandoned by the eleven, forsaken by God. Darkness, you get one hour. Then you die.”
“Betraying someone once can be a mistake. Betraying someone twice is a choice.”
“Bets at first were fool-traps, where the wise like spiders lay in ambush for the flies.”
Source: The works of John Dryden now first collected ...