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Betrayal destroys your faith in others and makes you feel like you are alone in the world. When someone close to you breaks your trust, it makes you question everything and offers no clear answers. Whether it’s the burning pain of betrayal or the refined craft of deceit, betrayal hurts relationships.
You can heal from many mistakes, but betrayal is difficult to deal with. While you may not be able to avoid feeling the pain of betrayal, you may be able to heal from it.
To support you in your healing journey, we’ve compiled a list of some of the most inspiring, insightful, and life-changing betrayal quotes below.
If you or someone close to you is looking for comfort and healing, the following betrayal quotes may provide you with some perspective and inspiration.
Quotes on Betrayal
- “I could never hurt him enough to make his betrayal stop hurting. And it hurts, in every part of my body.” – Veronica Roth
- “That was how dishonesty and betrayal started, not in big lies but in small secrets.” ― Amy Tan
- “Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.” – William Penn
- “The saddest thing about love is that not only the love cannot last forever, but even the heartbreak is soon forgotten.” – William Faulkner
- “If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.” ― Mark Twain
- “I wish the pain of betrayal was as easy to ignore as the red flags that forewarned of it.”― Steve Maraboli
- “Betrayal does that — betrays the betrayer.” – Erica Jong
- “Betrayal annihilates trust. The more trust there is to begin with, and the more deception is involved, the more damage is done.” ― Sandra Lee Dennis
- “Betrayal is never easy to handle, and there is no right way to accept it.” – Christine Feehan
- “The fake slap invariably makes contact, adding the elements of shock and betrayal to what had previously been plain old-fashioned fear.” ― David Sedaris
- “Betrayals rarely come from an enemy.”― Aniekee Tochukwu Ezekiel
- “Every great work of art … is a celebration, an act of insubordination against the betrayals, horrors and infidelities of life.” ― Azar Nafisi
- “Betrayal answers betrayal, the mask of love is answered by the disappearance of love.” ― Albert Camus
- “At some point, you can’t take a risk just to take a risk because that’s a betrayal, in and of itself.” ― Damon Lindelof
- “It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.” – William Blake
- “Betrayal can only happen if you love.” – John le Carré
- “All of us must act selfishly to earn charity, must lie to learn honor, must betray and be betrayed to learn to value trust and commitment.” ― Bill Vaughan
- “Better to have an enemy who slaps you in the face than a friend who stabs you in the back.” – Unknown
- “I’ve always been drawn to stories and characters facing some sort of struggle against forces beyond our control, be it love, loss, betrayal.” ― Nathan Parsons
- “Shattered legs may heal in time, but some betrayals fester and poison the soul.” ― George R. R. Martin
- Forgive yourself for the blindness that put you in the path of those who betrayed you. Sometimes a good heart doesn’t see the bad. ― Unknown
- Healing from betrayal is a personal journey. It’s about finding inner strength, learning to trust yourself again, and creating a better future. ― Unknown
Painful & Inspiring Quotes on Betrayal
- “I’m not crying because of you; you’re not worth it. I’m crying because my delusion of who you were was shattered by the truth of who you are.” – Steve Maraboli
- “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
- “The soul always knows what to do to heal itself. The challenge is to silence the mind.” ― Caroline Myss
- “All trust involves vulnerability and risk, and nothing would count as trust if there were no possibility of betrayal.” – Robert C. Solomon
- “Betrayal of any kind is hard, but betrayal by one’s religion is excruciating. It makes you want to rage and weep.” ― Sue Monk Kidd
- “To me, the thing that is worse than death is betrayal. You see, I could conceive death, but I could not conceive betrayal.” – Malcolm X
- “Some of the most poisonous people come disguised as friends.” – Unknown
- “There is always a lesson of a lifetime to learn in every betrayal.” – Edmond Mbiaka
- “It’s absolutely fatal to your writing to think about how your work will be received. It’s a betrayal of whatever talent you have.” — Nadine Gordimer
- “Betray a friend, and you’ll often find you have ruined yourself.” – Aesop
- To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you. ― Lewis B. Smedes
More Betrayal Quotes
- “You know that you have been stabbed when you feel the deep pain of betrayal.” – Les Parrott
- “Betrayal lived in a separate realm than sex, a realm that was far more innocent, and far more erotic.” ― Galt Niederhoffer
- “Sometimes the people you’d take a bullet for are the ones behind the trigger.” – Taylor Swift
- “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?” ― Anne Curtis
- “Never underestimate the totality of chaos and betrayal that comes through currency debasement.” ― James Cook
- “Breaking someone’s trust is like crumpling up a perfect piece of paper. You can smooth it over but it’s never going to be the same again.”– Unknown
- “Love often betrays, but a friend rarely does.”― Amit Kalantri
- “A garbled quotation is equivalent to a betrayal, an insult, a prejudice.” ― Emile M. Cioran
- “But now the joy is gone and the sadness is back, the sadness feels like something deserved, the price of some not-quite-forgotten betrayal.” ― Stephen King
- “We are all the heroes and heroines of our own lives. Our love stories are amazingly romantic; our losses and betrayals and disappointments are gigantic in our own minds.” — Maeve Binchy
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