35 Most Painful Betrayal Quotes and Sayings

Betrayal can really hurt you and can leave deep scars and a long time to heal.

Betrayal can be done by a friend, a lover, a family member or even a stranger.

Betrayal can make you furious, sad, and alone.


Best Betrayal Quotes

Silence is a true friend who never betrays. ~ Confucius.

Betrayal is common for men with no conscience. ~ Toba Beta.

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Each betrayal begins with trust. ~ Martin Luther.

Trust is earned, respect is given, and loyalty is demonstrated. Betrayal of any one of those is to lose all three. ~ Ziad K. Abdelnour.

The lesser the friends, the lesser the chances of betrayal. ~ Tupac Shakur.

I could never hurt him enough to make his betrayal stop hurting. And it hurts, in every part of my body. ~ Veronica Roth.

The knives of betrayal and drama cut deep and hurt… but they also trim away the nonsense and reveal your true friends. ~ Steve Maraboli.

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Let’s call cheating what it is: a complete betrayal of trust. ~ Greg Behrendt.

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.

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Painful Betrayal Quotes

The liar’s punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else. ~ George Bernard Shaw.

We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal. ~ Tennessee Williams.

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Even loss and betrayal can bring us awakening. ~ Buddha.

I could never hurt him enough to make his betrayal stop hurting. And it hurts, in every part of my body. ~ Veronica Roth.

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

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

Some people are willing to betray years of friendship just to get a little bit of the spotlight. ~ Lauren Conrad.

Famous Betrayal Quotes

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them. ~ Confucius.

Sincerity is a great but rare virtue, and we pardon to it much complaining, and the betrayal of many weaknesses. ~ Henry David Thoreau.

It is undoubtedly easier to believe in absolutes, follow blindly, mouth received wisdom. But that is self-betrayal. ~ John Ralston Saul.

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The most dangerous follower is the one whose defection would destroy the whole party: hence, the best follower. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche.

Some people are willing to betray years of friendship just to get a little bit of the spotlight. ~ Lauren Conrad.

Beware the person that stabs you and then tells the world they’re bleeding! ~ Jill Blakeway.

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.

Top Betrayal Quotes

Violent antipathies are always suspicious, and betray a secret affinity. ~ William Hazlitt.

If you’re betrayed, release disappointment at once. By that way, the bitterness has no time to take root. ~ Toba Beta.

It is most true, stylus virum arguit, – our style betrays us. ~ Robert A. Burton.

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.

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Sometimes the people closest to you betray you, and your home isn’t a place you can be happy anymore. ~ Kristin Cast.

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 disappointment and disillusionment. ~ José N. Harris.

Betray a friend, and you’ll often find you have ruined yourself. ~ Aesop.

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend. ~ William Blake.

I may be many things, and there are even more I am not, but I would never do to you what you did to me, and I think that says a lot. ~ Jessica Katoff.

Pride had kept her running when love had betrayed her. ~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips.

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

It’s hard to tell who has your back, from who has it long enough just to stab you in it. ~ Nicole Richie.


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