81 Best Betrayal Quotes with Images

“She would see it as betrayal. Nothing more. Nothing less.” – Samantha Young

“Her only way home was to betray her friend.” – Unknown

“It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.” – William Blake

“I used to advertise my loyalty and I don’t believe there is a single person I loved that I didn’t eventually betray.” – Albert Camus

“When you care about someone, you can’t just turn that off because you learn they betrayed you.” – Paula Stokes

“Silence is a true friend who never betrays.” – Confucius

“There is nothing worse than betraying yourself.” – Oprah

“It’s hard to trust somebody when the one person who you completely opened up to is the person who later completely betrayed you.” – Unknown

“Faithful are the wounds of a friend, but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.” – Unknown

“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

“I think if people could step inside a person who has been betrayed by the love of their life and feel the agony it causes, no one who is human would have it in their heart to cause someone that much pain and heartache.” – Unknown

“An honest enemy is always better than a friend who lies. Pay less attention to what people say, and more attention to what they do. Their actions will show you the truth.” – Unknown

“Life is not about who’s real to your face, it’s about who’s real behind your back.” – Unknown

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

“I’m mature enough to forgive you, but I’m not dumb enough to trust you again.” – Unknown

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

“For there to be betrayal, there would have to have been trust first.” – Suzanne Collins

“The worst feeling in the world is knowing you’ve been used and lied to by someone you trusted.” – Unknown

“An honest enemy is better than a false friend. When in doubt, pay more attention to what people do and less to what they say. Actions not only speak louder than words, they are more difficult to fake.” – Zero Dean

“Those who don’t know the value of loyalty can never appreciate the cost of betrayal.” – Unknown

“Even the people who betray you are part of the plan.” – Unknown

“When someone betrays you, it is a reflection of their character, not yours.” – Unknown

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

“She would see it as “Pride had kept her running when love had betrayed her.” – Susan Elizabeth Phillips

“Beware the person that stabs you and then tells the world they’re bleeding!” – Jill Blakeway

“Sometimes, instead of being hurt, you should look at betrayal as a gift. It makes it that much easier to sweep it up and toss it out with the rest of the trash. And why is that you ask? Because trash starts to stink…and when it does, it has no more value in your life.” – Donna Schoenrock

“Love comes to those who still hope after disappointment, who still believe after betrayal, and who still love after they’ve been hurt.” – Unknown

“The real betrayal is forgetting yourself.” – Unknown

“I regret opening up to some people, they didn’t deserve to know me like that.” – Unknown

“The saddest thing about betrayal is that it never comes from your enemies.” – Unknown

“Sometimes the person you’d take a bullet for is behind the trigger.” – Unknown

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

“Betrayal doesn’t only break your heart but also darkens your soul. You’ll never forget the pain like a fog that forever lingers in the depths of your mind.” – Unknown

“Betrayal is so emotionally charged because the act of betrayal violates a couple’s core agreement- the promise to care for each other and keep each other safe.” – Dr. Carla Marie Greco

“Betray a friend, and you’ll often find you have ruined yourself.” – Aesop

“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

“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

“The worst mistake a man can make is to betray a woman who actually fought the world for him and stood by him and supported him when he was going through the worst in his life.” – Unknown

“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

“We met less than a week ago and in that time I’ve done nothing but lie and cheat and betray you. I know. But if you give me a chance…all I want is to protect you. To be near you. For as long as I’m able.” – Marissa Meyer

“I’m not really sure why. But… do you stop loving someone just because they betray you? I don’t think so. That’s what makes the betrayal hurt so much – pain, frustration, anger… and I still loved her. I still do.” – Brandon Sanderson

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

“Betrayal is common for men with no conscience.” – Toba Beta

“Betrayal is never easy to handle and there is no right way to accept it.” – Christine Feehan

“It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.” – Confucius

“Try not to stress over the shady people who betrayed you. I know it hurts but the truth is that they were always shady, they are never going to change and you are actually much better off now because at least you know who they really are.” – Unknown

“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

“One of the hardest lessons in life is letting go.Whether it’s guilt, anger, love, loss or betrayal.Change is never easy.We fight to hold on and we fight to let go.If you’ve been hurt until it breaks your soul into pieces, your perspective in life will definitely change, and no one and nothing in this world could ever hurt you again.” – Mareez Reyes

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

“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

“Touch. It is touch that is the deadliest enemy of chastity, loyalty, monogamy, gentility with its codes and conventions and restraints. By touch we are betrayed and betray others … an accidental brushing of shoulders or touching of hands … hands laid on shoulders in a gesture of comfort that lies like a thief, that takes, not gives, that wants, not offers, that awakes, not pacifies. When one flesh is waiting, there is electricity in the merest contact.” – Wallace Stegner

“He, who had done more than any human being to draw her out of the caves of her secret, folded life, now threw her down into deeper recesses of fear and doubt. The fall was greater than she had ever known, because she had ventured so far into emotion and had abandoned herself to it.” – Anaïs Nin

“Do you believe a man can truly love a woman and constantly betray her? Never mind physically but betray her in his mind, in the very “poetry of his soul”. Well, it’s not easy but men do it all the time.” – Mario Puzo

“The worst kind of hurt is betrayal, because it means that someone will willing to hurt you just to make themselves feel better.” – Unknown

“Nothing hurts more than being disappointed by the single person you thought would never hurt you.” – Unknown

“Life has taught me that you can’t control someone’s loyalty. No matter how good you are to them, doesn’t mean that they will treat you the same. No matter how much they mean to you, doesn’t mean that they’ll value you the same. Sometimes the people you love the most, turn out to be the people you can trust the least.” – Unknown

“Mind what people do, not only what they say, for deeds will betray a lie.” – Terry Goodkind