150+ Betrayal Quotes and Sayings on (Friendship and Love)
Best Betrayal Quotes
“Only those you trust can betray you.” —Terry Goodkind
“Betrayal is common for men with no conscience.” —Toba Beta
“While stabbing someone’s back, you recklessly expose your own.” —Matshona Dhliwayo
“Even as your body betrays you, your mind denies it.” —Sara Gruen
“Pride had kept her running when love had betrayed her.” —Susan Elizabeth Phillips
“It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.” —William Blake
“The saddest thing about betrayal is that it never comes from your enemies.” —Anonymous
“Innocence invites protection, yet we might be smarter to protect ourselves against it.” —Megan Johns
“Those who don’t know the value of loyalty can never appreciate the cost of betrayal.” —Anonymous
“Betrayal is never easy to handle and there is no right way to accept it.” —Christine Feehan
“The point was to learn what it was we feared more: being misunderstood or being betrayed.” —Adam Levin
“A fraudulent intent, however carefully concealed at the outset, will generally, in the end, betray itself.” —Titus Livius
“When you care about someone, you can’t just turn that off because you learn they betrayed you.” —Paula Stokes
“A betrayal in a family is much more devastating than a betrayal among friends, or even lovers.” —Ari Aster
“If you’re betrayed, release disappointment at once. By that way, the bitterness has no time to take root.” —Toba Beta
“Trust, once lost, could not be easily found. Not in a year, perhaps not even in a lifetime.” —J.E.B. Spredemann
“The thorn from the bush one has planted, nourished and pruned pricks more deeply and draws more blood.” —Maya Angelou
“It’s not just about who’s being real to your face, but also about who’s being real behind your back.” —Anonymous
“Betrayal can be extremely painful, but it’s up to you how much that pain damages you permanently.” —Emily V. Gordon
“Grow a thick skin, a very thick skin. And watch your back. For every back, there is a knife.” —Lily Chatterjee
“There is tremendous trauma in the betrayal caused by a perpetual liar as they repeatedly commit psychological abuse.” —Cathy Burnham Martin
“It’s hard to tell who has your back, from who has it long enough just to stab you in it.” —Nicole Richie
“It’s a shame that the very people who you protect are the first ones to turn there backs on you.” —Autumn Kohler
“In life you can easily trust someone, but once the trust is broken its very difficult to trust anyone again.” —Sushan Sharma
“Some scars don’t hurt. Some scars are numb. Some scars rid you of the capacity to feel anything ever again.” —Joyce Rachelle
“All trust involves vulnerability and risk, and nothing would count as trust if there were no possibility of betrayal.” —Robert C. Solomon
“The knives of betrayal cut deep, and it hurts. But they also trim away the nonsense and reveal your real friends.” —Steve Maraboli
“Words don’t have the power to hurt you, unless that person meant more to you than you are willing to confess.” —Shannon L. Alder
“It’s hard to trust somebody when the one person who you completely opened up to is the person who later completely betrayed you.” —Anonymous
“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
“I think there are two different oceans, the one that plays with you in the summer, and the one that gets so mad in the winter.” —Jodi Picoult
“Sometimes your dearest friend whom you reveal most of your secrets to becomes so deadly and unfriendly without knowing that they were not really your friend.” —Michael Bassey Johnson
“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
“One should rather die than be betrayed. There is no deceit in death. It delivers precisely what it has promised. Betrayal, though, is the willful slaughter of hope.” —Steven Deitz
“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
“You can’t keep snakes in your backyard and expect them only to bite your neighbors. You know, eventually those snakes are going to turn on whoever has them in the backyard.” —Hillary Clinton
“We are not wounded so deeply when betrayed by the things we hope for as when betrayed by things we try our best to despise. In such betrayal comes the dagger in the back.” —Yukio Mishima
“Betrayal is one of my biggest fears. Betrayal happens on many different levels all the time, and there is no worse feeling than realizing someone you thought you could trust has gone against you.” —Katie Lee
“So this was betrayal. It was like being left alone in the desert at dusk without water or warmth. It left your mouth dry and will broken. It sapped your tears and made you hollow.” —Anna Godbersen
“Everyone suffers at least one bad betrayal in their lifetime. It’s what unites us. The trick is not to let it destroy your trust in others when that happens. Don’t let them take that from you.” —Sherrilyn Kenyon
“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.” —Anonymous
Quotes about Betrayal from Family
“Blood makes you related, Loyalty makes you family.”
“Blame and betrayal are the emotional enemies of improvement.”
“Let’s call cheating what it is: a complete betrayal of trust.” —Greg Behrendt
Those who don’t know the value of loyalty can never appreciate the cost of betrayal.
Life is not about who’s real to your face, it’s about who’s real behind your back.
“Nothing hurts more than being disappointed by the single person you thought would never hurt you.”
“Betrayal can be extremely painful, but it’s up to you how much that pain damages you permanently.” —Emily V. Gordon
Sometimes the people closest to you betray you, and your home isn’t a place you can be happy anymore.” —Kristin Cast
“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
“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.”
“Familial betrayal is, to me, the most heartbreaking kind – because if you can’t trust your family to love you and protect you, who can you really trust?” – Alexandra Bracken
“Betrayal leaves us at a fork in the road. We can become stuck in a bad moment forever or we can put it behind us for good. We decide our path.” —Carmen Harra
Friendship Betrayal Quotes
“Silence is a true friend who never betrays.”
“Hell is being betrayed by a trusted friend.”
“Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly.” —William Shakespeare
“Don’t be sorry. I trusted you. My mistake, not yours.”
“Some of the most poisonous people come disguised as friends.”
“Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.” —William Shakespeare
“We’re not friends, we’re not enemies, and we’re just strangers with some memories.”
“The lesser the friends, the lesser the chances of betrayal.” —Tupac Shakur
“The saddest thing about betrayal in that it never comes from your enemies.”
“Don’t fear the enemy that attacks you, but the fake friend that hugs you.”
“Job 19:19 – My close friends detest me. Those I loved have turned against me.
“It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.” —Confucius
“Betrayal darken the chain of friendship, but loyalty makes him brighter than ever.” —Native American Proverb
“F**k friends. I need more enemies. At least they admit they don’t like you.” —Wiz Khalifa
“Friends are supposed to be there for you when you cry, not the reason you cry.”
“We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.” —Tennessee Williams
“He’s whining, doctor. My heart is friendly when it comes to love, my back is my back.
“You eat the biggest stake from your friends, because their defense system is set against enemies, not friends!
“Mind what people do, not only what they say, for deeds will betray a lie.” —Terry Goodkind
“You know that you have been stabbed when you feel the deep pain of betrayal.” —Les Parrott
“The worst feeling in the world is knowing you’ve been used and lied to by someone you trusted.”
“I would rather my enemy’s sword pierce my heart then my friend’s dagger stab me in the back.” —Michele Bardsley
“Some people are willing to betray years of friendship just to get a little bit of the spotlight.” —Lauren Conrad
“Better to have an enemy who slaps you in the face than a friend who stabs you in the back.”
“Be careful who you tell your feelings to because some people are waiting for the opportunity to use them against you.”
“There is a big difference between being betrayed by an enemy and being betrayed by a friend. The latter hurts more.”
“Don’t waste words on people who deserve your silence. Sometimes the most powerful thing you can say is nothing at all.”
“Psalm 41:9 – Even my closest friend whom I trusted, the one who ate my bread, has lifted his heel against me.
“You don’t know who is a friend, who is an enemy. Sometimes it’s the hand you hold that hits you behind you.
“Beware the person who stabs you and then tells the world they’re the world they’re the one who’s bleeding.” —Jill Blakeway
“It’s hard to tell who has your back from who has it long enough just to stab you in it.” —Nicole Richie
“The worst kind of hurt is betrayal, because it means that someone will willing to hurt you just to make themselves feel better.”
“It’s hard to trust somebody when the one person who you completely opened up to is the person who later completely betrayed you.”
“If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.”
“Look, my friend, you will be afraid of the ungrateful, not the blind, the hypocrites not the cheeky, the bad milk, not the disfigured.
‘It was a mistake,’ you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you.” —David Levithan
“I will take his secret to the grave, telling people along the way. Betrayal is no sin if it is whimsical.” —Tom Stoppard
“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.”
“The knives of betrayal and drama cut deep and hurt… but they also trim away the nonsense and reveal your true friends.” —Steve Maraboli
“Job 19:13-14 – My relatives stay far away, and my friends have turned against me. My family is gone, and my close friends have forgotten me.
“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.”
“Two people who were once very close can without blame or grand betrayal become strangers. Perhaps this is the saddest thing in the world.” —Warsan Shire
“I lay it down as a fact that if all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.” —Blaise Pascal
“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.”
“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
“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
“I would never betray a friend to serve a cause. Never reject a friend to help an institution. Great nations may fall in ruin before I would sell a friend to save them.”
“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
“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.
“Matthew 26:48-50 – The traitor, Judas, had given them a prearranged signal: “You will know which one to arrest when I greet him with a kiss.” So Judas came straight to Jesus. “Greetings, Rabbi!” he exclaimed and gave him the kiss. Jesus said, “My friend, go ahead and do what you have come for.” Then the others grabbed Jesus and arrested him.
Love Betrayal Quotes for Him/Her
“True love is tested when betrayed.”
“I Broke my own heart loving you.”
“I feel foolish and I feel betrayed.”
“What had seemed like love was betrayal.”
“I don’t love you today like I loved you yesterday.”
“What had seemed like love was betrayal.” —Claudia Gray
“Being hurt by someone you love is the worst feeling ever.”
“You learned my secrets, scars, bruises, flaws and then you left.”
“Betrayal can only happen if you love.” —John le Carre
“You knew exactly what you were doing. That’s what hurts the most.”
“I tried to keep us together, but you were so busy keeping secrets.”
“Love grows where trust is laid, and love dies where trust in betrayed.”
“I have been constantly betrayed and deceived all my life.” —Taylor Caldwell
“When someone betrays you, it is a reflection of their character, not yours.”
“It’s like one day you flipped a switch and became someone I never knew.”
“You betrayed me. You hurt me. You broke my heart. You made me cry.”
“The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.” —Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
“I loved you at your darkest though you crucified me at mine.” —Lennon Hodson
“Why would you do that to me after I gave you everything that I had?
“I trusted you, but now your words mean nothing because your actions spoke the truth.”
“Betrayal answers betrayal, the mask of love is answered by the disappearance of love.” —Albert Camus
“I didn’t fall in love with you, I fell in love with the person you pretended to be.”
“Everyone has a reason for cheating, but no excuse will never change the hurt and betrayal it causes.”
“Love is whatever you can still betray. Betrayal can only happen if you love.” —John le Carre
“Forgive yourself for the blindness that let others betray you. Sometimes a good heart doesn’t see the bad.”
“No pain can ever be compared to the pain of being betrayed by someone so special to your heart.”
“If a girl ever steals your man, there’s no better revenge that letting her keep him. Real men.. can’t be stolen.”
“All wounds have the ability to heal. The only exception is the wound created by the betrayal of a loved one.”
“For me, I always wonder what’s worse: an emotional betrayal or a physical betrayal? That’s a really tough call.” —Hilarie Burton
“Love comes to those who still hope after disappointment, who still believes after betrayal, and who still love after they’ve been hurt.”
“Naturally, when one makes progressive steps, there may be some who see it as a betrayal of their goals and interests.” —Louis Farrakhan
“It’s bad enough when you are betrayed by an enemy, but it is infinite times more painful when this betrayal is perpetrated by a loved one.”
“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
“I wish I could give you my pain just for one moment. Not to hurt you, but so that you could finally understand how much you hurt me.”
“Don’t feel sad over someone who gave up on you, feel sorry for them because they gave up on someone who would have never gave up on them.”
“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
“I’m not cruing 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
“Shame, blame, disrespect, betrayal, and the withholding of affection damage the roots from which love grows. Love can only survive these injuries if they are acknowledged, healed, and rare.” —Brene Brow
“The worst mistake a man can make is to betray a woman who actually fought for him and stood by him and supported him when he was going through the worst in his life.”
“Love and marriage are wonderful arenas in which to place a character. We are most likely to risk our morals and beliefs while in love. Betrayal gives tremendous insights into a character as well.” —Anita Shreve
“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.” —Anais Nin
“Let me refresh your memory alright? I was the one who took your bullshit. I was the one who actually cared about you. I was the one who stuck around even when everyone told me to leave. I was the one who loved you even when you gave me every reason not to. Lastly, I was the one who was there for you when no one else was. I hope you can sleep on that.” —Unknown
Quotes about Betrayal of Friends/Best Friends
“We’re not friends we’re strangers with memories.”
“I’d rather have no friends than fake ones.”
“The lesser the friends, the lesser the chances of betrayal.”
“Your biggest hater could be your closet friend. Peeple pretend well.”
“I didn’t lose a friend, I just realized I never had one.”
“You don’t lose friends, you just learn who your real friends are.”
“Betray a friend, and you’ll often find you have ruined yourself.” —Aesop
“Don’t fear the enemy that attacks you, but the fake friend that hugs you.”
“Dear two-faced friend, I can’t seem to decide which face of yours to slap first.”
“They can betray me but I choose not to betray my peace of mind.” —Dodinsky
“Friendship is not capable of ending for if it ends it is only because it never existed.”
“It’s not about who is real to your face. It’s about who stays real behind your back.”
“When your so called friends say they have your back, make sure they’re not holding a knife.”
“Shattered legs may heal in time, but some betrayals fester and poison the soul.” —George R.R. Martin
“He who throws away a friend is as bad as he who throws away his life.” —Sophocles
“Some people are willing to betray years of friendship just to get a little bit of the spotlight.” —Lauren Conrad
“Then you should have died! Died, rather than betray your friends, as we would have done for you!” —J. K. Rowling
“When someone betrays me or lies to me, I never try to get even. I just change their role in my life.”
“There’s ways you can trust an enemy you can’t always trust a friend. An enemy’s never going to betray your trust.” —Daniel Abraham
“I’m the kind of friend who will help you hide a dead body, but if you betray me, just remember, I know how to hide a body.”
Funny Betrayal Quotes
“Zero tolerance for Betrayal.”
“Betrayal betrays the betrayer.”
“Surrounded by snakes and fakes.”
“Every Betrayal begins with Trust.”
“The real betrayal is forgetting yourself.”
“You’re fluent in lies, excuses and bullshit.”
“Betrayal would be a different sort of sick.”
“Loyalty is from above, betrayal is from below.”
“Betrayal is hard especially if you really trust him/her.”
“I hope karma slaps in your face before I do.”
“I’ve suffered betrayal with all five senses. For over a year.”
“All a man can betray is his conscience.” —Joseph Conrad
“Better to be slapped with the truth than kissed with a lie.”
Betrayal Quotes and Sayings
“Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.” —Arthur Miller
“Diaper backward spells repaid. Think about it.” —Marshall McLuhan
“Betrayal can only happen if you love.” —John Le Carre
“Trust thy self, and another shall not betray thee.” —Benjamin Franklin
“In a broken nest there are few whole eggs.” —Chinese Proverb
“Passions spin the plot: We are betrayed by what is false within.” —George Meredith
“Lord, defend me from my friends; I can account for my enemies.” —Charles D’Hericault
“For there to be betrayal, there would have to have been trust first.” —Suzanne Collins
“Be certain that he who has betrayed thee once will betray thee again.” —Johann Caspar Lavater
“Anyone who hasn’t experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all.” —Jean Genet
“My love for you was bulletproof but you’re the one who shot me.” —Pierce The Veil
“Betrayal is never easy to handle and there is no right way to accept it.” —Christine Feehan
“Every betrayal contains a perfect moment, a coin stamped heads or tails with salvation on the other side.” —Barbara Kingsolver
“Though those that are betray’d do feel the treason sharply, yet the traitor stands in worse case of woe.” —William Shakespeare
“It’s hard to tell who has your back from who has it long enough just to stab you in it.” —Nicole Richie
“The saddest thing about betrayal is that it never comes from your enemies… It comes from Friends n loved ones.” —Ash Sweeney
“It was a mistake, you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you.” —David Levithan
“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
“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
“Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven’t got the remotest knowledge of how to live, nor the smallest instinct about when to die.” —Oscar Wilde
“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
“There is no greater blessing than a family hand that lifts you from a fall; but there is not lower curse than a family hand that strikes you when you’re down.” —Wes Fessler
“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
“There must be love, and understanding, to betray. Most men haven’t the wit or the honor for betrayal: not to know it when they see it; not the stomach to apprehend it as they do it. Most men, blind and dumb in their self-centeredness, don’t betray: they merely disappoint.” —Janet Morris