Betray Quotes - Page 3

Oh lovers! be careful in those dangerous first days! once you've brought breakfast in bed you'll have to bring it forever, unless you want to be accused of lovelessness and betrayal.

The desire to create continually is vulgar and betrays jealousy, envy, ambition. If one is something one really does not need to make anything --and one nonetheless does very much. There exists above the ''productive'' man a yet higher species.

The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.

Regardless of who has betrayed you and what promises they didn’t keep- God is firm in His commitment to you.

Who would have thought that [director] Cameron Crowe had a movie as bad as Vanilla Sky in him? It's a punishing picture, a betrayal of everything that Crowe has proved he knows how to do right.

It's not your enemies who are likeliest to hurt you. It is, always, those you trust.

They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond first. All a man can betray is his conscience.

Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.

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.

The evolution of culture is ultimately determined by the amount of love, understanding and freedom experienced by its children... Every abandonment, every betrayal, every hateful act towards children returns tenfold a few decades later upon the historical stage, while every empathic act that helps a child become what he or she wants to become, every expression of love toward children heals society and moves it in unexpected, wondrous new directions.

Two people who were once very close can without blame or grand betrayal become strangers. Perhaps this is the saddest thing in the world.

To me, the thing that is worse than death is betrayal. You see, I could conceive death, but I could not conceive betrayal.

I have never known a more vulgar expression of betrayal and deceit.

History is not the story of heroes entirely. It is often the story of cruelty and injustice and shortsightedness. There are monsters, there is evil, there is betrayal. That's why people should read Shakespeare and Dickens as well as history ~~ they will find the best, the worst, the height of noble attainment and the depths of depravity.

To bow to the fact of our life's sorrows and betrayals is to accept them; and from this deep gesture we discover that all life is workable. As we learn to bow, we discover that the heart holds more freedom and compassion than we could imagine.

As a rule, panics do not destroy capital; they merely reveal the extent to which it has been destroyed by its betrayal into hopelessly unproductive works.

No doubt I shall go on writing, stumbling across tundras of unmeaning, planting words like bloody flags in my wake. Loose ends, things unrelated, shifts, nightmare journeys, cities arrived at and left, meetings, desertions, betrayals, all manner of unions, adulteries, triumphs, defeats…these are the facts.

It is less painful, it turns out, to feel betrayed than to feel forgotten.

A fraudulent intent, however carefully concealed at the outset, will generally, in the end, betray itself.

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

Sleep is the most moronic fraternity in the world, with the heaviest dues and the crudest rituals. It is a mental torture I find debasing... I simply cannot get used to the nightly betrayal of reason, humanity, genius.

I treat everyone as a friend, but if they betray me, that's it. They're out of my life in one way or another.

Each betrayal begins with trust.

If a life can be ruined in a single moment, a moment of betrayal, or violence, or ill luck, then why can a life not also be saved, be worth living, be made, by just a few pure moments of perfection?

Our 'normal' 'adjusted' state is too often the abdication of ecstasy, the betrayal of our true potentialities.