Profoundly inspirational family betrayal quotes will challenge the way you think, change the way you live and transform your whole life.
Famous Family Betrayal Quotes
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
One should rather die than be betrayed. There is no deceit in death. It delivers precisely what it has promised. Betrayal, though … betrayal is the willful slaughter of hope. — Steven Deitz
It’s a shame that the very people who you protect are the first ones to turn there backs on you. — Autumn Kohler
The saddest thing about betrayal is that it never comes from your enemies… It comes from Friends n loved ones. — Ash Sweeney
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
Anyone who hasn’t experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all. — Jean Genet
It was a mistake, you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you. — David Levithan
Every betrayal contains a perfect moment, a coin stamped heads or tails with salvation on the other side. — Barbara Kingsolver
Betrayal is never easy to handle and there is no right way to accept it. — Christine Feehan
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
We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against Betrayal — Tennessee Williams
For there to be betrayal, there would have to have been trust first. — Suzanne Collins
Lord, defend me from my friends; I can account for my enemies. — Charles D’Hericault
Trust thy self, and another shall not betray thee. — Benjamin Franklin
It’s hard to tell who has your back from who has it long enough just to stab you in it . — Nicole Richie
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
Betrayal can only happen if you love. — John Le Carre
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
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
Though those that are betray’d Do feel the treason sharply, yet the traitor Stands in worse case of woe. — William Shakespeare
Betrayal is the only truth that sticks. — Arthur Miller
In a broken nest there are few whole eggs. — Chinese Proverb
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
Be certain that he who has betrayed thee once will betray thee again. — Johann Caspar Lavater
Passions spin the plot: We are betrayed by what is false within. — George Meredith
My love for you was bulletproof but you’re the one who shot me. — Pierce The Veil
The thorn from the bush one has planted, nourished and pruned pricks more deeply and draws more blood. — Maya Angelou
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
Diaper backward spells repaid. Think about it. — Marshall McLuhan
