Betrayals Quotes
42 quotes by 34 authors
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There are worse things than having behaved foolishly in public. There are worse things than these miniature betrayals, committed or endured or suspected; there are…
— Fleur Adcock
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We are tired of words, of betrayals, of indifference...they years are gone when the farm worker said nothing an did nothing to help himself...Now we…
— Cesar Chavez
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There is no such thing as static happiness. Happiness is a mixed thing, a thing compounded of sacrifices, and losses, and betrayals.
— John Updike
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My highest achievement: never shutting my heart down. Even in my darkest moments - through sexual abuse, a pregnancy at 14, lies and betrayals -…
— Oprah Winfrey
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I want to know if you have touched the center of your own sorrow, if you have been opened by life's betrayals or have become…
— Oriah Dreamer
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I was captivated by Sherrie Flick's meticulous and intelligent study of Margaret and Vivette, and the men they share. Reconsidering Happiness is a courageously intimate…
— Jim Crace
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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,…
— Alexander Trocchi
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Seeing Neil Entwistle accused of this awful crime gives us little comfort and, in fact, only adds to our enormous pain and suffering. To think…
— Joe Flaherty
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The past record of man is burdened with accounts of assasinations, secret combines, palace plots and betrayals in war. But in spite of this clear…
— G. Edward Griffin
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Every great work of art ... is a celebration, an act of insubordination against the betrayals, horrors and infidelities of life.
— Azar Nafisi
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One's worst enormities remain within, and it is only one's vulgar commonplaces of error and folly that turn into murders and suicides, treasons, infidelities, and…
— Lewis Mumford
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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.…
— Anais Nin
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It is not the repeated mistakes, the long succession of petty betrayals--though, God knows, they would give cause enough for anxiety and self-contempt--but the huge…
— Dag Hammarskjold
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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…
— Jack Kornfield
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Long before morning I knew that what I was seeking to discover was a thing I'd always known. That all courage was a form of…
— Cormac McCarthy
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There are betrayals in war that are childlike compared with our human betrayals during peace. The new lovers enter the habits of the other. Things…
— Michael Ondaatje
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Wine talks; ask anyone. The oracle at the street corner; the uninvited guest at the wedding feast; the holy fool. It ventriloquizes. It has a…
— Joanne Harris
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A true opium of the people is a belief in nothingness after death - the huge solace of thinking that for our betrayals, greed, cowardice,…
— Czeslaw Milosz
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No matter how close we are to another person, few human relationships are as free from strife, disagreement, and frustration as is the relationship you…
— Dean Koontz
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In all great works of fiction, regardless of the grim reality they present, there is an affirmation of life against the transience of that life,…
— Azar Nafisi
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