Betrayals Quotes

42 quotes by 34 authors

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
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
There is no such thing as static happiness. Happiness is a mixed thing, a thing compounded of sacrifices, and losses, and betrayals. — John Updike
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
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
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
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
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
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
Every great work of art ... is a celebration, an act of insubordination against the betrayals, horrors and infidelities of life. — Azar Nafisi
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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