Betrayal Quote by Henry Rollins

There is no deceit in death. It delivers precisely what it has promised. Betrayal, though ... betrayal is the willful slaughter of hope.

— KM II

“Most people willingly deceive themselves with a doubly false faith; they believe in eternal memory (of men, things, deeds, peoples) and in rectification (of…

— Milan Kundera

The sinister, the terrible never deceive: the state in which they leave us is always one of enlightenment. And only this condition of vicious…

— Thomas Ligotti

“Because the exposure of self to self lies at the heart of neurotic shame, escape from the self is necessary. The escape from self…

— John Bradshaw

Deceit is a kind of garment that conceals the soul. It might even be compared to a whole wardrobe, so many are its guises.

— Maria Montessori

The soul does not give itself up to despair until it has exhausted all illusions.

— Victor Hugo

Despair ... is the only cure for illusion. Without despair we cannot transfer our allegiance to reality - it's a kind of mourning period…

— Anonymous

“and I attempted, above all, to get at the truth, not the masquerade that declares itself as genuineness when, habitually, the truth is invoked,…

— Evan Dara

If there were no eternal consciousness in a man, if at the bottom of everything there were only a wild ferment, a power that…

— Soren Kierkegaard

A pure soul is free from delusion, it has no parts, and is the enemy of the impure-minded.

— Senoraroy

Deceit is in the heart of them that imagine evil: but to the counsellors of peace is joy.

— Bible

Sometimes with the most intense pain a paralysis of sensibility occurs. The soul disintegrates--hence the deadly frost--the free power of the mind--the shattering, ceaseless…

— Novalis