Quotes about lie and betrayal

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Sarvajna photo

“The company of good men is like enjoying sweet honey. The company of evil men is like the stinking stuff in the sewer.”

Sarvajna Kannada poet, pragmatist and philosopher

Tripadis

Billy Connolly photo

“Apparently, women need to feel loved to have sex, and men need to have sex to feel loved, so the basic act of continuing the species requires a lie from one of you.”

Billy Connolly (1942) British comedian

An Audience With Billy - 1985

Nikola Tesla photo

“Of all the frictional resistances, the one that most retards human movement is ignorance, what Buddha called 'the greatest evil in the world.' The friction which results from ignorance… can be reduced only by the spread of knowledge and the unification of the heterogeneous elements of humanity. No effort could be better spent.”

Nikola Tesla (1856–1943) Serbian American inventor

"The Problem of Increasing Human Energy", The Century (Jun 1900), 211. Collected in The Century (1900), Vol. 60, 211

Aristotle photo

“Learning is not child's play; we cannot learn without pain.”

Aristotle (-384–-321 BC) Classical Greek philosopher, student of Plato and founder of Western philosophy

Yitzhak Shamir photo

“For the land of Israel - it is allowed to lie”

Yitzhak Shamir (1915–2012) prime minister of Israel

Daisaku Ikeda photo

“Life is painful. It has thorns, like the stem of a rose. Culture and art are the roses that bloom on the stem. The flower is yourself, your humanity. Art is the liberation of the humanity inside yourself.”

Daisaku Ikeda (1928) Japanese writer

Kurt Cobain photo

“Birds scream at the top of their lungs in horrified hellish rage every morning at daybreak to warn us all of the truth, but sadly we don't speak bird.”

Kurt Cobain book Journals

Journals (2002)
Context: Birds... scream at the top of their lungs in horrified hellish rage every morning at daybreak to warn us all of the truth. They know the truth. Screaming bloody murder all over the world in our ears, but sadly we don't speak bird. [p. 224]

Julia Quinn photo

“I can imagine no greater bliss than to lie about, reading novels all day.”

Julia Quinn (1970) American novelist

Source: Ten Things I Love About You

“When in love, a bridge is constructed between two souls. Each year the bridge evolves and grows stronger and at a point in the future appears indestructible; when betrayal appears in the form of dynamite, the bridge becomes gravely damaged. And the betrayer and betrayed must determine if it can ever be reconstructed. Regrettably, the scars and cracks remain; some visible, and others hidden beneath the water.”

Gandolfo – (RJ Intindola)

1973

“Not all who betray feel guilt and remorse. They often proclaim the betrayed deserved the punishment for past actions. A rationalization intended to ensnare the ignorant and offer warrant. Remember. The betrayer was either attempting to gain something for themselves, or to inflict pain upon you; or both.”

Gandolfo – (RJ Intindola)

1982

“Those who stand idle while evil descends upon another and provides no support, is just as culpable as the perpetrator.”

Gandolfo – (RJ Intindola)

2006

“There’s nothing more arduous than traversing a lifelong struggle with the betrayal of the person you love, who expects to reach a compromise. Negotiation under these circumstances requires one to forfeit their dignity which can never be salvaged.”

Gandolfo – (RJ Intindola)

1987

“Truth typically arrives when it’s unexpected. Those carrying a lie live with anticipation the truth will eventually smack them in the face. There is no need gaze over the shoulder, as truth doesn’t hide or require a disguise.”

Gandolfo – (RJ Intindola)

1984

“We all acquire two types of scars; one is visible for all to see and the other resides deep within us. Both possess pain but others can only determine if the external scars have healed. The emotional scars within are usually more painful and can linger for years.”

Gandolfo – (RJ Intindola)

1983

“If you are constantly in pain; seek out love; you will find the pain has been cut in half.”

Gandolfo – (RJ Intindola)

1990

“You may continue to stay together after betrayal, and the scar may heal and condense, but will never totally disappear.”

Gandolfo – (RJ Intindola)

1981

“My heart is open to all who choose to enroll for exclusive membership. However, never betray, lie, act selfishly or speak ill of me when I am not present; for it shall be locked and you may never enter again.”

Gandolfo – (RJ Intindola)

1979