This is how they described betrayal.
Each betrayal begins with trust. - Phish
Comments: Totally agree that these two goes hands in hand.
Love is what ever you can still betray. Betrayal can only happen if you love. - John LeCarre
Comments: Once again these are partners in crime. Like the chinese saying “有爱就有恨，有恨就有爱。” A shorter chinese version would be “爱恨交织”. To translate it literally, it means love and hatred are intertwined.
Every betrayal contains a perfect moment, a coin stamped heads or tails with salvation on the other side.
- Barbara Kingsolver
Comments: True. Because of the everlasting impression of the perfect moment, it sharply reminds one of the betrayal moment. It is a jocular irony.
Trust can take years to build, but only a second to break.- Author Unknown
Comments: Similar accumulation as habits. Not surprising how fragile trust is even though it takes years to build. It is like those near extinct soil formation in the National Parks of Utah.
Then you should have died! Died, rather than betray your friends, as we would have done for you !
- Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Comments: Yeah. But how many would have done that for friendship? May be in the past where morals are of a higher value than material things like boyfriends, girlfriends,money and status.
No one who has ever known what it is to lose faith in a fellow-man whom he has profoundly loved and reverenced, will lightly say that the shock can leave the faith in the Invisible Goodness unshaken. With the sinking of high human trust, the dignity of life sinks too; we cease to believe in our own better self, since that also is part of the common nature which is degraded in our thought; and all the finer impulses of the soul are dulled.
GEORGE ELIOT, Romola
Comments: How apt!
Be certain that he who has betrayed thee once will betray thee again.
JOHANN CASPAR LAVATER, Aphorisms on Man
Comments: Not surprising. If there is once, there will be second and third time. After the third time, a habit is formed and many countless times will follow from thereafter.
"It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend."
Comments:s This is a build up on the accumulation of trust.
"If you're betrayed, release disappointment at once. By that way, the bitterness has no time to take root."
Comments: A bit tough. Not sure if workable.
"Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly."
Comments: This sums it up quite nicely.
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