There are times when family and friends break our trust and betray us when least expected from them. It can happen to anyone so don’t be surprised if you are at the receiving end today. We have thoughtfully compiled these best Family Betrayal Quotes, Messages, Captions and Sayings for all of you. You must accept, heal yourself and move on.
Family Betrayal Quotes
“The thorn from the bush one has planted, nourished and pruned pricks more deeply and draws more blood.” – Maya Angelou
“Some of the most poisonous people come disguised as friends and family.” – Gerald Sinclair
“Trust thy self, and another shall not betray thee.” – Benjamin Franklin
“A fraudulent intent, however carefully concealed at the outset, will generally, in the end, betray itself.” – Titus Livius
“It’s a shame that the very people who you protect are the first ones to turn there backs on you.” – Autumn Kohler
“Family is supposed to be our safe haven. Very often it is the place where we find the deepest heartache.” – Iyania Vanzant
“Sorry for caring. Sorry for trying. Sorry for it all. But most of all, I’m sorry I let you in.” – Unknown
“Be certain that he who has betrayed thee once will betray thee again.” – Johann Caspar Lavater
“There is no greater blessing than a family hand that lifts you from a fall; but there is not lower curse than a family hand that strikes you when you’re down.” – Wes Fessler
“Sometimes, instead of being hurt, you should look at betrayal as a gift. It makes it that much easier to sweep it up and toss it out with the rest of the trash. And why is that you ask? Because trash starts to stink…and when it does, it has no more value in your life.” – Donna Schoenrock
“Lord, defend me from my friends; I can account for my enemies.” – Charles D’Hericault
“Passions spin the plot: We are betrayed by what is false within.” – George Meredith
“For there to be betrayal there would have to have been trust first.” – Suzanne Collins
“I’m mature enough to forgive you, but I’m not dumb enough to trust you again.” – Unknown
“We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.” – Tennessee Williams
“The saddest thing about betrayal is that it never comes from your enemies.” – Unknown
“I don’t understand how family can hurt you more than a total stranger could.” – Unknown
“Blood makes you related, loyalty makes you family.”
Quotes of family betrayal
“Sometimes I wonder who’s really there for me and who just pretends they are.”
“It’s hard to tell who has your back, from who has it long enough just to stab you in it.” – Nicole Richie
“If someone betrays you once, it’s their fault; if they betray you twice, it’s your fault.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“Forgive yourself for the blindness that let others betray you. Sometime a good heart doesn’t see the bad.”
“I may be the black sheep of the family, but some of the white sheep aren’t as white as they try to appear.”
“Some people will only “love you” as much as they can use you. Their loyalty ends where the benefits stop.” ― Honeya
Betrayed By Family Quotes
“I wish I met some people a little earlier, some a little later and some never at all.”
“Some of the hardest people to cut off are family members. But sometimes they are the man ones that need to go…”
“You want to believe that there’s one relationship in life that’s beyond betrayal. A relationship that’s beyond that kind of hurt. And there isn’t.” – Caleb Carr
“Nothing hurts more than being disappointed by the single person you thought would never hurt you.” – Unknown
“It’s funny how sometimes the people you’d take a bullet for, are the ones behind the trigger.” – Taylor Swift
“Sometimes the people closest to you betray you, and your home isn’t a place you can be happy anymore. It’s hard, but it’s true.” – P.C. Cast
“Sometimes you have to give up on people. Not because you don’t care, but because they don’t.” – Unknown
“Don’t waste your energy worrying about family that doesn’t worry about you. It’s their fault if they make the choice to miss out on the beauty of your children and the love your family could share. Focus on those who show you they care through both their words and actions, those are people worth your energy.”
“Life is not about who’s real to your face, it’s about who’s real behind your back.” – Unknown
“Sometimes it is the people that love and care for who betray us when the time comes”
“Nothing breaks the trust more than the family who turns their back at the most needed moment”
“It wasn’t your fault. It was mine, for believing every word you said.”
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“Beware the person who stabs you and then tells the world they’re the one who’s bleeding.” – Jill Blakeway
“It’s particularly hard to take being stabbed in the back close to home. There’s always a feeling of betrayal when people of your own group oppose you.” – Catharine MacKinnon
“Some people aren’t loyal to you… they are loyal to their need of you… Once their needs change, so does their loyalty.”
“You eventually learn to trust no one. Being alone sucks but at least you don’t have to worry about being let down or hurt again…
“The worst kind of hurt is betrayal, because it means someone was willing to hurt you just to make themself feel better.”
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“Every betrayal contains a perfect moment, a coin stamped heads or tails with salvation on the other side.” – Barbara Kingsolver
“Though those that are betray’d Do feel the treason sharply, yet the traitor Stands in worse case of woe.” – William Shakespeare
“When a toxic person can no longer control you, they will try to control how others see you. The misinformation will feel unfair, but stay above it, trusting that other people will eventually see the truth, just like you did.” – Jill Blakeway
“To me, the thing that is worse than death is betrayal. You see, I could conceive death, but I could not conceive betrayal.” – Malcolm X
“Love is understood, in a historical way, as one of the great human vocations-but its counterspell has always been infidelity. This terrible, terrible betrayal that can tear apart not only another person, not only oneself, but whole families.” – Junot Diaz
“One should rather die than be betrayed. There is no deceit in death. It delivers precisely what it has promised. Betrayal, though … betrayal is the willful slaughter of hope.” – Steven Deitz
Short Quotes and captions about Family Betrayal
“Can’t blame me for my trust issue.”
“Every betrayal begins with trust.”
“Stay real, stay loyal, or stay away from me.”
“Only those you trust can betray you.” – Terry Goodkind
“Betrayal from the family is the ultimate wound.” – Anne Marie Wiesman
“If someone betrays me once, it is his fault; if he betrays me twice, it is my stupidity.”
“Sometimes, the person you’d take a bullet for ends up being the one behind the gun.”
“Believe none of what you hear and only half of what you see.” – A Bronx Tale 1993
“Betrayal is always ugly, even on a shaded patio full of little birds.” – Joshilyn Jackson
“Stab the body and it heals, but injure the heart and the wound lasts a lifetime.” – Mineko Iwasaki
Thought Provoking Quotes about Family Betrayal
“Betrayal can only happen if you love.” – John Le Carre
“To betray, you must first belong. I never belonged.” – Kim Philby
“Diaper backward spells repaid. Think about it.” – Marshall McLuhan
“Do you know what love is?… It is whatever you can still betray.” – John Le Carre
“If life is a family, then sin is a feud between family members.” – Brian D. McLaren
“My love for you was bulletproof but you’re the one who shot me.” – Pierce The Veil
“Betrayal is never easy to handle and there is no right way to accept it.” – Christine Feehan
“It was a mistake, you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you.” – David Levithan
“I detest collaterals. Blood may be thicker than water, but it is also a great deal nastier.” – Edith Somerville and Martin Ross
“The number one reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends, family, and neighbors.” – Napoleon Hill
“I used to advertise my loyalty and I don’t believe there is a single person I loved that I didn’t eventually betray.” – Albert Camus
“Far from being the basis of the good society, the family, with its narrow privacy and tawdry secrets, is the source of all our discontents.” – Edmund Leach
“Family! . . . the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage for house-fathers, and a hell for children.” – August Strindberg
“My Mom said she learned how to swim when someone took her out in the lake and threw her off the boat. I said ‘Mom, they weren’t trying to teach you how to swim.’” – Paula Poundstone
“Family history, of course, has its proper dietary laws. One is supposed to swallow and digest only the permitted parts of it. the halal portions of the past, drained of their redness, their blood.” – Salman Rushdie
“The worst families are those in which the members never really speak their minds to one another; they maintain an atmosphere of unreality, and everyone always lives in an atmosphere of suppressed ill-feeling.” – Walter Bagehot
“Betrayal. A form of abandonment. Often the abandonment is difficult to see because the betrayer can be still close, even intimate, or may be intruding in your life. Yet your interests, your well-being is continually sacrificed.” – Patrick Carnes
“There must be love, and understanding, to betray. Most men haven’t the wit or the honor for betrayal: not to know it when they see it; not the stomach to apprehend it as they do it. Most men, blind and dumb in their self-centeredness, don’t betray: they merely disappoint.” – Janet Morris
“A traumatic experience of love can occur when a child’s experience of love, caring and affection collides with an on-going experience of abuse and betrayal. The union of love, trust and safety becomes fractured, while notions of love and betrayal become linked in tragic partnership.” – Jennifer J. Freyd
“Family can bring us the greatest joy. Family can also bring the great pain not even a stranger can outdo. The painful and disappointing family episodes can bring many of us to our knees wondering how those who claim to love and chanted, ‘Blood is thicker than water’ treat us with such disdain without remorse.” – Clarissa Burton
Deep Quotes about Betrayal By Family and Loved Ones
“It’s hard to trust someone, especially when the ones you trusted the most, were the ones that betrayed you.”
“Forgiveness doesn’t excuse their behavior. Forgiveness prevents their behavior from destroying your heart.”
“The most damaging aspect of abuse is the trauma to our hearts and souls from being betrayed by the people that we love and trust.”
“Judge me and I’ll prove you wrong! Tell me what to do and I’ll tell you where to go. Say I’m not worth it and watch how well I do without you. Gossip about me and I’ll show you how to play the game, betray me and you can kiss me goodbye forever!”
“There’s one [traitor] in every family sire. Two in mine, actually. And they always manage to ruin special occasions.” – Zazu [about Scar]
“The only way I’ve been able to survive the betrayal of lovers, family members, and society is to be able to create as an artist.” – Madonna Ciccone
“Family betrayal is, to me, the most heartbreaking kind – because if you can’t trust your family to love you and protect you, who can you really trust?” – Alexandra Bracken
“One of the hardest lessons in life is letting go. Whether it’s guilt, anger, love, loss or betrayal. Change is never easy. We fight to hold on and we fight to let go.” – Unknown
“Some people don’t love you, they don’t even care about you. They just want to stay connected to you. They love the benefits. So they do the minimal… A little phone call here and there, just checking on you… What they are really doing is maintaining the connection, so when they need/want you, they still have a way in.
“Love comes to those who still hope even though they’ve been disappointed, to those who still believe even though they’ve been betrayed, to those who still love even though they’ve been hurt before.”
“Everyone suffers at least one bad betrayal in their lifetime. It’s what unites us. The trick is not to let it destroy your trust in others when that happens. Don’t let them take that from you.” – Sherrilyn Kenyon
“You can’t keep snakes in your backyard and expect them only to bite your neighbors. You know, eventually those snakes are going to turn on whoever has them in the backyard.” – Hillary Rodham Clinton
“Tragedy in life normally comes with betrayal and compromise, and trading on your integrity and not having dignity in life. That’s really where failure comes.” – Tom Cochrane
“Life has taught me that you can’t control someone’s loyalty. No matter how good you are to them, doesn’t mean that they will treat you the same. No matter how much they mean to you, doesn’t mean that they’ll value you the same. Sometimes the people you love the most, turn out to be the people you can trust the least.”
Family betrayal Quotes, Sayings from Bible
“Yet it was the Lord’s will to crush him and cause him to suffer, and though the Lord makes[a] his life an offering for sin, he will see his offspring and prolong his days, and the will of the Lord will prosper in his hand.” – (NIV) – Isaiah 53:10
“All of us have sinned and fallen short of God’s glory.” – (CEV) – Romans 3:23
“A false witness will not go unpunished, nor will a liar escape.” – (NLT) – Proverbs 19:5
“I will bless those who bless you and curse those who treat you with contempt. All the families on earth will be blessed through you.” – (NLT) – Genesis 12:3
“Your relatives, members of your own family — even they have betrayed you; they have raised a loud cry against you. Do not trust them, though they speak well of you.” – (NIV) – Jeremiah 12:6
“They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed, and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, and malice. They are gossips.” – (NIV) – Romans 1:29
“Do your best to win God’s approval as a worker who doesn’t need to be ashamed and who teaches only the true message.” – (CEV) – 2 Timothy 2:15
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