Fear of Betrayal Quotes

I trust no one, not even myself.

Hatred and dishonesty generally arises from fear of being deceived.

Tyranny's disease, to trust no friends

I don't get jealous - I get suspicious.

In this world, there was nothing scarier than trusting someone. But there was also nothing more rewarding.

I can't trust the people I care about not to hurt me. And I'm not sure I can trust myself not to hurt them, either.

The coward does not know what it means to be alone: an enemy is always standing behind his chair.

There are those who never stretch out the hand for fear it will be bitten. But those who never stretch out the hand will never feel it clasped in friendship.

Doubts and jealousies often beget the facts they fear.

Basic anxiety can be roughly described as a feeling of being small, insignificant, helpless, deserted or endangered in a world that is out to abuse, cheat, humiliate, betray, envy... . And special in this is the child's feeling that the parents' love, their Christian charity, honesty, generosity ... may be only a pretense.

He [Nico] regarded Jason, as if waiting for an attack. 'If the others found out-' 'If the others found out,' Jason said, 'You'd have that many more people to back you up, and to unleash the fury of the gods on anybody who gives you trouble.

I feared my own kind more than anything the natural world could ever threaten me with.

He who is too much afraid of being duped has lost the power of being magnanimous.

It's hard to be happy for someone when you know deep down they'd kill you if they had the chance.

No. No, I don't believe you'd betray me with her. I don't believe you'd cheat on me. But I'm afraid, and I'm sick in my heart that you might look at her, then at me. And regret.

Yeah, right. The things that I'm afraid of? You wouldn't even believe." "You're afraid to trust me.

Because letting someone in close meant they could hurt you. I knew all about that kind of fear. I lived with it.

But just as it sometimes happens that the most temperate people, who have never acquired the habit of drinking alcohol, or even a taste for it, are tormented by the fear that somehow or other they will one day find themselves drunk, so Isabelle perpetually feared that she might be betrayed into an impulsive act that was destructive to such order as reason had imposed on life. Therefore she was forever running her faculty of analysis over in her mind with the preposterous zeal of an adolescent running a razor over his beardless chin.

Sometimes people don't trust the force of kindness. They think love or compassion or kindness will make you weak and kind of stupid and people will take advantage of you; you won't stand up for other people.

I like jealous men. I love jealousy. I do.

There is a little narrowing to his eyes at the end of it that makes me understand that this is a test. Whether or not I'm brave enough to go into the stall with Corr after yesterday morning, after I've had time to think about what happened. The thought of it makes my pulse trip. The question is not if I trust Corr. The question is if I trust Sean.

Aren’t you afraid one of them will betray you? Take it all away? (Shahara) I’m sure one will eventually, but that’s the least of what keeps me up at night. Trust me, there are a lot worse things in life than loosing a few credits. (Syn)

I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they are turned to loving, they will find that we are turned to hating.

... community is already in process of disillusion where each man begins to eye his neighbor as a possible enemy.

He breathed out, not quite a laugh or a sob. "God, yes. Bianca, I love you so much. Even if I never see you again, even if we walk out of here into an ambush you set up with your parents, I am always going to love you.