Ben Harper Quotes

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.

Because I've been on the receiving end of infidelity, I know how much it hurts.

Friends can betray you, but with an old enemy, you always know where you stand.

it's easier to forgive your enemies than to forgive your friends.

I have been taken for a ride a couple of times. I've been hurt by people who I've had a 90 percent possibility of being hurt by.

Friends can hurt you, but the possibility of pain with lovers is so much greater because your expectations are so high. You don't ask as much of your friends.

People say friends don't destroy one another. What do they know about friends?

It is a very dangerous thing to know one’s friends.

Everybody has been cheated on, everyone will be cheated on.

We are not wounded so deeply when betrayed by the things we hope for as when betrayed by things we try our best to despise. In such betrayal comes the dagger in the back.

Rejection always hurts, but having it come from my best friend was the worst.

The people you love are just weapons that will be used against you.

An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.

Betrayal does so many different things to people.

To give and receive love, you have to be in touch with pain, you have to be capable of provoking it and feeling it.

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.

You know, I think anybody who has been in relationships has access to heartbreak - I don't think we have to go far to find it, whether we inflicted the heartbreak or whether we were the recipient of it.

False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.

It's easy to be led astray when you're so broken. People take advantage of you.

Next to hurting my family, cheating on me is the worst thing someone could do.

Infidelity is horrible - there's nothing worse than that; it's devastating.

Betrayal... is my favorite subject.

People are always fascinated by infidelity because, in the end - whether we've had direct experience or not - there's part of you that knows there's absolutely no more piercing betrayal. People are undone by it.

Everybody is vulnerable to being in relationships where they get fooled. I'm no different. It's just human nature.