Yukio Mishima Quotes

Betrayal is beautiful.

Betrayal. It's one of the worst feelings.

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.

Never trust anyone, Daniel, especially the people you admire. Those are the ones who will make you suffer the worst blows.

It is often our best friends who throw us down.

I understand pain. I've lived with pain my entire life. But pain is nothing compared to betrayal. And betrayal is nothing compared to knowing that the javelin in your back was rammed there by the one person in your life you actually trusted.

Betrayal does so many different things to people.

Betrayal... is my favorite subject.

A lot of people let me down... A lot of people I thought were my friends turned on me.

It's not your enemies who are likeliest to hurt you. It is, always, those you trust.

I'm not really sure why. But... do you stop loving someone just because they betray you? I don't think so. That's what makes the betrayal hurt so much - pain, frustration, anger... and I still loved her. I still do.

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.

There's a certain class of people who will do you in and then remain completely mystified by the depth of your pain.

I've been betrayed a lot of times in life. I think everybody's been.

Because i've suffered. Because many times in my life i have tried to love with all my heart, and my love has wound up being trampled or betrayed.

To me, the thing that is worse than death is betrayal. You see, I could conceive death, but I could not conceive betrayal.

It's a shame you left without a word, you know. She was just beginning to trust you before that. Before you got angry. Before you ran off. Just like every other man in her life. Lusting after her, full of sweet words, then just walking away. Leaving her alone. Good thing she's used to it by now, isn't it? Otherwise you might have hurt her. Otherwise you just might have broken that poor girl's heart

Betrayal would be a different sort of sick.

The moment of betrayal is the worst, the moment when you know beyond any doubt that you've been betrayed: that some other human being has wished you that much evil

For me, I always wonder what's worse: an emotional betrayal or a physical betrayal? That's a really tough call.

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.

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.

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.

I am not afraid of my enemies, but by God, you must look out when you get among your friends.