25 Best Quotes about Broken Trust in a Relationship

If trust is the foundation of a healthy, loving and long-lasting relationship, what happens when trust is broken? Can you still love someone who betrayed you? Betrayal, lies, infidelity, false promises are but a sure way to ruin trust, harm a relationship and spoil the delicate flower of love. But what about forgiveness? Is there still hope after trust has been broken? What have famous writers, artists and philosophers said about broken trust in love and relationships? What are the famous sayings about the consequences of losing trust in someone you love?

We have made a list of the 25 best sayings and most beautiful quotes about broken trust in a relationship (but also a few very sad quotes):

Trust is a vase that holds the flower of love, but if it breaks, this beautiful flower falls with it and eventually withers.

Adrien Verschaere

To betray a friend is the greatest betrayal, one will never find his heart nor his trust again.

Jean Baptiste Blanchard

A single lie destroys the absolute trust which, for certain souls, is the very foundation of love.

Honoré de Balzac

I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Trust is like a mirror, you can fix it if it's broken, but you can still see the crack in that mother fucker's reflection.

Lady Gaga

Trust takes years to build, seconds to break, and forever to repair.

Dhar Mann

Sometimes you don't know who you can and cannot trust. I still learn that over and over again.

Demi Lovato

There are some who have a heart so large that one enters it without knocking. There are some who have a heart so frail that one breaks it with a finger.

Jacques Brel

You know what the worst thing I can imagine is? Simon had said. Not trusting someone I love.

Cassandra Clare

Loving someone is giving them the power to break your heart, but trusting them not to.

Julianne Moore

Love without trust? It's not love at all.

Nora Roberts

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

Confucius

Trust. It is like placing a blade in someone's hand and setting the very point to your heart.

Cassandra Clare

Love meant jumping off a cliff and trusting that a certain person would be there to catch you at the bottom.

Jodi Picoult

Trust is a very delicate plant that does not bloom at will.

Victor Cherbuliez

Trust dies but mistrust blossoms.

Sophocles

Don't trust the person who has broken faith once.

William Shakespeare

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

To forgive someone who hurt you is easy but to trust them again is next to impossible.

Anurag Prakash Ray

You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don't trust enough.

Frank Crane

You must trust and believe in people, or life becomes impossible.

Anton Chekhov

Two people can only live as one when each is prepared to give and receive trust and understanding. Above that lies respect. Without respect for how the other feels, no marriage is worthwhile.

Helen Hollick

We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone — but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.

Walter Anderson

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 don't repair that relationship by sitting down and talking about trust or making promises. Actually, what rebuilds it is living it and doing things differently.

Patricia Hewitt

Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.

Maya Angelou