400+ Cheating Quotes That Help You To Move On

The sorrow is terrible when the person you love and trust the most betrays you or turns out to be a fraud. Some wise quotes about cheating might provide you with the strength you need to get through the pain and overcome any bad thoughts that may be plaguing your head. You feel like you’re drowning in a sea of treachery, disbelief, pain, embarrassment, and wrath. The question ‘why?’ may be bothering you all the time.

Your grief-stricken mind demands an explanation for this unforeseen dishonesty or trickery, despite the fact that no solution can take away your suffering. The need of the hour is to let go of the past and move forward. We’ve put up a compilation of quotes on cheating or duplicity to assist you in coping with the emotional anguish.

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400+ Cheating Quotes And Sayings

Being cheated on is painful. It can make you angry, frustrated, sad, and confused. Reading the following cheating quotes might help you put things into perspective and move on.

  1. Cheating and lying aren’t struggles, they’re reasons to break up.” ― Patti Callahan Henry
  2. You didn’t just cheat on me; you cheated on us. You didn’t just break my heart; you broke our future.” — Steve Maraboli
  3. I gave my heart to a man who loved me, who wanted to be with me. Who ultimately was afraid of all I offered.” — Rachel Thompson
  4. They didn’t cheat because of who you are. They chose to cheat because of who they are not.” — Charles J. Orlando
  5. “‘It was a mistake,’ you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you.” — David Levithan
  6. “I’m not upset that you lied to me, I’m upset that from now on I can’t believe you.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche
  7. We have to resist unfaithfulness and irresponsibility.” — Sunday Adelaja
  8. When someone cheats on you, it’s about them… about their shortcomings.” —Jennifer Lopez
  9. “Cheating doesn’t just break trust; it shatters hearts.”  — Unknown
  10. Virtually all women will always carry the scars and a deep sense of loss and grief from the betrayal. Whether a woman has stayed, left, or been left, it must be remembered that time is the salve on this journey towards forgiveness and healing, because it is also a process of grieving.” — Meryn G. Callander
  11. There are many shades on every journey. Nothing is black or white. I’ve been through hell and back, and I’m grateful for every scar.” — Beyonce
  12. “Betrayal is like a storm that leaves behind wreckage of trust and fragments of broken hearts.” — Unknown
  13. Being single is better than being lied to, cheated on, and disrespected.”—Unknown
  14. “Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.” — Stephen King
  15. Next to hurting my family, cheating on me is the worst thing someone could do.” — Robert Buckley
  16. “Cheating tends to come up a lot in my songs. Betrayal fascinates me. I think the fact that you can trust someone so much and then they go against that has always plagued my writing for some reason.” ― Jade Bird
  17. I believe that women know when their husbands are unfaithful. They feel it.” ― Coretta Scott King
  18. “Cheating is a shortcut to a dead-end relationship.” — Unknown
  19. If you marry a man who cheats on his wife, you’ll be married to a man who cheats on his wife.” — Ann Landers
  20. “Lying to your lover is one way of conveying that you are no longer interested in the relationship.  — Unknown
  21. When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.” —Sacha Guitry
  22. “Over time, any deception destroys intimacy, and without intimacy couples cannot have true and lasting love.” — Bonnie Eaker Weil
  23. It’s easy to deny the seriousness of an emotional affair but it can be extremely threatening to a marriage.” — Dr. Gail
  24. Things come apart so easily when they have been held together with lies.” —Dorothy Allison
  25. “I’m not crying because of you; you’re not worth it. I’m crying because my delusion of who you were was shattered by the truth of who you are.” ― Steve Maraboli
  26. Cheating is nothing to be proud of.” — Mark Hunt
  27. “I can take any truth; just don’t lie to me.” — Barbra Streisand
  28. Those who cheat on their partners who are loyal to them; don’t deserve them. It is a trashy attitude to disrespect a person who is loyal in a relationship, by cheating on him or her.” — Ellen J. Barrier
  29. “Cheating is the poison that kills love slowly.” — Unknown
  30. Cheating on a good person is like throwing away a diamond and picking up a rock.” — Unknown
  31. “There ain’t no way you can hold onto something that wants to go, you understand? You can only love what you got while you got it.”  — Kate DiCamillo
  32. If you can’t be committed to another person, at least be committed to the concept of character and don’t cheat.” — Jerry Springer
  33. “Sometimes it takes a heartbreak to shake us awake & help us see we are worth so much more than we’re settling for.” — Mandy Hale
  34. What irritated me most in that entire situation was the fact that I wasn’t feeling humiliated, or annoyed, or even fooled. Betrayal was what I felt, my heart broken not just by a guy I was in love with, but also by, as I once believed, a true friend.” — Danka V.
  35. “No matter how small the dishonest deed is, at the end of the day, cheating is cheating.” ― Mohammed Amir
  36. Cheating is a choice. Period.” — Charles J. Orlando
  37. “It takes two people to build a lovable relationship, but only one to destroy it with lies.”—  Unknown
  38. Physical infidelity is the signal, the notice given, that all fidelities are undermined.” ― Katherine Anne Porter
  39. “It is even more painful to have your heart broken by someone who you know does not deserve you.” ― Unknown
  40. “If you cheat now out of revenge, you might do things you could regret later.” — Francisco Bujan
  41. Cheating is very easy, try something more challenging like being faithful to yourself, dreams, and partner. After all, it is how responsible we are of ourselves, dreams, and partner that we get to mature and grow wiser and responsible.”― Kabelo A. Mabona
  42. “Love is not a game; cheating is not a strategy.” — Unknown
  43. The heart of the moral wrong of adultery is that a covenant, a sacred commitment, has been broken. The one-flesh union which set this relationship apart from all others has been torn asunder by one of the spouses and by a third party that has now entered into the oneness of the relationship.” ― Dennis P. Hollinger
  44. “Cheating may be a choice, but so is loyalty.” — Unknown
  45. There is no such thing as an affair that doesn’t mean anything.” — Amanda Robson
  46. Cheating is not just breaking the rules. It’s breaking the trust that took years to build.” – Unknown
There is no affair that doesn’t mean anything

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  1. When people cheat in any arena, they diminish themselves-they threaten their own self-esteem and their relationships with others by undermining the trust they have in their ability to succeed and in their ability to be true.” ― Cheryl Hughes
  2. “In the end, loyalty always triumphs over deceit.” — Unknown
  3. Once someone cheats in the relationship, there’s no reason to stay. If they truly loved you they would’ve never cheated.” — Anurag Prakash Ray
  4. “Cheating is anything that you would not do in front of your mate.” — Tonja Ayers
  5. The fact that you do not trust your spouse or lover doesn’t necessarily mean that they are cheating on you; and the fact that you do doesn’t necessarily mean that they aren’t.” ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
  6. “Cheating is a silent approach people often resort to when trying to escape from problems in the relationship.” — Unknown
  7. Any affair, by its very nature, is quite dysfunctional.” — Rebekah Brooks
  8. There is no excuse for cheating in a relationship.” — Vicki Sein
  9. “Cheating is a temporary escape from reality, but it leads to permanent damage in trust.” — Unknown
  10. “Faithfulness is the music of love; cheating is just noise.” — Unknown
  11. The worst kind of hurt is betrayal because it means someone was willing to hurt you just to make themselves feel better.”- Unknown
  12. “A real man doesn’t have time to cheat because that man is too busy providing all of which a good woman deserves.” — Ritu Ghatourey
  13. Infidelity is a deal-breaker for me. I’ve broken up with people over it. You can’t do monogamy 90 percent of the time.” — Alanis Morissette
  14. “Trust is a funny thing; it takes such a long time to build, yet it’s broken in a second.” — Sandie Jones
  15. If it’s true that men and women can be ‘just friends’ then how come all cheaters first start out as “just friends”?”― Oliver Markus Malloy
  16. “Cheating is a cowardly act in a relationship because it involves betraying a loved one’s trust.” — Unknown
  17. I didn’t understand why he sabotaged our future at the time ― cheating on me, again, as we were making final plans to move in together. By the time he came over to smooth talk his way out of it, I was done. No more crying. Even my tears had given up on him. I’d already moved on, his cheating was simply the key left in the mailbox.” — Rachel Thompson
  18. “By a lie, a man… annihilates his dignity as a man.” ― Immanuel Kant
  19. It might sound ordinary for a woman to find out her husband’s cheating on her, but not if you’re the woman and it’s your husband.” — Melissa Bank
  20.  “Trust was a double-edged sword. It could give you hope, but it could cut you in an instant when it was broken.” — Tiffany King
  21. 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
  22. “Cheating is the shadow that darkens the path of love.” — Unknown
  23. Cheating was easy, but impossible to take back.” — Dean Osborne
  24. “Love is never supposed to hurt. Love is supposed to heal, to be your haven from misery, to make living worthwhile.” — Mia Ashe
  25. If people cheat, it’s because something other than the relationship is more important to them. It may be power over others. It may be validation through sex. It may be giving in to their own impulses. Whatever it is, it’s clear that the cheater’s values are not aligned in a way to support a healthy relationship.” ― Mark Manson
  26. 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
  27. Some people view love and romance as a sacred bond between two individuals. Other people see love as a game, where the goal is to manipulate another individual and gain emotional power over a partner. People who view love as a game are much more likely to have multiple love interest; cheating is just another way to gain control over one’s partner.”— David Reeves
  28. “Even a tiny bit of deceit is dishonorable when it’s used for selfish or cowardly reasons.” — Jeanne Birdsall
  29. Some women would not cheat, and some would not have cheated, had they each married a man whom they love … or at least like.”― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
  30. “Infidelity is a fire that burns everything in its course, leaving only ashes.”— Unknown
  31. All people have feelings, they are not there to be used. If you’re not longer interested in someone, they have the right to be informed before you go and cheat or go looking elsewhere.” — Jerry Springer
  32. “You can compensate for all of your vices except betrayal. Nothing you do can ever compensate for the pain caused by betrayal.” ― Sarvesh Jain
  33. Attraction isn’t wrong. People can’t help who they are drawn to and they certainly can’t control affinity, as uncommon as it is. What is wrong is acting on inclination if it hurts someone else, namely a significant other.” ― Donna Lynn Hope
  34. “A single act of betrayal can redefine a lifetime of love.” — Unknown
  35. The truly scary thing about undiscovered lies is that they have a greater capacity to diminish us than exposed ones. They erode our strength, our self-esteem, our very foundation.” — Cheryl Hughes
  36. “Anything is better than lies and deceit.” — Leo Tolstoy
  37. If he will cheat on her that means he will cheat on you.” — Lyfe Jennings
  38. “Trust is like blood pressure. It’s silent, vital to good health, and if abused it can be deadly.” — Frank Sonnenberg
  39. Cheating is very rarely about the actual act of being with another person.” — Emily V. Gordon
  40. “A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.” ― Baltasar Gracian
  41. Adultery is taking what belongs to someone else.” — Philo Thelos
  42. “Treachery whispers where love once spoke.” — Unknown
  43. People have a moral standard about what they will do and will not do. At the end of the day, someone who cheats has a lower moral standard than someone who does not. And they will cheat in other areas of life as well.” — Carl Lewis
  44. Societies that have condoned male cheating and condemned female cheating are simply male-dominated cultures. Cheating is cheating, no matter who is doing it. It’s wrong.”― Cathy Burnham Martin
  45. “Temptation may knock, but it’s your choice whether to let it in.”— Unknown
  46. How can he love you when he treats you as if he doesn’t even like you.” — r.h. Sin
  47. “Don’t comfort me with a lie that hurts more than the truth ever could.” ― Mandy K
  48. “…Actually all women are psychic. When a man cheats on a woman and lies to her, she already knows; she just lies to herself.”― Josefina López
  49. That was how dishonesty and betrayal started, not in big lies but in small secrets.” — Amy Tan
  50. “Love tainted by betrayal is like a beautiful flower with poison thorns; it hurts when you hold it.”— Unknown
  51. “It is better to lock up your heart with a merciless padlock than to fall in love with someone who doesn’t know what they mean to you.” ― Michael Bassey Johnson
  52. No woman could love a cheater and not pay the price for it.” — Rose Wynters
  53. Cheating isn’t always kissing, touching, or flirting. If you gotta delete text messages so your partner won’t see them, you’re already there.” — Unknown.
  54. Cheats prosper until there are enough who bear grudges against them to make sure they do not prosper.”— Peter Singer
  55. “The grass may seem greener on the other side but is often artificial.” — Unknown
  56. “..These are our lives. You went and broke our lives. You are so much worse than a cheater. You killed something. And you killed it when its back was turned.” — David Levithan
  57. “Often, when cheating happens, we rush to place blame solely on one person ― either the person who did the cheating, or more insidiously, if it happened to us, we blame ourselves for not being ‘good enough’ to keep them around. But putting it all on one person doesn’t paint the entire picture.” ― Emily V. Gordon
  58. Stab the body and it heals, but injure the heart and the wound lasts a lifetime.” —  Mineko Iwasaki
  59. Trust, once lost, could not be easily found. Not in a year, perhaps not even in a lifetime.” — J.E.B. Spredemann
  60. Cheaters don’t think cheating is wrong until they get cheated on.” — Sonya Parker
  61. “Adultery is a blaze that burns the bridges of trust.” — Unknown
  62. They may take you for a fool, promise to shower you with the world, use their canny devastating tongue to manipulate and dominate your mind, but it’s better to put them bullshit people at arm’ length rather than falling into the arms of infidelity.” ― Michael Bassey Johnson
  63. If you cheat on someone who is willing to do anything for you, you actually cheated yourself out of true loyalty.” ― Unknown
  64. “Loyalty is the heartbeat of a marriage; betrayal stops it cold.” — Unknown
  65. People cheat when they are afraid. When there is no cost to being wrong or confessing ignorance, there is no reason to cheat or fake comprehension.” — Leah Hager Cohen
  66. One lie has the power to tarnish a thousand truths.” — Al David
  67. A person who lies and cheats in a relationship builds a house of cards, which will eventually collapse.” — Unknown
  68. Because I’ve been on the receiving end of infidelity, I know how much it hurts.” ― Rachel Hunter
  69. Let’s call cheating what it is: a complete betrayal of trust.” — Greg Behrendt
  70. Don’t cheat if you don’t want to be cheated.  A relationship is mutual. This is the golden rule for all great connections.” — Israelmore Ayivor
  71. “There is tremendous trauma in the betrayal caused by a perpetual liar as they repeatedly commit psychological abuse.” ― Cathy Burnham Martin
  72. Not that you lied to me, but that I no longer believe you, has shaken me.” — Friedrich Nietzsche
  73. “A man who cheats loses not only his integrity but also the respect of the one he vowed to cherish.” — Unknown
  74. Lying, cheating, hiding is the exact opposite of the behavior of a man who’s really into you.” — Greg Behrendt
  75. “We can tolerate our true enemies, but not the backstabbers and betrayers.” ― Sanji Paul Arvind
  76. I believed in you, but your actions have shown your true colors. Your words no longer hold any value to me.” — Unknown
  77. “I wish the pain of betrayal was as easy to ignore as the red flags that forewarned of it.”― Steve Maraboli
  78. Cheating is the most selfish thing a person can do in a relationship! If you’re not happy with the person you’re with then end it. It’s that simple!” — Jerry Springer
  79. “Shattered legs may heal in time, but some betrayals fester and poison the soul.” ―George R. R. Martin
  80. Cheating is easy. There’s no swank to infidelity. To borrow against the trust someone has placed in you costs nothing at first. You get away with it, you take a little more and a little more until there is no more to draw on. Oddly, your hands should be full with all that taking but when you open them there’s nothing there.” — Jeanette Winterson
  81. “Infidelity is a fairly common occurrence in society but very often not spoken about.” — Rasika Dugal
  82. Most people cheat because they’re paying more attention to what they’re missing rather than what they have.” — Unknown
  83. “Honesty is the foundation of a relationship; without it, the walls crumble.” — Unknown
  84. Never underestimate a man’s ability to make you feel guilty for his mistakes.” —Rihanna
  85. “I’ve learned that when I see a flag in a relationship next time, recognize it as a flag. Don’t think, Oh, that’s just a shadow. That’s a flag.”— Halle Berry
  86. When a man cheats, it is said it is because he is a dog. When a woman cheats, it is said it is because her man is a dog.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana
  87. “Infidelity has always existed, but I feel like it was brushed under the carpet, behind the scenes. Now everyone is at it ― and they’ve stopped pretending they’re not.” — Karan Johar
  88. Shame, blame, disrespect, betrayal, and the withholding of affection damage the roots from which love grows. Love can only survive these injuries if they are acknowledged, healed and rare.” — Brené Brown
  89. “Cheating isn’t a mistake; it’s a conscious choice.” — Unknown
  90. A man can love you from the bottom of his heart and still find room at the top for somebody he claimed was nobody.” — Kiki Strack
  91. “I don’t think there are any men who are faithful to their wives.”— Jacqueline Kennedy
  92. I think you still love me, but we can’t escape the fact that I’m not enough for you. I knew this was going to happen. So I’m not blaming you for falling in love with another woman. I’m not angry, either. I should be, but I’m not. I just feel pain. A lot of pain. I thought I could imagine how much this would hurt, but I was wrong.” —Haruki Murakami
I just feel pain. A lot of pain.

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  1. “One day you’re going to remember me and how much I loved you … and then you’re going to hate yourself for letting me go.” — Aubrey Drake Graham
  2. Cheating is an innate evolutionarily programmed desire, especially in men, but it is not a desire that cannot be controlled.”― Abhijit Naskar
  3. “In a way, fraud in business is no different from infidelity in marriage or plagiarism in scholarly work. Even people committed to high moral standards succumb.” — Miroslav Volf
  4. It’s amazing how many cheaters and liars believe they won’t be caught. News Flash: In today’s age of technology, there won’t just be a paper trail. There will be multiple electronic and digital trails, as well.”― Cathy Burnham Martin
  5. “Betrayal by a spouse is a wound that scars deeper than any other.” — Unknown
  6. No relationship is ever a waste of time. If it didn’t bring you what you want, it taught you what you don’t want.” ― Unknown
  7. “I’ve never cheated or been cheated upon. I’ve seen my parents together and secure. So I feel the same way. Infidelity stems from low self-esteem. You want to cheat when you don’t feel good about yourself.” — Preity Zinta
  8. Cheating is not an accident. It’s a choice.” ― Anne Curtis
  9. “Liars make the best promises.” ― Pierce Brown
  10. It was your choice to sleep with her Gavin! It didn’t just happen!” ― Belinda G. Buchanan
  11. “Even loss and betrayal can bring us awakening.” — Gautama Buddha
  12. Cheating is never to do with how attractive you are.” — Marie Helvin
  13. “A cheater may think they’ve won, but they’ve lost the most precious thing – a loving heart.” — Unknown
  14. When my husband had an affair with someone else I watched his eyes glaze over when we ate dinner together and I heard him singing to himself without me, and when he tended the garden it was not for me… He didn’t want to change anything; he liked his life. The only thing he wanted to change was me.” — Janette Winterson
  15. “Infidelity, cheating is the easiest, stupidest, dumbest thing you can do.” — Joy Browne
  16. “People with a dismissing style of attachment, are more likely to cheat.” — C.V. Conner
  17. To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception; it is an eternal loss for which there is no reparation, either in time or in eternity.” — Soren Kierkegaard
  18.  “When a man is not ready to commit to you, he will most likely cheat.” — Sierra N. Smith
  19. Some people treat relationships as a video game, they play them and when they get bored they cheat.” — Unknown
  20. “Trust is like an antique, once it’s broken, it can never be replaced.” — Mouloud Benzadi
  21. I think cheating can inherently mean a deeper problem, someone is acting out.” —Sutton Foster
  22. “Cheating is not a fantasy, it is an action.” — Francisco Bujan
  23. 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.” — Brandon Sanderson
  24. “A cheating mate who has an emotional connection with another person ordinarily leaves their partner feeling betrayed when their emotional relationship is revealed.” — Tonja Ayers
  25. You know that when your partner deletes their messages to a past lover after being accused of cheating, then it is likely that they were being unfaithful in some way.”― Steven Magee
  26. “The end of a relationship is not always a failure. Sometimes all the love in the world is not enough to save something.”– Ashly Lorenzana
  27. People cheat on each other in a hundred different ways: indifference, emotional neglect, contempt, lack of respect, years of refusal of intimacy. Cheating doesn’t begin to describe the ways that people let each other down”. ― Esther Perel
  28. “Emotional cheating can occur without physical cheating and is also harder to detect when no physical acts are taking place.” — Tonja Ayers
  29. Statistically speaking, there is a 65 percent chance that the love of your life is having an affair. Be very suspicious.”― Scott Dikkers
  30. “Some people make promise for the pleasure of breaking them.” ― William Hazlitt
  31. Don’t cheat, if the feelings aren’t there then you shouldn’t be either.” — Subhankar Manna
  32. “A woman who would steal your love when your love was really all you had to give was not much of a woman.” ― Stephen King
  33. Relationship is only two people on It has to sink when there is one extra passenger.” ― Farid F. Ibrahim
  34. “Each betrayal begins with trust.”— Phish
  35. People never know how strong their lust is for being cheated.” ― Joe Chung
  36. “I hate those who play with the feelings of others.” — Dominic Carey
  37. Extramarital affairs occur in the mind as well as the bedroom.” — Dr. Gary Smalley
  38. “Human beings are very unpredictable in relations and there are no written agreements… Unlike in business transactions…”― Honeya
  39. He forgot about you. Remember that.” — Unknown
  40. “Some people are in such utter darkness that they will burn you just to see a light. Try not to take it personally.”— Kamand Kojouri
  41. I can’t assume responsibility for a man’s infidelity, no more than I can take credit for his choice to remain faithful.” ― Lorraine Maloney Armstrong
  42. “I believe everything happens for a reason. People change so you can learn to let go. Things go wrong so you can appreciate them when they’re right. You believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself.” — Marilyn Monroe
  43. You don’t deserve someone who comes back, you deserve someone who never leaves.” ― Unknown
  44. “Broken promises , like a broken glass, is hard to replace.” ― Wille Mae Gaskin
  45. People are always fascinated by infidelity because, in the end, there’s a part of you that knows there’s no more piercing betrayal. People are undone by it.” — Junot Diaz
  46. “A broken glass can’t be repaired neither a broken trust.” — Paola Rivera
  47. When it comes to relationships, remaining faithful is never an option, but a priority. Loyalty is everything.” — Unknown
  48. “Listen. Slide the weight from your shoulders and move forward. You are afraid you might forget, but you never will. You will forgive and remember.”  — Barbara Kingsolver
  49. Why don’t you just pretend that he dropped dead? You can’t call or write to a dead man. Put a couple of candles in front of his picture, say a few Hail Marys and get it over with.” — Isabel Lopez
  50. “A cheating partner is a person who is either in bondage or isn’t loved the proper way.” ― Michael Bassey Johnson
  51. Infidelity is mentally, emotionally, and physically painful to the betrayed spouse. Be gentle with yourself as you heal.” — Dr. Karen Finn
  52. Cheating is like jumping into the middle of an ocean and expect not to drown.”― Gift Gugu Mona
  53. “Broken trust is hard to heal because we’re not even trying to heal it. We’re just trying to make ourselves feel safe.” — Mira Kirshenbaum
  54. Liars, cheaters, and abusers don’t easily change.” ― Jyoti Patel
  55. Don’t cheat when you got the most beautiful woman by your side.”― MG
  56. Extra-marital affairs become things of legend… and often the undoing of legends… and mere mortals.”― Cathy Burnham Martin
  57. “You cannot cheat others without first cheating yourself.” ― Dada J. P. Vaswani
  58. There is no justification for having an affair.” — Shanola Hampton
  59. “People are like music. Some speak the truth and others are just noise.” — Tupac Shakur
  60. If you are stupid enough to cheat, then definitely dumb enough to get caught.” — Aman Jassal
  61. “You cheated on me? When I specifically asked you not to?” — Michael Scott, in ‘The Office.’
  62. If you spend your time hoping someone will suffer the consequences for what they did to your heart, then you’re allowing them to hurt you a second time in your mind.” — Shannon L. Alder
  63. “I think if you cheat in a ethics class then there’s really no hope for you.” ― Joe Hill
  64. Cheating in a relationship is a sign of self-regulation failure. When it happens once, it is a mistake. When it happens twice, it is unfortunate. But when it happens thrice or more, it is a pattern indicating primitive, uncivilized inhuman behavior.” — Abhijit Naskar
  65. “Never borrow someone else’s man. If he cheated on another woman with you, he might cheat on you with someone else.” ― Unknown
  66. One lie is enough to question all the truth.” — Samaira Ansari
  67. “Life becomes easier when you learn to accept an apology you never got.”  — Robert Brault
  68. The moment that you start to wonder if you deserve better, you do.” — Unknown
  69. Betrayal is never easy to handle, and there is no right way to accept it.” — Christine Feehan
  70. “I feel like everyone has been in a bitter situation, regardless whether it’s cheating or just not being over someone who is over you – you compare yourself to the next.” ― Ella Mai
  71. My father said: If you want to catch your girl cheating, you knock on the front door and run to the back, because he’s coming out the back.” — Tracy Morgan
  72. “Once you have deeply hurt someone, it will always be in the back of their mind and haunt them even if they have a smile on their face.” ― Unknown
  73. I know all about cheating. I’ve had six very successful marriages.” — Bobby Heenan
  74. “Trust is like a piece of paper, once it’s crumpled it can’t be perfect again.” — Miranda Lee
  75. Earthquakes just happen. Tornadoes just happen. Your tongue does not just happen to fall into some other girl’s mouth!” — Gemma Holiday
  76. “Secrets and falsehood destroy relationships. No matter how cautious you are, you will eventually be exposed.” ― Unknown
  77. I could never hurt him enough to make his betrayal stop hurting. And it hurts, in every part of my body.” — Veronica Roth
  78. “I’ve had friends who say that they would never forgive cheating, but then they fall in love, the guy cheats, and they forgive him.” ― Josephine Langford
  79. No relationship is ever a waste of time. If it didn’t bring you what you want, it taught you what you don’t want.” — Unknown
  80. “You can’t save a relationship unless both people are equally invested. It takes a joint effort to make it work. One person trying will never be enough.” — Tony Gaskins
  81. If you’re in a relationship and someone was cheating, it could be a complete reflection of the relationship itself.” — Sutton Foster
  82. “Relationships sink when there are too many passengers on board.” ― Unknown
  83. “Cheating is very easy. Try something more challenging, like being faithful to yourself, your dreams, and your partner. After all, it is how responsible we are of ourselves, dreams, and partners that we get to mature and grow wiser and responsible.” ― Kabelo Mabona
  84. There’s so many different ways to cheat. People think infidelity is the way to cheat. I think it’s sometimes far worse to emotionally cheat on somebody.” — Sandra Bullock
  85. “Every day thousands of breakups occur. The reason behind them is simple. One of them is not a real lover of other.” — Johann Livens
  86. Nowhere does it state that unfaithfulness or infidelity is tied to a physical act only.” — Dena B. Cashatt
  87. “Only those you trust can betray you.” ―Terry Goodkind
  88. How dare she steal something from me that wasn’t hers to take? How dare she swallow my husband whole while I was still trying to breathe him in? How dare she break my heart and not even care about the shards of brokenness piercing through my soul?”― Brittainy C. Cherry
How dare she swallow my husband...

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  1. Cheaters always want you to be loyal while they’re being unfaithful.” — Unknown
  2. “You can say many things about me, but a backstabber is not one of them. I would never betray you the way you betrayed me.” ― Jessica Katoff
  3. Once a cheater, always a repeater.” — Melissa Edwards
  4. “Don’t waste your time on revenge. Those who hurt you will eventually face their own karma.” — Matareva Pearl
  5. Cheating only thrills those who cannot see the beauty in faithfulness.” — Michael Bassey Johnson
  6. “There are three signs of a hypocrite: when he speaks he speaks lies, when he makes a promise he breaks it, and when he is trusted he betrays his trust.” — Elijah Muhammad
  7. I think my wife is cheating on me, the only thing the parrot knows how to say is, quick out the window.” — Rodney Dangerfield
  8. “Cheating is never okay. There is no justification for it.” ― Unknown
  9. Cheating is a definite no-no. My man has to be all mine or never mind!” — Shraddha Kapoor
  10. “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
  11. A guy who’d cheat on his wife would cheat at cards.” — Texas Guinan
  12. “That’s the funny thing about old hurts- they just wait for the new heartache to come along and then show up, just as sharp and horrible as the first day you woke up with the world changed all around you.” — Lilith Saintcrow
  13. With each glare words escape me, yet no ears care to listen. It is cold here with her stare, judging every affair. My mind fiddles beneath the changeless confines of this betrayal as we hide behind deceitful wails. We have become trapped in lies long forgotten—squandering our time in lunacy with the thought of what was and is no more.” ― H.S. Crow
  14. “If you are going to trust a loved one, first learn to tolerate pain, because finally, your trust will bring you there.” ― Mohammed Zaki Ansari
  15. Men are more prone to cheating, definitely.” — Blu Cantrell
  16. “Sometimes the only logical thing to do when someone you love hurts you, is to disconnect, eject, proceed and move on.” — Rashida Rowe
  17. Cheating on a girl is deeper than people realize. It destroys her outlook on love, her future relationships, and her peace within herself.” — Unknown
  18. “There are only really a few stories to tell in the end, and betrayal and the failure of love is one of those good stories to tell.” — Sean Lennon
  19. Cheating, disloyalty, unfaithfulness—they start out as little things justified by clever reasonings of the brain, but never do they fully convince the knowing heart.” ― Richelle E. Goodrich
  20. “Justification for infidelity and dishonesty in all their manifestations lies in the marginal cost economics of “just this once.” — Clayton Christensen
  21. I think that women are more sensitive to emotional infidelity than men. I think men are more scared of physical infidelity.” ― Olivia Wilde
  22. “If someone really wants to hurt you, they’ll find a way whatever. I don’t want to live my life worrying about it.” — George Michael
  23. We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.” ― Tennessee Williams
  24. “The problem with trust is that if it is broken, then all acts committed by the perpetrator come under the purview of suspicion.” — Ravi Subramanian
  25. The more people rationalize cheating, the more it becomes a culture of dishonesty. And that can become a vicious, downward cycle. Because suddenly, if everyone else is cheating, you feel a need to cheat, too.” — Stephen Covey
  26. “It hurts when people walk into your life and make you happy and then walk out and leave you hurting.” — Adrian Rayshawn
  27. The hardest thing you can do is look back and see what the person you love has done to you.” — Sammi Giancola
  28. “When you tell a lie, you steal someone’s right to the truth. When you cheat, you steal the right to fairness.”― Khaled Hosseini
  29. Some people console themselves by telling themselves that at least their lover or spouse does not disrespect them enough to cheat on them openly.” ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
  30. “It takes two to tango but just one dance with the devil to bring the house down.” ― Jason Versey
  31. To be intimate with a married man, when my own father cheated on my mother, is not something I could forgive. I could not look at myself in the morning if I did that. I wouldn’t be attracted to a man who would cheat on his wife.” ― Angelina Jolie
  32. “Cheating seems like such a hard life when you can be loyal and faithful and live out your life in happiness!” ― Steven Magee
  33. Unfaithfulness is the fire extinguisher of love.” ― Khuliso Mamathon
  34. “When you get older, you have so much experience at falling and getting up. You’re not going to stop falling. But you will get better at getting up and brushing yourself off. I believe that. I’ve lived it.“― Shania Twain
  35. I can’t deal with someone wanting to take a relationship backward or needing space or cheating on you.” — Taylor Swift
  36. “In modern times couples are more concerned about loyalty than love.” ― Amit Kalantri
  37. If you think that your partner has been cheating, then take a look at their will. If a past lover is in there, then it is probable that some form of infidelity has occurred.” ― Steven Magee
  38. “Cheating is never an unintentional mistake. It’s always a conscious choice.” ― Garima Soni
  39. Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.” ― Jackie Mason
  40. “Anyone can betray anyone.” — Victoria Aveyard
  41. Be careful with you give your heart to.” ― Unknown
  42. “Cheaters only realize the gravity of their actions when the tables turn.”— Unknown
  43. I do think that with any kind of infidelity, on some level ― unless you’re dealing with a sociopath ― there’s always a reason.” ― Jessica Capshaw
  44. “When being in a relationship hurts you, leave. Don’t stay and keep drowning because love isn’t suppose to be painful.” — Mielya Saladdin
  45. Cheating on a good woman is like choosing trash over treasure.” — Audrey Hepburn
  46. “If you’re betrayed, release disappointment at once. By that way, the bitterness has no time to take root.” ― Toba Beta
  47. You could be going to have supper with someone who happens to be male, and all of a sudden he is your boyfriend of nine months… and I am cheating on my existing boyfriend.” — Caprice Bourret
  48. “All trust involves vulnerability and risk, and nothing would count as trust if there were no possibility of betrayal.” ― Robert C. Solomon
  49. I don’t think there’s anything to be admired in lying, cheating or philandering. But there might be something to be admired in not burning people at the stake because they have those weaknesses.” — Warren Beatty
  50. “People lie, cheat and bully one another and then wonder why they’re unhappy.” ― Marty Rubin
  51. Genuine love is honest, faithful, authentic, and transparent. It doesn’t deceive, pretend, or hide anything.” — Unknown
  52. Betrayal is common for men with no conscience.” ― Toba Beta
  53. “Infidelity has absolutely nothing to do with love. It has to do with an emptiness or a now bankrupt coping mechanism within your spouse that has been there long before they met you. An affair is an attempt to escape from the reality of one’s self.” ― Dr. Robert Huizenga
  54. Adultery may seem like an escape, but it’s a path to a deeper, lonelier abyss.“— Unknown
  55. It only takes one moment, Samantha. One twinge of doubt. One single disagreement for someone to cheat.”― Taylor Sullivan
  56. “I wish I were a little girl again, because skinned knees are easier to fix than a broken heart.” — Julia Roberts
  57. Cheating, having ‘hoes,’ none of that is cute. To be honest, it’s really immature. I don’t see how people take pride in breaking someone’s heart. The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.” ― Clarence Darrow
  58. “Don’t anticipate a warning when you deceive someone; the consequences are always severe.” ― Unknown
  59. Tis’ my opinion that every man cheats in his own way, and he is only honest who is not discovered.” ― Susannah Centlivre
  60. “When your trust in someone is broken, you will inevitably experience shock, denial, anger, and sadness, feelings that are, in many ways, akin to the mourning process following a death.” — Dr. Jane Greer
  61. Something deep inside you wants to believe that your spouse could never really, actually, break the sacred vow between you. Intimacy with anyone else? Unreal, unthinkable.” ― Michelle Weiner-Davis
  62. “We are slow to believe that which if believed would hurt our feelings.” — Louis Nizer
  63. No more tears, because I didn’t lose you. You lost me.” ― Unknown
  64. It is always the wrong time to meet the wrong person.” ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
  65. “Affairs don’t start in the bedroom. Instead, they start with secret looks and conversations.” ― Unknown
  66. Either one is promiscuous or in a relationship ― it cannot be both at the same time.” ― Abhijit Naskar
  67. “Worst betrayal always comes from the people we trust a lot.” ― Garima Soni
  68. He kept telling me his affair was over, but I kept catching him in lies. He wouldn’t shake this woman, and I simply could not trust him anymore.” ― Unknown
  69. “If it comes, let it come. If it goes, it’s ok, let it go. Let things come and go. Stay calm, don’t let anything disturb your peace, and carry on.” ― Germany Kent
  70. “Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.”  ― Sophocles
  71. “There’s folks you just don’t need. You’re better off without em. Your life is just a little better because they ain’t in it.” ― William Gay
  72. Most women will do almost anything to avoid having to face these truths. Even if we yell and scream at him when we discover that he’s lied to us, once the dust settles, most of us will opt for the comforting territory of rationalization. In fact, many of us are willing to rewire our senses, short-circuit our instincts and intelligence, and accept the seductive comfort of self-delusion.” ― Susan Forward
  73. “Lying, stealing, and cheating are commonplace.” ― Joseph B. Wirthlin
  74. I tried to keep us together, you were busy keeping secrets.” ― Drake
  75. A relationship is not a test. So why cheat?” ― Unknown
  76. “For me, I always wonder what’s worse: an emotional betrayal or a physical betrayal? That’s a really tough call.” ―Hilarie Burton
  77. One of the more challenging things in life is not being the guy who does the cheating, but not saying anything about it and going along with it.” ― Dale Murphy
  78. “Infidelity doesn’t necessarily stem from a lack of affection; it stems from a lack of consideration and regard.” — Unknown
  79. No one justifies lying, cheating, betraying, promise breaking, devastating and harming strangers. But we expect and we tolerate doing this to the one person in the world we promised most seriously to be faithful to forever: we justify divorce.” ― Peter Kreeft
  80. “Sometimes there a hundred lies behind a smile and not a single truth behind a tear.”― Saahil Prem
  81. Cheaters are cowards that are tempted to chase the fantasy of what could be… instead of courageously addressing their own self-destructive behavior and cultivating what is.” ― Steve Maraboli
  82. “I place an enormous premium on loyalty. If someone betrays me, I can forgive them rationally, but emotionally I have found it impossible to do so.” ― Richard E. Grant
  83. I’ve told Billy if I ever caught him cheating, I wouldn’t kill him because I love his children and they need a dad. But I would beat him up. I know where all of his sports injuries are.” — Angelina Jolie
  84. “The more you defend a lie, the angrier you become.” ― Mitch Albom
  85. Trying to make sense of crazy will make YOU crazy. Let it go.” — Karen Salmansohn
  86. “True love doesn’t wander; cheating only happens when you lose sight of what truly matters.” ― Unknown
  87. You knew exactly what you were doing. That’s what hurts the most.
  88. Ignoring snoring can be boring and annoying. But the noise of snoring is serenade compared to the silence of cheating.” ― Vincent Okay Nwachukwu
  89. “You lift your spirits by moving away from what upsets you. If the stove is hot, you can’t ask how to touch it but be happy about it.” ― Queen Tourmaline
  90. I’m a good enough person to forgive you, but not stupid enough to trust you again.” ― Unknown
  91. “The wrong person will give you less than what you’re worth but that doesn’t mean that you have to accept it.” — Sonya Parker
  92. As a woman who experienced infidelity firsthand, I will always advise my girlfriends to only trust their husbands 95 percent and leave 5 percent for human error.” —Yolanda Hadid
  93. “The only thing a boyfriend was good for was a shattered heart.” ― Becca Fitzpatrick
  94. Cheating is the most disrespectful thing one human being can do to another. If you aren’t happy in a relationship, end it before starting another one.” — Abhishek Tiwari
Cheating is the most disrespectful thing.

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  1. If you succeed in cheating someone, don’t think that the person is a fool. Realize that the person trusted you much more than you deserved.” — Unknown
  2. “Betrayal is one of my biggest fears. Betrayal happens on many different levels all the time, and there is no worse feeling than realizing someone you thought you could trust has gone against you.” — Katie Lee
  3. People who truly are initially just friends or just friendly colleagues slowly move onto the slippery slope of infidelity. In the “new infidelity”, secret emotional intimacy is the first warning sign of impending betrayal. Yet most people don’t recognize it as such until they’ve become physically intimate.” — Dr. Shirley P. Glass
  4. “In your mind, you are cheating somebody, but in reality, you are cheating yourself.”― Cyc Jouzy
  5. Do you believe a man can truly love a woman and constantly betray her? Never mind physically but betray her in his mind, in the very “poetry of his soul”. Well, it’s not easy but men do it all the time.” — Mario Puzo
  1. If you’ve experienced cheating in a new marriage, the real work is not obsessively combing through all the details of what happened, but rather figuring out if your relationship is worth saving.” — Emily V. Gordon
  2. “Because that’s what unfaithfulness is, isn’t it? A cancer that’s always there in the back of your mind, eating away at the foundations of the relationship.” ― Matt Dunn
  3. Cheating someone is a choice not a mistake.” — Sushan Sharma
  4. “The answer to ‘Why shouldn’t I commit adultery?’ Is that it pays not to, and utility is the final measure of the rationality of moral behavior.” ― Sheela Pawar
  5. “The cheat always lies at the feet of the cheat” — Unknown
  6. “Betrayal answers betrayal, the mask of love is answered by the disappearance of love.” — Albert Camus
  7. I’m proud of my heart. It’s been played, stabbed, cheated, burned and broken, but somehow it still works. And they said miracles do not happen.” — Alcatraz Dey
  8. “Infidelity is horrible. There’s nothing worse than that; it’s devastating.” — Jessica Capshaw
  9. Cheaters are always paranoid about being cheated upon.” ― Unknown
  10. “Trust is something that is difficult to establish. It is very fragile that needs to be taken care of. Once trust breaks or shatters into pieces, it is very difficult to rebuild it.” — K. Cunningham
  11. Infidelity, he now realised, had nothing to do with the lack of love, and everything to do with the lack of respect.” ― Kiran Manral
  12. “If someone breaks your trust, it just shows that they have been pretenders all along.” — Samuel Zulu
  13. If he loves you, he will not screw up what you have by cheating.” — Unknown.
  14. “Betrayal annihilates trust. The more trust there is to begin with, and the more deception is involved, the more damage is done.” ― Sandra Lee Dennis
  15. I was born without you. So I can live without you.” — Unknown
  16. “Love is whatever you can still betray. Betrayal can only happen if you love.” — John le Carre
  17. There’s something wrong with your character if opportunity controls your loyalty.” ― Trent Shelton
  18. “Feelings are much like waves, we can’t stop them from coming, but we can choose which ones to surf.” ― Jonatan Mårtensson
  19. I’m tired of the lies and the cheating, and the broken promises that were never meant to be kept.” ― Sidney Sheldon
  20. “Betrayal involves keeping secrets from your partner; often starting from the small ones.” ― Unknown
  21. The argument goes something like this; “I refuse to prove that I never cheated on you,” she said, by quoting “proof repudiates true love, and without love I am nothing.” ― Mohammed Israil
  22. “Trust shattered is like a broken vase; even when joined with the finest glue, the cracks remain.” — Unknown
  23. Soon he was online every night until one or two a.m. Often he would wake up at three of four a.m. and go back online. He would shut down the computer screen when I walked in. In the past, he used to take the laptop to bed with him and we would both be on our laptops, hips touching. He stopped doing that, slipping off to his office instead and closing the door even when A was asleep. He started closing doors behind him. I was steeped in denial, but my body knew.” ― Suzanne Finnamore
  24. Don’t cry over someone who won’t cry over you.” ― Lauren Conrad
  25. “Lying is done with words, and also with silence.” ― Adrienne Rich
  26. “If you truthfully love someone, lying and cheating should be the last thing on your mind.” ― Unknown
  27. “What had seemed like love was betrayal.” ― Claudia Gray
  28. Bad marriages don’t cause infidelity; infidelity causes bad marriages.” ― Frank Pittman
  29. “I know I am but summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year.”― Edna St. Vincent Millay
  30. For me working on the marriage and not making the easy choice of cheating was something that I could not do.” ― Al Goldstein
  31. “I always find the worst lies are told in relationships ― I learned to never lie about your happiness in order to save someone’s feelings from being hurt.” ― Kirsten Prout
  32. I know a lot of people that have been in long-term relationships where cheating has happened, and their marriages and their relationships are actually stronger because it was a mirror that reflected back on a problem that was happening. It’s hard.” ― Sutton Foster
  33. “Lies are like cockroaches, for everyone you discover there are many more that are hidden.” ― Gary Hopkins
  34. You can easily tell if a person is lying and cheating on you if they say, I love you. I would never lie to you or cheat on you.” ― Dane Cook
  35. “When your lover is a liar, you and he have a lot in common, you’re both lying to you!”― Susan Forward
  36. Don’t trust a guy who accuses you of infidelity. He’s cheating. He’s projecting. If you’re living that kind of life, you think everybody else is too.” ― Bradley Cooper
  37. “The cruelest lies are often told in silence.” ― Robert Louis Stevenson
  38. Stray cats are like two-timing men. He got tired of you and took off. He doesn’t find anyone new? He’ll come slinking back. By then, if you’re smart, you’ll have decided you’re better off without him.” ― Kelley Armstrong
  39. “There are all kinds of ways for a relationship to be tested, even broken, some, irrevocably; it’s the endings we’re unprepared for.” Katherine Owen
  40. If you are in a relationship, flirting is cheating.” ― Unknown
  41. “Are you a winner if you cheat?” ― Frank Sonnenberg
  42. “Cheating is a betrayal of the highest order.” ― Unknown
  43. Someday you’ll miss her like she missed you. Someday you’ll need her like she needed you. Someday you’ll love her and she won’t love you.” ― Channing Tatum
  44. “Never cheat on someone who is good to you.” — Surgeo Bell
  45. People generally didn’t cheat in good relationships.” ― Emily Giffin
  46. “Sometimes the person you’d take a bullet for is standing behind the trigger.” — Taylor Swift
  47. A liar deceives himself more than anyone, for he believes he can remain a person of good character when he cannot.” — Richelle E. Goodrich
  48. “When would he realize that it wasn’t his infidelity I couldn’t bear, but his cowardice?”― Tatiana de Rosnay
  49. Pain of being loyal to a cheating” ― Gugu Mofokeng
  50. “When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself.” — Isaac Bashevis Singer
  51. Cheating is pure hypocrisy. Our partner deserves better than that. If we don’t love someone, we should not be with them. That would also be hypocrisy.” ― Cathy Burnham Martin
  52. “If honesty is the best policy; cheating would be the worst one.” – Unknown
  53. Don’t get married unless you’re ready to be faithful.”― Habeeb Akande
  1. If you leave and they do not stop you, keep walking. You took the best decision.”― Unknown
  2. “Any woman can fool a man if she wants to and if he’s in love with her.”  ― Dame Agatha Christie
  3. “The shattering of a heart when being broken is the loudest quiet ever.” ― Carroll Bryant
  4. “It will always be foolish to ask a cheater if they would ever cheat on you.” ― Dennis Adonis
  5. “True love doesn’t require a backup plan; cheating only exists where commitment is lacking.” ― Unknown
  6. “Cheating is a selfish act that turns love into ashes and trust into dust.”― Unknown
  7. “One of the worst things about trusting someone is really believing that everything they ever told you was the truth.” ― Telisa McLaughlin
  8. “She did the worst thing to me that anyone can do to anyone else. Let them believe that they’re loved and wanted and then show them that it’s all a sham.” ― Agatha Christie
  9. “You asked why I couldn’t forgive you; it was because you were the love of my life. And you didn’t want to be. That’s hard to let go.” ― Kristan Higgins
  10. “Love grows where trust is laid, and love dies where trust is betrayed.” ― Tigress Luv
  11. “When a cheater disregards your feelings, they tell you that your presence barely matters to them.”― Unknown
  12. “Men cannot survive without cheating; it is in their nature.”  — M.F. Moonzajer
  13. “She stabbed him with her pretty wicked knife, disrupting his simple life. She’s a player, a heartbreaker, and now she breaks alone.” ― Jamie Weise
  14. “Cheating is perhaps the most disgusting, disgraceful, and disrespectful act one could commit against their loved one.” ― Unknown
  15. “Cheaters often keep accusing others of cheating.” ― Unknown
  16. “Love is a game in which one always cheats.” — Honore de Balzac
  17. “Never doubt a man’s love. Doubt his integrity.” — Alles
  18. “But human nature dictates that there will always be cheaters. That’s inevitable.” ― David Millar
  19. “In your life, you will deal with hurt, disappointments, heartaches, headaches, heartbreaks, liars, cheaters, players, fake friends, scandalous females, trust issues, backstabbers, gossipers, and most importantly, deceitfulness. You have to expect a punch and take a Tylenol, have dirt thrown on you and brush it off, be tripped but stand up stronger than ever.” ― Mikell Smith
  20. “All good is hard. All evil is easy. Dying, losing, cheating, and mediocrity is easy. Stay away from easy.” ― Scott Alexander
  21. “Infidelity is an opium of unfaithfulness.”― Toba Beta
  22. “It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.”― Thomas Paine
  23. “You knew how badly your actions would hurt me, but somehow you still chose to do it.” ― Unknown
  24. “We told ourselves we had forever, and we never looked back. The problem was that we never really looked ahead.”― Crystal Woods
  25. “Truly committed individuals don’t cheat because they’re focused on finding new ways to love their partner.”  Unknown
  26. “Fidelity is a living, breathing entity. On wobbly footing, it can wander, becoming something different entirely.”― Kay Goodstadt

Illustration: Cheating Quotes That Help You To Move On

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Frequently Asked Questions

1. Why do people cheat in a relationship?

Cheating often reflects deeper, unresolved issues. A person could cheat due to insecurity or low self-esteem, childhood trauma, unmet emotional needs, emotionally/physically unfulfilling relationship, or constant fighting in the relationship.

2. Do cheaters feel guilty?

Feeling guilty for cheating or double-dealing depends on the person and their set of beliefs or attitudes. Their inner growth, self-esteem, and how they cope with shame or their imposture nature could also play a role. People with low self-esteem, intuition, and immaturity would justify their act of cheating by denying and blaming it on their partner. However, those with high maturity levels, self-esteem and who know how to deal with shame healthily can admit and even apologize for their wiles.

3. How do cheaters behave?

Coming home late, giving lame excuses, showing random new interests, and hooking their mobiles wherever they go, could be some possible behavioral traits for cheaters. Moreover, they do not share their secrets, use prevarication tactics, mix up your name with another name, distance themselves from you, try to justify their deception or hoax, and shut you down or even criticize you for being protective.

4. What are the moral implications of cheating?

Being cheated upon by someone who means the world to you can leave deep scars on the mind. It may lead to feelings of pain, guilt, remorse, frustration, and despair. It may also cause you to lose faith and trust in a relationship. There is a way out of it, but the timeframe for healing depends on various factors, including your coping mechanism, the support offered by your close ones, and most importantly, your willingness to turn the page.

5. What common themes can I find in cheating quotes?

The recurring themes in cheating quotes are loss, anguish, regret, and remorse. However, the themes may also revolve around forgiveness, healing, learning the lesson of trusting a wrong person, and moving on.

6. How can reading cheating quotes help me heal myself after a betrayal?

Cheating quotes can help you heal by offering hope and solace. They can prevent you from beating yourself up over the betrayal and make you realize the one who cheated was flawed. The quotes will ease your sadness and pain and help you move on slowly. Moreover, reading cheating quotes and quotes about lies in a relationship can help you feel that there is someone to empathize with you.

7. How can I begin to trust again after being cheated on?

The process of rebuilding trust after being cheated on is slow and gradual. Give yourself time to heal—be patient and be aware of your emotions. You may also consider therapy or counseling to work toward healing.

The road to recovery after a betrayal can be long and winding, with many obstacles in the way. But the first step on this challenging path is to accept your emotions. Reading or writing relationship loyalty quotes or quotes about betrayal and cheating might also help you get the clarity you need to overcome this difficult period of dishonest artfulness or slyness. Cheating, being unfair knavery, can leave a person too shattered to love again. These quotes may help you recognize your worth and find love again. Remember that the mistakes of others should not define your life.

Infographic: Why Do People Cheat In A Relationship?

Cheating can damage a relationship beyond repair. If you have ever been cheated on, you know it is one of the worst feelings. Check out the infographic below to know the reasons why people cheat in a relationship.

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Key Pointers

  • When someone you love cheats on you, it’s a painful experience.
  • Quotes about cheating can help find the strength to move past this situation and expunge bad thoughts.
  • While accepting your partner’s betrayal may take time, these quotes can speed up healing.
  • They also give you hope, aid in moving on, and find solace during difficult times.

Cheating is a complex issue with many psychological implications. This video will explore amazing facts and quotes about cheating to help us better understand it.

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