27 Heart-Wrenching Quotes About Cheating

"Never cheat on someone that is good to you. Karma is a bitch."

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1.

Never cheat on someone that is good to you. Karma is a bitch.

—Surgeo Bell


2.

No woman could love a cheater and not pay the price for it.

—Rose Wynters


3.

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


4.

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

—Robert Buckley


5.

Cheating and lying aren’t struggles, they’re reasons to break up.

—Patti Callahan Henry


6.

I can’t deal with someone wanting to take a relationship backward or needing space or cheating on you.

—Taylor Swift


7.

Fuck You for cheating on me. Fuck you for reducing it to the word cheating. As if this were a card game, and you sneaked a look at my hand. Who came up with the term cheating, anyway? A cheater, I imagine. Someone who thought liar was too harsh. Someone who thought devastator was too emotional. The same person who thought, oops, he’d gotten caught with his hand in the cookie jar. Fuck you. This isn’t about slipping yourself an extra twenty dollars of Monopoly money. 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


8.

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


9.

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


10.

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.


11.

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


12.

Earthquakes just happen. Tornadoes just happen. Your tongue does not just happen to fall into some other girl’s mouth!

—Gemma Halliday


13.

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


14.

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


15.

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


16.

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


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.

Seriously, if the bastards cheat on you, then they don’t deserve you anyway. If that’s a legit fear, then you probably shouldn’t be with them to begin with.

—Kody Keplinger


19.

Men cannot survive without cheating, it is in their nature.

—M.F. Moonzajer


20.

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


21.

Cheats prosper until there are enough who bear grudges against them to make sure they do not prosper.

—Peter Singer


22.

He’d lost the only part of his life that made it worth living because of a couple random fucks. How ridiculous.”

—Santino Hassell


23.

You didn’t just cheat on me; you cheated on us. You didn’t just break my heart; you broke our future.

—Steve Maraboli


24.

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


25.

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


26.

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


27.

…if you discover your partner is cheating, drink like it’s your last party, blame everyone else for your problems, let binging be your new favorite hobby, and, by all means, FUCKING PANIC.

—Brandi Glanville

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