Top 120 Donna Lynn Hope Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Don’t allow someone not worth it to have the power to occupy your thoughts. If they don’t find you worth the effort or the time, why should you waste yours?”

— Donna Lynn Hope

2. “Don’t concern yourself with the opinions of those who judge you. That is placing on them an importance they do not have.”

— Donna Lynn Hope

3. “When I say I’m going to forget you I know it’s impossible to forget someone I once knew. What I want is to erase you from my thoughts and purge you from my memories. I’m saying it’s what I wish for, not what is or could ever be.”

— Donna Lynn Hope

4. “I don’t cry because we’ve been separated by distance, and for a matter of years. Why? Because for as long as we share the same sky and breathe the same air, we’re still together.”

— Donna Lynn Hope

5. “I found that I missed him the more he was absent from my life, and the more I missed him, the more I loved him.”

— Donna Lynn Hope

6. “When it comes to parental alienation or grandparent alienation, we walk around with the overwhelming emptiness of a child’s absence while carrying the heaviness of their sweet and irreplaceable memory...”

— Donna Lynn Hope

7. “Why do you think you deserve happily ever after? You were offered it before and tossed it away.”

— Donna Lynn Hope

8. “Be careful how you live. Someone is always watching and will look to you as an example, an excuse, or a warning. The message some choices send is why struggle to do the right thing when you can do the wrong thing and be happy. Should we be happy or should we be right?”

— Donna Lynn Hope

9. “Some men like shiny new toys. Others like the priceless antique.”

— Donna Lynn Hope

10. “Only strong women, and they seem to be rare, can handle a frank and direct woman who doesn’t sweet-talk or need others to nerve her. You can identify the easily intimidated because they need a gaggle of like-minded clones to back them up when they feign offense, which is merely a guise for their insecurity.”

— Donna Lynn Hope

11. “Do you keep silent to keep a friendship or do you try to lend your support unconditionally, even if what they are doing goes against everything you believe in? Will it be principles over friendship, morality over love?”

— Donna Lynn Hope

12. “Fortuitous, unexpected beauty is the best beauty because it is unique, and what is unique is remembered.”

— Donna Lynn Hope

13. “Nocturnal with a love for night, I’d stay up to see sunlight...”

— Donna Lynn Hope

14. “In a social media world, the danger is being overexposed and when something is overexposed it is no longer interesting... if ever it was.”

— Donna Lynn Hope

15. “People like us are dead to society unless we’re pretentious, tell people what they want to hear, take off our clothes, or pretend to be like them.”

— Donna Lynn Hope

16. “There is the purity of love, harmonious in every way, but not meant for a lifetime, and then there is the steady love of commitment – no less real but completely different. She had both.”

— Donna Lynn Hope

17. “The empath helps others by absorbing some of their pain, but who helps the empath?”

— Donna Lynn Hope

18. “You’re sad but you hold everything back...”

— Donna Lynn Hope

19. “I never imagined a love so pure, nor a hate that could be so cruel.”

— Donna Lynn Hope

20. “Some people, who always talk about how busy they are, are really trying to claim how ‘important’ they are.”

— Donna Lynn Hope

21. “Connecting with someone is not necessarily a bond with a significant other, or even a friend, but can be the indefinable – perhaps the rarest and most precious thing in life to find at all.”

— Donna Lynn Hope

22. “The earth is grounding while the mountains, curvaceous and sweeping, offer a blanket of refuge. Their woods are abounding in camouflage as their leaves sway about in continuous, florid dance. There is an air of invulnerability that is exclusive to the woods, which is why she’s most happy among them. She doesn’t mind beasts as they are preferable to humans and much less threatening; beasts, you see, although dangerous, are incapable of the enmity that permeates beyond the shade of the woods.”

— Donna Lynn Hope

23. “What have I to prove, and to whom, and why? I’m keen enough to want nothing more than to live a simple, humble, unfettered life.”

— Donna Lynn Hope

24. “You may want the alpha, but the alpha has his pick.”

— Donna Lynn Hope

25. “The regret of unfinished business is particularly oppressive, even haunting in its oppressive grief.”

— Donna Lynn Hope

26. “I didn’t sleep well last night because one of my ghosts came back, haunting with his presence, and when I woke up, the others weren’t here, haunting with their memory.”

— Donna Lynn Hope

27. “Not only are the poorest people the most generous but they don’t expect anything in return, least of all recognition from others by means of showing off or posting a humble brag like so many from average society do and you can identify these people through the abundance of photos they post, literally with their hands in the air, showing off what they’ve done for the “less fortunate.” I guess they missed the part where God said to be humble and to do good works in private.”

— Donna Lynn Hope

28. “I’d rather be befriended as an aimless lost soul than be befriended for adornment, gain or goal.”

— Donna Lynn Hope

29. “If there had once been a chance and there had once been love, then it will still be there in spite of time and obstacles. If you can get past that, you can get past a lot.”

— Donna Lynn Hope

30. “Powerful words that penetrate the psyche are not forgotten while silence is.”

— Donna Lynn Hope

31. “Some people live their lives being perpetual victims and finger pointers. To anyone who points a finger at someone else and lays all the blame at their feet instead of taking responsibility for their own behavior, I would say, “I see that finger and you know where you can put it?”

— Donna Lynn Hope

32. “How empty are the insincere words of people who, so easily, speak forth “love,” “family” and “friendship” without meaning what they say even if their intentions are good albeit mere flattery.”

— Donna Lynn Hope

33. “You can never let your compassion stand in the way of justice because when you do, other people get hurt.”

— Donna Lynn Hope

34. “At times she’s thought of as an ice princess but ice, when exposed to warmth, melts.”

— Donna Lynn Hope

35. “Never ignore the elephant in the room. That’s rude; play with it and introduce it.”

— Donna Lynn Hope

36. “Someone once said that love is the closest thing to magic that this world has, but magic enchants, deceives and casts a spell.”

— Donna Lynn Hope

37. “Anger met with anger only increases enmity rather than diffusing a tense situation. Anger, in turn, gives birth to hate. In such cases the wisest thing to do is not to engage through emotion. Emotions are self-centered and denying them spares animosity.”

— Donna Lynn Hope

38. “Don’t start a fight if you can’t duke it out. Either win or concede but whatever you do, don’t have others fight for you.”

— Donna Lynn Hope

39. “Leaving the familiar for unknown terrain is like a death – and feeling this level of finality should snap one back to life for life has greater meaning in the face of death.”

— Donna Lynn Hope

40. “Speaking of happiness, those distinctive moments are found outdoors – in the fall, in the winter and always in the mountains where people are few, wildlife is abundant and there is peace in the quiet.”

— Donna Lynn Hope

41. “One of the disadvantages to having a choice is the inevitability to hang oneself on freedoms rope.”

— Donna Lynn Hope

42. “Good or bad, if you’re not “normal,” you can’t have a normal relationship. If you are different, people will relate to you differently.”

— Donna Lynn Hope

43. “Hatred may keep a body warm, but it takes a lot to keep the fire stoked, so unless a person is extraordinary in some way, some people are not worth hating, just like they’re not worth loving.”

— Donna Lynn Hope

44. “Some things you sentence yourself to life for.”

— Donna Lynn Hope

45. “His ghost comes back to be remembered. If he can’t be in this life, he procures a way to stay in orbit, and in that way, is never forgotten.”

— Donna Lynn Hope

46. “A relationship, of any kind, requires two. Some people want it all and expect it all, always looking outward, so often saying what they deserve, even more saying what they want, and all thinking another should provide it for them, but do they ever bother to be the person they think someone else would love to have? Perhaps, in order to get that better love, extend it first.”

— Donna Lynn Hope

47. “I shall not be defined by what I have suffered but how I have endured them.”

— Donna Lynn Hope

48. “I don’t admire the person who does what they want to do. I admire the person who does what they’re afraid to do.”

— Donna Lynn Hope

49. “In a fit of anger he had said to her, “You’ll always be miserable,” to which she thoughtfully replied, “Is that so? It’s impossible to be miserable when you’ve known tragedy and hardship. Both strengthen and refine a person to the point where they may have moments of grief and sadness, but misery is known only to those who have a sense of entitlement... you know, people like you.”

— Donna Lynn Hope

50. “I think part of your attraction to him is the draw of the unknown, of being different, even special. He is so out of the ordinary that you feel pulled to that because you yourself are not so ordinary. You’re alone. And sometimes the pain of so much loss is written across your face. You wear it like an adornment and that causes other people to wonder about you; they can’t relate to you and what you’ve been through, but you can relate to him in his dark state.”

— Donna Lynn Hope