Top 120 Donna Lynn Hope Quotes (2026 Update)
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51. “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

52. “She may be crazy but at least she isn’t you.”

— Donna Lynn Hope

53. “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

54. “I’m impressed when men go the distance to show they give a damn. That says nothing about the woman and everything about the man.”

— Donna Lynn Hope

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

— Donna Lynn Hope

56. “Where are the memories that held us together? Where are the dreams that were yet to come? I’m afraid to be happy. I shouldn’t be happy. If I’m happy without you does that mean I’ve told you goodbye?”

— Donna Lynn Hope

57. “He was on her mind but she doesn’t let anyone stay for too long.”

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

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59. “Why weren’t we born in the same era?” he lamented. She eased past him neither here nor there, looked over her shoulder and whispered, “How mundane and cliche would that be?”

— Donna Lynn Hope

60. “You will know who the enemy is intimidated by because they’re the ones he targets and keeps beating down.”

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61. “Just following orders’ is no excuse unless you’re in the bedroom.”

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62. “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.”

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63. “It will be a welcome change for her to feel his hands on her hips and his breath in her hair; She’s been forlorn, but like all emotions, even loneliness doesn’t last. She has fallen in love with the man with the quiet strength, the confident humility and the hands that show the flame of the heart.”

— Donna Lynn Hope

64. “You see it everywhere and everyone seems to be doing it but you. You could have had it as well, and you know it, and that’s what bothers you. Your worst enemy is yourself, and sadly, you know that what you did wasn’t worth what you lost.”

— Donna Lynn Hope

65. “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

66. “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

67. “If you’re nice, decent, attractive, get good grades and are talented, no one wants to read about that... They want to read what’s out-of-the-ordinary, the scandalous, the shocking and the tragic. They want a story; they want to be captivated and what’s typical does not give them that... unless, of course, that person ends up a victim, commits a crime or loses their minds via a love affair.”

— Donna Lynn Hope

68. “People will sometimes find themselves attracted to others, that’s just who they are. It’s what they do with that attraction that defines them.”

— Donna Lynn Hope

69. “There’s the good girl leading a charmed life who secretly covets to be the rare and elusive femme fatale and the femme fatale who yearns to be good and then there is their nemesis – men who dream and desire both.”

— Donna Lynn Hope

70. “Their love story: It’s when logic fell in love with paranoia and paranoia learned to love logic; logic grounded paranoia and paranoia turned up the heat because logic never knew where that heat would come from. Logic needs to be stimulated and paranoia needs to be soothed and therefore they need each other, which resulted in the birth of combustion. The end.”

— Donna Lynn Hope

71. “I used to be a wanderess without roots – discontent and bereft of belonging and then he took me to The Last Best Place where I was touched and warmed through. Never before have I felt the breath-taking spirit of the frontier as distinctly as I do here and never before have I felt so at home where all things magnificent are made more so by inspired calm of earthy humility.”

— Donna Lynn Hope

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

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73. “Who hasn’t been told “love you?” I don’t put much stock in such words because it’s the “I” that gives “love you” its true essence and intimate meaning, so unless someone can bring themselves to say “I love you,” don’t subtract from the significance by saying something less.”

— Donna Lynn Hope

74. “Theirs was a tug-of-war and neither could let go. Both felt the burn and still wouldn’t let go. Some might call it a game for neither could admit defeat.”

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75. “When people feel the need to declare that they are not basic... that’s when you know they’re basic.”

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76. “Why do you need worldly things to define you? Why do you need a rank or a status to tell others who you are? Why concern yourself with the capricious opinions of others who are less impressed with who you really are and more impressed by the carefully crafted image you present to them – an image that is entirely surface with no inherent value? Take away the things and the status and see who notices you.”

— Donna Lynn Hope

77. “If you have to boast about what you do for a living to attract attention, attraction or approval, then you’re seeking the wrong kind of people for it has nothing to do with who you are and everything to do with what you do. Is that the kind of people you want? The ones who are more attracted to your status than you?”

— Donna Lynn Hope

78. “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

79. “Am I a friend or a prospect? Imagine how much kinder life would be if people put as much effort into befriending others instead of trying to sell them something.”

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80. “She used to wander through the past as often as it beckoned her, bemoaning the loss of nostalgia. Then, for a while, she turned from it, blissfully free of its noxious clutch, and now it’s back, taunting her with what she left behind, knowing she can never recapture what’s gone.”

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81. “She is playing a game that she doesn’t want to play, but can’t seem to quit. As a player she wishes to see how the game concludes, but she also wishes the other player would retreat. She wants to win after-all and she makes for a sore loser, but her combatant uses his moves to keep her off-guard and primed for his advance. Should she block him, outmaneuver him, or just play dead until his back is turned? Isn’t the last the way of the female?”

— Donna Lynn Hope

82. “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

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

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84. “There is enchantment in wondering... in seeing a beautiful portrait every now and then rather than an overabundance of the overexposed; I wanted the figure before me to remain a magnificent mystery, like any alluring woman is as the rarity of a thing is what makes it valuable, even an enigma, and when something or someone is that, they become captivating.”

— Donna Lynn Hope

85. “I must be out of my mind if I loved you in spite of everything you’ve done, and anyone else would condemn you for it, but I can’t condemn you at all. In my own troubled mind, I loved you for it.”

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86. “If you are without contention and still have the ability to make people think, their ego is going to take a hit and as a result they’re not going to like you. They don’t want to think. They want to be right, unrivaled or entertained.”

— Donna Lynn Hope

87. “I appreciate the beauty and balm of flowers but I have never enjoyed receiving them because then I have to watch them die, and worse... throw them away.”

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88. “What was I to you?” he asked. She didn’t answer but turned and walked away. That’s when he knew: Nothing or everything.”

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89. “Affliction equips the suffering to empathize with others in anguish and not only does it strengthen them, it enables them to be consoling comforters in a world full of hurt.”

— Donna Lynn Hope

90. “She doesn’t give directions but there is a pot of gold at the end of her rainbow... Find it. If you can.”

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91. “The only stirrups I like are on a saddle.”

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92. “Tolerance. In all my years of debating politics and religion no mind was changed with derision and no thought convicted by way of harshness. You have no right to demand tolerance while deriding others and their beliefs in the process. Want tolerance? Extend it. You’ll be surprised because given it, people will actually listen.”

— Donna Lynn Hope

93. “I like weird. Conformity bores but is inescapable for the most part. We all follow something, even if it is following the goal of wanting to stand apart. We are a sea of ordinary people; it is always the quirk, the flaw or the ingenuity that stands out.”

— Donna Lynn Hope

94. “For those who have learned what suffering is early on, you have prepared ahead of the pack so that you can take care of the pack.”

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95. “Honor doesn’t revise according to company just as integrity doesn’t diminish due to circumstance.”

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96. “Dark hair on a white pillow, an ache inside, his face a reflection in her eye.”

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97. “Grab tightly to the reigns of passion and ride into glory for without it life would be stagnant and you would be a spirit without cause.”

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98. “You love the word love but you don’t really love and you don’t want to love because love, which is really sacrifice, would prevent you from doing what you want to do.”

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99. “In addition to unfinished business, some ghosts haunt so that they will be remembered.”

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100. “She doesnt want your dark embrace. She’ll let you hold her for a short time but she won’t submit to that kind of weakness and she’ll only let you get so close. In the past it was easier pushing you into the arms of another rather than face what was or what could be. She doesn’t want to love; not now, so she’ll close the door and toss the key.”

— Donna Lynn Hope