Top 120 Donna Lynn Hope Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “The most interesting people are the unusual. No one writes about or discusses the average, the ordinary, or the common; they write about and discuss the weird, the mad and the different, so if you are one, even though the opinions of others are of no importance, you are, in their eyes, significant enough to notice and remember.”

— Donna Lynn Hope

52. “You don’t build a family by tearing down another one.”

— Donna Lynn Hope

53. “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

54. “How much pain a person detains may be proportionate to the pain they spare others when they’d rather hurt than hurt another.”

— Donna Lynn Hope

55. “Which is worse? Loving someone and not being able to be with them or not loving someone and having to be with them.”

— Donna Lynn Hope

56. “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

57. “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

58. “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

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

— Donna Lynn Hope

60. “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

61. “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

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

— Donna Lynn Hope

63. “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

64. “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

65. “If I never shed a tear or wondered what happened to someone I actually loved, what makes you believe I’d think twice about you, someone I never even cared for?”

— Donna Lynn Hope

66. “Enchantment and fulfillment were on the gold and garnet horizon – autumn’s breath, a dormant dream reawakened, a yearning nearly satiated, a tender thank you with a brush of the lips, and a connection as fingers touch and go hand in hand.”

— Donna Lynn Hope

67. “Why is it you tell me the truth only when you’ve fallen asleep? It’s then that you visit me.”

— Donna Lynn Hope

68. “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

69. “People, most especially those who have known ease in this life, care more about being prospered than refined. It’s always about what they can get from God, not what they can do for others, unless they can call attention to it for others to see.”

— Donna Lynn Hope

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

— Donna Lynn Hope

71. “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

72. “Apathy. What’s hard to understand? They don’t care. Not until it affects them.”

— Donna Lynn Hope

73. “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

74. “I have to crack a nut in order to enjoy it.”

— Donna Lynn Hope

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

— Donna Lynn Hope

76. “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

77. “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

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

— Donna Lynn Hope

79. “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.”

— Donna Lynn Hope

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

— Donna Lynn Hope

81. “If love comes to you in a way that isn’t the norm then at least it came to you; not everyone is that lucky.”

— Donna Lynn Hope

82. “While struggling with all the loss in her life, she mournfully thought, “If only I could forget... ” But that would be too easy, wouldn’t it? However, she did with most; she never got too close and she never stayed too long, but there she was... struggling with all the loss in her life.”

— Donna Lynn Hope

83. “Regret is her companion and the one who whispers to her often. She has even let hope die and that brings about despair.”

— Donna Lynn Hope

84. “Seasons of the heart. To get through what I must I’m often encased in ice and for months he chips away until he can see my face and after a while, I begin to thaw. As warmth and feeling returns, my emotions continue to build until my personality is set on fire. When he leaves, the fire dwindles until there is but a flicker. Then there is stillness and winter returns.”

— Donna Lynn Hope

85. “Joy – in the fall, winter, and always in the mountains where people are few, wildlife is abundant and there is peace in the quiet.”

— Donna Lynn Hope

86. “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.”

— Donna Lynn Hope

87. “Suffer” he commanded seductively. “With me... or because of me.”

— Donna Lynn Hope

88. “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

89. “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.”

— Donna Lynn Hope

90. “Evil spawns mayhem while benevolence repairs; doing good comforts the living while prayers are extended to the one who attends to the dead.”

— Donna Lynn Hope

91. “When they want you in secret they don’t really want you. They want the adventure. Give them one by telling them where they can go.”

— Donna Lynn Hope

92. “Spiders are anti-social, keep pests under control, and mostly mind their own business, but they somehow summon fear in humans who are far more dangerous, deceitful and have hurt more people. Of the two I’m more suspicious about the latter.”

— Donna Lynn Hope

93. “I am not one to chase my prey. It either crosses my lips or is tossed away.”

— Donna Lynn Hope

94. “It was evenings like that when beneath dim light and relaxing in a sultry bath that she missed him the most. A flicker of candlelight, wind breathing snow against the window and the soothing scent of creme caramel – all were a comfort to her as she closed her eyes, summoned memories and many a tender thought. She didn’t feel deserving of the devotion bestowed upon her, but she had finally learned to accept its wondrous gift, knowing that love was the source of existence and its only end.”

— Donna Lynn Hope

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

— Donna Lynn Hope

96. “Why do I speak forth the unpopular? I have a sweet tooth but not when it comes back up.”

— Donna Lynn Hope

97. “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

98. “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.”

— Donna Lynn Hope

99. “As long as she is near or within his power to reach, he will be drawn to her, leaving less of him for others and that’s why she had to leave. She knew, despite her own great desire, that there are consequences and responsibilities that are more important and life-altering than personal feelings.”

— Donna Lynn Hope

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

— Donna Lynn Hope