Top 35 Dorothy Koomson Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Evil grows when good people do and say nothing.”

— Dorothy Koomson

2. “Friendships grow from small acts of kindness.”

— Dorothy Koomson

3. “When you love someone, them being hurt is worse than any pain that you could suffer.”

— Dorothy Koomson

4. “My belief in God is personal, I do not need to browbeat anyone into agreeing with me, because I believe what I believe and I try to live by it. My belief in God is about trying to be the best person I can be in this life...”

— Dorothy Koomson

5. “Love is a two-way street.”

— Dorothy Koomson

6. “Old pain doesn’t completely die. Time may soothe it, stoke over it until it looks like it has healed, but it never dies properly. It stays with you, it lives in the cracks of your soul, waiting for moments when you feel true pain.”

— Dorothy Koomson

7. “When you can’t be honest with people, you can’t ever relax with them.”

— Dorothy Koomson

8. “Always regret the things you did do, never the things you didn’t.”

— Dorothy Koomson

9. “He seems to have become a part of my life and I’m disappointed if I don’t see him. If I get to the end of the day without seeing someone who reminds me of him, I feel as if a dull shadow has fallen over me.”

— Dorothy Koomson

10. “I would rather have nothing than something that was only alright.”

— Dorothy Koomson

11. “Crying was an acceptable outlet, even if it made you feel raw and empty inside, it was still better than that build up of resentment that grew from not letting your emotions out. – My Bestfriend’s Girl -.”

— Dorothy Koomson

12. “I think what love is changes over time, as you grow older, learn more, do more.”

— Dorothy Koomson

13. “But that’s the thing about all of this,” he says gently but urgently, “we survive. After each known down, each earth shattering blow, we get up again. Even though we walk through hell, and it feels like all we do is walk through hell, we do eventually make it to the otherside. Scarred. Mostly broken. But we survive. And then we start to rebuild ourselves. We’re never the same, but we do rebuild ourselves. Because something like this is just another way in which we change. We all have to change.”

— Dorothy Koomson

14. “If we’re going to change the world for the better, kids need to know that they can by feeling good about who they are and helping others.”

— Dorothy Koomson

15. “To know other people thought he’d made a mistake vindicated me. I wasn’t a bad girlfriend, he was simply going through a period of temporary insanity and he’d come to his senses soon.”

— Dorothy Koomson

16. “It’s the ones you love the most who can lift you in an instant, and destroy you without trying.”

— Dorothy Koomson

17. “The thing I am most afraid of is love. When you say you love someone you are giving them license to hurt you.”

— Dorothy Koomson

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18. “I was in charge. Of it all. All the time. For ever.”

— Dorothy Koomson

19. “We seem to be tiny specks in the vast ocean of our DNA pool when it is all mapped out, and it is that – the literal relativity of it all – which takes their breath away.”

— Dorothy Koomson

20. “I did not know that when you drop a stone of a stupid choice in the pool of your life, it can cause a tidal wave to surge outwards, destroying everyone and everything in its path.”

— Dorothy Koomson

21. “Share too much and someone can hurt you.”

— Dorothy Koomson

22. “Far too many people opened their hearts and lives at the drop of a hat. Why give someone that power over you? Why endow them with the ability to hurt you that much? Let someone in and you were asking for an emotional kicking some day.”

— Dorothy Koomson

23. “Christmas is a time for families.”

— Dorothy Koomson

24. “I hate him for what he’s done, but I still love him for the man he was.”

— Dorothy Koomson

25. “We all have choices. Every single one of us. Some of us are too blind to see them. Some of us don’t make use of them. Some of us don’t use them correctly. And some of us are completely robbed of them because we are trapped in a situation we can’t escape. We still have choices, though.”

— Dorothy Koomson

26. “But” doesn’t make an apology, it makes an excuse of your behaviour.”

— Dorothy Koomson

27. “For one moment I felt the world stand still, and I allowed myself the indulgence of revelling in doing something reckless and foolish because I was madly in love and I didn’t have to worry about the consequences.”

— Dorothy Koomson

28. “I don’t want to rely on something that could be taken away at some point.”

— Dorothy Koomson

29. “He just hijacks me. I love him. And I won’t be able to give anyone a real chance until that’s over.”

— Dorothy Koomson

30. “She believed that owning a lots of things made you a better person. She didn’t know – possibly didn’t want to know – that happiness comes from the inside.”

— Dorothy Koomson

31. “That’s what came from having romance in your soul. You believe in things like love at first sight and perfect presents.”

— Dorothy Koomson

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32. “It was the thought of him that I had problems with, I realised. The reality was really rather desirable.”

— Dorothy Koomson

33. “She fizzed when she smiled.”

— Dorothy Koomson

34. “I could grow to like this man, I realized. I could grow to like him a lot.”

— Dorothy Koomson

35. “But feelings aren’t like thoughts, they can’t be changed at will.”

— Dorothy Koomson