Top 100 John Marrs Quotes (2026 Update)

1. “Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.’ – Muhammad Ali.”

— John Marrs

2. “You can either learn from your parents’ mistakes, or repeat them and use them as an excuse for your own behaviour.”

— John Marrs

3. “If you allow an emotional attachment to develop, eventually that person will disappoint you. They might not mean to, but if a better opportunity comes along, they will always leave you for it. I’ve learned the hard way that people – even loved ones – are transient souls.”

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4. “To anyone who ever gave you confidence – you owe them a lot.”

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5. “If you allow an emotional attachment to develop, eventually that person will disappoint you. They might not mean to, but if a better opportunity comes along, they will always leave you for it.”

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6. “If you’ve got the opportunity to love someone as much as they love you, then grab it with both hands and hold on to it for dear life.”

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7. “For much of our time together I wished for a better relationship than the one we have, but I’ve come to understand this is the hand I have been dealt. And now I am showing you all my cards. Our game is complete.”

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8. “It only took a couple of terms at the University of Sunderland before I understood that once you strip away a town’s facade, they’re all the same underneath.”

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9. “Tim, I am the scientist who discovered the Match Your DNA gene, and a lot of people hate me for it.”

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10. “No matter how death happens, the pain is hideous.”

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11. “Even if it’s not physical between you two, it is emotional, and that’s the equivalent of an affair. – Sally.”

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12. “Even your choice of fiction is macabre,” Amy continued, “Hannibal Rising, American Psycho, We Need To Talk About Kevin, Donald Trump’s autobiography.”

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13. “I was trapped in a horrible nightmare that happened to other people, not to me. Not to my family and not to my husband.”

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14. “Sometimes, the grass isn’t greener on the other side and we should stay in the field where we belong.”

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15. “Like John Lennon said, ‘All You Need Is Love.’” “Yes, but he also said, ‘I Am The Walrus,’ so let’s not hold too much credence to his pearls of wisdom.”

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16. “He identified himself as a primary psychopath, one who had been born with the condition – or gift, as he’d come to think of it – as opposed to being a secondary psychopath and a product of his environment.”

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17. “Had he truly loved his wife, or in Sutcliffe’s world of paranoid schizophrenia, had she been the anchor that’d kept him from setting sail into complete insanity?”

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18. “Because when you’re not considered to be a threat, you can get away with much, much more.”

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19. “You are here because you don’t want to remain trapped in a world of uncertainty.”

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20. “It was better to remain on my island than drown in somebody else’s sea. 7.”

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21. “Sometimes, the grass is not greener on the other side, and we should stay in the field where we belong. And sometimes we just need to take a gamble and hope for the best.”

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22. “It’s about our community and how we’re all made up of the people we surround ourselves with. None of us is an island, no matter how much water there is between us. Even you.”

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23. “I also wanted to demonstrate how greedy we are as human beings. How willing we are to give up everything and anyone we hold dear on the suggestion there might be something better around the corner.”

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24. “When a person is breathing their last, everything they have done in their life, every success or failure they have ever enjoyed or suffered, no longer matters because we are all equal. Good or bad, saint or sinner, you or me, one day we will all be on a level playing field.”

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25. “Once you find your anchor, never let go of it. No matter what.”

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26. “To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life. – Victor Hugo, Les Miserables.”

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27. “I prefer detective or psychological thrillers, anything that promises and then delivers a twist. I like to get the old grey matter working and decipher who the bad guy is. I’m hard to please though. If I guess the culprit correctly, I’ll be disappointed at how predictable the story is. If I get it wrong, I’ll be annoyed at myself for not spotting it earlier.”

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28. “Don’t let the chance to be happy pass you by.”

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29. “A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.’ – Charles Spurgeon.”

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30. “Don’t do as you’re told when you know something is morally wrong. Have the strength to stand up for what you believe in. Don’t be afraid to confront your enemy or they will continue to rise in the most unexpected ways.”

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31. “Nothing disappears any more,’ shrugged Cadman. ‘Everything is somewhere. All that’s private becomes public in the end.”

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32. “There are some things one can only achieve by a deliberate leap in the opposite direction.’ – Franz Kafka.”

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33. “They were too young to sense the distance and sadness that remained between Simon and me. I’d come to terms with the fact things might never get back to how they’d been, no matter what we did or said. Instead, we were adjusting to a new kind of normal in the best way we could.”

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34. “I suggest you think of social media as a river. It begins in one place but the further it travels, the more it meanders in different directions. Some new routes dry up quickly, others take on directions all of their own. Everyone has an opinion.”

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35. “Maybe when you took it back to basics, that’s what love really was: just being there for someone when the sun rises and sets. Jade arrived back at the farm with her sleeping partner and was greeted by his brother who opened the passenger door and unclipped Kevin’s seat belt.”

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36. “Such frittered-away chances make me want to crawl on my hands and knees to the end of the garden, curl up into a ball on a mound of earth and wait until the nettles and the ivy choke and cover me from view.”

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37. “When you talk about him, it makes me feel that there’s so much I’ve missed out on,” she replied. “A family man who wanted a family of his own... that’s my idea of a perfect Match. I feel torn – I’m so pleased to have been Matched with him, yet I feel so sad that we weren’t even allowed to meet or be together. They say you can’t miss what you’ve never had, but that’s not true. I miss him so much, and I never even knew him.”

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38. “Everything that makes you happy eventually disappoints.”

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39. “We have roughly 100 trillion cells in our bodies and inside each of them are two metres of DNA – if you unravelled them all, they’d stretch to the sun and back a hundred times.”

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40. “Maybe when you took it back to the basics, that’s what love really was: just being there for someone when the sun rises and sets.- Jade.”

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41. “Really, you have no idea how it feels when you meet the one, do you? How, when you’re with them, the whole world melts away and you feel like you’ve been hit by the force of a tsunami. And how nobody else in the world exists in that moment apart from you and him.”

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42. “No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks. Mary Wollstonecraft.”

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43. “A priest I knew once told me “a candle loses nothing by lighting another candle.”

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44. “Despite threats to their kids’ lives, they still prioritise sharing their fears with the world before they scuttle off to rescue their little ones. Share then react. I love it.”

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45. “What if it turns out our DNA doesn’t Match?” “Then we’ll be mindful that maybe we’ll need to put more effort into our relationship. Like John Lennon said, ‘All You Need Is Love.’” “Yes, but he also said, ‘I Am The Walrus,’ so let’s not hold too much credence to his pearls of wisdom.”

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46. “When you get older you’ll understand that sometimes appearances can be deceptive,’ she replies. ‘You can never really know a person, no matter how much you love them.”

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47. “Don’t worry, the only skeletons in my closet belong to the mice.”

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48. “It’s that feeling you don’t get when you’re around anyone else, like nobody in the world matters when you’re in their company. Like you and them are this one, solitary... thing... And no matter what crap the world throws at you, you can get through it because you have them on your side.”

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49. “But I knew eventually it would fail me. Everything that makes you happy eventually disappoints.”

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50. “But that’s what love is, Simon. It’s never giving up on the person you’ve given your heart to. It’s having faith that no matter how tough things get, that person will always be looking for you.”

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