Top 100 John Marrs Quotes (2024 Update)

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

— John Marrs

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

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4. “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.”

— John Marrs

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

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7. “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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8. “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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9. “There are some things one can only achieve by a deliberate leap in the opposite direction.’ – Franz Kafka.”

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10. “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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11. “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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12. “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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13. “You are here because you don’t want to remain trapped in a world of uncertainty.”

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14. “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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15. “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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16. “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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17. “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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18. “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.”

— John Marrs

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

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

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22. “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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23. “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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24. “Despite her maturity, Mary was easily hoodwinked; that’s the problem with those who only ever see the good in people. I found it easy to appear saddened as she recounted some of the horrors callers had told her. Secretly, I couldn’t wait until she let go of my reins and I could experience their suffering first-hand.”

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25. “Everyone wants to cheat, but it’s whether you’ve got a good enough reason to do it. – Deepak.”

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26. “It was her fault because she’d tried to chase the impossible – the love of a man who could never love her in return.”

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

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29. “For him, you were a welcome distraction from it. When you and he were texting or talking, he’d forget about what was happening to his body. He became a different person... He was my little boy again.”

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

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

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33. “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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34. “Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant.’ – Paulo Coelho.”

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35. “Because the more you trust in someone, the more opportunities you give them to shatter your illusions about them.”

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36. “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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37. “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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38. “Sometimes, the grass isn’t greener on the other side and we should stay in the field where we belong.”

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

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41. “I thought that having a baby meant that I would always be loved by someone until the day I died. I was wrong. Being a mother is no guarantee of anything.”

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42. “He was her only love, but his paranoia and insecurities wouldn’t allow him to believe that. My mother was not strong enough to leave him. She tried her best to please him and win his trust, but when you accuse someone so often, eventually they will give in and prove you right.”

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43. “Sometimes when life gives you lemons, you need to fill your glass with more gin.”

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44. “He didn’t doubt the man was reliving the moment of collision over and over again, because so was he. It was funny, he thought, they had both killed the same person but only one of them was laughing.”

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45. “I don’t believe anyone who claims to have no regrets. They’re lying to themselves. We all have them.”

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

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47. “The law doesn’t always take into account morals, and sometimes in doing the wrong thing we’re also doing the right thing.”

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48. “It wasn’t just a crush, she wasn’t feeling sorry for him and it wasn’t because of Kevin’s illness. It was bigger than that, and wasn’t something that was going to burn out after he did. It was love in its purest form – and it scared her to death.”

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49. “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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50. “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.”

— John Marrs