A Quote by Charles Dickens

Surprises, like misfortunes, seldom come alone.

Charles Dickens

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Charles Dickens
English - Novelist
February 7, 1812 - June 9, 1870

Surprises are like misfortunes or herrings - they rarely come single.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

In great misfortunes, people want to be alone. They have a right to be. And the misfortunes that occur within one are the greatest. Surely the saddest thing in the world is falling out of love--if once one has ever fallen in.

Willa Cather

Single misfortunes never come alone, and the greatest of all national calamities is generally followed by one greater.

Boyle Roche

Happiness, like misfortunes, never comes alone.

Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

I demand pretty aggressive goal setting and a commitment to measured progress towards those goals because I don't like surprises. I don't even like good surprises.

Abigail Johnson

All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.

Jean de la Bruyere

What men usually say of misfortunes, that they never come alone, may with equal truth be said of good fortune; nay, of other circumstances which gather round us in a harmonious way, whether it arise from a kind of fatality, or that man has the power of attracting to himself things that are mutually related.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The moment when a man's head drops off is seldom or never, I am inclined to think, precisely the most agreeable of his life. Nevertheless, like the greater part of our misfortunes, even so serious a contingency brings its remedy and consolation with it, if the sufferer will but make the best, rather than the worst, of the accident which has befallen him.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Misfortunes never come singly.

Anne Frank

We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Loneliness is, like, when you wish someone else was there, and solitude is when you enjoy being alone. I don't always wanna be alone, but I definitely like pockets of solitude to recharge and come back to myself. I think that's so important for everyone.

Jonathan Van Ness

Our greatest misfortunes come to us from ourselves.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Ill fortune seldom comes alone.

John Dryden

All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I am not jealous of what came before me. Come with a man on your shoulders, come with a hundred men in your hair, come with a thousand men between your breasts and your feet, come like a river full of drowned men which flows down to the wild sea, to the eternal surf, to Time! Bring them all to where I am waiting for you; we shall always be alone, we shall always be you and I alone on earth, to start our life!

Pablo Neruda

We come into the world alone and we die alone. Why, in life, should we be any less alone?

Diogenes

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