“If only I could fall
sound asleep and wake up in my old reality!”
Haruki Murakami book After Dark
Source: After Dark
“If only I could fall
sound asleep and wake up in my old reality!”
Haruki Murakami book After Dark
Source: After Dark
“The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.”
Paulo Coelho book The Alchemist
Introduction, p. xi.
Source: The Alchemist (1988)
Context: I ask myself: are defeats necessary?
Well, necessary or not, they happen. When we first begin fighting for a dream, we have no experience and make mistakes. The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.
“Success is falling down 7 times but getting up 8!”
Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist
Joe Biden (1942) 47th Vice President of the United States (in office from 2009 to 2017)
Page 80
2000s, Promises to Keep (2008)
“The weak fall, but the strong will remain and never go under!”
Anne Frank (1929–1945) victim of the Holocaust and author of a diary
Variant: The weak die out and the strong will survive, and will live on forever
Source: The Diary of a Young Girl
“That’s the nice thing about dreams, the way you wake up before you fall.”
Marya Hornbacher book Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia
Source: Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia
Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer
Original: Sei il mio pensiero che felicemente al mattino mi sveglia e che di notte dolcemente mi addormenta.
Source: prevale.net