When I Fell From the Sky Quotes

“When we have really resolved to achieve something,” my father once said, “we succeed. We only have to want it, Juliane.”
― Juliane Koepcke, When I Fell From the Sky: The True Story of One Woman's Miraculous Survival

“I'm aware that it's a miracle that I'm still alive, and I wonder why me of all people. I have survived the crash and believe that I now have to get through this too. I pray that I will find people. I pray for my rescue. I want to live. With every fiber of my gradually weakening body, I want to live. And then I wonder what I will do with that life when this is finally over.”
― Juliane Koepcke, When I Fell From the Sky

“There’s no sense in waiting any longer. The search planes will never find me here. I hear the voice of my father, who said to me time and again: “If you get lost in the jungle and you find flowing water, then stay near it, follow its course. It will bring you to other people.”
― Juliane Koepcke, When I Fell From the Sky: The True Story of One Woman's Miraculous Survival

“My experience is: When you are in the midst of a terrible event—and the more horrible it is, the more this is true—you simply let go. The terror comes afterward, as in the tale of the rider who crosses a lake, realizes only after he has safely reached the other side how thin the ice was over which he drove his horse, and drops dead.”
― Juliane Koepcke, When I Fell From the Sky: The True Story of One Woman's Miraculous Survival

“Поряд зі мною сиділа жінка, яка сказала мені: «Знаєте, я краще полечу, ніж поїду на човні. Бо ж я не вмію плавати». Я подумала, що це вельми смішна заява, бо, зрештою, якби щось пішло не так, літати вона теж не вміла.”
― Juliane Koepcke, When I Fell From the Sky

“Під час поїздки можна зрозуміти, чи ладнаєте ви один з одним, чи ні, а ми робили це чудово.”
― Juliane Koepcke, When I Fell From the Sky

“Захистити можна тільки те, що попередню дослідили і вивчили.”
― Juliane Koepcke, When I Fell From the Sky

“Попри те, що я дивом відносно м’яко приземлилась на землю тропічного лісу, я досі лишилось без ґрунту під ногами, без бази, без фундаменту.”
― Juliane Koepcke, When I Fell From the Sky

“Ніколи не прощайтесь один з одним у сварці і навіть не лягайте спати вночі, не помирившись.”
― Juliane Koepcke, When I Fell From the Sky

“Для мене теж незрозуміло, як вона, яка ще мить тому сиділа поряд зі мною, в один момент могла зникнути з мого життя.”
― Juliane Koepcke, When I Fell From the Sky

“Це досі не знати чому мене зворушує, мені якось моторошно, бо ж для мене це не туристична пам’ятка, а двері через які 91 людина приступила в той світ, включаючи мою матір. Вижила лише я. І відтоді це не дає мені спокою.”
― Juliane Koepcke, When I Fell From the Sky

“Якщо ти заблукаєш у джунглях і знайдеш струмок з водою, залишайся біля нього, іди за водою вниз. Він виведе тебе до людей.”
― Juliane Koepcke, When I Fell From the Sky

“Природа завжди однакова, дарма є чи ні, їй байдуже. Але ми — і в цьому я переконалась на власному досвіді за одинадцять днів — не можемо можете без неї.”
― Juliane Koepcke, When I Fell From the Sky

“Я рано зрозуміла, що боїшся лише того, чого не знаєш. Людині властиво руйнувати все, чого вона боїться, хоча визначити цінність його їй іще не до снаги.”
― Juliane Koepcke, When I Fell From the Sky

“as we regard the rain forest as nothing but a wilderness, a “green hell,” we’re behaving like children setting fire to a heap of money just because they don’t know what the paper is worth.”
― Juliane Koepcke, When I Fell From the Sky: The True Story of One Woman's Miraculous Survival

“But thinking and feeling are separate from each other. In those days and weeks between the crash and what will follow, I learn that understanding something and grasping it are two different things.”
― Juliane Koepcke, When I Fell From the Sky: The True Story of One Woman's Miraculous Survival

“Every challenge presents itself as completely new. Just like anyone else, it always costs me enormous strength to translate what I want into action.”
― Juliane Koepcke, When I Fell From the Sky: The True Story of One Woman's Miraculous Survival

“When we have really resolved to achieve something,” my father once said, “we succeed. We only have to want it,”
― Juliane Koepcke, When I Fell From the Sky: The True Story of One Woman's Miraculous Survival

“In my young life there was nothing worse than seeing my mother cry.”
― Juliane Koepcke, When I Fell From the Sky: The True Story of One Woman's Miraculous Survival

“begins to shake our airplane as if it were a plaything. People cry out as objects fall on their heads from the open overhead lockers. Bags, flowers, packages, toys, wrapped gifts, jackets and clothing rain down hard on us; sandwich trays and bags soar through the air; half-finished drinks pour on heads and shoulders. People are frightened; they scream and start to cry. “Hopefully, all will be OK,” my mother says. I can feel her nervousness, while I myself am still pretty calm. Yes, I begin to worry, but I simply can’t imagine that… Then I suddenly see a blinding white light over the right wing. I don’t know whether it’s a flash of lightning or an explosion. I lose all sense of time. I can’t tell whether all this lasts minutes or only a fraction of a second: I’m blinded by that blazing light; while at the same time, I hear my mother saying quite calmly: “Now it’s all over.” Today I know that at that moment she had already grasped what would happen. I, on the other hand, have grasped nothing at all. An intense astonishment comes over me, because now my ears, my head, my whole body is completely filled with the deep roar of the plane, while its nose slants almost vertically downwards. We’re falling fast. But this nosedive, too, I experience as if it lasted no longer than the blink of an eye. From one moment to the next, people’s screams go silent. It’s as if the roar of the turbines has been erased. My mother is no longer at my side and I’m no longer in the airplane. I’m still strapped into my seat, but I’m alone.”
― Juliane Koepcke, When I Fell From The Sky: The True Story of One Woman's Miraculous Survival

“understanding something and grasping it are two different things.”
― Juliane Koepcke, When I Fell From the Sky: The True Story of One Woman's Miraculous Survival