Nietzsche’s Birthday Party Quotes

“All lonely, beautifully silent and so very enchanting the city seems at night when every tourist, hotelier and tour guide have gone to bed, almost like a ghost town if it weren’t for the one or other lit window and a few lonely insomniac people walking the alleys here and there.”
― Ryan Gelpke, Nietzsche’s Birthday Party: A Short Story Collection

“Some cities are pretty at night, others only during the day but a handful truly great places can be both pretty at nighttime and at daytime. Venice is one of them.”
― Ryan Gelpke, Nietzsche’s Birthday Party: A Short Story Collection

“I then take the opportunity to ask him about the lemon rule and he laughs, tells me its quite simple: “You know how Nietzsche was all about creating your own morality and use your misfortune to learn from them? You know the tale of being hunted by the sleep paralysis demon and the eternal recurrence? To which he answered: Amor Fati, love your fate no matter what?” I nod. “Well I took the old saying, when life gives you lemons make lemonade and took it as an interpretation of his Amor Fati concept. That’s why we will all have a lemon with us tonight on the pub crawl. And if you lose it, in other words you hate your fate and are a nihilist, you have to drink.”
― Ryan Gelpke, Nietzsche’s Birthday Party: A Short Story Collection

“Whilst the content of two university accommodations is looking around angry, confused or just tired we simply enjoy ourselves on the grass sipping gin with ice tea and eating pizza.”
― Ryan Gelpke, Nietzsche’s Birthday Party: A Short Story Collection

“The car pulls into busy Brighton. Its Friday night and 11pm is considered early. We see people enjoying life, on the way from their prinks to a club or even the one or other couple snogging in a dark corner between the houses. Life goes on. It is as almost nothing has changed although for us everything has changed.”
― Ryan Gelpke, Nietzsche’s Birthday Party: A Short Story Collection

“Bernard adds: “Remember Nietzsche? That we must use culture to overcome the death of god and defeat Nihilism? Well, we just did that via a Beatnik style poetry reading. Remember friends, we must defeat Nihilism a day at a time. Down with Nihilism! Cheers to that!”
― Ryan Gelpke, Nietzsche’s Birthday Party: A Short Story Collection

“I smile and lift the can of beer to the empty and so poetical sky we are all under and take in the immense joy in this very moment. The empty sky above us is our sole witness as we commit the horrible crime of enjoying our lives! After all we are a bunch of crazy, fun and completely beaten down group of people. Looking at their very own strange path in life ready to go mad on the way till we reach the end, after all what’s the point of staying sane if that means a life of total boredom?”
― Ryan Gelpke, Nietzsche’s Birthday Party: A Short Story Collection