Peruvian Nights Quotes

“The sun sets and it is another reminder of the sheer fragility of time, a reminder that death and decay are always closer than we think”
― Ryan Gelpke, Peruvian Nights

“The sun sets and it is another reminder of the sheer fragility of time, a reminder that death and decay are always closer than we think”
― Ryan Gelpke, Peruvian Nights

“Can I propose a toast to the fragility of life and the weight of mortality?”
― Ryan Gelpke, Peruvian Nights

“Death is what gives our lives urgency, an awareness that time isn't infinite.”
― Ryan Gelpke, Peruvian Nights

“Sometimes we humans are like brainless chickens, we run around aimlessly and to no avail, we seem to be looking for something that we don't even know what it is, some sort of missing piece, which isn't even there. Why don't most of us realise that life isn't about looking for the missing piece, but actually to learn live with the fact that one might never find it and still have a happy and fulfilled life nonetheless?”
― Ryan Gelpke, Peruvian Nights

“What I find hilarious is that these people looking for ego death, who want to become so enlightened are usually those with the most enormous egos. The huge egos seeking the egolessness, in order to show off how enlightened they are, all they want is to post on social media or write books about their journey. They actually want to find in it a way to seem selfless while still getting some selfish pleasure out of it. And then they have the guts to lecture you on selflessness!”
― Ryan Gelpke, Peruvian Nights

“I realised how terrible it must be to be at home everywhere for it means to be at home nowhere!”
― Ryan Gelpke, Peruvian Nights

“We all have to die one day, we might as well die with some obscure meaning attached to it.”
― Ryan Gelpke, Peruvian Nights

“Sounds of the river and wind, the tickling of the butterflies, the ice cold water and the company of some of my closest friends, what else would one want in life, whether fictional or not?
Ah, to be as light, beautiful and carefree as this elegant winged creature!”
― Ryan Gelpke, Peruvian Nights

“As Carcosa crumbled away, it was like the end of an era. That mysterious glow around it faded, leaving just traces of what used to be. It felt like a story within the story. The name Carcosa, which used to sound like some secret code, now just hangs in the air like a faint memory.”
― Ryan Gelpke, Peruvian Nights

“Well, faced with our mortality, we create stories of immortality. We strive to leave behind echoes of ourselves, reaching for infinity, eternity, on a finite, terminally ill planet!”
― Ryan Gelpke, Peruvian Nights

“A man stares at himself in the mirror and peels away all the layers. But the person he sees doesn't feels like someone he knows. He feels like he is looking at a total stranger.”
― Ryan Gelpke, Peruvian Nights

“After all when writing your story, only you should yield your pen, no one else! Don't let any one else but yourself control your own narrative!”
― Ryan Gelpke, Peruvian Nights

“How much we regret, how much we hold on dearly for our lives for the very past that is now gone, all these events that once had such an enormous sway over us and are now so very insignificant. But how we hold on to these memories for our dear life. It seems to be all we have. The interesting question now is, are memories something we should cherish given how much joy they can provide or something we should better let go of, considering how much anguish they can cause?”
― Ryan Gelpke, Peruvian Nights

“Some scars never fade, but gradually we learn to navigate life's journey.”
― Ryan Gelpke, Peruvian Nights

“After all we all are prisoners. Of our memories, our desires, our limitations, our disappointments… in the end we are terribly tragic creatures.”
― Ryan Gelpke, Peruvian Nights

“Before my heart stops beating all I can do is admire the beauty of the seemly endless mortal stars that are decorating the night sky above me, illuminating my path to my next destination.”
― Ryan Gelpke, Peruvian Nights

“Love, a deadly dance with a promise that we might not end up keeping!”
― Ryan Gelpke, Peruvian Nights

“Humanity, forever walking the incredible thin line between kindness and cruelty.”
― Ryan Gelpke, Peruvian Nights

“It occurred to me that losing one thing is way more difficult than losing everything, you noticed?”
― Ryan Gelpke, Peruvian Nights

“Our lives, reduced to mere hours, minutes, seconds, how cruel.”
― Ryan Gelpke, Peruvian Nights

“What remains of the world at the end?” She asked him.
“The noise of machines, newspapers, bombs, the craziness in the big cities, all of this will be forgotten tomorrow. And then, what remains? What remains, my dear, will never be the world, but only the gods.”
― Ryan Gelpke, Peruvian Nights

“At times I want to scream, scream at this illogical shit, at this wanton terror! Every comedy seems to end as a bad joke, no actually it ends as a horror story! An illogical one at that!”
― Ryan Gelpke, Peruvian Nights

“And don't forget some vital truth Ian… Points of view can go both ways, it is like a double edged sword, it can cut both ways. Thus it is crucial to stay focused on one’s point of view, otherwise one can get lost in the viewpoints of others, even be engulfed by them and losing ones own path in life. Be careful when you assume someone else’s point of view, it might end up destroying your own and you end up lost in their mind, without a compass back to your own mind!”
― Ryan Gelpke, Peruvian Nights

“The name itself, Carcosa, sounds like a secret code or something…”
― Ryan Gelpke, Peruvian Nights

“On the other side of the shore the lighthouse starts up again, illuminating the night and the river delta, casting its deep yellow light over the immediate surroundings. I once agin shiver despite the tropical heat. Another Peruvian night has dawned and with it another shot at hope is gone.”
― Ryan Gelpke, Peruvian Nights

“Watching as the water moves along I am once again reminded of the endless passing of time, the cruelty of it, how curial and amazing is it that no moment can last forever, and thus we have to learn to live with our mortality,”
― Ryan Gelpke, Peruvian Nights

“Another abyss that we have cross, another abyss that we have to stare into in the hope it won't stare back to us.”
― Ryan Gelpke, Peruvian Nights

“The empires of steel are gone, replaced by empires of silicone.”
― Ryan Gelpke, Peruvian Nights

“All we do is disguise our weak politics behind a powerful bureaucracy and disguise our powerful bureaucracy behind weak political decision making.”
― Ryan Gelpke, Peruvian Nights