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Paolo Sorrentino Quotes

Total quotes: 54
“I have decided not to choose. Not choosing being the only thing at which I truly excel.”
— Giovanni Paolo III / Sir John Brannox, The New Pope, Season 1: Episode 3
Tagged: Paralysis, Indecision
“Now look at whoever is next to you. Look at them with eyes of joy and remember what St. Augustine said: 'If you want to see God, you have the means to do it.' God is love.”
— Lenny Belardo, The Young Pope, The Young Pope Season 1: The Young Pope
Tagged: Defining Love, What Is God?, Theology, Understanding Love, Faith
“Lenny: Young people like you love adventures. 

Sophia: Holy Father, may I remind you that we're the same age? 

Lenny: We used to be the same age.”
— Lenny Belardo, The Young Pope, The Young Pope Season 1: The Young Pope
Tagged: Absurdism, How We Age Differently, Time Isn’t Objective, Living Outside of Focal Realities
“My grief, like all great sorrows, cannot be expressed in words. The dictionary does not contain the adequate words.”
— Giovanni Paolo III / Sir John Brannox, The New Pope, Season 1: Episode 6
Tagged: Grief, When Words Fail
“Look up. Do you see the sky? Do you see God? No? No matter. Now look at the person next to you. Look joyfully upon him, and remember what Saint Augustine said: "If you want to see God, you have the means to do it. God is love.”
— Cardinal Voiello, Mindhunter, Mindhunter Season 1: Episode 2
Tagged: Where Is The God?, Love, Religion, Quote of the Moment, Seeing God
“Anything that can be upgraded, like an iPhone, ends up in the bin, only to be replaced by a more expensive model. The Bible has endured for a very long time, and its value has changed a little, if at all. Because it can't be upgraded.”
— Giovanni Paolo III / Sir John Brannox, The New Pope, Season 1: Episode 5
Tagged: The Bible, The Old
“God and I are simply dripping with imagination.”
— Lenny Belardo, The Big Bang Theory, Specials: Episode 6
Tagged: God, Creative Theology
“Someday we will all come to appreciate the beauty of sacrifice.”
— Giovanni Paolo III / Sir John Brannox, The New Pope, Season 1: Episode 5
Tagged: Sacrifice
“Religion is a narrative story that is told, an incredibly successful story. Seeing that God is the most popular protagonist in history. I would never have been satisfied devoting my life to minor narratives as I found in literature, film, music. Those at best can only be enjoyable pastimes.”
— Giovanni Paolo III / Sir John Brannox, The New Pope, Season 1: Episode 5
Tagged: Religion
“It's death to settle for things in life.”
— Lenny Belardo, The Young Pope, The Young Pope Season 1: The Young Pope
Tagged: Settling, Quote of the Moment, Life, Get What You Give, Don't Give Up
“All I remember of my childhood is one day it wasn't there anymore.”
— Lenny Belardo, The Big Bang Theory, Specials: Episode 10
Tagged: Childhood, Memory, Change, Time Lost
“Virtuosity is for the arrogant.”
— Lenny Belardo, Mindhunter, Mindhunter Season 1: Episode 2
Tagged: Virtuosity, Art, Get to the Point, Against Decoration
“God saves us, always. God does not deny anyone the grace of salvation.It is the most beautiful thing there is. We love vanity and sin. We love deprivation and wickedness. So we believe that God has abandoned us. That God does not like us. But God does not manage our lives. He does not correct our weaknesses. God does not stop our hand, when it plunges into sin. No. All He does is save us. In the end, God saves us. And He saves us with a kiss.”
— Cardinal Gutierrez, The New Pope, Season 1: Episode 7
Tagged: Salvation
“Perhaps we cannot fully express our faith but we can express our tenderness.”
— Pius XIII / Lenny Belardo, The New Pope, Season 1: Episode 3
Tagged: Faith, Mystery of Christianity
“Sex has no value, because it lives and dies in the present. But love doesn't. Love is dangerous, because it looks to the future.”
— Attanasio's Mother, The New Pope, Season 1: Episode 6
Tagged: Sex vs. Love, Sex
“I love God because it is so painful to love human beings. I love a God that never leaves or that always leaves me.”
— Lenny Belardo, The Young Pope, The Young Pope Season 1: Episode 5
Tagged: Safety of God, Religion
“Do you know what is so awful about these endless battles over rights? There's no room left for poetry.”
— Cardinal Gutierrez, The New Pope, Season 1: Episode 6
Tagged: Poetry
“I won't say the names of those who are guilty in this. There are too many of them. We are all guilty. We are all guilty of war and death. Always.”
— Lenny Belardo, The Young Pope, The Young Pope Season 1: The Young Pope
Tagged: Guilt, The Killer In You Is The Killer In Me, We Are All To Blame
“It is essential to distinguish between what is physiological and what is pathological in the body of the Church.”
— Giovanni Paolo III / Sir John Brannox, The New Pope, Season 1: Episode 2
Tagged: Catholic Church, Nature vs. Corruption
“I am not Christ, nor am I the Messiah. It's more likely that I am the Antichrist.”
— Pius XIII / Lenny Belardo, The New Pope, Season 1: Episode 7
Tagged: antichrist
“You don't know how wonderful peace is. You have no idea how disconcerting peace can be. But I know. Because I saw it when I was eight years old on the banks of a river in Colorado peace. It was beautiful.”
— Lenny Belardo, The Young Pope, The Young Pope Season 1: The Young Pope
Tagged: Peace, Colorado, Finding the Tranquility, The Overwhelming Power of Peace
“No one's unbeatable. It's a matter of patience, which means it's a matter of time.”
— Sister Mary, The Young Pope, The Young Pope Season 1: Episode 3
Tagged: Patience, Long-Term Game, Time
“I love myself more than my neighbor, more than God. I believe only in myself. I am the Lord omnipotent.”
— Lenny Belardo, The Young Pope, The Young Pope Season 1: Episode 3
Tagged: I Am A God, Narcissism, Nietzschean Love of the Self
“In the Sixties the young people that protested in the streets spouted all kind of heresies, all except one: power to the imagination. In that, they were correct.The only problem was they had no imagination.”
— Lenny Belardo, The Big Bang Theory, Specials: Episode 6
Tagged: The Sixties, Hippies, Insults to Hippies
“How do you overcome fear? By giving in to the complex and unfathomable architecture that God has designed for us.”
— Lenny Belardo,
Tagged: Submission, Fate
“Children are so lovely when they are three years of age. How can anyone abandon a three year old? Where do you find the nerve?”
— Sister Mary, The Big Bang Theory, Specials: Episode 6
Tagged: Orphans
“A good person is somebody who puts himself last, who renounces his own temptations and needs, working only for the interests of others.”
— Lenny Belardo, The Young Pope, The Young Pope Season 1: The Young Pope
Tagged: What Makes A Good Person, What makes someone a good person
“You can't measure love with numbers, you can only measure it in terms of intensity.”
— Lenny Belardo, The Big Bang Theory, Specials: Episode 5
Tagged: What Is Love?, Intensity
“My only sin, and it's an enormous one, is that my conscience does not accuse me of anything.”
— Lenny Belardo, The Young Pope, The Young Pope Season 1: The Young Pope
Tagged: Sin, Mistakes, Confessions
“You have no idea how many objectives can be obtained by humiliating ones fellow man. But there's a secret to it. The person humiliated can't realize they'd been humiliated.”
— Lenny Belardo, The Big Bang Theory, Specials: Episode 10
Tagged: Humiliation is the strongest feeling, manipulation
“Every candidate for priesthood takes a vow of chastity and none of them respect them. That's the truth.”
— Lenny Belardo, The Big Bang Theory, Specials: Episode 6
Tagged: Priesthood, Chastity
“As for traveling: everyone dislikes traveling until they actually go on a trip.”
— Sofia, The Young Pope, The Young Pope Season 1: The Young Pope
Tagged: travel, First-time Travelers
“Writers are all so obsessed with mystery. They can’t afford to solve the mystery, because the next day they’d become irrelevant.”
— Lenny Belardo, The Young Pope, The Young Pope Season 1: The Young Pope
Tagged: Writing, Writing & Expression, Mystery, Intrique
“I do not have an image, my good lady, because I am no one. Do you understand? No one. Only Christ exists. Only Christ. And I'm not worth forty-five, or even five euros. I am worth nothing.”
— Lenny Belardo,
Tagged: Slaves of Christ, Disappearing Man, Nothing, Christian Nihilism
“Art passes too but a little more slowly because art is more cunning.”
— Paolo Sorrentino, Umberto Contarello, Stefano Bises, The New Pope, Season 1: Episode 5
Tagged: Art, Attempts At Everlasting Creations
“An orphan lacks a first love. The love for his mama and papa. That’s the source of his awkwardness, his naïveté.”
— Lenny Belardo, The Young Pope, The Young Pope Season 1: Episode 9
Tagged: Rootless, Orphans, No Family, What It Feels Like To Be An Orphan
“No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No!”
— Giovanni Paolo III / Sir John Brannox, The New Pope, Season 1: Episode 5
Tagged: Abstract Response To Concrete Hatred , My Philosophy
“I'll strip you of all you have. Everything.”
— Lenny Belardo, The Big Bang Theory, Specials: Episode 6
Tagged: insults, War Cries
“God overwhelms. God frightens.”
— Lenny Belardo, The Young Pope, The Young Pope Season 1: Episode 3
Tagged: Theology, The Awesome Power of God, God's Magnificence
“Like happiness, like intelligence Like God. When I was a boy a man took advantage of me. And as he did so, he would say: 'God does not exist.' And I would answer back, in God's place: Even if He doesn't exist, we desperately need to believe He is there. ”
— Cardinal Gutierrez, The New Pope, Season 1: Episode 2
Tagged: Heidegger’s Bridge, God, Faith
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