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Paolo Sorrentino Quotes

Total quotes: 54
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“You will come to me and you will tell me all this suffering in the world. And I will say to you: they are all hysterias of love. Distortions of our ability to love. The problem, brothers, is love. The question, then, is: how are we to love? This is my way: with tenderness, without passion. Passion is the eternal enemy of humility. Christian humility, which is frugal, is just and is necessary. Love is an abstraction, like intelligence, like happiness. Every time our judgment is beclouded by the ardent passions that consume us, we give love a dangerous concreteness, a scandalous concreteness, an illegal concreteness. In short, we are causing pain. To ourselves, and to others. Replace that concrete love with tenderness.”
— Giovanni Paolo III / Sir John Brannox, The New Pope, Season 1: Episode 3
Tagged: Distortions of Love , Love Is An Abstraction
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“The whole world is dying of curiosity.”
— Lenny Belardo, The Big Bang Theory, Specials: Episode 6
Tagged: Curiosity, Intrique
“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
“Persuasive and stupid, like every politicians' speech.”
— Lenny Belardo, The Big Bang Theory, Specials: Episode 6
Tagged: Politics, Political Rhetoric, Insults to Politicians
“I'll strip you of all you have. Everything.”
— Lenny Belardo, The Big Bang Theory, Specials: Episode 6
Tagged: insults, War Cries
“The young are always more extreme than the old.”
— Cardinal Michael Spencer, The Young Pope, The Young Pope Season 1: Episode 3
Tagged: Extremism, Teenage Wildlife
“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
“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
“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
“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
“What is more beautiful, my love? Love lost or love found?”
— Lenny Belardo, The Young Pope, The Young Pope Season 1: Episode 9
Tagged: Love, The Meaning of Love, Only Once We Have Lost Love Can We Understand Love
“The right motivations can move the world.”
— Lenny Belardo, The Big Bang Theory, Specials: Episode 10
Tagged: Potential, Affirmative
“Affliction changes us.”
— Lenny Belardo, The Big Bang Theory, Specials: Episode 10
Tagged: Pain, Growth, Change, Development
“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
“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
“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
“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
“All intelligent men are uncomfortable on vacation.”
— Sofia, The Young Pope, The Young Pope Season 1: The Young Pope
Tagged: vacation
“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
“Children paint the future in colors that reality can never know.”
— Lenny Belardo, The Young Pope, The Young Pope Season 1: Episode 8
Tagged: New Colors, Childhood
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