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Paolo Sorrentino Quotes

Total quotes: 30
“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
“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
“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
“Virtuosity is for the arrogant.”
— Lenny Belardo, Mindhunter, Mindhunter Season 1: Episode 2
Tagged: Virtuosity, Art, Get to the Point, Against Decoration
“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 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
“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
“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
“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
“Persuasive and stupid, like every politicians' speech.”
— Lenny Belardo, The Big Bang Theory, Specials: Episode 6
Tagged: Politics, Political Rhetoric, Insults to Politicians
“The whole world is dying of curiosity.”
— Lenny Belardo, The Big Bang Theory, Specials: Episode 6
Tagged: Curiosity, Intrique
“We all want to see that which is hidden.”
— Lenny Belardo, The Big Bang Theory, Specials: Episode 6
Tagged: The Secret of Secrecy, Hidden
“I loved you for the way you were not for the way you ought to be.”
— Cardinal Dussolier, The Big Bang Theory, Specials: Episode 6
Tagged: Love, Quote of the Moment
“The right motivations can move the world.”
— Lenny Belardo, The Big Bang Theory, Specials: Episode 10
Tagged: Potential, Affirmative
“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
“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
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