Latest Quotes

“Do you know what is so awful about these endless battles over rights? There's no room left for poetry.”

— Paolo Sorrentino, Umberto Contarello, Stefano Bises, Cardinal Gutierrez, Javier Cámara, Episode 6

“Emily St. John Mandel’s 2014 award-winning novel “Station Eleven,” which tells the story of a swine flu pandemic that wipes out most of the world’s population, is hitting close to home these days in more ways than one.”

— Patty Wetli, In Eerie Coincidence, HBO’s Flu Pandemic, Post-Apocalyptic Series ‘Station Eleven’ Filming in Chicago

“The sublime doesn't have fame or money on its side. But it persists, it renews itself in every generation. Because in thought some greatness of soul keeps being born. So it is important to know how to repeat after Gothe: Respect! Respect! Respect!”

— Czeslaw Milosz, Second Space

“I raise above the altar bread and wine. Humbled, since my reason does not comprehend what I do.”

— Czeslaw Milosz, Second Space

“There was a time when disinterested beauty by its sheer superabundance gratified our eyes. What have they left us? Only the accountancy of a capitalist enterprise.”

— Czeslaw Milosz, Second Space

“I was absent, dedicated to invisible countries.”

— Czeslaw Milosz, Second Space

“My grief, like all great sorrows, cannot be expressed in words. The dictionary does not contain the adequate words.”

— Paolo Sorrentino, Umberto Contarello, Stefano Bises, Giovanni Paolo III / Sir John Brannox, John Malkovich, Episode 6

“Why theology? Because the first must be first.”

— Czeslaw Milosz, Second Space

“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.”

— Paolo Sorrentino, Umberto Contarello, Stefano Bises, Attanasio's Mother, Lore Stefanek, Episode 6

“All the airline points in the world cannot purchase a single ticket home.”

— Gay Courter, I Prepared for Everything, but Not Coronavirus on a Cruise Ship

“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 we…”

— Paolo Sorrentino, Umberto Contarello, Stefano Bises, Cardinal Gutierrez, Javier Cámara, Episode 7

“I am not Christ, nor am I the Messiah. It's more likely that I am the Antichrist.”

— Paolo Sorrentino, Umberto Contarello, Stefano Bises, Pius XIII / Lenny Belardo, Jude Law, Episode 7

“California Gov. Gavin Newsom said Thursday that 33 people have tested positive for COVID-19 and the state is currently monitoring at least 8,400 others —a day after U.S. health officials confirmed the first possible community transmission of the coronavirus in a Solano County resident.”

— Berkeley Lovelace Jr., California is monitoring at least 8,400 people for the coronavirus

“I suppose if my husband's happy, I'm happy.”

— Amy Winehouse, Amy

“The rule of enframing threatens man with the possibility that it could be denied to him to enter into a more original revealing, and hence to experience the call of a more primal truth.”

— Martin Heidegger, The Question Concerning Technology

“Ultimately, the future of the series remains uncertain, and while Hilary did share a small peek at her side of the story, fans will have to wait and see what happens.”

— Lauren Rearick, The 'Lizzie McGuire' Reboot Might Be Too Risqué For Disney+

“Officials with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed the nation’s first coronavirus case of unknown origin Wednesday in Northern California in the latest sign of the virus’ rapid spread.”

— Darrell Smith, First U.S. coronavirus case of unknown origin confirmed in Northern California, CDC says

“Blake: So, what's been the highlight of the day? Amy: Um, it'll be in about five minutes. Blake: When... Amy: We go in the toilet and are fucking.”

— Amy Winehouse, Amy

“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.”

— Paolo Sorrentino, Umberto Contarello, Stefano Bises, Cardinal Gutierrez, Javier Cámara, Episode 2

“It is essential to distinguish between what is physiological and what is pathological in the body of the Church.”

— Paolo Sorrentino, Umberto Contarello, Stefano Bises, Giovanni Paolo III / Sir John Brannox, John Malkovich, Episode 2