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The Young Pope

by Paolo Sorrentino, Lenny Belardo, Jude Law

Lenny Belardo, the youngest and first American Pope in the history of the Church, must establish his new papacy and navigate the power struggles of the closed, secretive Vatican.

(18 total)

Seasons

The Young Pope Season 1 (18)

Characters

Paolo Sorrentino (18)Lenny Belardo (14)Jude Law (14)Tony Grisoni (9)Stefano Rulli (4)Sofia (2)Cécile De France (2)James Cromwell (1)Sister Mary (1)Cardinal Michael Spencer (1)

“I love God because it is so painful to love human beings. I love a God that never leaves or that always leaves me.”

— Paolo Sorrentino, Lenny Belardo, Jude Law, imdb.com

Tagged: Safety of God, Religion

“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.”

— Tony Grisoni, Paolo Sorrentino, Lenny Belardo, Jude Law, imdb.com

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.”

— Tony Grisoni, Paolo Sorrentino, Lenny Belardo, Jude Law, imdb.com

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.”

— Tony Grisoni, Paolo Sorrentino, Lenny Belardo, Jude Law, imdb.com

Tagged: Guilt, The Killer In You Is The Killer In Me, We Are All To Blame

“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.”

— Tony Grisoni, Paolo Sorrentino, Lenny Belardo, Jude Law, imdb.com

Tagged: Peace, Colorado, Finding the Tranquility, The Overwhelming Power of Peace

“The young are always more extreme than the old.”

— Stefano Rulli, Paolo Sorrentino, Cardinal Michael Spencer, James Cromwell, imdb.com

Tagged: Extremism, Teenage Wildlife

“No one's unbeatable. It's a matter of patience, which means it's a matter of time.”

— Stefano Rulli, Paolo Sorrentino, Sister Mary, Diane Keaton, imdb.com

Tagged: Patience, Long-Term Game, Time

“God overwhelms. God frightens.”

— Stefano Rulli, Paolo Sorrentino, Lenny Belardo, Jude Law, imdb.com

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.”

— Stefano Rulli, Paolo Sorrentino, Lenny Belardo, Jude Law, imdb.com

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.”

— Paolo Sorrentino, Umberto Contarello, Lenny Belardo, Jude Law, imdb.com

Tagged: Rootless, Orphans, No Family, What It Feels Like To Be An Orphan

“What is more beautiful, my love? Love lost or love found?”

— Paolo Sorrentino, Lenny Belardo, Jude Law, imdb.com

Tagged: Love, The Meaning of Love, Only Once We Have Lost Love Can We Understand Love

“A good person is somebody who puts himself last, who renounces his own temptations and needs, working only for the interests of others.”

— Tony Grisoni, Paolo Sorrentino, Lenny Belardo, Jude Law, imdb.com

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.”

— Tony Grisoni, Paolo Sorrentino, Lenny Belardo, Jude Law, imdb.com

Tagged: Writing, Writing & Expression, Mystery, Intrique

“All intelligent men are uncomfortable on vacation.”

— Tony Grisoni, Paolo Sorrentino, Sofia, Cécile De France, imdb.com

Tagged: vacation

“As for traveling: everyone dislikes traveling until they actually go on a trip.”

— Tony Grisoni, Paolo Sorrentino, Sofia, Cécile De France, imdb.com

Tagged: travel, First-time Travelers

“Children paint the future in colors that reality can never know.”

— Tony Grisoni, Paolo Sorrentino, Lenny Belardo, Jude Law, imdb.com

Tagged: New Colors, Childhood

“It's death to settle for things in life.”

— Paolo Sorrentino, Lenny Belardo, Jude Law, imdb.com

Tagged: Settling, Quote of the Moment, Life, Get What You Give, Don't Give Up

“My only sin, and it's an enormous one, is that my conscience does not accuse me of anything.”

— Paolo Sorrentino, Lenny Belardo, Jude Law, imdb.com

Tagged: Sin, Mistakes, Confessions