“We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it.”– Hans Urs von Balthasar Related Quotes “We are all born sexual creatures,thank God, but it’s a pity so many people despise and crush this natural gift.”— Marilyn Monroe “I can dance beauty into my body”— Padma Venkatraman “By means of poetry all this suffering and effort could be transformed into dream; no matter how much of the ephemeral existed, poetry could immortalize it by turning it into song. Only two or three primitive passions had governed me until this time: fear, the struggle to conquer fear, and the yearning for freedom. But now two new passions were kindled inside me: beauty and the thirst for learning.”— Nikos Kazantzakis