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Desire may refer to:

Concepts

• Desire (emotion), a sense of longing or hoping
• Desire (philosophy)
• Desire (psychoanalysis)
• Greed, selfish pursuit of wealth, power, or possessions
• Interpersonal attraction
• Libido, sexual desire
• Limerence, an involuntary state of intense romantic desire
• Lust, intense craving for self gratification
• Motivation, a thought that leads to an action
• Preference, a concept in the social sciences, particularly economics
• Taṇhā, craving or desire, in Buddhist psychology
• Want, in economics

Music

Albums

• Desire (Bob Dylan album)
• Desire (Pharoahe Monch album), or the title song
• Desire (Tom Scott album), or the title song
• Desire (Toyah album), or the title song
• Desire (Tuxedomoon album), or the title song

Songs

• "Desire" (Andy Gibb song)
• "Desire" (Claudette Pace song)
• "Desire" (Darin song)
• "Desire" (Do As Infinity song)
• "Desire" (Geri Halliwell song)
• "Desire" (Ryan Adams song)
• "Desire" (U2 song)
• "Desire", by En Vogue from Funky Divas
• "Desire", by Holly Valance from State of Mind
• "Desire", by Ozzy Osbourne from No More Tears
• "Desire", by Poets of the Fall from Carnival of Rust
• "Desire", by Raheem DeVaughn from Love Behind the Melody
• "Desire", by Suicide Commando from Construct-Destruct
• "Desire", by Talk Talk from Spirit of Eden
• "Desire", by Toad the Wet Sprocket from Coil
• "Desire", by Yanni from Dare to Dream
• "Desire", by Yello from Stella

Film and television

• Desire (1936 film), a film starring Marlene Dietrich and Gary Cooper
• Desire (1958 film), a Czech film directed by Vojtěch Jasný
• Desire (1982 film), a Filipino-American film directed by Eddie Romero
• Desires (film), a 1952 German film
• Desire (TV series), an American telenovela
• "Desire", an episode of Grey's Anatomy
• Desire Inc., a 1990 video documentary by Lynn Hershman

Comics

• Desire (DC Comics), a fictional character in The Sandman comic series
• Desire (manga), a yaoi manga written by Maki Kazumi and illustrated by Yukine Honami

Other uses

• Desire Street, New Orleans, Louisiana
  • Desire Area, New Orleans
  • Desire Projects
• Desire, a ship sailed by 16th-century explorers Thomas Cavendish and John Davis

See also

• Crave (disambiguation)
• Hunger (disambiguation)

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From Wikiquote

Desire is a strong wish or craving.

Sourced

• Boredom: the desire for desires.
  • Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina (1877)

• Desire is sad.
  • W. Somerset Maugham, "Rain"

• The ultimate meaning of desire is death.
  • Rene Girard p.290 Mensonge romantique et vérité romanesque (Deceit, Desire and the Novel: Self and Other in Literary Structure) (1961)

• When you leave the desires behind, you will find the graveyards ahead!
  • Mehmet ildan, Quotations

Unsourced

• Burning desire to be or do something gives us staying power - a reason to get up every morning or to pick ourselves up and start in again after a disappointment.
  • Marsha Sinetar

• Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
  • Jean de La Fontaine

• I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read.
  • Thomas Babington Macaulay

• The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man.
  • Madame de Stael

• The desire to know is natural to good men.
  • Leonardo da Vinci

• The waves of desire in the world-ocean are intoxicating wine.
  • Sri Guru Granth Sahib

• There is only trouble and desire.
  • Simple Men

• Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.
  • William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790-1793)

• When all desires that cling to the heart are surrendered, then a mortal becomes immortal.
  • Katha Upanishad

• When one tastes that fruit that bathes their tongue in decadence, ones own wants oft causeth them to partake again, and deeper, each time, to wash themselves anew in that single most sumptuous thing.
  • Devon Whitten Kalgalath

• Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.
  • Jim Rohn

• When you can't have something, you want it even more.
  • Swami Raj

• Desire is desire. the sun cannot bleach it. The tide cannot wash it away
  • The Beach (movie)

External links

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From Wikisource

Where true Love burns Desire is Love`s pure flame;
It is the reflex of our earthly frame,
That takes its meaning from the nobler part,
And but translates the language of the heart.

This work published before January 1, 1923 is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.

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